Healthcare professionals’ perspectives on mental health service provision: a pilot focus group study in six European countries

Table 1 Participants’ professional title, service setting, and country

Country	Psychiatrists		Psychologists		GPs		Psychiatric nurses, social workers and physiotherapists
Country	Number	Work setting^a	Number	Work setting	Number	Work setting	Number	Work setting
Belgium	2	PH and private practice PH	3	General hospital and private practice PH Outpatient MHC	2	National organization for refugees Private practice	2	Center for general well being Community health center
Cyprus	2	MHSs, rehabilitation clinic Private psychiatric clinic	4	MHSs, day center Private psychiatric clinic Community mental health department, outpatient services Private practice	1	General hospital	1	Public PH Community service
Greece	4	Public hospital Psychiatric inpatient and outpatient unit Public hospital, psychiatric department Private practice (2) Collaboration with public MH services	4	Short-term hospice service unit/after hospitalization care Private psychiatric clinic Private practice (2) NGO	2	PHC (2)	1	Public hospital Psychiatric Unit
Norway	–	–	2	PHC Substance abuse treatment/private practice	2	General practitioner Nursing home	1	Outpatient clinic
Sweden	3	Outpatient care (addiction) Specialized Psychiatric care at a hospital (psychosis) PH (affective disorders)	2	Psychiatry, in- and outpatient departments PH (affective disorders)	2	PHC (2)	1	Rehabilitation center
The Netherlands	3	PH (2) Academic hospital, Department of psychiatry	3	MHC (3)	2	University hospital, Department of Geriatric Medicine and General Practitioner Medicine General Practice	–	–
Total participants	14		18		11		6

^aSome participants may work at more than one setting
PH psychiatric hospital, MHSs mental health services, PHC Primary Health Center, MHC Mental Health Center

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