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Issues for Regional and Rural Carers
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1.
What is your residential post code
(Required.)
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2.
Does the person you care for have good insight into their condition?
(Required.)
Yes
No
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3.
Is this insight affected by their illness from time to time?
(Required.)
Yes
No
4.
Have they required transportation to hospital for treatment on occasion in the last 12 months?
Yes
No (Skip to Question 6)
5.
Was this provided by Police or Ambulance or otherwise?
Police
Ambulance
Carer provided transport
Other
Transport not available – could not get them to treatment
6.
How serious is this issue of transport to you?
Not serious
Serious
Quite serious
Very Serious
7.
Have you every incurred significant personal expenses associated with transporting consumers to a mental health facility?
Yes
No
8.
Were you able to access any rebate system (such as patient transport/ travel assistance schemes) to help pay for these costs?
Yes
No
9.
Have you every incurred significant personal expenses associated with visiting consumers in a mental health facility?
Yes
No
10.
Were you able to access any rebate system (such as patient transport/ travel assistance schemes) to help pay for these costs?
Yes
No
11.
Access to mental health professionals
Are you able to access sufficient mental health services and advice from you current place of residence?
Yes
No
12.
How far do you need to travel to physically see a mental health professional? ___________ kms
13.
Does the main treating clinician (psychiatrist, psychologist, mental health nurse etc) who looks after your family member or friend change frequently?
Very stable – infrequent changes
Every couple of years
Less frequently than once a year
Every year at least
More frequently than every year
14.
Does this cause issues with their continuity of care, and if so what?
No
Yes
If yes, please specify
15.
Have changes in clinical staff resulted in changes of (tick as many as apply):
Diagnoses
Treatment
Medication,
Attitudes to family involvement; and / or
Attitudes to information sharing?
16.
Do the staff who look after your family member or friend seem to have a good knowledge of their patient’s their clinical situation and needs?
Yes
No
17.
Communication Issues
Have you every struggled to be understood by professionals whose first language is not English?
Never
Infrequently
Sometimes
Often
Usually
18.
How is it best to provide detailed information about mental health issues and mental health services to people in your location and situation? (tick as many that apply)
Mail
Flyers
Radio
Newspapers
State-wide telephone information services
Locally based telephone information services
The Internet
19.
At home are you able to access:
A local radio station
A local newspaper
The Internet
20.
Respite
Are sufficient respite services are available in your local area?
Yes
No – insufficient
No – none at all within 300kms
21.
What type of respite services would be most helpful for you?
Centre based consumer education / recreation service (which gives the carer respite by finding meaningful, supervised activities for the consumer)
Community based respite service (where the consumer is simply looked after by others in another location for a while)
Home visit system (staff visit home to look after consumer for a spell)