Barriers and Facilitators of Healthcare for People with Mental Illness: Why Integrated Patient Centered HealthCare is Necessary.

Barriers and Facilitators of Healthcare for People with Mental Illness: Why Integrated Patient Centered HealthCare is Necessary.
Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2016 Apr 22;:1-8
Authors: Bellamy CD, H Flanagan E, Costa M, O'Connell-Bonarrigo M, Tana Le T, Guy K, Antunes K, Steiner JL
Abstract
Understanding barriers and facilitators of healthcare for people with mental illness is essential for healthcare and mental healthcare organizations moving towards patient centered care. This paper presents findings of a measure on barriers and facilitators of healthcare completed by 204 patients being served at a co-located wellness center (primary healthcare clinic) located in an urban mental health center. The top 10 results show important findings for planning healthcare services that are responsive to the needs of people with mental illness. Basic structural issues as a result of poverty are extremely important (transportation, housing, payment) as well as difficulty with public healthcare that often involves long wait-times for appointments and at the doctor's office and hours that might not be convenient. Healthcare services that want to meet the needs of people with mental illness need to address these issues. What facilitates healthcare is not just removing the barriers to receiving healthcare services but instead involves more interpersonal aspects of healthcare such as liking your provider, being able to talk with your provider, feeling your...

Source: Issues in Mental Health Nursing - April 24, 2016 Category: Nursing Tags: Issues Ment Health Nurs Source Type: research