Experiences of Older Mental Health Patients and Their Care Partners Using a Proxy Account to Access Open Notes: Qualitative Interview Study

Eva Meier-Diedrich   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Tobias Esch   ³ , MD ;   Maria Hägglund   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Martin Heinze   ^{1, 2, 6} , MD ;   Stefan Hochwarter   ⁷ , PhD ;   Justin Speck   ² , BSc ;   Marie Wagener   ² , MSc ;   Volker Dahling   ^{1, 2, 8 *} , MD ;   Julian Schwarz   ^{1, 2, 6 *} , MD

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Center for Mental Health, Immanuel Hospital Rüdersdorf, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Rüdersdorf, Germany

² Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany

³ Institute for Integrative Health Care and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

⁴ Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

⁵ Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

⁶ Center for Health Service Research Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Rüdersdorf, Germany

⁷ Institute for Biomedicine and Health Sciences (HEALTH), Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H, Graz, Austria

⁸ Research Group Geriatric Psychiatry Research, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Rüdersdorf, Germany

*these authors contributed equally