title: Payee relationships: institutional payees versus personal acquaintances.
abstract: Most patients' payees are friends or family members, but quantitative evaluations of patients' experience of payeeship published thus far have involved patients whose payees were mental health staff. We compared ratings of different aspects of payeeship among veterans whose payees were family or friends (n = 27) and among those with institutional payees (lawyers, accountants, or clinic-affiliates, n = 22). After adjusting for differences in sociodemographic characteristics, the two groups had small and statistically non-significant differences on measures of their interaction with their payees. Overall satisfaction with payees and trust in them was high.
authors.affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Marc I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rosenheck
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shaner
authors.forename: Thad
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eckman
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gamache
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Krebs
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting; D005190:Family; D033062:Friends; D006801:Humans; D033241:Lawyers; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D035502:Trust; D014481:United States; D014728:Veterans / Q000523:psychology