The Impact of Mobile Crisis Services on the Use of Community-Based Mental Health Services  

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Dyches, Hayne ; Biegel, David E. ; Johnsen, Jeffrey A. ; Shenyang, Guo ; Meeyoung, Oh Min

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Research on Social Work Practice vol. 12 no. 6 (Nov. 2002), page 731-751.
Fulltext: 731RSWP126.pdf (181.14KB)

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Objective: To examine the impact of community-based mobile crisis services on postcrisis community- based mental health service use and user characteristics related to likelihood of postcrisis service use. Method: Differences in use of postcrisis mental health services and timing between a community-based intervention cohort and a matched hospital-based cohort were assessed using a Cox proportional hazards model. Results: A mobile crisis intervention consumer was 17% more likely to receive community-based mental health services within 90 days after the crisis event. Controlling for prior service use, mobile crisis intervention consumers with no prior mental health service use were 48% more likely to receive community-based mental health services within 90 days after the crisis event than a consumer from the hospital-based intervention cohort. Consumers more likely to use postcrisis services were African American, homeless, experiencing acute problems, previous mental health service users, and severely mentally disabled. Conclusions: Implications for social work practice are discussed.

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