Balance between care and control decrease the risk of homelessness in adult male diagnosed with Schizophrenia

Balance between care and control decrease the risk of homelessness in adult male diagnosed with Schizophrenia

Article 1-Use of a Critical Time Intervention to Promote Continuity of Care after Psychiatric Inpatient Hospitalization

(Dixon et al, 2009) in this wide-ranging research has evaluate the efficiency of using a concise critical time intervention (B-CTI) model resulting for three months in enhancing permanence of individuals that were suffering from severe mental illness such as (schizophrenia and others). These individual were endowed with effective psychiatric outpatient care after being released from inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities.

In order to accomplish its objective researchers have selected 135 agreeable patients that were being treated from severe mental diseases and were recently released from care unit were indiscriminately instructed to be given with either B-CTI or natural care (Backer & Howard, 2007). However, the B-CTI intervention program which is of three months commencing way before the patient is being discharged. In the innovative process, the expert of B-CTI interacts with patients, analyze their requirements, and ensure extensive communication with patient after being released from the care unit. Moreover, the primary reason of starting this process during the inpatient treatment process is that B-CTI members wishes to gain maximum information about the patient and because of that selected participants has to undergo extensive interviews.

After the completion of this program researcher analyzed the outcome of their study with outcome of control group and observed that patients of B-CTI cluster have considerably lesser period between the time they were discharged from hospital and initial outpatient appointment. Moreover, it was also observed that the patients of B-CTI program pays a visit to outpatient clinic within 30 and 180 days after being discharged and thus have better permanence of care as substantiation by large number of participants that paid the visit to outpatient clinic within 180 days (Craig et al, 2008).

Meanwhile, according to the participants of this program it prove to be highly beneficial for them in properly forming their mental health schedule, taking active part in daily personal and professional task, and using proper medication at prescribe time. (Dixon et al, 2009) with the help of this study were able to present considerable proofs regarding use of B-CTI program during the period of patient released from hospital as it allows continuity in treatment for individual that are suffering from various types of severe mental illness particularly Schizophrenia.

Thus, it is clear the continuity in providence of care is critically important for such kinds of patients; however, lack of care or gaps in care brings these sorts of patients more close to severe risk of recidivism. In addition to this, danger of coming across with severe consequences are very high for psychiatric patients together with the probability of being readmitted to hospital, loss of home, becoming violent, commencing suicide, and others.

During the course of the study, it was further realized that out of total male population of patients that were ...