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- Svensson, Bengt, et al.
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Outcomes of clients in need of intensive team care in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0803-9488 .- 1502-4725. ; 72:3, s. 226-231
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (Flexible ACT) has been implemented in Sweden during recent years due to increasing interest in integrated services for people with severe mental illness. To date, few studies have been done on Flexible ACT effectiveness. Aims: The overall aim of this study was to explore the extent to which clients assigned to the Flexible ACT board for ACT intensive care were stabilized with improved everyday functioning, social outcomes, and changes in healthcare use. Methods: Ninety-three participants with psychosis, in need of ACT from six newly started Flexible ACT teams, were included. Data were collected using the Social Outcome Index scale (SIX), Practical and Social Functioning Scale, and a healthcare usage questionnaire. Results: There was a significant positive change in everyday functioning and in the SIX-item ‘friendship’ at 18-months follow-up. A positive correlation was also found between everyday functioning and the SIX-item ‘friendship’ and a negative correlation between duration of ACT and everyday functioning. A significant increase in number of inpatient hospital days and psychiatric outpatient visits also occurred. Conclusion: Clients with psychosis who need ACT may benefit from Flexible ACT through improved social functioning. Being involved in meaningful activities and supported by others are key aspects of recovering from mental illness and are enhanced by Flexible ACT.
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- Svensson, Bengt, et al.
(författare)
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Satisfaction with mental health services. A user participation approach.
- 2006
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1502-4725 .- 0803-9488. ; 60:5, s. 365-371
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- User participation in the delivery and evaluation of mental health services has become an important policy element in the development of these services. An important area where user involvement could be especially useful concerns satisfaction with care, which has become considered an important indicator of service excellence. The overall aim of this study was to investigate user satisfaction with mental health services in a county in southern Sweden. The study design used persons with own experience from being a patient or a close relative to a patient as active participants in the data collection. A group of 20 persons with experience from being users or relatives to users were recruited and trained to be interviewers in the study. Together they performed 227 interviews focusing user satisfaction regarding both inpatient and outpatient care. The interview had one quantitative part and one qualitative part. The interviewers' experiences from participation in the project were evaluated through focus groups. In these groups, the topics were the interviewers' impression of the content of their interviews and their experience from being an interviewer. The analysis showed a high satisfaction with care in the quantitative part. In the qualitative part a significant dissatisfaction with many aspects of the care were expressed. The focus group evaluation largely supported the findings from the analyses of the dataset. Experiences of being user and interviewer were generally positive and perceived as rewarding.
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- Svensson, Frida, et al.
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Adolescents selling sex : Exposure to abuse, mental health, self-harm behaviour and the need for help and support-a study of a Swedish national sample
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. - : Informa Healthcare. - 0803-9488 .- 1502-4725. ; 67:2, s. 81-88
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Svensson F, Fredlund C, Svedin CG, Priebe G, Wadsby M. Adolescents selling sex: Exposure to abuse, mental health, self-harm behaviour and the need for help and support-a study of a Swedish national sample. Nord J Psychiatry 2013; 67: 81-88. Background: Selling sex is not uncommon among adolescents and we need to increase our knowledge of how this affects them. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate adolescents who sell sex regarding sexual, mental and physical abuse, mental health as estimated by using the Hopkins Symptom Check List-25 (HSCL-25), self-harm behaviour and the adolescents' experience of receiving help and support. Methods: The study was carried out on a national representative sample of adolescents (mean age 18.3 years) in Swedish high schools in the final year of their 3-year programme. The study had 3498 participants and a response rate of 60.4%. Results: Of the adolescents, 1.5% stated that they had sold sexual services. The selling of sex was associated with a history of sexual, mental and physical abuse. Poorer mental health and a higher degree of self-harm behaviour were reported among the adolescents who had sold sex. Help and support was sought to a greater extent by adolescents who had sold sex but these adolescents were not as satisfied with this help and support as the other adolescents. Conclusions: Adolescents that sell sex are a group especially exposed to sexual, mental and physical abuse. They have poorer mental health and engage in more self-harm behaviour than other adolescents. They are in need of more help and support than other adolescents and it is reasonable to assert that more resources, research and attention should be directed to this group to provide better help and support in the future.
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| 644. |
- Svensson, Martin, et al.
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Psychometric analysis of the Swedish panic disorder severity scale and its self-report version
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0803-9488 .- 1502-4725. ; 73:1, s. 58-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Panic Disorder, with or without agoraphobia (PDA or PD, respectively), is a major public health problem. After having established a PD diagnosis based on the DSM or the ICD systems, the Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) is the most widely-used interview-based instrument for assessing disorder severity. There is also a self-report version of the instrument (PDSS-SR); both exist in a Swedish translation but their psychometric properties remain untested. In a sample of 221 adults with PD/PDA recruited to a randomized controlled preference trial of cognitive-behavioural and brief panic-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy, both forms possessed excellent psychometric properties (internal consistency, test-retest reliability) and convergent validity. A single factor structure for both versions was not confirmed. In terms of clinical utility, the PDSS had very high inter-rater reliability and correspondence with PD assessed via structured diagnostic interview. Both versions were sensitive to the effects of PD-focused treatment, although subjects scored systematically lower on the self-report version.
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- Svensson, TH
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Aripiprazole - Mode of action
- 2005
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Ingår i: NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. - 0803-9488. ; 59:5, s. 395-395
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Svensson, TH, et al.
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Augmentation strategies in schizophrenia
- 2006
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Ingår i: NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. - 0803-9488. ; 60:4, s. 321-321
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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