Your Experience of Service (YES)

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The Your Experience of Service (YES) assessment is a tool used to measure a client’s experience of mental health care and is a frequently used measure for assessing service levels in government health departments. The YES was developed by the Secretary to the Department of Health (Victoria) with funding from the Australian Government Department of Health (Victorian Department of Health, 2013). The YES has 26-Likert scale questions and 2 open-ended questions and was designed for use with adults (18+).  

 

Developer

Victorian Department of Health (2013). National Mental Health Consumer Experiences of Care Report – Final Report – Development and Evaluation of a Consumer Experiences of Care Survey Instrument. Available at: https://www.amhocn.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/699020/ceoc_final_report.pdf

References

Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network. (2020). Reporting domains of the experience of service measures: YES, YES CMO, YES PHN, CES. (Version 1.1). Available at: https://www.amhocn.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/700195/reporting_domains_of_yes_yes_cmo_yes_phn_ces_20200416.pdf 

NovoPsych Five Factor Personality Scale – 30 item version (NFFPS-30)

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The NovoPsych Five Factor Personality Scale – 30  is a brief self-report personality inventory measuring the well established five factor model of personality (a.k.a OCEAN). It is for use by older adolescents (ages 16+) and adults, where personality characteristics are compared to age and gender norms on the five factors of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism.

Developer

References

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Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. G. (2006). The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.007

Hofstee, W. K., de Raad, B., & Goldberg, L. R. (1992). Integration of the Big Five and circumplex approaches to trait structure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63(1), 146–163. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.63.1.146

Johnson, J. A. (2014). Measuring thirty facets of the five factor model with a 120-item public domain inventory: Development of the IPIP-NEO-120. Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 78–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2014.05.003

Johnson, J. A. (2020). Johnson’s IPIP-NEO data repository. Accessed at: https://osf.io/tbmh5/

Johnson, J. A. (n.d.). Descriptions used in IPIP-NEO Narrative Report. Accessed at: https://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/5/j5j/IPIPNEOdescriptions.html

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Administer Questionnaires via Telehealth

 

Administer Questionnaires via Telehealth

 

Dear NovoPsych users,

Until recently the majority of NovoPsych users have chosen to administer questionnaires face-to-face in session via the iPad app, however increasingly more practices use NovoPsych’s web version to email assessments to their clients. Given the Covid-19 situation this feature has become an increasingly vital tool for many practitioners.

I’d like to show you how you can use NovoPsych via video-conference, without the need for an iPad.

Or even if you still have clients visiting your office, instead of passing the iPad to them (germs!), you can send the assessment to their phone.


With NovoPsych you can:

  • Share a secure link from NovoPsych with your client requesting they complete an assessment (for example-DASS-21 etc.) .
  • Copy an assessment URL so you can send an assessment link to your client via your own messaging system (for example, Skype, Zoom, SMS, or email).

How to send an assessment 

1. Login to the NovoPsych platform in your browser. Go to app.novopsych.com (note, these features are not available in the iPad app, just the internet browser version)

2. Press Email Assessment from the home screen
3. Select a client
4. Choose the assessments you would like to send
5. Press “Copy URL”. The link to the assessment will be ready for you to paste into an email or messaging service (e.g. Skype, Zoom, SMS).

6. (Optional). If you’d like NovoPsych to send the assessment on your behalf (from the secure NovoPsych email address), you can press “Administer”, which will generate an email with the assessment. You can press “Customise Email” to amend the generic email message. If you want NovoPsych to send an email for you, you’ll need to add their email address into NovoPsych (see below image).

Note, if you can’t see the “Copy URL” button please clear your browser’s cache to see NovoPsych’s latest update. 

With the more and more mental health consultations required to occur remotely in the current crisis, this feature helps you measure key outcomes for your patients regularly and consistently. I hope you and your client benefit from it.

 

 

Dr Ben Buchanan
BA (Hons), GradDipPsych, DPsych, MAPS
Co-founder & Director of NovoPsych Pty Ltd
Ben @ NovoPsych.com
www.NovoPsych.com
Psychologist
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