Do Mental Health Outpatient Services Meet Users' Needs? Trial to Identify Factors Associated with Higher Needs for Care.

Do Mental Health Outpatient Services Meet Users' Needs? Trial to Identify Factors Associated with Higher Needs for Care.
Community Ment Health J. 2015 Sep 21;
Authors: Dobrzynska E, Rymaszewska J, Biecek P, Kiejna A
Abstract
The study was conducted to investigate the extent to which services meet patients' needs and identify the factors associated with higher needs. 174 outpatients were assessed using CANSAS, BPRS and GSDS. The total number of unmet needs in persons with psychotic, eating, personality and affective disorders was higher than in patients with anxiety disorders. Being single, positive symptoms, depression/anxiety, hospitalizations and high social disability accounted for 50 % of the variance in level of unmet need. Persons with eating and personality disorders reported similar level of unmet needs to those with psychotic and affective disorders. The best correlates of unmet needs were depression/anxiety and social disability.
PMID: 26387519 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Community Mental Health Journal - September 21, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dobrzynska E, Rymaszewska J, Biecek P, Kiejna A Tags: Community Ment Health J Source Type: research