In 2011 the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health initiative identified priorities that have the potential to make a significant impact on the lives of people with mental, neurological, and substance use disorders. Reduction of the cost and improvement of the supply of effective medicines was hig
Measuring recovery from substance use or mental disorders : workshop summary
β Scribed by Krisztina Marton
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 84
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) behavioral health data collections to include measures of recovery from substance use and mental disorder. Participants discussed options for collecting data and producing estimates of recovery from substance use and mental disorders, including available measures and associated possible data collection mechanisms. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
β¦ Table of Contents
Introduction --
Policy context and key concepts --
SAMHSA's definition of recovery --
Defining and operationalizing recovery from substance use --
Defining and operationalizing recovery from mental disorders --
Measures of recovery --
Data collection designs --
Key themes and possible next steps --
Appendix A: Workshop agenda --
Appendix B: Biographical sketches of steering committee members and speakers --
Committee on National Statistics.
β¦ Subjects
United States -- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration;Substance-Related Disorders;Mental Disorders;Psychometrics;Data Collection;Substance abuse -- Patients -- Rehabilitation -- Congresses;Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation -- Congresses;Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation;Substance abuse -- Patients -- Rehabilitation;HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General;MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine;MEDICAL / Diseases;MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine;MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
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