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Selbsthilfeangebote für Menschen mit schwerer psychischer Erkrankung – wer nutzt welches Format?
(2025)
Background: Due to illness-related functional limitations, a significant proportion of individuals with severe mental illness are dependent on external assistance to navigate their daily lives and achieve an optimal level of independence and wellbeing.
Objectives: The present study sought to investigate the needs, the coverage of needs and the influencing factors among people with severe mental illness in Germany.
Methods: The study included patients diagnosed with severe mental illness. The met and unmet needs, as well as the potential influencing factors, were collected using Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) and Client Sociodemographic and Service Receipt Inventory (CSSRI) and subsequently analysed descriptively and exploratively.
Results: The mean number of reported needs was 6.4, with an average of 40.6% of these needs being met. The vast majority of patients (98%) require professional support, which is, from their perspective, inadequate (9-86% depending on the area concerned). Additionally, many patients also receive support from relatives (7-57% depending on the area concerned). The diagnosis, age, functioning, household income, and housing situation have an influence on the number and coverage of needs.
Conclusions: The findings indicate that patients have diverse and complex needs, which are not fully met. Notably, the support provided by professional services is perceived as inadequate.
Background: Promoting social inclusion is crucial for people living with severe mental illness (SMI), who often experience high levels of social exclusion. However, research that uses a psychometric social inclusion measure to identify factors that determine varying levels of social inclusion in individuals with SMI is scarce.
Aims: This study aimed to examine to what extent people with SMI feel socially included and to identify factors associated with perceived social inclusion among people with SMI.
Method: A cross-sectional multicenter investigation of psychiatric inpatients and day hospital patients with SMI aged 18 to 65 years (n = 358) was conducted. Perceived social inclusion, sociodemographic, and clinical characteristics were assessed using the Measure of Participation and Social Inclusion for Use in People with a Chronic Mental Disorder (F-INK). Hierarchical multiple linear regression was performed to analyse the association between social inclusion and potential predictors.
Results: The participants' overall level of social inclusion was moderate (F-INK social inclusion total score M = 1.9, SD = 0.6). Age, relationship status, diagnostic group, employment status, and living situation emerged as predictors of social inclusion. Greater subjective social inclusion was predicted by older age (p = .027), being in a committed intimate relationship (p = .037), diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorder (compared to diagnosis of depression, p = .020), being competitively employed or in education (compared to being in sheltered employment, p = .022; compared to being unemployed or receiving a disability pension, p = .007), and living with other people (p = .042).
Conclusions: The results confirm deficiencies in social inclusion of people with SMI. Individuals with SMI who are younger, single, have a diagnosis of depression, are in sheltered employment, are unemployed or receiving a disability pension, and are living alone seem to be particularly at risk of experiencing low social inclusion. These findings highlight the importance of psychosocial interventions in rehabilitative mental healthcare.
