Influence of feedback and attitude of patient and clinician toward outcome measurement.

Julian Beezhold, Norwich, UK

This presentation is about the influence of feedback of treatment results to patient and clinician during the treatment process and their attitude toward the introduction of the two measurement instruments HoNOS and OQ in a clinical non-academic mental healthcare setting. Feedback in which results of the treatment are fed back to clinician and patient could influence the results of the treatment. It is important to know the attitude of both patients and clinicians towards the introduction of the instruments affecting the clinical care process. If patients are not willing to participate in filling in questionnaires during their treatment and clinicians are objecting toward feeding back treatment results to patients during treatment the effectiveness of outcome measurement will not be that effectives. Knowledge of the attitudes and the factors that play a role in the implementation can be of great importance for the success of the implementation. In this presentation a study will be presented on the attitude of patients concerning outcome measurement and feeding back the treatment results.