Survey Design

The report is structured to reflect the design of the survey, whereby responses of each survey question are depicted in graph and/or table form. The Inpatient survey was initially created based on the Picker Institute National Inpatient Survey for Mental Health Services in the UK. Subsequent adaptations were made to include topics which appear to be of importance to service users (as identified by previous service user complaints) and to services providers (e.g. service users’ perception of stigma after receiving mental health care). The Dean Clinic and Day Programme surveys were subsequently adapted from the Inpatient survey and tailored to collect data regarding the respective services.

One of the priorities of this project was that all service users would be made aware that participation was voluntary and anonymous. Collected data was managed using the SPSS statistical package, and descriptive graphs were created using Excel.