Observational studyBMC psychiatry2014
Changes in individual needs for care and quality of life in Assertive Community Treatment patients: an observational study.
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- Assertive Community Treatment and ACT-Derived Outreach Models: A Scoping Review of Adaptations, Fidelity and Outcomes.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Factors associated with unmet medical needs among middle-aged and older adults in China during COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Exploring correlates of high psychiatric inpatient utilization in Switzerland: a descriptive and machine learning analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Symptom contributors to quality of life in schizophrenia: Exploratory factor and network analyses.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- Unmet Need for Medical Care Among Fee-for-Service Medicare Beneficiaries with High and Low Need.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Revisiting Drug Compliance: The Need for a Holistic Approach in the Treatment of Severe Mental Disorders.Consortium psychiatricum · 2021Article
- Met and Unmet Needs in an Inpatient Psychiatry Setting in Spain.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2021Article
- Indicators of an Integrated Home Care Model Shaped by the Needs of Patients Discharged from the Emergency Department.International journal of integrated care · 2020Article
- Symptomatic and Functional Remission in Young Adults with a Psychotic Disorder in a Rehabilitation Focused Team.Community mental health journal · 2020Article
- Poor People and Poor Health: Examining the Mediating Effect of Unmet Healthcare Needs in Korea.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2019Article
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- Increased influence and collaboration: a qualitative study of patients' experiences of community treatment orders within an assertive community treatment setting.BMC health services research · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt is largely unknown which unmet needs in the Camberwell Assessment of Need Short Appraisal Schedule (CANSAS) need to be resolved in order to improve a patients' subjective quality of life (QoL). We therefore investigated the pattern of individual unmet needs over time and its relation to QoL over time.
methodsUsing data gathered from 251 patients in a Routine Outcome Monitoring procedure in Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams, we used paired samples tests to analyze differences in QoL total scores and the number of unmet needs between baseline and follow-up data. Ordinal regression was used to analyze the relationship between outcome in individual unmet needs and QoL.
resultsAs well as small improvements in QoL over time in patients in contact with ACT, we found a small to moderate decrease in unmet needs over time. While a decreasing number of unmet needs was associated with an increase in QoL, outcomes in QoL and individual unmet needs were weakly related (r ≤ .165). Ordinal regression analysis showed that a better outcome in individual unmet needs related to accommodation and day-time activities was weakly related to a better outcome in QoL.
conclusionsPatients receiving ACT make small improvements in their QoL and ACT may help to solve some of their needs. QoL benefits from reducing needs for care, in particular the need for appropriate housing and meaningful daytime activities.
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