Digital Access to Mental Health Records

Duration
01.01.2022–31.12.2025

Mental health personnel are required by law to write mental health notes in order to document the patient’s health condition, the reasons for seeking help, and the treatment provided.

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About the project

For patients, digital access to their mental health notes is a democratic right based on the assumption that knowledge of what is noted about their health condition and treatment will increase codetermination and contribute to empowering the patient as a citizen of society.

Objectives

Access to mental health notes potentially opens the opportunity for both facilitation and limitation of patient-therapist collaboration. There is scarce knowledge on positive as well as unintended negative effects of this access. The goal of the project is to provide knowledge on how digitally accessible health notes may influence on the working alliance between patients and therapists during treatment.

Research group

Hilde Flata, phd-candidate at the Department of psychology, UiO, Petter Aaslestad, professor at the Department of Language and Literature, NTNU, and Hanne Weie Oddli, Department of psychology, UiO.

Participants

Funding

The project is funded by Stiftelsen Dam through the Norwegian Council of Mental Health (NCMH), 01.01.2022-31.12.2025, and the Department of psychology, University of Oslo.

Collaborators

Forandringsfabrikken, RIO, Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Blå Kors, NTNU, OUS, Lovisenberg distriktpsykiatriske sykehus.

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Published Nov. 14, 2024 3:04 PM - Last modified Dec. 12, 2024 10:43 AM