Pathways to care among psychiatric outpatients in a tertiary mental health institution in Singapore.

CONCLUSION: Findings suggest the determinants of the pathways to first contact and duration of untreated illness included diagnosis, ethnicity, marital status and family initiating the first contact. The pathways adopted by these participants need to be kept in mind for planning mental health programmes.
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Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - June 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jeyagurunathan A, Abdin E, Shafie S, Wang P, Chang S, Ong HL, Abdul Rahman RF, Sagayadevan V, Samari E, Chua YC, Vaingankar JA, Verma SK, Wei KC, Chong SA, Subramaniam M Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research