Family members and patients are not always involved in emergency search

Patients and family members not involved in mental health calamity research

on GGZ is not so obvious. When patients and family members are involved, they see this primarily as a follow-up. They feel that their point of view on the calamity is not sufficiently taken into account. This is the conclusion drawn by researchers at Nivel and ESHPM in a study commissioned by the Inspectorate of Health Care and Youth (IGJ).

"When patients and family members are regularly treated, trust is already established. Senior researcher Roland Friele. "If a calamity then occurs, it is more natural to involve them in the emergency procedure."
Regarding the treatment of the patient, most institutions implement a family policy in which members of the family play a central role. There are also various guidelines and initiatives to improve the involvement of family members early in treatment. When researching calamities, however, improving the involvement of patients and family members is rarely included in the policy. From the patient and family histories, it seems that in practice there is also little attention for this, although they find it important.

Stress Due to Legal Requirements
The legal requirements of the emergency report to the IGJ disagree with the needs of patients or loved ones. One of these requirements is the period during which a calamity must be reported. This period may be too short for patients and family members who are not immediately able to cooperate in an investigation shortly after a major event. The privacy of the patient can also prevent the involvement of family members. In addition, caregivers' fears about the legal consequences and the desire of institutions to protect caregivers play a role.

Calamities in the GGZ
Disasters are relatively rare in mental health care. do research on calamities. For the health care providers involved, a calamity is a special event with a lot of impact. In addition, a GGZ care provider is also more likely to be a victim in the event of a disaster than somatic care, where the patient is the actor. Consider, for example, calamities related to violence or suicide. All of this has implications for the way patients and family members engage in research

Health care providers must report emergency situations to inspection and control. they must examine them internally. The GJI guideline on disaster reporting specifically focuses on the involvement of patients and family members in the internal calamity investigation.

Reason research [19659009] The IGJ wanted to know Nivel and ESHPM how patient involvement and in a disaster investigation, family members seem practical and the best way to stimulate them. To this end, various stakeholders were interviewed, such as patients, relatives, caregivers, other health professionals and inspectors. In addition, relevant orientation documents were studied.