Using a systems thinking approach to explore the complex relationships between schizophrenia and premature mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with schizophrenia have a higher risk of mortality compared to the general population, which has not improved over time. The majority of premature deaths are due to comorbid physical diseases, driven by interrelated factors operating at the individual level, through health systems and influenced by social determinants of health. A holistic understanding of this problem and the causal pathways linking these factors together is lacking.

Aims

This study aims to understand why the mortality gap between people with schizophrenia and the general population is not improving by developing a causal loop diagram (CLD), a systems thinking approach which enables empirical research and theoretical knowledge to be combined into a visual representation of causal relations

SUBMITTER: Ali S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10860352 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature