Allocating a scarce mental health treatment to the underweight and overweight
| Autor: | Adrian Furnham, Alastair McClelland, Meera Gajre |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Mental Health Services medicine.medical_specialty Social Stigma 050109 social psychology Anorexia Overweight Social class Resource Allocation 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030212 general & internal medicine Obesity Psychiatry Aged Poverty business.industry Patient Selection 05 social sciences General Medicine Middle Aged Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Female Underweight medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England). 27(6) |
| ISSN: | 1360-0567 |
| Popis: | This is one of a number of programmatic studies on the allocation of scarce medical resources.This study investigated whether certain characteristics about patients influence the priority they are assigned for a scarce mental health treatment. Similar studies for physical treatments have found that young, poor, and mentally healthy patients are given the highest priority.Each participant completed one questionnaire where they ranked a list of eight hypothetical patients in order of priority for treatment for anorexia or obesity. The patients varied on three dimensions: age, social class and mental health history. This involved a ranking of prioritisation for treatment.Participants gave the young patients, from a low social class background, who had a mental health history the highest priority for treatment. This is in contrast to previous studies indicating that the mentally unwell are discriminated against.Participants seemed to be using social class as a proxy measure of ability to pay which they weighted very highly. |
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