Investigating the association between characteristics of local crisis care systems and service use in an English national survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In England, a range of mental health crisis care models and approaches to organising crisis care systems have been implemented, but characteristics associated with their effectiveness are poorly understood.

Aims

To (a) develop a typology of catchment area mental health crisis care systems and (b) investigate how crisis care service models and system characteristics relate to psychiatric hospital admissions and detentions.

Method

Crisis systems data were obtained from a 2019 English national survey. Latent class analyses were conducted to identify discernible typologies, and mixed-effects negative binomial regression models were fitted to explore associations between crisis care models and admissions and detention rates, obtained from nationally reported dat

SUBMITTER: Rojas-Garcia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10753954 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature