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Mário Sérgio Ribeiro1, José Cândido Caldeira Xavier Júnior2, Tiago Rodrigues Mascarenhas2
1Department of Clinical Practice, Medical School, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil.
Objective:
To investigate mental health dropout rates in secondary care and to identify possible associations between this variable and social, demographic, psychopathologic, and health care process-related variables.
Method:
This prospective, observational study included 994 patients referred to a secondary service by four primary care units and evaluated by a specialist mental health team between 2004 and 2008. The dependent variable was treatment dropout. Bivariate analyses investigated possible associations between treatment dropout and 57 independent variables.
Results:
The overall dropout rate from specialist mental health treatment was relatively low (mean = 25.6%). Only four independent variables were associated with dropout: one socioeconomic, two psychopathological, and one health care process variable. All associations were marginally significant (p < 0.1).
Conclusion:
Our findings suggest that family members, patients, and health care professionals are well engaged in this mental health care system based on a model of primary care. The use of this mental health model of care should be extended to other regions of our country.
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