Psychiatric Services
- Volume 50
- Number 4
- April 1999
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Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages497–503Roughly 15 million of the 62 million rural U.S. residents struggle with mental illness and substance abuse. These rural dwellers have significant health care needs but commonly experience obstacles to obtaining adequate psychiatric services. Important but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.497Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages504–508OBJECTIVE: Outpatient claims data from a managed behavioral health company for 1996 were examined to determine the extent to which patients received services from different types of mental health care providers. METHODS: Claims data for 1996 were obtained ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.504Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages509–514OBJECTIVE: The housing preferences of persons with severe mental illness living in three types of community residences were examined, as were their perceptions of problems in these settings and the relationships between clients' and family members' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.509Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages515–519OBJECTIVE: Many outpatients with schizophrenia receive support or supervision in their place of residence, but the predictors of residential independence are not clearly understood. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that predict the degree ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.515Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages520–524OBJECTIVE: Family members of patients at South Carolina State Hospital in Columbia were surveyed to learn their needs for education, skill building, and support. METHODS: A random sample of 80 families participated in a telephone survey in 1995 to obtain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.520Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages525–534OBJECTIVE: This review examines the place of psychosocial rehabilitation services within community support systems in light of the need for mental health service systems to develop policies to direct the use of limited resources. METHODS: Literature ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.525Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages535–539OBJECTIVE: Outcome as measured by psychosocial functioning was examined in a two-year follow-up study of 46 patients with chronic mental illness, 44 of whom were African American, who participated in an intensive psychosocial rehabilitation program based ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.535Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages540–545OBJECTIVE: Because little is known about homeless individuals' satisfaction with mental health services or the association between satisfaction and measures of treatment outcome, the study examined those issues in a group of homeless veterans. METHODS: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.540Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages546–550OBJECTIVE: A mailed survey was used to measure satisfaction of seriously mentally ill clients with services provided by an assertive community treatment team. METHODS: A detailed 35-item questionnaire was mailed in 1995 to all 174 clients of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.546Brief Report
Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages551–553A survey of state mental health programs was conducted to determine the extent to which states are facilitating the delivery of services to families of adults with severe and persistent mental illness. Of the 44 responding states, 73 percent did not have ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.551Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages553–555The extent and source of services used by older adults discharged to a community setting after a psychiatric hospitalization were examined in a prospective follow-up study. Patients were asked about service use in structured telephone interviews one month ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.553Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages556–558No studies have reported HIV risk behavior in rural populations with severe mental illness. A total of 84 rural patients with severe mental illness in New Hampshire and 158 urban patients in Baltimore were interviewed about their HIV risk behavior in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.556Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages559–561Claims for physical health care among 220 Medicaid enrollees with severe mental illness and 166 Medicaid enrollees who were not enrolled in the public mental health system were compared. Claims for the mentally ill group were 18 percent less than for the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.559Publication date: 01 April 1999
Pages561–563The Knowledge About Schizophrenia Questionnaire (KASQ), a 25-item multiple-choice test, was developed to assess patients' knowledge about their illness and its management. A total of 136 inpatients participated in four studies, including one cross-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.50.4.561Letter
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