Abstract
Over the past few years, greater attention has been paid to the importance of incorporating behavioral health treatment into primary health care (PHC) settings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The purpose of the present study was to compare the participants’ satisfaction on psychological services and quality of life (QOL) among primary healthcare clinics, psychiatric hospitals and healthy controls. The Arabic version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-short version (WHOQOL-Bref) and Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) were administered to 36 PHC participants, 60 hospital participants, and 63 healthy controls. In all QOL domains, there was no significant difference obtained on participants’ QOL between PHC and hospital settings. Except for similar score to PHC participants on overall QOL (OQOL), healthy controls scored higher than the other two groups on four QOL domains and General Health (GH) facet. As for clients’ satisfaction, participants under PHC setting reported significantly higher satisfaction compared to hospitals and healthy controls. Hospital participants reported higher client care satisfaction than healthy controls. Improvement in the quality of mental health care such as ease of referrals and detection of undiagnosed mental health conditions could be the cause for higher satisfaction with PHC services. Stigma associated with mental illness creates serious barriers to Saudi patient’s access to psychiatric clinics of large hospitals. There is a need for incorporating qualified mental health providers into PHC and educating the general public to become aware of certain beliefs and attitudes that limit access to treatment and prospects for recovery of persons with mental illnesses.
Highlights
Over the past few years, greater attention has been paid to the importance of incorporating behavioral health treatment into primary health care (PHC) settings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Over the past several decades, the Alma Ata declaration issued by the World Health Organization [1] has increasingly expressed the need for primary health care (PHC) to be accessible to all individuals and families living in communities worldwide
It was carried out in the Eastern Province (EP) of KSA and hypothesized that participants at PHC would report higher satisfaction and quality of life (QOL) regarding their mental health than participants treated at psychiatric hospitals
Summary
Over the past several decades, the Alma Ata declaration issued by the World Health Organization [1] has increasingly expressed the need for primary health care (PHC) to be accessible to all individuals and families living in communities worldwide. Settings is essential for providing treatment and diagnosis of patients with mental disorders, designing strategies to prevent mental disorders and ensuring the existence of qualified healthcare practitioners to provide proper psychosocial services and counseling [20] This integration is expected to result in several advantages such as reduction of stigma [9], family burden associated with mental disorders [21], ease of access to mental health services and treatment [22], early detection and prevention of mental conditions [23], and reduction of chronic recurrent course of mental illness [24]. This research study highlighted the important association between the PHC organizational model and health-related QOL and client satisfaction in persons with mental illness It was carried out in the Eastern Province (EP) of KSA and hypothesized that participants at PHC would report higher satisfaction and QOL regarding their mental health than participants treated at psychiatric hospitals
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