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Vijayalakshmi et al. (2013) [9]
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the role of education in ascertaining human rights needs of people with mental illness
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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
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India
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quantitative study (N = 100)
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Angermeyer et al. (2014) [23]
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changes of public attitudes towards restrictions on mentally ill people
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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
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Germany
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quantitative study, two population surveys (N = 2094; n = 3642)
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Burns (2010) [43]
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budget allocations over a 5-year period between psychiatric and general hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal
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mean increase in budgets was considerably lower in psychiatric (3.8 %) than in general hospitals (10.2 %)
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South Africa
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quantitative study based on budget allocations (5 psychiatric and 7 general hospitals)
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Steinert et al. (2015) [44]
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Patterns of individual mobility and active use of motorised vehicles
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Participants drove considerably less in time and distances than general population. Alcohol abuse and recurrent psychiatric hospitalisation were associated with exclusion
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Germany
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quantitative study (N = 150) with participants with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
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Kogstad (2009) [8]
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violations of dignity considered from a clients’ point of view
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gap between human rights’ aims and clients’ experiences in several settings; lack of safeguards against infringement
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Norway
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qualitative content analysis of 335 client narratives
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Nomidou (2013) [25]
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human rights in in-patient care in Greek mental health facilities using the WHO QualityRights toolkit
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either improvement or initiation is necessary for the psychiatric clinic under research to fully comply with the requirements of the UN-CRPD
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Greece
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qualitative study, 21 in-depth interviews, documentation review and observation
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Nankivell et al. (2013) [15]
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orientation of nurses to human rights and access of consumers with severe mental illnesses to general practitioner services
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the studied nurses only rarely raised the topic of human rights
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Australia
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qualitative study, 6 focus groups (N = 38)
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Battams & Henderson (2012) [20]
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current and potential impact of the UN-CRPD on Australian legislation and policy
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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
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Australia
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qualitative study, ten interviews with professionals from law, psychiatry, policy and service user backgrounds
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Kleintjes et al. (2010) [21]
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current support for mental health care user participation in policy development and implementation in South Africa
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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
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South Africa
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qualitative study, semi-structured interviews (N = 96) and policy document analysis
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Randall et al. (2012) [27]
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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
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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
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UK (and others)
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methodological and implementation study conducted across 15 European countries in monitoring visits to 87 mental health organizations
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Henderson & Battams (2011) [45]
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access and barriers to physical and mental health care
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main barriers to the achievement to the right of health are structural (e.g. competing laws, political barriers)
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Australia
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qualitative study, interviews with 10 key stakeholders
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