PMID: 9525795Apr 3, 1998Paper

Does outreach case management improve patients' quality of life?

Psychiatric Services : a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association
J L CurtisA D'Ercole

Abstract

This study examined whether enhancing standard aftercare with an outreach case management intervention would improve patients' quality of life. A sample of 292 patients discharged from an inpatient psychiatry service at an urban general hospital were randomly assigned either to an intervention group (N = 147), which received outreach case management services in addition to standard aftercare service, or to a control group (N = 145), which received only standard aftercare services. The follow-up period was 15 to 52 months. Individuals in both groups were reinterviewed by an independent research team about 21.6 months after discharge. The groups were compared using 39 measures of quality of life. The interviews elicited information about patients' physical well-being and competence in performing activities of daily living; their emotional well-being as shown in emotional expressiveness, sadness, suicidal thoughts, and substance abuse; and their interpersonal relationships, living arrangements, friendships, income maintenance, and employment. No difference was found between the groups on any of the quality-of-life variables. Outreach case management was not associated with improved quality of life.

Citations

Apr 28, 2007·The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry·Lucinda Smith, Richard Newton
Jul 20, 2007·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·D MaloneP Tyrer
Jan 10, 2017·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·Marina DieterichMax Marshall
Aug 5, 2003·Behavioral Sciences & the Law·Jeffrey W SwansonBarbara J Burns
Dec 30, 2006·Care Management Journals : Journal of Case Management ; the Journal of Long Term Home Health Care·Todd KopelmanJames A Hall
Sep 9, 2011·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·Laura AmatoSimona Vecchi

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