Randomized Trial of Reverse Colocated Integrated Care on Persons with Severe, Persistent Mental Illness in Southern Texas.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons with severe, persistent mental illness (SPMI) are at high risk for poor health and premature mortality. Integrating primary care in a mental health center may improve health outcomes in a population with SPMI in a socioeconomically distressed region of the USA.

Objective

To examine the effects of reverse colocated integrated care on persons with SPMI and co-morbid chronic disease receiving behavioral health services at a local mental health authority located at the US-Mexico border.

Design

Randomized trial evaluating the effect of a reverse colocated integrated care intervention among chronically ill adults.

Participants

Participants were recruited at a clinic between November 24, 2015, and June 30, 2016.

Interventions

Receipt of at le

SUBMITTER: Errichetti KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7351885 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature