Overall, results indicate that both practitioners and service-users found the model to be both acceptable and appropriate. The Framework Method was used to organize, integrate and interpret the dataset. Secondary data derived from documents (e.g., clinical, policy, procedural n = 48) created by the CCMHS team (i.e., practitioners, stakeholders, board of directors) during the Implementation Phase of the project were reviewed and analyzed to triangulate the primary data. Primary data were collected from CCMHS practitioners ( n = 10) and service-users ( n = 6) through semi-structured interviews, as well as from CCMHS stakeholders ( n = 13) during a project meeting, captured via meeting minutes.
The study is situated within a larger Participatory Action Research (PAR) project to design, implement and evaluate the CCMHS.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acceptability and appropriateness of a sport-centered, collaborative mental health service delivery model implemented within the Canadian Center for Mental Health and Sport (CCMHS) over a period of 16 months. University of Ottawa, School of Human Kinetics, Ottawa, ON, Canada.Van Slingerland and Natalie Durand-Bush *