Predictors of the use of community mental health services
Lachlan Cameron, Matt Sutton, Rachel Meacock · 2026
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Lachlan Cameron, Matt Sutton, and Rachel Meacock map who actually uses community mental health services in England. Published in 2026, the study pools three national surveys covering 22,277 adults and regresses service use on fourteen personal and three area traits. Systems are pushing care into the community to ease hospitals, yet predictors of community use were barely charted.
Poor mental and physical health led, as need would predict. Being younger, single, and out of work also raised use. Three signals pointed the other way: living rurally, living in the North West, and Asian ethnicity all predicted lower use. The authors contend those gaps smell of access problems rather than lower need, and track whether predictors shifted over time.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lachlan Cameron, Matt Sutton, Rachel Meacock |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |