Open AccessAssociation Between Nonspecific Severe Psychological Distress as an Indicator of Serious Mental Illness and Increasing Levels of Medical Multimorbidity
Author(s) -
James A. Swartz,
Ian Jantz
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302165
Subject(s) - multimorbidity , association (psychology) , distress , mental health , medicine , logistic regression , ordered logit , psychological distress , psychiatry , substance abuse , environmental health , comorbidity , clinical psychology , psychology , machine learning , computer science , psychotherapist
We sought to determine whether severe psychological distress (SPD) and serious mental illnesses (SMIs) are associated with a specific set of chronic medical conditions (CMCs) and the association between SPD-SMIs and increasing levels of medical multimorbidity and complexity (i.e., from 1 to 3 or more CMCs).