Lamontagne-Godwin, Frederique ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9628-7450, Burgess, Caroline, Clement, Sarah, Gasston-Hales, Melanie, Greene, Carolynn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1170-376X, Manyande, Anne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8257-0722, Taylor, Deborah, Walters, Paul and Barley, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9955-0384 (2018) Interventions to increase access to or uptake of physical health screening in people with severe mental illness: a realist review. BMJ Open, 8 (2). e019412. ISSN 2044-6055 (In Press)

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Abstract

Objectives: To identify and evaluate interventions aimed at increasing uptake of, or access to, physical health screening by adults with severe mental illness; to examine why interventions might work.
Design: Realist review.
Setting: Primary, secondary and tertiary care.
Results: A systematic search identified 1448 studies, of which 22 met the inclusion criteria. Studies were from Australia (n=3), Canada (n=1), Hong Kong (n=1), UK (n=11) and USA (n=6). The studies focused on breast cancer screening, infection preventive services and metabolic syndrome (MS) screening by targeting MSrelated risk factors. The interventions could be divided into those focusing on (1) health service delivery changes (12 studies), using quality improvement, randomised controlled trial, cluster randomised feasibility trial, retrospective audit, cross-sectional study and satisfaction survey designs and (2) tests of tools designed to facilitate screening (10 studies) using consecutive case series, quality improvement, retrospective evaluation and pre–post audit study designs. All studies reported improved uptake of screening, or that patients had received screening they would not have had without the intervention. No estimation of overall effect size was possible due to heterogeneity in study design and quality. The following factors may contribute to intervention success: staff and stakeholder involvement in screening, staff flexibility when taking physical measurements (eg, using adapted equipment), strong links with primary care and having a pharmacist on the ward.
Conclusions: A range of interventions may be effective, but better quality research is needed to determine any effect size. Researchers should consider how interventions may work when designing and testing them in order to target better the specific needs of this population in the most appropriate setting. Behaviour-change interventions to reduce identified barriers of patient and health professional resistance to screening this population are required. Resource constraints, clarity over professional roles and better coordination with primary care need to be addressed

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2017-019412
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Subjects:	Medicine and health > Mental health Medicine and health > Nursing Psychology
Depositing User:	Frederique Lamontagne-Godwin
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2018 11:11
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2024 15:55
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/4295

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