Utilization of behavioral health outpatient therapy and psychiatry services among homeless people recently hospitalized for a psychiatric condition

J Ambul Care Manage. 2014 Oct-Dec;37(4):303-13. doi: 10.1097/JAC.0000000000000020.

Abstract

A database (n = 1698) at a homeless health care center was used to assess factors associated with a psychiatric hospitalization and subsequent behavioral health outpatient therapy and psychiatry visit adherence. Blacks and those recently incarcerated were less likely to report a psychiatric hospitalization and those with a co-occurring disorder or disability were more likely to report a hospitalization. Of those hospitalized, blacks and those with bipolar disorder were less likely to be high adherers to behavioral health outpatient therapy and those incarcerated 4 to 6 months prior to intake were more likely not to attend behavioral health outpatient therapy. Men were at risk for not keeping psychiatry visits.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Ambulatory Care / statistics & numerical data*
  • Female
  • Health Services Research
  • Hospitalization / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Ill-Housed Persons*
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders / ethnology
  • Mental Disorders / therapy*
  • Middle Aged
  • Patient Compliance
  • Virginia