Partnership: The Missing Link in the Process of De-Institutionalization of Mental Health Care
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This study discusses the main barriers to partnership between family and health services in the context of schizophrenia and de-institutionalization (reduction of the length of hospitalization whenever possible and returning the patient to the community) addressed to deal with the increasing costs and demand for health care services. Thus, in de-institutionalization the burden of care is not resolved but shared with the family, under the assumption that the patient has someone—a family caregiver—who can take up the responsibility of care at home. Despite the high burden of care faced by the family caregiver in mental illness, the necessary systematic partnership between the medical team and the family caregiver is missing. Subjects were 47 family caregivers of persons living with schizophrenia. Data were collected using in-depth interviews, structured questionnaires and attitudinal scales. Data analysis included factor analysis and odds ratios. Two types of barriers to partnership are identified in the literature: health services barriers and barriers attributed to the family. The findings confirm the health services barriers but reject the assumed family barriers.
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Biographies
Stella R. Quah, MSc, PhD, is Consultant and Adjunct Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. Among her latest publications are: Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia, 2015;” Public Health and Epidemiology: Prevention and surveillance of health risks,” Elsevier Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences, 2015: 1–7; “Sociology and psychology in public health,” Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health, 2015, 2:695–708; “Caring for persons with schizophrenia at home: Examining the link between family caregivers’ role distress and quality of life,” Sociology of Health & Illness, 2014, 36, 4: 596–612; and “Gender and the burden of disease in ten Asian countries: An exploratory analysis,” Asia Europe Journal, 2011, 8: 499–512. The complete list of her publications is provided at http://www.stellarquah.com/
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