Am J Psychiatry 1984; 141:1566-1570
Copyright © 1984 by American Psychiatric Association
Discharged state hospital patients' characteristics and use of aftercare: effect on community tenure
P Solomon, J Davis and B Gordon
A study of a publicly funded mental health system determined that the use
of aftercare services by discharged patients had the effect of extending
community tenure. Patients' clinical characteristics, particularly number
of previous hospitalizations, had only minimal effect and patients'
demographic characteristics had essentially no impact on community tenure.
Increasing the variety and intensity of rehabilitation-oriented types of
service rather than increasing the frequency of supportive contacts through
individual therapy and case management appears to hold the greatest promise
for extending community tenure.
