Allocation of Users of Mental Health Services to Needs-Based Care Clusters: An Italian Pilot Study.

In Italy, despite strong community-based mental health services, needs assessment is unsatisfactory. Using the Mental Health Clustering Tool (MHCT) we adopted a multidimensional and non-diagnosis dependent approach to assign mental health services users with similar needs to groups corresponding to...

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Publicado en:Community Mental Health Journal Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 494 - 504
Autores principales: Barbato, Angelo, D'Avanzo, Barbara, Corrao, Giovanni, Di Fiandra, Teresa, Ferrara, Lucia, Gaddini, Andrea, Jarach, Carlotta Micaela, Monzio Compagnoni, Matteo, Saponaro, Alessio, Scondotto, Salvatore, Tozzi, Valeria D, Lora, Antonio
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Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2024
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          Barbato, Angelo
          D'Avanzo, Barbara
          Corrao, Giovanni
          Di Fiandra, Teresa
          Ferrara, Lucia
          Gaddini, Andrea
          Jarach, Carlotta Micaela
          Monzio Compagnoni, Matteo
          Saponaro, Alessio
          Scondotto, Salvatore
          Tozzi, Valeria D
          Lora, Antonio
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          https://ror.org/05aspc753 Laboratory of Quality Assessment of Care and Services, Department of Health Policy, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy
          https://ror.org/01ynf4891 Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Street Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8, Building U7, 20126, Milan, Italy
          National Centre for Healthcare Research and Pharmacoepidemiology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
          Psychologist, previously General Directorate for Health Prevention, Italian Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy
          https://ror.org/05crjpb27 Centre of Research on Health and Social Care Management, CERGAS SDA Bocconi School of Management (Bocconi University), Milan, Italy
          https://ror.org/008hssd09 Agency for Public Health, Lazio Region, Rome, Italy
          https://ror.org/05aspc753 Laboratory of Lifestyle Epidemiology, Department of Environment and Health, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Milan, Italy
          https://ror.org/02k57f568 General Directorate of Health and Social Policies, Emilia-Romagna Region, Bologna, Italy
          Department of Health Services and Epidemiological Observatory, Regional Health Authority, Sicily Region, Palermo, Italy
          Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, ASST Lecco, Lecco, Italy
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        Italy
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        Social determinants of health
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          Public health
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          Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers
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          Community mental health service administration
          Medical protocols
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        Determinants of Health
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      ab: In Italy, despite strong community-based mental health services, needs assessment is unsatisfactory. Using the Mental Health Clustering Tool (MHCT) we adopted a multidimensional and non-diagnosis dependent approach to assign mental health services users with similar needs to groups corresponding to resources required for effective care. We tested the MHCT in nine Departments of Mental Health in four Italian regions. After a brief training, 318 professionals assessed 12,938 cases with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder and personality disorder through the MHCT. 53% of cases were 40–59 years, half were females, 51% had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, 48% of cases were clinically severe. Clusters included different levels of clinical severity and diagnostic groups. The largest cluster was 11 (ongoing recurrent psychosis), with 18.9% of the sample, followed by cluster 3 (non-psychotic disorders of moderate severity). The MHCT could capture a variety of problems of people with mental disorders beyond the traditional psychiatric assessment, therefore depicting service population from a different standpoint. Following a brief training, MHCT assessment proved to be feasible. The automatic allocation of cases made the attribution to clusters easy and acceptable by professionals. To what extent clustering provide a sound base for care planning will be the matter of further research.
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