Social predictors of out-patient mental health contact in schizophrenia patients

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 452-456

  Moreno, Berta ^a,b,c   Arroyo, Beatriz ^a   Torres González, Francisco ^a   de Dios Luna, Juan ^d   Cervilla, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Hospital University Carlos Haya de Málaga   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community mental health services; Factors; Service utilisation; Severe mental disorder; Sociodemographics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; RURAL AREA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL HEALTH; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34249995439     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0187-y     Document Type: Article

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