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Identifying Barriers To Keeping Appointments In Mental Health, Shontel Ray
Identifying Barriers To Keeping Appointments In Mental Health, Shontel Ray
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Abstract
Accessing healthcare for mental illness is important but has been challenging to resolve. Due to barriers, individuals are missing appointments leading to long-term negative effects of poor patient outcomes, such as homelessness and suicide. Understanding why individuals cancel or do not show up to their appointments is crucial to resolve this nationwide problem. Further investigation is needed to identify what barriers cause individuals to miss appointments so interventions can be created to resolve it and improve patient care. For this study, those who did not attend their first or second appointments were called and given an eight-question survey. The …
Implementation Of A Mental Health Screening In A Gastroenterology Office, Kayla Craig
Implementation Of A Mental Health Screening In A Gastroenterology Office, Kayla Craig
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
The growing prevalence of depression in gastrointestinal patients is the reason why outpatient offices, gastrointestinal offices included, need to screen for mental health problems in their appointments. Many outpatient settings don't have a standard tool to screen for depression in patients, and therefore many patients are not being treated or diagnosed with depression in the process. The PHQ-9 has been shown to have strong validity and specificity in diagnosing depression in the outpatient setting.