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24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S18–S55

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– self-help – self-help groups offer patients a voice and an audi-

ence with the time and inclination to listen to patients’ concerns

and reassure them and ease their anxiety. For example, a self-help

group may be able to quell anxiety regarding side effects, to reas-

sure the patient, from first-hand experience, that these side effects

are transient, normal and non-threatening and will diminish over

time. The real experts on living with a mental disorder are those

who are already doing so. Therefore, most support groups are full

of peoplewho can share information about howthey havemanaged

to cope with their illnesses.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration

of competing interest.

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Value-based mental healthcare: The

quality aspect

W. Gaebel

Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf,

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Düsseldorf, Germany

Introduction

The goal of value-based healthcare is to improve the

quality of carewhile also lowering healthcare costs. Valuesmay also

include societal or research benefits.

Objectives

To outline the emergence and quality-related con-

cepts of value-based healthcare.

Aims

To give a comprehensive overviewand critical discussion of

quality aspects of value-based mental healthcare including aspects

of personal, societal and scientific values.

Methods

Reviewof quality aspects of value-basedmental health-

care.

Results

The quality aspect of value-based healthcare includes

the implementation of patient-centered care and may include

the assessment of societal values or values for research purposes.

Current concepts focus on the reduction of disability-adjusted life

years to measure the achievement of values, but may need to be

broadened to include benefits to society as a whole or the progress

of knowledge about mental disorders in research. Conceptually,

addressing such broader value issues may lead to increased

benefits and a better appraisal of the value of mental healthcare.

Conclusions

The trend towards value-based mental healthcare

aims at creating an efficient care delivery model, that strongly

focuses on achieving favorable patient outcomes and may in the

future also include creating societal values. It includes the devel-

opment and implementation of suitable mental health policies and

comprehensive quality assessment, plus a broad conceptualization

of the value-term and its assessment in value-basedmental health-

care.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration

of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.932

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Value-based mental healthcare: The

cost aspect

M. Knapp

London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United

Kingdom

Economic hardship can be a factor in the incidence and exacer-

bation of mental health problems, and economic constraints have

always constrained availability of resources. But examining the

economic case – whether treatment or longer-term preventive

strategies are cost-effective – can actually provide strong support

for investing more in them. This presentation will provide illus-

trations of how economic evidence has helped decision-makers

(in government and in funding bodies) to recognise the enormous

contributions often generated by prevention, treatment and care.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration

of competing interest.

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