Symptom Severity and Care Delay among Patients with Serious Mental Illness

CONCLUSION: Severity of specific psychiatric symptoms was associated with delays in seeking general medical care among people with serious mental illness. Increased focus on psychiatric symptom management may reduce medical care delay, thereby reducing the elevated morbidity and mortality among this population.PMID:34421033 | DOI:10.1353/hpu.2021.0134

Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - August 23, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nicholas O Daneshvari Ramin Mojtabai William W Eaton Bernadette A Cullen Katrina M Rodriguez Stanislav Spivak Source Type: research