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dc.contributor.authorBhui, Ken_US
dc.contributor.authorMcCabe, Ren_US
dc.contributor.authorWeich, Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Men_US
dc.contributor.authorSzczepura, Aen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-13T16:16:29Z
dc.date.available2013-02-04en_US
dc.date.issued2013-02-25en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/5639
dc.descriptionPMCID: PMC3599664
dc.descriptionThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups in receipt of specialist mental health care have reported higher rates of detention under the mental health act, less use of psychological therapies, and more dissatisfaction. Although many explanations have been put forward to explain this, a failure of therapeutic communications may explain poorer satisfaction, disengagement from services and ethnic variations in access to less coercive care. Interventions that improve therapeutic communications may offer new approaches to tackle ethnic inequalities in experiences and outcomes. METHODS: The THERACOM project is an HTA-funded evidence synthesis review of interventions to improve therapeutic communications between black and minority ethnic patients in contact with specialist mental health services and staff providing those services. This article sets out the protocol methods for a necessarily broad review topic, including appropriate search strategies, dilemmas for classifying different types of therapeutic communications and expectations of the types of interventions to improve them. The review methods will accommodate unexpected types of study and interventions. The findings will be reported in 2013, including a synthesis of the quantitative and grey literature. DISCUSSION: A particular methodological challenge is to identify and rate the quality of many different study types, for example, randomised controlled trials, observational quantitative studies, qualitative studies and case studies, which comprise the full range of hierarchies of evidence. We discuss the preliminary methodological challenges and some solutions. (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42011001661).en_US
dc.format.extent15 - ?en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSyst Reven_US
dc.rights© 2013 Bhui et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
dc.subjectAfrican Continental Ancestry Groupen_US
dc.subjectCommunicationen_US
dc.subjectCultural Competencyen_US
dc.subjectEthnic Groupsen_US
dc.subjectHealthcare Disparitiesen_US
dc.subjectHumansen_US
dc.subjectMental Healthen_US
dc.subjectMental Health Servicesen_US
dc.subjectMinority Groupsen_US
dc.subjectPatient Satisfactionen_US
dc.subjectQuality Improvementen_US
dc.subjectResearch Designen_US
dc.titleTHERACOM: a systematic review of the evidence base for interventions to improve Therapeutic Communications between black and minority ethnic populations and staff in specialist mental health services.en_US
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/2046-4053-2-15en_US
pubs.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23442299en_US
pubs.notesNot knownen_US
pubs.publication-statusPublished onlineen_US
pubs.volume2en_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2013-02-04en_US


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