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On poverty, politics and psychology: the socioeconomic gradient of mental healthcare utilisation and outcomes

Delgadillo, Jaime, Asaria, Miqdad ORCID: 0000-0002-3538-4417, Ali, Shehzad and Gilbody, Simon (2016) On poverty, politics and psychology: the socioeconomic gradient of mental healthcare utilisation and outcomes. British Journal of Psychiatry (01 Nov 2016), pp. 429-430. Blog Entry.

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Identification Number: 10.1192/bjp.bp.115.171017

Abstract

Since 2008, the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has disseminated evidence-based interventions for depression and anxiety problems. In order to maintain quality standards, government policy in England sets the expectation that 50% of treated patients should meet recovery criteria according to validated patient-reported outcome measures. Using national IAPT data, we found evidence suggesting that the prevalence of mental health problems is greater in poorer areas and that these areas had lower average recovery rates. After adjusting benchmarks for local index of multiple deprivation, we found significant differences between unadjusted (72.5%) and adjusted (43.1%) proportions of underperforming clinical commissioning group areas. Declaration of interest None.

Item Type: Online resource (Blog Entry)
Additional Information: © 2015 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Divisions: LSE Health
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited: 31 Jul 2019 12:30
Last Modified: 18 Feb 2024 05:21
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101270

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