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Specialist work schemes: user satisfaction and costs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Justine Schneider  and
Angela Hallam
Angela Hallam
Affiliation:
Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury CT2 7EF: email: J.Schneider@ukc.ac.uk
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This paper is a study of the costs and quality of life of 157 people attending specialist employment schemes for people with long-term mental health problems in southeast England. The research, work force, and the seven work settings are described and differences found between service users in satisfaction, social networks and costs at 1994–95 levels are reported. This is the first such study of work schemes in this country, and while still not generalisable, it supplies valuable empirical evidence for all those concerned with psychiatric rehabilitation.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , June 1997 , pp. 331 - 333
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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