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Patients' opinions of psychiatric care: a Swedish study
1Psychologist, Division of Psychiatry, Lund University Hospital, Storgatan 1-3, SE-241 30 Eslöv, Sweden, email hakan.johansson@arb.lu.se; and Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Abstract:
Over the past few decades, health care as a whole and psychiatry specifically have evolved as a result of various societal influences. Quality assurance, evidence-based treatment and patients' satisfaction with care are all examples of such trends. In Sweden, the patients' satisfaction with care has become the concern both of researchers and of mental health care administrators. This may be a result of changed social norms and of the relatively recent apprehension of patients' wish to participate in their own health care.