Do welfare benefit reassessments of people with mental health conditions lead to worse mental health? A prospective cohort study.

CONCLUSION: The hardship of living with financial insecurity and a mental health condition made it difficult for our participants to sustain involvement in a 12-month study and the frequency of benefit reviews meant that the experiences of our controls were similar to our exposed group. These limitations limit interpretation but confirm the relevance of our research. The control data raise the question of whether people with mental health conditions are being disproportionately reassessed. PMID: 31782680 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - November 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Stuart R, Campbell S, Osumili B, Robinson EJ, Frost-Gaskin M, Pacitti R, McCrone P, Henderson C Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research