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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Existing Efforts and Approach to Support Treatment Compliance

  • ·         Prior appointment reminder calls by providers
  • ·         Community support staff home visits
  • ·         Written appointment cards
  • ·         Patients’ personal calendar
  • ·         Family members’ notification  
In spite of the above listed efforts, psychiatric patients still struggle to maintain treatment compliance. Therefore, based on the identified challenges of treatment compliance among mentally ill,  in the presence of existing clinicians’ efforts and approach in place, and as telehealth is a newly adopted way of using electronic technology to provide healthcare service to patients at a distance (Sewell, 2016),  considering full adoption of telehealth to manage mentally ill patients at their comfort zones, the world of psychiatric patients would definitely change, and increase their overall health outcome. 
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 24, 2017 at 7:33 AM

    Hi Josephine, access to care for the mentally ill is of concern to me. I see many patients coming to our facility and get stuck waiting to be transferred to a psychiatric facility. During those wait times, the appropriate care to meet their mental health needs are neglected. Having access to telehealth would be a game changer for those facilities without psychiatric services.

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  2. Josephine AruvieAugust 24, 2017 at 6:33 PM

    Yolande,
    Thanks for your great comment. Poor access to care has been a big issue among mentally ill population. Another issue, is the comobidity. Mentally ill population are also vulnerable to negative physical health outcome, because they have difficulty to access both medical and mental health service. So bringing care to their comfort zone via modern day technology like telehealth will definitely be a success to healthcare.

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