Experiencing Community: Perspectives of Individuals Diagnosed as Having Serious Mental Illness
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Health status of individuals with serious mental illness.
We examined indices of the health of persons with serious mental illness. A sample of 100 adults with schizophrenia and 100 with major mood disorder were recruited from randomly selected outpatients who were receiving community-based psychiatric treatment. Participants were surveyed about health indicators using items from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study III and the National...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Services
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1075-2730,1557-9700
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201200235