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. 2023 Dec 22;10:e52901. doi: 10.2196/52901

Table 1.

Characteristics of the participating sites.

Sitea Staff who were sent the survey link (N=17,473), n (%) Further information
Mersey Care NHSb Foundation Trust, United Kingdom 9028 (51.67) patient-facing mental health staff
  • This NHS Trust provides physical health and mental health services in the North West of England, serving >1.4 million people. It is also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands. Core centers are in Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens, Halton, and Warrington.

  • It provides specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.

  • It is 1 of 3 NHS Trusts in the United Kingdom that offer high-security mental health facilities.

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom 3083 (17.64) mental health and learning disabilities staff
  • This is an NHS Trust in the North of England, serving a population of 1.3 million in 6 boroughs: Bury, Glossop, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, and Tameside.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom 1770 (10.13) patient-facing mental health staff
  • This NHS Trust in the East of England provides services to a population of 766,000 in Lincolnshire and 160,000 in North East Lincolnshire. Main sites are Lincoln, Grantham, and Boston.

  • It includes community mental health teams and several other specialist, crisis, and home treatment services and inpatient beds.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom 2113 (12.09) mental health staff in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health directorates
  • This NHS Trust provides community health, mental health, and specialized health services to approximately 2 million people in an area in the Southeast of England across the counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Swindon, Bath, and North East Somerset.

  • It also provides a range of specialized health services including forensic mental health and eating disorder services across a wide geographic area including support for patients in Berkshire and Wales.

Brisbane, Australia 830 (4.75) patient-facing mental health staff
  • Staff approached were from mental health services within Metro South Health and Metro North Health, Brisbane, Queensland, including the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Prince Charles Hospital, and Princess Alexandra Hospital.

  • Staff worked within a variety of services including acute adult inpatients, adult community mental health (outpatients), older persons mental health, mobile intensive and long-term rehabilitation, early psychosis mental health, adolescent mental health, homeless outreach team, psychiatric emergency care, and alcohol and drug services.

Wellington, New Zealand 649 (3.71) patient-facing mental health clinicians
  • Staff were surveyed from the Mental Health, Addiction, and Intellectual Disability Service, which serves the lower North Island of New Zealand and includes local, regional, and national services.

  • Services are provided from multiple sites within greater Wellington, Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa.

  • The service covers a range of specialties in mental health including adult, community, crisis, consult liaison, child and adolescent, older adult, forensic, eating disorders, and substance misuse.

aSydney, Australia, site participated in the focus group but not in the survey.

bNHS: National Health Service.

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