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Effects of Community Mobile Team Intervention in the Drewnica Hospital Catchment Area. 1. Patient Outcome

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  • Elzbieta Slupczynska-Kossobudzka

    (Department of Health Services Organization, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego 1/9, 02-957 Warsaw, Poland)

  • Ludmila Boguszewska

    (Medical Statistics and Data Processing Unit, Department of Health Services Organization, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego 1/9, 02-957 Warsaw, Poland)

Abstract

This study measured social functioning, treatment satisfaction and hospital utilization of 88 patients with chronic psychoses before and after a 1-year community mobile team programme, following most of the principles of assertive community treatment. The intervention had a positive impact in all measures. A clinically significant improvement of social functioning, as measured by Birchwood's Social Functioning Scale, was noted in 56% of patients, and 81% of subjects showed a clinically significant increase in satisfaction level. Time hospitalized decreased fourfold and number of admissions decreased twofold. To be certain that the changes found were due to the intervention and not other factors, further prospective studies of mobile community teams versus traditional care are indicated.

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  • Elzbieta Slupczynska-Kossobudzka & Ludmila Boguszewska, 1999. "Effects of Community Mobile Team Intervention in the Drewnica Hospital Catchment Area. 1. Patient Outcome," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 45(3), pages 207-215, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:45:y:1999:i:3:p:207-215
    DOI: 10.1177/002076409904500308
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    2. Wiley-Exley, Elizabeth, 2007. "Evaluations of community mental health care in low- and middle-income countries: A 10-year review of the literature," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 64(6), pages 1231-1241, March.

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