The training programmes for service users, psychiatrists and care coordinators constitute the piloted intervention of the ShIMME project.
The three programmes share the focus on the process of SDM, and not on any specific decision or advice giving to any participant. The latter is not at all the remit of this project.
The training programmes will therefore provide:
- The rationale for SDM
- Existing research evidence
- Existing relevant policy
- Barriers and facilitators of SDM
- Finding relevant information, making it available, and making sense of it
- Decision making aids with which to practice and facilitate SDM
- A range of interactive learning methods, such as video material commissioned specifically for this project, role play, small group exercises, group discussion, self reflection, information finding.
- All participants will take part in the pre and post training programmes evaluation.
- All participants will have free access to the public section of the project website, as well as the sections for each group, which include also a forum for the participants for the duration of the training programmes and the follow up year.
The three training programmes differ in:
- Duration and length of sessions
4 sessions for service users, with a follow up session
2 sessions for psychiatrists, with a self study component
3 sessions for care coordinators, with a self study component - The programme for service users will focus also on positive assertiveness, wellbeing planning, finding relevant information about medication and making sense of it as part of the process of identifying preferences and priorities for their choice of medication, making good use of their own experience of taking medication, practising the decision making aids made available in the project within a safe environment
- The programme for psychiatrists will also focus on facilitating information giving, learning from the service users’ experience and sharing with them the psychiatrist’s view, applying the feedback tools for both service user and prescriber in the process of reaching SDM.
- The programme for care coordinators will also focus on facilitating information giving and making sense of information collated from both the service user and the prescriber, supporting the service user in applying systematically the preferences, priorities and choice tool as well as the feedback tools and in reaching decisions about psychiatric medication, and supporting prescribers to provide feedback concerning their preferences and decisions about medication.