Cost Analysis of Community Based Family Support of Patients with Severe Mental Illness.
Community Ment Health J
; 54(5): 625-633, 2018 07.
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| ID: mdl-29177724
ABSTRACT
Community-based family support is a new option to patients with severe mental illness in which the patient and a volunteer family meet on a regular basic. This study examined whether this support could reduce patients' use of psychiatric services. This matched case-control study included 86 patients with severe mental illness. 40 patients were offered the intervention community-based family support intervention. Patients' use of psychiatric hospital services was followed from 2 years before to 2 years after the intervention using a difference-in-difference analytical approach. Although community-based family support seemed to reduce hospital admission, the reduction in cost did not compensate the cost of the programme. However, this does not rule out the potential cost effectiveness, and future studies should assess the clinical benefits and cost effectiveness of community-based family support. The present study does not provide sufficient basis for recommending the general implementation of community-based family support.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Serviços Comunitários de Saúde Mental
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Hospitais Psiquiátricos
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Transtornos Mentais
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Community Ment Health J
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Dinamarca