Urgent need for a Need Assessment Scale in monitoring social support: A validation study on the Swedish version of the Camberwell Assessment of Need

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Ericson BG, Hansson J-H, Teike T. Urgent need for a Need Assessment Scale in monitoring social support. A validation study on the Swedish version of the Camberwell Assessment of Need. Nord J Psychiatry 1997;51:173–182. Oslo. ISSN 0803–9488.In the aftermath of the desinstitutionalion process the social needs of patients with severe mental illness have been put on the agenda both for policy makers and professional groups working in this field. To be able to develop carefully designed monitoring systems to attend to this group of patients, there is an urgent need for assessment tools in this work. The Camberwell Assessment of Need is a form for a comprehensive assessment of the needs of people with a severe mental illness. The content and construct validity of the Swedish CAN version was tried out on a group of 45 patients from the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation at the County Hospital of Jönköping, Sweden, using in interviews a survey of need areas, the GAF functioning scale, and a quality of life ...

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