Chains of (dis)trust

Exploring the Underpinnings of Knowledge-Sharing and Quality Care Across Mental Health Services

Bibliographic Data

ID2249071
AuthorsPatrick Brown (0000-0001-6392-1630, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Patrick R Brown (Department of Sociology and Centre for Social Science and Global Health University of Amsterdam The Netherlands), Michael Calnan (0000-0002-7239-6898, University of Kent), Michael W Calnan (School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research University of Kent)
Year2016
Volume38
Issue2
Pages286-305
Publication date2016-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12369
PMID26614364
OpenAlexW2179302951
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited42

Quality and safety in healthcare settings are underpinned by organisational cultures, which facilitate or impede the refinement, sharing and application of knowledge. Avoiding the use of the term culture as a residual category, we focus specifically on describing chains of (dis)trust, analysing their development across relatively low-trust service contexts and their impact upon knowledge-sharing and caregiving. Drawing upon data from in-depth interviews with service users, healthcare professionals, service managers and other stakeholders across three mental healthcare (psychosis) teams in southern England, we identify micro-mechanisms that explain how (dis)trust within one intra-organisational relationship impacts upon other relationships. Experiences and inferences of vulnerability, knowledge, uncertainty, interests and time, among actors who are both trustees and trusters across different relationships, are pertinent to such analyses. This more micro-level understanding facilitates detailed conceptualisations of trust chains as meso-level tendencies that contribute to wider vicious or virtuous cycles of organisational (dis)trust. We explore how knowledge-sharing and caregiving are vitally interwoven within these chains of trust or distrust, enhancing and/or inhibiting the instrumental and communicative aspects of quality healthcare as a result

Business · Distrust · Health care · Knowledge management · Knowledge sharing · Mental health · Mental healthcare · Political science · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Service (business · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Management and Organizational Studies · Marketing · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology

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