Primary care for individuals with serious mental illness (PriSMI): protocol for a convergent mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People with serious mental illness (SMI) have poor health outcomes, in part because of inequitable access to quality health services. Primary care is well suited to coordinate and manage care for this population; however, providers may feel ill-equipped to do so and patients may not have the support and resources required to coordinate their care. We lack a strong understanding of prevention and management of chronic disease in primary care among people with SMI as well as the context-specific barriers that exist at the patient, provider and system levels. This mixed methods study will answer three research questions: (1) How do primary care services received by people living with SMI differ from those received by the general population? (2) What are the experiences of

SUBMITTER: Grudniewicz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9490567 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature