Change of poverty and outcome of persons with severe mental illness in rural China, 1994-2015

Xinyi Zhao, Yue-Hui Yu, Man-Man Peng, Wei Luo, Shi-Hui Hu, Xin Yang, Bo Liu, Tin Zhang, Ru Gao, Cecilia Lai-Wan Chan and Mao-Sheng Ran

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2021, vol. 67, issue 4, 315-323

Abstract: Background: It is unknown whether and how poverty influences the long-term outcome of persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Aims: To explore the change of poverty status in persons with SMI from 1994 to 2015 and examine the impact of poverty status on patients’ outcome in rural China. Method: Two mental health surveys using identical methods and International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) were conducted in 1994 and 2015 in the same six townships of Xinjin County, Chengdu, China. Results: The annual net income per person was 19.8% and 100.2% higher for the general population than for persons with SMI in 1994 and 2015 respectively. Compared with 1994 (48.2%), persons with SMI in 2015 had significantly higher rates of poor family economic status (

Keywords: Family economic status; poverty; severe mental illness; outcome; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764020951234

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