The Impact of Integrating Mental health Services into Primary Care on Health Care Outcomes

• Author(s): Emmah V Sena ; Munashe Naphtali Mupa ; Zahoor Ali Syed
• Paper ID: 1706321
• Page: 634-646
• Published Date: 03-10-2024
• Published In: Iconic Research And Engineering Journals
• Publisher: IRE Journals
• e-ISSN: 2456-8880
• Volume/Issue: Volume 8 Issue 3 September-2024

Abstract

Mental health integrated care in primary care is a new way of organizing the delivery of health care that has the theoretical possibility to make a great difference. Our research aims to examine issues arising from this integration, including patients’ health status in terms of access, compliance with treatment, level of satisfaction, and quality of care received. The study employs survey data from healthcare organizations that have already introduced integrated care models, which is accompanied by interviews with healthcare practitioners and patients. The findings prove that delivering mental health care in primary care settings results in significant enhancements to the patient’s status. According to the study, there was a reduction in hospitalization rates for patients who received integrated care by 20% and an increase in percentage compliance with medication prescriptions by 15%, together with an 85% satisfaction rate among patients who received integrated care as compared to those who received traditional non-integrated care. These findings imply that integrated care models can work appropriately, particularly in cases of patients with co-morbid conditions, and infer that such models are crucial in creating patient-centered care that delivers high-quality and complete care. At the same time, the study points to the gaps in integrated care delivery such as requirements for adequate education for primary care practitioners, the emphasis on the inter-professional teams, and the question of financing. The discussion also recapitulates how policy support can augment these barriers and enlists the long-term impact and sustainability of integrated care models in patients during further research. These findings add evidence to the argument that the delivery of mental health care in primary care settings is useful in improving on general quality of health care delivery.

Keywords

Integrated Care, Mental Health Services, Primary Care, Healthcare Outcomes, Patient-Centered Care, Co-morbid Conditions, Hospitalization Rates, Treatment Adherence, Patient Satisfaction, Inter-professional Collaboration, Healthcare Delivery Systems, Policy Support, Holistic Care, Healthcare Integration, Sustainable Healthcare Models

Citations

IRE Journals:
Emmah V Sena , Munashe Naphtali Mupa , Zahoor Ali Syed "The Impact of Integrating Mental health Services into Primary Care on Health Care Outcomes" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 8 Issue 3 2024 Page 634-646

IEEE:
Emmah V Sena , Munashe Naphtali Mupa , Zahoor Ali Syed "The Impact of Integrating Mental health Services into Primary Care on Health Care Outcomes" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 8(3)