Healthcare Meetings Where the Service User Is Absent: The Ethical and Values-Based Implications for Research

Smart, Cordet; Aikman, Lindsay; Tremblett, Madeleine; Dickenson, Jennifer; Mhlanga, Sifiso

Abstract

The MDTsInAction research problem uniquely integrated three ethical contexts: firstly, the context of qualitative mental healthcare research. This emphasises service user involvement to ensure meaningful research. Challenges of benchmarking ethical standards in qualitative healthcare research are also raised. The second context was the topic MDT meetings where service users were absent. This context did not appear to fit with the healthcare context promoting service user involvement. The final context was the use of conversation analysis. This carries an implicit assumption that the analyst is the expert—again, not complementing a healthcare research context promoting service user involvement. Reflections on how these were managed in this research programme are presented, alongside tips for ensuring the highest ethical practice in similar research designs.

• Online Publication Date: Jan 4, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Feb 20, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 57-76
• Series Title: The Language of Mental Health book series (TLMH)
• Edition: 1st
• Book Title: Interprofessional Care and Mental Health: A Discursive Exploration of Team Meeting Practices
• Chapter Number: 3
• ISBN: 978-3-319-98227-4; 978-3-030-40379-9
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98228-1_3
• Keywords: Conversation analysis; Community Mental Health; Teamwork in Mental Health Care; team formulation; MDT meetings; discourse analysis; interprofessional practice; Communication Studies; Discourse Analysis; IAPT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies; Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT); psychotherapeutic culture; NHS; mental health services; MDTsInAction
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10474864
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-98228-1_3
• Related Public URLs: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-98228-1