A comparison of satisfaction with clinician, family members/friends and attorneys as payees.
Clients disabled by psychiatric illness may be assigned mental health clinicians as payees. We compared client-payee interactions among 42 clients with clinician-payees, 20 whose payees were family or friends and nine with attorney-payees. Compared to clients with attorney-payees, clients with clinician-payees felt more satisfied and more involved in their money management, and had had more contacts with their payees in the previous month. Clients' satisfaction with family/friend payees was similar to that with clinician payees. In multivariate analyses, whether or not the payee had had training about mental illness accounted for 33% of the variance in satisfaction with the payee.
Rosen
Marc I
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Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 1 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Care Center, VA Health Services Research & Development, USA. marc.rosen@yale.edu
Bailey
Margaret
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Dombrowski
Elizabeth
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Ablondi
Karen
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Rosenheck
Robert A
RA
D000328:Adult; D019090:Case Management; D003237:Connecticut; D003625:Data Collection; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033241:Lawyers; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010820:Physicians; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms