Mental health services research methodology

Opportunities in mental health services research.

Computational psychophysiology based research methodology for mental health

Computational psychophysiology is a new direction that broadens the field of psychophysiology by allowing for the identification and integration of multimodal signals to test specific models of mental states and psychological processes. Additionally, such approaches allows for the extraction of multiple signals from large-scale multidimensional data, with a greater ability to differentiate sign...

Mixed methods, mixed methodology health services research in practice.

Mixed methods, mixed methodology research is a little documented but increasingly accepted approach employed to investigate organizational phenomena. The author presents a synthesis of literature that informed the decision to adopt a mixed methods, mixed methodology, dominantly naturalistic study approach to health services research in which she explored the process and organizational consequen...

State-of-the-art challenges for mental health services research.

BACKGROUND: Research-based, state-of-the-art services for people with serious mental disorders would consist of demonstrably effective treatments, organized synergistically, and financed in ways that create incentives to provide such treatment. While research exists in these domains of treatment, organization and financing, this research base contains significant gaps, and what is known frequen...

Bridging community intervention and mental health services research.

OBJECTIVE This article explores the potential of community intervention perspectives for increasing the relevance, reach, and public health impact of mental health services research. METHOD The authors reviewed community intervention strategies, including public health and community development and empowerment interventions, and contrast community intervention with practice-based quality impr...