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Ethnicity and access to an inner city home treatment service
— a case-control study | | Author(s) | Matthew Bookie, Martin Webber |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 19, no 3, May 2011 |
| Pages | pp 280-288 |
| Source | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/hscc |
| Keywords | Black people ; Ethnic groups ; Psychiatric units ; In-patients ; Domiciliary services ; Therapeutics. |
| Annotation | Evidence suggests that people from black and minority ethnic groups are more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health problem and are disproportionately represented in mental health inpatient services. The aim of this study, undertaken in a large inner London borough, was to establish whether people of black ethnic origin had equal access to home treatment in a mental health crisis. The researchers selected a random sample of 240 inpatient episodes and compared them with a sample of 77 home treatment episodes over a 12 month period, comparing the circumstances and characteristics of people using the home treatment team and inpatient services. The study found no association between ethnicity and the likelihood of receiving home treatment as opposed to a hospital admission whilst in a mental health crisis, although the findings showed that when admitted to hospital people from black ethnic groups experienced significantly longer admissions than people of white British origin. The authors suggest that further research is required for the early discharge function of home treatment teams to evaluate whether this aspect of care is experienced differently by different ethnic groups. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110627010 A |
| Classmark | TKE: TK: LDL: LF7: N: LL |
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