Exploring Working Relationships in Mental Health Care via an E-Recovery Portal: Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Service Users and Health Providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quality of working relationships between service users and health providers is fundamental in the processes of recovery in mental health. How Internet-based interventions will influence these relationships for persons with long-term care needs, and the measures that can be taken to maintain and enhance working relationships through Internet, is still not well understood.

Objective

The aim of this study was to gain insights into how service users and health providers experience their working relationships when they are offered the option of supplementing ongoing collaboration with an e-recovery portal.

Methods

In this exploratory and descriptive study, an e-recovery portal was used by service users and their health providers in 2 mental health communitie

SUBMITTER: Strand M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5705858 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature