IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/socpsy/v47y2001i2p52-62.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Care of Patients With Chronic Mental Illness: Comparison of Home and Half-Way House Care

Author

Listed:
  • Bih-Ching Shu

    (Department of Nursing, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)

  • For-Wey Lung

    (Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

  • Yi-Ching Lu

    (Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

  • Gary A. Chase

    (Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health Sciences Center, Detroit, MI, USA)

  • Peter Pan

    (Department of Psychiatry, Military Kaohsiung General Hospital, Taiwan)

Abstract

Community-based services are being developed as mental health services. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect between home care and half-way house services on patients with schizophrenia. The design was quasi- expsriroental and used repeated measurements. There were 60 subjects, 37 receiving home care and 23 receiving half-way house care which were affiliated with one general hospital in the south of Taiwan. Of the 60 chronic schizophrenic patients, there were 34 males and 26 females with an average age of 34 years. The Quality of Life Scale was applied to measure each patient four times, at an interval of two months. These follow-up data were analyzed by Generalized Estimating Equation-I (GEE-I) because repeated observations on an individual may be correlated. The result showed that the total QOL in patients receiving home care programs was significantly higher than those receiving half-way house service. The total scores of QOL in patients under half-way house and home care services did not show secular change. The patients under home care program showed a somewhat improvement for a short period of time. However, as time went on, the patients showed no obvious improvement in their life quality. The dimensions of indepen dence and social activity in QOL also showed significantly different between these two groups. The results may provide guides on designing programs and activities for the chronic mental patients. However, the best decision to apply which program for patients need continouous and comprehensive assessment.

Suggested Citation

  • Bih-Ching Shu & For-Wey Lung & Yi-Ching Lu & Gary A. Chase & Peter Pan, 2001. "Care of Patients With Chronic Mental Illness: Comparison of Home and Half-Way House Care," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 47(2), pages 52-62, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:47:y:2001:i:2:p:52-62
    DOI: 10.1177/002076400104700205
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002076400104700205
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/002076400104700205?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Lehman, Anthony F., 1988. "A quality of life interview for the chronically mentally ill," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 11(1), pages 51-62, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Anita Hubley & Lara Russell & Anita Palepu & Stephen Hwang, 2014. "Subjective Quality of Life Among Individuals who are Homeless: A Review of Current Knowledge," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 115(1), pages 509-524, January.
    2. Brusilovskiy, Eugene & Salzer, Mark S., 2012. "A study of environmental influences on the well-being of individuals with psychiatric disabilities in Philadelphia, PA," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(10), pages 1591-1601.
    3. Ruut Veenhoven & Felicia Chiperi & Xin Kang & Martijn Burger, 2021. "Happiness and Consumption: A Research Synthesis Using an Online Finding Archive* â€," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(1), pages 21582440209, March.
    4. Cory J Gerritsen & Joel O Goldberg & John D Eastwood, 2015. "Boredom proneness predicts quality of life in outpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 61(8), pages 781-787, December.
    5. Li Cai, 2010. "A Two-Tier Full-Information Item Factor Analysis Model with Applications," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 75(4), pages 581-612, December.
    6. Hien, Nguyen Thi Thu, 2019. "Consequences of urban migration of adult children for the elderly left-behind in rural Vietnam," OSF Preprints zxyf8, Center for Open Science.
    7. Lehman, Anthony F. & Rachuba, Laura T. & Postrado, Leticia T., 1995. "Demographic influences on quality of life among persons with chronic mental illnesses," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 155-164.
    8. A. Awad & Lakshmi Voruganti, 2012. "Measuring Quality of Life in Patients with Schizophrenia," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, vol. 30(3), pages 183-195, March.
    9. Uttaro, Thomas, 2003. "The development and administration of the Consumer Assessments of Care by New York State Office of Mental Health downstate facilities," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 143-147, May.
    10. Archana Sinha & Bibhas Chandra & Arvind Kumar Mishra & Shubham Goswami, 2023. "An Assessment on Quality of Life and Happiness Indices of Project Affected People in Indian Coalfields," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-24, June.
    11. Goodman, Marianne & Hull, James W. & Terkelsen, Kenneth G. & Smith, Thomas E. & Anthony, Donna, 1997. "Factor structure of quality of life: The Lehman interview," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 20(4), pages 477-480, November.
    12. McGaha, Annette & Boothroyd, Roger A. & Poythress, Norman G. & Petrila, John & Ort, Rhonda G., 2002. "Lessons from the Broward County Mental Health Court Evaluation," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 25(2), pages 125-135, May.
    13. Phyllis Solomon & Jeffrey Draine, 1995. "One-Year Outcomes of a Randomized Trial of Case Management with Seriously Mentally Ill Clients Leaving Jail," Evaluation Review, , vol. 19(3), pages 256-273, June.
    14. Altena, Astrid M. & Boersma, Sandra N. & Beijersbergen, Mariëlle D. & Wolf, Judith R.L.M., 2018. "Cognitive coping in relation to self-determination and quality of life in homeless young adults," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 650-658.
    15. Frank Holloway, 1999. "Special Edition: Quality of Life and Mental Health Services," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 45(4), pages 235-237, December.
    16. Wood, Patricia A. & Hurlburt, Michael S. & Hough, Richard L. & Hofstetter, C. Richard, 1997. "Health status and functioning among the homeless mentally ill: An assessment of the medical outcomes study SF-36 scales," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 151-161, May.
    17. Viviane Piagentini Candal Setti & Alexandre Andrade Loch & Arlete Modelli & Cristiana Castanho de Almeida Rocca & Ines Hungerbuehler & Martinus Theodorus van de Bilt & Wagner Farid Gattaz & Wulf Röss, 2019. "Disclosing the diagnosis of schizophrenia: A pilot study of the ‘Coming Out Proud’ intervention," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 65(3), pages 244-251, May.
    18. Wells, Rebecca & Jinnett, Kimberly & Alexander, Jeffrey & Lichtenstein, Richard & Liu, Dawei & Zazzali, James L., 2006. "Team leadership and patient outcomes in US psychiatric treatment settings," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 62(8), pages 1840-1852, April.
    19. Nuo Xi & Michael W. Browne, 2014. "Contributions to the Underlying Bivariate Normal Method for Factor Analyzing Ordinal Data," Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, , vol. 39(6), pages 583-611, December.
    20. Tom Trauer & Robert A. Duckmanton & Edmond Chiu, 1998. "A Study of the Quality of Life of the Severely Mentally Ill," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 44(2), pages 79-91, June.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:47:y:2001:i:2:p:52-62. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.