Mortality among patients with schizophrenia and vocational rehabilitation program services under Taiwan’s psychiatric care reform

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العنوان: Mortality among patients with schizophrenia and vocational rehabilitation program services under Taiwan’s psychiatric care reform
المؤلفون: Cheng, Kan-Yuan, Chen, Shu-Yuan, Lin, Chih-Yuan
بيانات النشر: BioMed Central Ltd.
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: BioMed Central
مصطلحات موضوعية: Death rate, Supported employment, Non-vocational outcome, Community facility
الوصف: Background Vocational rehabilitation programs are implemented to enhance the occupational functioning of long-stay patients with schizophrenia. Unemployment is associated with a higher risk of death. Schizophrenia patients who participate in vocational rehabilitation programs may have better health outcomes with participation in employment. Aim To evaluate the relationship between mortality among schizophrenia patients and vocational rehabilitation program services under Taiwan’s psychiatric care reform. Methods A total of 2457 long-stay schizophrenia patients were followed-up retrospectively from 1998 to 2008 at Taipei Veterans General Hospital Yuli Branch in Taiwan. We collected data on annual measurements of effectiveness and the human resources utilized in the vocational rehabilitation program. Pearson’s correlations between the above-collected data and the crude death rates for all patients were examined. We also assessed the association between participation in supported or sheltered employment and death. Results Most of the patients were male (81.3 %). The mean ± SD age of the patients was 57.8 ± 17.0 years. The annual crude death rate averaged 5.3 %. Both the number of community workplaces and the total wages earned from sheltered and supported employment had significantly negative linear correlations with the crude death rate among all patients (both γ ≤ −0.64, p < 0.05). After controlling the confounding factors, participation in supported or sheltered employment was significantly associated with a lower risk of death (n = 2174, HR = 0.22, 95 % CI 0.16–0.29). Conclusions Under psychiatric care reform, the vocational rehabilitation program was more effective and there was less patient mortality. Patients who had experienced sheltered or supported employment had a lower risk of death than those who had not.
نوع الوثيقة: report
اللغة: English
العلاقة: http://www.ijmhs.com/content/10/1/32Test
الإتاحة: http://www.ijmhs.com/content/10/1/32Test
حقوق: Copyright 2016 Cheng et al.
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.D69E4A13
قاعدة البيانات: BASE