Mental well-being: an important outcome for mental health services?

September 01, 2015 By:
  • de Cates A
  • Stranges S
  • Blake A
  • Weich S.

Mental well-being is being used as an outcome measure in mental health services. The recent Chief Medical Officer's (CMO's) report raised questions about mental well-being in people with mental illness, including how to measure it. We discuss whether mental well-being has prognostic significance or other utility in this context.

2015 Sep. Br J Psychiatry.207(3):195-7.
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