RACIAL MATCHING AND SERVICE UTILIZATION AMONG SERIOUSLY MENTALLY-ILL CONSUMERS IN THE RURAL SOUTH

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BLANK, MB [1 ]
TETRICK, FL [1 ]
BRINKLEY, DF [1 ]
SMITH, HO [1 ]
DOHENY, V [1 ]
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[1] WESTERN TIDEWATER COMMUNITY SERV BOARD,SUFFOLK,VA
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10.1007/BF02188887
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R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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The authors examined racial matching between case manager and client for 677 seriously mentally ill consumers served through a rural community mental health center in the southeastern United States. Nonparametric statistics indicated that client-case manager dyads were more likely to be of the same race than of different races. Same-race dyads tended to have greater service utilization as indicated by a greater number of made appointments over the study period. An interaction was found for failed appointments where African Americans in same-race dyads were more likely to fail appointments, while caucasian consumers in same-race dyads were less likely to fail appointments.
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