Financial victimization of adults with severe mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

People with severe mental illness are vulnerable to having other people directly take or misappropriate their disability payments. This study investigated the prevalence of different types of financial victimization and the client characteristics associated with being financially victimized.

Methods

Adults (N=122) receiving inpatient or intensive outpatient psychiatric treatment who received Social Security disability payments completed assessments about money management and victimization. A path model was used to estimate the association of victimization with participant characteristics.

Results

Seventy percent of participants experienced at least one type of financial victimization in the preceding 28 days; 35% ran out of money because of victimization. Vi

SUBMITTER: Claycomb M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4276043 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature