Helping alliance and early dropout from psychiatric out-patient care

Helping alliance and early dropout in psychiatric outpatient care The influence of patient factors

Patient factors predicting early dropout from psychiatric outpatient care for borderline personality disorder.

Despite obvious clinical need, factors underlying early treatment discontinuation among 'real world' borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients are still unknown. This study investigates individual characteristics that can predict early (<three months) dropout among BPD outpatients at a general psychiatric service. Out of a sample of 1437 consecutively treatment-seeking psychiatric outpatie...

Can countertransference at the early stage of trauma care predict patient dropout of psychiatric treatment?

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between feelings of countertransference (CT) at the early psychiatric care provided to trauma victims and treatment outcome. METHOD The Assessment of Countertransference Scale was used to access CT after the first medical appointment. Fifty psychiatric residents cared for 131 trauma victims of whom 83% were women, aged 15 to 64 years. Patients had bee...

Dropout, early termination and detachment from a public psychiatric clinic.

BACKGROUND Dropout from an outpatient clinic is the loss of a patient to scheduled follow-up. Due to movement of mental health care to the community, adherence to ambulatory care is crucial to maintain stability among individuals with mental disorders. We hypothesized that patients drop out from ambulatory psychiatric care when regardless of the therapist's evaluation, they feel that they have ...

Carer involvement in compulsory out-patient psychiatric care in England

BACKGROUND There is an expectation in current heath care policy that family carers are involved in service delivery. This is also the case with compulsory outpatient mental health care, Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) that were introduced in England in 2008. No study has systematically investigated family involvement through the CTO process. METHOD We conducted qualitative interviews with 2...