Understanding and experience of Mental Health Illness and Mental Health Crisis services Survey

Across Teesside (Middlesbrough, Redcar, Hartlepool and Stockton), there are four main Mental Health Crisis services (Crisis team, Street Triage, Crisis Assessment Suite (CAS) and Liaison Psychiatry).

In order to ensure that the design and delivery of Tees Crisis services across; Middlesbrough, Redcar, Stockton and Hartlepool, are informed by public opinion, this survey will ask about your general understanding of:

1) Mental Health Illnesses and

2)Tees Mental Health Crisis services.

Everybody is asked to answer Q1 to Q10 after which you will be directed to answer either Q11 to Q21 or to go straight to Q21.

It will take approximately 5-7 minutes to complete the main survey.

In addition there are also 16 equality and diversity questions at the end of the survey which we would like everybody to answer, but you do not have to answer all or any of them if you do not wish to disclose this information. These should take no more than 5 minutes to complete.

Deadline for responses is 20th September 2018.

If you have any queries or would like help to complete the survey please contact South Tees Clinical Commissioning Group enquiries on 01642 263030 or email STCCG.enquiries@nhs.net

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* 1. What mental health illnesses are you aware of?

Anxiety

Depression

Schizophrenia

Bi-polar disorder

Eating disorder

Dementia

Other (please specify)

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* 2. What three symptoms do you most commonly associate with mental health illness?

Lack of energy

Stomach problems/nausea

High levels of distress

Loss of control of daily life

Break in understanding of reality

Hearing or seeing, things that others cant

Increased heart rate

Sweat more

Changes in appetite

Weight changes

Other (please specify)

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* 3. What three behaviours do you most commonly associate with mental health illness?

Increase in unhealthy behaviours

Person acting out of character

Avoiding people, places, situations

Irritability

Anger

Changes in eating pattern

Changes in sleeping pattern

Erratic behaviour

Obsessions

Other (please specify)

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* 4. What three things do you think most commonly affect's a persons mental health?

Hormones

Genetics

Coping Skills

Early childhood experiences

Drug and Alcohol use

Current life circumstances

Traumatic experiences

Other (please specify)

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* 5. What type of problems would you expect mental health crisis services to help with?

Financial problems

Suicidal thoughts

Relationship breakdown

Overdose

Self harm behaviour

Suicide attempt

Life threatening emergency

Help to figure out how to solve a problem

Help to work out how to manage a situation

To solve my problems

To provide advice on coping

Medication issues

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What help and treatment would you expect the mental health crisis team to provide?

Emotional support

Medication review

Emergency response

Befriending service

Housing advice

Relationship advice

Home Visits

Change to medication

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Which Tees mental health crisis services are you aware of?

Crisis team - a mental health nurse who speaks to you on the telephone and then arranges a home visit

Crisis Assessment Suite - a mental health nurse who sees you when you visit the walk in clinic at Roseberry Park hospital

Liaison Psychiatry- a mental health nurse who visits you in either James Cook hospital or North Tees hospital

Street Triage - a mental health nurse who visits alongside a police officer.

Other (please specify)

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* 8. Who would you contact in a mental health crisis situation?

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* 9. How quickly would you expect the mental health crisis team to see someone who has been referred to them?

0-4 hours

4-8 hours

8-12 hours

12-24 hours

48 hours

Other (please specify)

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* 10. Have you ever had contact with Tees crisis services?

Yes