The relationship between distance from inpatient facilities and the rate of psychiatric admissions in Western Australia

The gravitational force of mental health services: distance decay effects in a rural Swiss service area

“…In addition, the more severe and acute clinical condition of inpatients, who are often in need of emergency and/or involuntary admissions, may likewise mitigate the influence of distance on the utilization of inpatient wards [ 27 ]. Even though the lack of a global distance decay effect in our mental hospital contrasts with some previous findings [ 5 , 12 – 15 ], other earlier studies did also not find a clear-cut association between the home-to-hospital distance and the probability of being hospitalized [ 28 , 29 ], or they at least reported less pronounced distance decay effects for inpatient services [ 1 ]. The complete lack of a distance decay effect except for organic mental disorders in our data might be explained by the rural location of our hospital, with some larger cities in more remote areas of the hospital.…”

The gravitational force of mental health services: distance decay effects in a rural Swiss service area

“…In addition, the more severe and acute clinical condition of inpatients, who are often in need of emergency and/or involuntary admissions, may likewise mitigate the influence of distance on the utilization of inpatient wards [ 27 ]. Even though the lack of a global distance decay effect in our mental hospital contrasts with some previous findings [ 5 , 12 – 15 ], other earlier studies did also not find a clear-cut association between the home-to-hospital distance and the probability of being hospitalized [ 28 , 29 ], or they at least reported less pronounced distance decay effects for inpatient services [ 1 ]. The complete lack of a distance decay effect except for organic mental disorders in our data might be explained by the rural location of our hospital, with some larger cities in more remote areas of the hospital.…”

Distance to Health Services and Treatment-Seeking for Depressive Symptoms in Rural India: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

“…The lack of evidence of an association between travel distance and treatment-seeking contrasts with literature from high-income countries (HIC) on 'Jarvis' law' in mental health care (Bille, 1963;Davey and Giles, 1979;Stampfer et al, 1984;Shannon et al, 1986;Almog et al, 2004;Zulian et al, 2011;Packness et al, 2017). The narrow range of the confidence intervals indicates that this finding is unlikely to be due to low statistical power.…”

Distance to health services and treatment-seeking for depressive symptoms in rural India: a repeated cross-sectional study

“…The lack of evidence of an association between travel distance and treatment-seeking contrasts with literature from high-income countries (HIC) on ‘Jarvis’ law’ in mental health care (Bille, 1963; Davey and Giles, 1979; Stampfer et al ., 1984; Shannon et al ., 1986; Almog et al ., 2004; Zulian et al ., 2011; Packness et al ., 2017). The narrow range of the confidence intervals indicates that this finding is unlikely to be due to low statistical power.…”

“…Research from HIC has pointed to a ‘zone of indifference’, beyond which distance ceases to affect rates of mental health service use (Shannon et al ., 1986; Stampfer et al ., 1984). However, we found no evidence of such threshold effects in our data.…”

The gravitational force of mental health services: distance decay effects in a rural Swiss service area

“…In addition, the more severe and acute clinical condition of inpatients, who are often in need of emergency and/or involuntary admissions, may likewise mitigate the influence of distance on the utilization of inpatient wards [ 27 ]. Even though the lack of a global distance decay effect in our mental hospital contrasts with some previous findings [ 5 , 12 – 15 ], other earlier studies did also not find a clear-cut association between the home-to-hospital distance and the probability of being hospitalized [ 28 , 29 ], or they at least reported less pronounced distance decay effects for inpatient services [ 1 ]. The complete lack of a distance decay effect except for organic mental disorders in our data might be explained by the rural location of our hospital, with some larger cities in more remote areas of the hospital.…”

Distance to Health Services and Treatment-Seeking for Depressive Symptoms in Rural India: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

“…The lack of evidence of an association between travel distance and treatment-seeking contrasts with literature from high-income countries (HIC) on 'Jarvis' law' in mental health care (Bille, 1963;Davey and Giles, 1979;Stampfer et al, 1984;Shannon et al, 1986;Almog et al, 2004;Zulian et al, 2011;Packness et al, 2017). The narrow range of the confidence intervals indicates that this finding is unlikely to be due to low statistical power.…”

Distance to health services and treatment-seeking for depressive symptoms in rural India: a repeated cross-sectional study

“…The lack of evidence of an association between travel distance and treatment-seeking contrasts with literature from high-income countries (HIC) on ‘Jarvis’ law’ in mental health care (Bille, 1963; Davey and Giles, 1979; Stampfer et al ., 1984; Shannon et al ., 1986; Almog et al ., 2004; Zulian et al ., 2011; Packness et al ., 2017). The narrow range of the confidence intervals indicates that this finding is unlikely to be due to low statistical power.…”

“…Research from HIC has pointed to a ‘zone of indifference’, beyond which distance ceases to affect rates of mental health service use (Shannon et al ., 1986; Stampfer et al ., 1984). However, we found no evidence of such threshold effects in our data.…”

The gravitational force of mental health services: distance decay effects in a rural Swiss service area

“…In addition, the more severe and acute clinical condition of inpatients, who are often in need of emergency and/or involuntary admissions, may likewise mitigate the influence of distance on the utilization of inpatient wards [ 27 ]. Even though the lack of a global distance decay effect in our mental hospital contrasts with some previous findings [ 5 , 12 – 15 ], other earlier studies did also not find a clear-cut association between the home-to-hospital distance and the probability of being hospitalized [ 28 , 29 ], or they at least reported less pronounced distance decay effects for inpatient services [ 1 ]. The complete lack of a distance decay effect except for organic mental disorders in our data might be explained by the rural location of our hospital, with some larger cities in more remote areas of the hospital.…”

Distance to Health Services and Treatment-Seeking for Depressive Symptoms in Rural India: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

“…The lack of evidence of an association between travel distance and treatment-seeking contrasts with literature from high-income countries (HIC) on 'Jarvis' law' in mental health care (Bille, 1963;Davey and Giles, 1979;Stampfer et al, 1984;Shannon et al, 1986;Almog et al, 2004;Zulian et al, 2011;Packness et al, 2017). The narrow range of the confidence intervals indicates that this finding is unlikely to be due to low statistical power.…”

Distance to health services and treatment-seeking for depressive symptoms in rural India: a repeated cross-sectional study

“…The lack of evidence of an association between travel distance and treatment-seeking contrasts with literature from high-income countries (HIC) on ‘Jarvis’ law’ in mental health care (Bille, 1963; Davey and Giles, 1979; Stampfer et al ., 1984; Shannon et al ., 1986; Almog et al ., 2004; Zulian et al ., 2011; Packness et al ., 2017). The narrow range of the confidence intervals indicates that this finding is unlikely to be due to low statistical power.…”

“…Research from HIC has pointed to a ‘zone of indifference’, beyond which distance ceases to affect rates of mental health service use (Shannon et al ., 1986; Stampfer et al ., 1984). However, we found no evidence of such threshold effects in our data.…”