Characterization of Patients Assessed in Community Mental Health Clinics in an Oil Sands City in Canada: Patient Profile, Sex Differences, and Follow-Up Referral

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Agyapong
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Mental Health Clinics ◽  
Patient Profile ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Community Mental Health Clinics

scholarly journals Community treatment orders and antipsychotic long-acting injections

2009 ◽  
Vol 195 (S52) ◽  
pp. s57-s62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim J. Lambert ◽  
Bruce S. Singh ◽  
Maxine X. Patel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Clinics ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Community Mental Health Clinics ◽  
Long Acting ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Treatment Order

BackgroundThe community treatment order (CTO) is the legal framework by which people in the community are compelled to accept treatment. Both antipsychotic long-acting injections (LAIs) and CTOs are used to address treatment non-adherence.AimsTo investigate the relationship between CTOs and LAI use in patients with schizophrenia.MethodPrescribing, demographic and CTO data were collected for patients from four community mental health clinics in Melbourne, Australia, in 1998 and 2002.ResultsAgainst a background of increasing use of oral second-generation antipsychotic (SGA) medication and decreasing use of LAIs, the rates of CTO implementation doubled from 13% to 26% of patients with schizophrenia between 1998 and 2002. Proportionally more patients with a CTO are prescribed LAIs rather than oral SGAs.ConclusionsThe relationship between receiving an LAI and being subject to a CTO is significant, and reflects the consideration given to enhancing adherence in a community mental health setting.

scholarly journals T60. HEALTH LITERACY IN PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA ATTENDING COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CLINICS

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. S137-S137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumana Thomson ◽  
Cherrie Galletly ◽  
Christopher Prener ◽  
Suzanne Garverich ◽  
Dennis Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Clinics ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Community Mental Health Clinics
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