Comparison of key worker and patient assessment of needs in schizophrenic patients living in the community:a Nordic multicentre study

Abstract

It is concluded that key workers and patients disagree particularly concerning unmet needs and that this is potentially related to a number of factors associated with the key worker and patient. It is also concluded that further research is needed to increase the knowledge concerning the sources of this disagreement if need assessment is to become a valid basis for service planning and individual treatment planning.