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Table 2 Publications on mental disorders
| Relevant publications | Subject | Main results | Country | Materials and methods |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vijayalakshmi et al. (2013) [9] | the role of education in ascertaining human rights needs of people with mental illness | education is a mechanism for the pursuit of other human rights; empowerment to pursue education will play an important role in fulfilling the obligations of the UN-CRPD | India | quantitative study (N = 100) |
| Angermeyer et al. (2014) [23] | changes of public attitudes towards restrictions on mentally ill people | people’s views on patient rights have become more liberal, but the public is more inclined to restrict patients’ freedom in case of deviant behaviour | Germany | quantitative study, two population surveys (N = 2094; n = 3642) |
| Burns (2010) [43] | budget allocations over a 5-year period between psychiatric and general hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal | mean increase in budgets was considerably lower in psychiatric (3.8 %) than in general hospitals (10.2 %) | South Africa | quantitative study based on budget allocations (5 psychiatric and 7 general hospitals) |
| Steinert et al. (2015) [44] | Patterns of individual mobility and active use of motorised vehicles | Participants drove considerably less in time and distances than general population. Alcohol abuse and recurrent psychiatric hospitalisation were associated with exclusion | Germany | quantitative study (N = 150) with participants with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder |
| Kogstad (2009) [8] | violations of dignity considered from a clients’ point of view | gap between human rights’ aims and clients’ experiences in several settings; lack of safeguards against infringement | Norway | qualitative content analysis of 335 client narratives |
| Nomidou (2013) [25] | human rights in in-patient care in Greek mental health facilities using the WHO QualityRights toolkit | either improvement or initiation is necessary for the psychiatric clinic under research to fully comply with the requirements of the UN-CRPD | Greece | qualitative study, 21 in-depth interviews, documentation review and observation |
| Nankivell et al. (2013) [15] | orientation of nurses to human rights and access of consumers with severe mental illnesses to general practitioner services | the studied nurses only rarely raised the topic of human rights | Australia | qualitative study, 6 focus groups (N = 38) |
| Battams & Henderson (2012) [20] | current and potential impact of the UN-CRPD on Australian legislation and policy | there is a greater focus on concerns about ‘negative rights’ rather than ‘positive rights’; high rates of involuntary detention and a lack of access to the law for people with psychiatric disabilities continue to be significant problems | Australia | qualitative study, ten interviews with professionals from law, psychiatry, policy and service user backgrounds |
| Kleintjes et al. (2010) [21] | current support for mental health care user participation in policy development and implementation in South Africa | mental health care user consultation in policy development and implementation has been limited; however, most respondents felt that inclusion of user perspectives in policy processes would improve policy development | South Africa | qualitative study, semi-structured interviews (N = 96) and policy document analysis |
| Randall et al. (2012) [27] | producing a toolkit to document violations and good practice with the aim of preventing human rights violations and improving general health care practice in psychiatric and and social care institutions | the toolkit has demonstrated applicability and is qualified as acceptable and feasible for the systematic monitoring of human rights in psychiatric and social care institutions | UK (and others) | methodological and implementation study conducted across 15 European countries in monitoring visits to 87 mental health organizations |
| Henderson & Battams (2011) [45] | access and barriers to physical and mental health care | main barriers to the achievement to the right of health are structural (e.g. competing laws, political barriers) | Australia | qualitative study, interviews with 10 key stakeholders |
