Objective This study aims to build a measure for assessing and reviewing the living conditions, care and human rights of people with long term mental illness in psychiatric and social care institutions. Protection of their human rights is imperative since impaired mental capacity secondary to mental illness can make them vulnerable to abuse and exploitation from others. They constitute a major resource pressure for mental health services, social services, informal carers and society as a whole. This study will use an iterative methodology to develop a toolkit to assess internationally agreed domains of care relevant to commissioners, providers and service users. The study will assess the ability of the toolkit to feed into established systems to improve care and it will assess value for money. The toolkit will constitute standardised measures of domains considered most important for recovery. The domains will be identified through Delphi exercises in partner countries with professionals, service users and carers and common domains will be agreed by an international expert panel. These are likely to include: the built environment; treatments and content of care; clinical governance; organisational climate; the use of restraint and other coercive practices; social dislocation; the promotion of social inclusion; the use of recovery based practices. The domains will incorporate cross-cutting themes to assess the institution's promotion of human rights e.g. the freedom, choice, dignity and privacy of their clients. The toolkit will be refined through the course of the study to maximise its usability and its ability to deliver assessments that translate into action plans within each country's established systems of change at local, regional and national level. It will be cross-validated against service users' quality of life, autonomy and markers of recovery to test whether it can deliver a proxy-measure of the promotion of human rights and recovery. Fields of science social sciencessociologygovernancepublic servicessocial scienceslawhuman rights Keywords Mental illness complex needs human rights institutional care recovery social exclusion Programme(s) FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) POLICIES-2.1 - Health determinants and the provision of high quality and sustainable health care services and pension systems Call for proposal FP6-2005-SSP-5-A See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON EU contribution No data Address Gower Str. LONDON United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Division of Mental Health, Jenner Wing, St George's University of London, Cranmer Terrace LONDON See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN Germany EU contribution No data Address Helmholtzstr. 10 DRESDEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA Spain EU contribution No data Address Cuesta del Hospicio s/n GRANADA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SOFIA Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address Acad. Ivan Geshov 15 SOFIA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Hanzeplein 1 30.001 GRONINGEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY Poland EU contribution No data Address Pasteura 1 WROCLAW See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE Greece EU contribution No data Address 66 517 PAPAGOU See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS MEDICAS, UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA Portugal EU contribution No data Address Campo dos Martires da Patria, 130 LISBOA See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data AZIENDA SERVIZI SANITARI N. 1 TRIESTINA Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Sai, 1-3 TRIESTE See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE Czechia EU contribution No data Address Ovocny trh 5 PRAHA 1 See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data