TY - JOUR

T1 - Social inclusion of the people with mental health issues: Compare international results

AU - Santos, Jussara Carvalho dos

AU - Barros, Sonia

AU - Huxley, Peter John

N1 - Funding: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) – process number 8881.132340/2016-01, and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) – process number 140071/2015-6.

PY - 2018/6/1

Y1 - 2018/6/1

N2 - Background:Social inclusion of people with mental health issues is an aim of the World Health Organisation. Many countries have adopted that objective, including Brazil and the United Kingdom and both have focused treatment in the community. The aim of this article is to compare international results using the same inclusion instrument.Methods:The samples in this study were 225 people with mental health issues in community services in São Paulo, Brazil. Their results are compared to findings from 168 people with similar mental health issues in Hong Kong, China, and from the United Kingdom – a nationally representative sample of 212 people without mental health issues. The instrument used to measure a social inclusion called Social and Communities Opportunities Profile (SCOPE) has been validated for use in the United Kingdom, China and Brazil.Results:The results are that people with mental health issues have worse social inclusion when compared to general population. Between the people with mental health issues, the sample of São Paulo has the lowest social inclusion index but, in relation to access to the Brazilian revised mental health services, that sample has a similarly high inclusion rating to the general population of the United Kingdom.Conclusion:Findings are important to understand mental health in the community context, as well as their adversities and potentialities.

AB - Background:Social inclusion of people with mental health issues is an aim of the World Health Organisation. Many countries have adopted that objective, including Brazil and the United Kingdom and both have focused treatment in the community. The aim of this article is to compare international results using the same inclusion instrument.Methods:The samples in this study were 225 people with mental health issues in community services in São Paulo, Brazil. Their results are compared to findings from 168 people with similar mental health issues in Hong Kong, China, and from the United Kingdom – a nationally representative sample of 212 people without mental health issues. The instrument used to measure a social inclusion called Social and Communities Opportunities Profile (SCOPE) has been validated for use in the United Kingdom, China and Brazil.Results:The results are that people with mental health issues have worse social inclusion when compared to general population. Between the people with mental health issues, the sample of São Paulo has the lowest social inclusion index but, in relation to access to the Brazilian revised mental health services, that sample has a similarly high inclusion rating to the general population of the United Kingdom.Conclusion:Findings are important to understand mental health in the community context, as well as their adversities and potentialities.

U2 - 10.1177/0020764018763941

DO - 10.1177/0020764018763941

M3 - Article

VL - 64

SP - 344

EP - 350

JO - International Journal of Social Psychiatry

JF - International Journal of Social Psychiatry

SN - 0020-7640

IS - 4

ER -