Media and internet ownership and use among mental health outpatients with serious mental illness.

Sara Clayton; Dina Borzekowski; Seth Himelhoch; Lisa Dixon; Wendy Potts; Deborah Medoff; Ann Hackman; Doris Balis

doi:10.1080/00952990903108249

Media and internet ownership and use among mental health outpatients with serious mental illness.

Sara Clayton, Dina Borzekowski, Seth Himelhoch, Lisa Dixon, Wendy Potts, Deborah Medoff, Ann Hackman, Doris Balis

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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether people with serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorder (SUD) use the Internet to receive health information. METHODS: One hundred people with SMI were surveyed in community mental health clinics. RESULTS: Participants with SUD were significantly less likely to use the Internet compared to those who without SUD (.34 [.12-.95] p = .04). Internet users with SUD were significantly more likely to report accessing sites topically related to substance abuse (p = .01). CONCLUSION: Few participants with SMI and SUD used the Internet. Attention to educating patients about quality health information on the Internet may be warranted.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	364-367
Number of pages	4
Journal	The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse
Volume	35
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00952990903108249
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Medicine (miscellaneous)
Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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