3 November 2010
mentalhealthcare.org.uk, the site for class members and friends of mass with psychosis, has been granted the Data Standard.
Developed by the Section of Health, the Data Standard `quality mark` aims to assist members of the world easily identify trustworthy information, and grant them confidence in what they read.
To be capable to show the mark, organisations have to undergo a rigorous certification process and prove that they get data that is accurate, impartial, balanced, evidence-based, accessible and well-written.
The Data Standard has been awarded to the Section of Psychology at the Plant of Psychiatry, King`s College London, for mentalhealthcare.org.uk*. Professor Elizabeth Kuipers, head of the department, led the launching of the place in February 2010 and continues to be in point of its ongoing development.
The place was redeveloped with the aid of a Wellcome Trust public engagement grant and since its launch eight months ago, has been visited by more than 56,000 people. Around 42,000 of them have viplaced the site for the 1st time, the remainder have returned for more information.
`I recollect this is one of the better information websites I have seen,` wrote one house member. `The data is really easily to read and well written, and I get actually found out a lot. It`s also very slow to get your way around, and I wish it because it is really elementary and not confusing like a lot of websites. I like knowing this place is here as a credit level for me.`
Correspondence shows that the bulk of visitors are family members supporting someone with psychosis, but the situation is also visited by people who have experience of psychosis as well as mental health professionals.
In gain to data around the symptoms of psychosis, causes, treatment and care, the site features `Ask the.` columns where visitors can submit questions to psychologists Professor Kuipers and Dr Juliana Onwumere, psychiatrist Professor Tom Craig and pharmacist Professor David Taylor from South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM). Other mental health professionals employed by Shot and early researchers at the IoP voluntarily give their sentence to help make and update the data on the site.
There are too short, filmed clips of experts from both the IoP and SLaM talking about different aspects of psychosis.
The Data Standard was awarded to mentalhealthcare.org.uk in September 2010 for a three-year period, and thither will be an annual one-day inspection to make certain the situation continues to comply with the scheme`s strict criteria.
For more information:
www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk
www.theinformationstandard.org/
*mentalhealthcare.org.uk is the only website created by the Section of psychology (rather than by research groups or individuals) and is the just one that can show the Information Standard.
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