Decision Making About Pathways Through Care for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Adults With Early Psychosis.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:This study elicited factors that shaped treatment decision making for young adults and their key supporters after an initial hospitalization for psychosis to generate hypotheses about how to improve service engagement. METHODS:This prospective, longitudinal, ethnographic study (using home visits, interviews, and hospital-based fieldwork) asked what mattered to 18 young adults primarily from racial-ethnic minority groups and 19 of their self-identified key supporters (N=37) as they made decisions about treatment during the 12-week critical period after an initial hospitalization for psychosis. The analytical approach used inductive coding and constructivist grounded theory methods to analyze interview transcripts and field notes from home visits and generate hypotheses about key f

SUBMITTER: Myers N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6397098 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature