Development of evaluation models and handling system for chronically mentally ill patients

About this project

<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="color: #000000">Financed from NO FM</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="color: #000000">Programme outcome the project contributes to “Improved prevention and reduced inequalities in health”</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="color: #000000">The project will establish&nbsp; a uniform, evidence-based and cross-sectoral system of out-patient services for long-term mentally ill patients subjected to coercive treatment, increase the quality of psychiatric evaluation to improve judiciary procedures and secure human rights in the use of coercion during treatment.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="color: #000000">Project activities shall include:</span></span></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px">The development and implementation of out-patient services, combining state and local level services for long-term mentally ill patients subjected to coercive treatment; </span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px">The development and piloting of a model for cross-sectoral cooperation between specialists in health care, social care and the judicial sector sectors at local and regional level;</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px">Training for multi-sectoral teams, social workers and family members of patients to deal with patients/clients with chronical mental illness; </span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px">The development and implementing of a model for a multidisciplinary forensic psychiatric committee to improve the quality of psychiatric evaluation, to ensure proper judiciary procedures and to secure the human rights of patients in the use of coercion during treatment;</span></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px">The adaptation process of 6 of evidence-based evaluation instruments is prepared and the validation process of these instruments has been launched to accommodate them to the Estonian needs.</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif"><span style="color: #000000"> </span></span></span></span>&nbsp;</li> </ul>

Project partners

• Estonian Psychiatric Association Project partner· Estonia
• Estonian Forensic Science Institute (EE) Project partner· Estonia