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Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England. (2017)
Journal Article
Rugkåsa, J., & Canvin, K. (2017). Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England. BMC Health Services Research, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2716-z

Background
There is an expectation in current heath care policy that family carers are involved in service delivery. This is also the case with compulsory outpatient mental health care, Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) that were introduced in Engla... Read More about Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England..

Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature. (2017)
Journal Article
Rugkåsa, J., & Can, K. (2017). Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature. BJPsych International, 14(3), 56-58. https://doi.org/10.1192/s2056474000001902

This article summarises current knowledge about two aspects of family care for people with mental illness: potentially pressurising or coercive aspects of family life; and family carers' experiences of being involved in coercive service interventions... Read More about Mental health, coercion and family caregiving: issues from the international literature..

Community treatment orders: Clinical and social outcomes, and a subgroup analysis from the OCTET RCT (2014)
Journal Article
Rugkåsa, J., Molodynski, A., Yeeles, K., Vazquez Montes, M., Visser, C., Burns, T., & (K Canvin), O. G. (2015). Community treatment orders: Clinical and social outcomes, and a subgroup analysis from the OCTET RCT. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 131(5), 321-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.12373

Objective
Despite widespread use internationally, there is no convincing evidence that community treatment orders (CTO) (legal regimes making out-patient treatment compulsory), reduce readmission rates or have wider patient benefit. The primary and... Read More about Community treatment orders: Clinical and social outcomes, and a subgroup analysis from the OCTET RCT.

Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: Qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article
Canvin, K., Rugkåsa, J., Sinclair, J., & Burns, T. (2014). Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: Qualitative study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 49, 1873–1882. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-014-0906-0

Purpose
Current literature on personal experiences of community treatment orders (CTO) is limited. This paper examines participants’ experiences of the mechanisms via which the CTO was designed to work: the conditions that form part of the order and... Read More about Patient, psychiatrist and family carer experiences of community treatment orders: Qualitative study.

Trust, Deals and Authority: Community Mental Health Professionals' Experiences of Influencing Reluctant Patients (2014)
Journal Article
Rugkåsa, J., Canvin, K., Sinclair, J., Sulman, A., & Burns, T. (2014). Trust, Deals and Authority: Community Mental Health Professionals' Experiences of Influencing Reluctant Patients. Community Mental Health Journal, 886–895. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10597-014-9720-0

The emphasis on care in the community in current mental health policy poses challenges for community mental health professionals with responsibility for patients who do not wish to receive services. Previous studies report that professionals employ a... Read More about Trust, Deals and Authority: Community Mental Health Professionals' Experiences of Influencing Reluctant Patients.

The use of leverage in community mental health: Ethical guidance for practitioners (2014)
Journal Article
Dunn, M., MA Sinclair, J., Canvin, K. J., Rugkåsa, J., & Burns, T. (2014). The use of leverage in community mental health: Ethical guidance for practitioners. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 60(8), https://doi.org/10.1177/0020764013519083

Background:
Leverage is a particular type of treatment pressure that is used within community mental health services to increase patients’ adherence to treatment. Because leverage involves practitioners making proposals that attempt to influence pat... Read More about The use of leverage in community mental health: Ethical guidance for practitioners.

Leverage and other informal pressures in community psychiatry in England (2013)
Journal Article
Canvin, K., Rugkåsa, J., Sinclair, J., & Burns, T. (2013). Leverage and other informal pressures in community psychiatry in England. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 36(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.01.002

Purpose
Informal practices aimed at managing psychiatric patients in the community setting fall outside legal and policy provision or guidance. “Leverage” is an informal practice whereby practitioners attempt to influence patients' treatment adheren... Read More about Leverage and other informal pressures in community psychiatry in England.

Lay perceptions of the desired role and type of user involvement in clinical governance (2009)
Journal Article
Canvin. (2009). Lay perceptions of the desired role and type of user involvement in clinical governance. Health Expectations, 81 - 91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2008.00530.x

Objective The aim of this paper is to explore variations in lay perceptions of user involvement in clinical governance.

Context The English National Health Service has sought to build a dependable health service through enhanced effectiveness, res... Read More about Lay perceptions of the desired role and type of user involvement in clinical governance.

Duty, desire or indifference? A qualitative study of patient decisions about recruitment to an epilepsy treatment trial (2006)
Journal Article
Canvin. (2006). Duty, desire or indifference? A qualitative study of patient decisions about recruitment to an epilepsy treatment trial. Trials, https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-7-32

Epilepsy is a common neurological condition, in which drugs are the mainstay of treatment and drugs trials are commonplace. Understanding why patients might or might not opt to participate in epilepsy drug trials is therefore of some importance, part... Read More about Duty, desire or indifference? A qualitative study of patient decisions about recruitment to an epilepsy treatment trial.

Studying Social Policy and Resilience to Adversity in Different Welfare States: Britain and Sweden (2006)
Journal Article
Jones, C., Burström, B., Marttila, A., Canvin, K., & Whitehead, M. (2006). Studying Social Policy and Resilience to Adversity in Different Welfare States: Britain and Sweden. International Journal of Health Services, 36(3), 425-442. https://doi.org/10.2190/E9H5-URYL-2W4U-QED6

Is poverty more damaging to health in Britain than in Sweden, and if so, why? Following previous research by the authors that suggested such an effect, a new comparative study is examining whether there are aspects of the social and policy context in... Read More about Studying Social Policy and Resilience to Adversity in Different Welfare States: Britain and Sweden.