Uptake of a preventive care consultation offered to clients of a community mental health service.

ABSTRACT: Preventive care to address client chronic disease risks is not frequently provided in community mental health services. Offering clients an additional preventive care consultation has been shown to increase client receipt of such care. The ability of this approach to have a beneficial impact at the population level is however dependent on its level of acceptability and uptake among clients. No studies have previously reported these outcomes when the additional consultation is universally offered to all clients of a community mental health service. To address this evidence gap, this descriptive study was undertaken to determine community mental health clients' (1) reported acceptability, in principle, of such a model of care, (2) of those who were offered the additional consultation, the le

SUBMITTER: Fehily CMC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7093828 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature