Consumer Evaluation
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Timeline/History
Consumer Evaluation of Mental Health Services
(CEO-MHS) Project
| 1999 – 2000: | Consumer Directed Research Group meets - CEO-MHS proposal begins to form. (Monthly meetings continue throughout the Project). Grant successful. |
| 2001 February: | Information sessions took place at various Illawarra Health services. |
| June – July: | Launch of the project - One day workshop and information session. |
| August: |
Applicants for consumer researcher positions interviewed. Members of team attend TheMHS Conference Wellington, New Zealand. |
| September: |
Fourteen consumer researchers appointed training sessions begin. |
| November – December: |
Running of seven focus groups in Wollongong and Nowra. |
| 2002 January – April: | Analysis and validation of focus group data. |
| May – July: |
Development of sampling methodology Development of Interview questions and interview guide. Top up interviewing skills training. |
| August |
Start of interviews where consumer researchers use purposive sampling (ongoing). The MHS Conference Sydney. Members of the team present a Symposium titled " Consumer evaluation of mental health services: not whether we should, but how we should". |
| November: | Interviews in Mid-Western NSW take place, organised by Consumer Activity Group, Orange. |
| December: |
Australian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR) Conference, Canberra. Member of the team invited to present paper for consumer symposium. |
| January 2003: |
Writing for Publication" workshops". Analysis of interview data starts. Website development begins. |
| February – March: |
"Evaluation" workshops.
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