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A Satisfaction Questionnaire for an Inpatient Mother and Baby Unit was developed covering general psychiatric and specific perinatal aspects of the service. In a study of 41 women admitted over one year twenty returned the completed questionnaire. Among respondents overall satisfaction with the service was very high and women preferred it to a general psychiatric ward. Respondents were most dissatisfied with degree of involvement in the planning and the level of decision making about their care which is a recurring theme in surveys of psychiatric inpatients.
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Neil, S., Sanderson, H. & Wieck, A. A satisfaction survey of women admitted to a Psychiatric Mother and Baby Unit in the northwest of England. Arch Womens Ment Health 9, 109–112 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-005-0116-6
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