Mediation analysis of critical time intervention for persons livingwith serious mental illnesses: Assessing the role of family relations inreducing psychiatric re-hospitalization

摘要

ObjectiveCritical Time Intervention (CTI) is a time-limited care coordination intervention designed to reduce homelessness and other adverse outcomes for persons living with serious mental illness during the transition period between institutions and community living. This study assesses whether CTI improves the quality of family relationships between family members and individuals living with serious mental illness, and examines whether changes in quality of family relationship mediated the association between the intervention and psychiatric re-hospitalization outcomes.