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Patients want WHO descriptions to capture lived experience
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31974
Subject(s) - feeling , perspective (graphical) , medical diagnosis , mental health , psychology , service (business) , medicine , social psychology , psychiatry , computer science , business , pathology , marketing , artificial intelligence
Observing a need to gain the perspective of service users across international contexts, U.K. and U.S. researchers found that mental health patients want diagnostic descriptions that better reflect what it feels like to live with their conditions. Those feelings should be included in the World Health Organization's (WHO's) global manual of diagnoses — the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), new research states.