Clinical and functioning outcomes during the establishment phase of Ukraine’s community mental health teams: a descriptive analysis

Overview

Ukraine’s nationwide Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) programme is key to Ukraine’s ongoing mental healthcare reform. No studies to date, however, have reported on the impact of Ukrainian CMHTs on service user clinical recovery. This study has two aims: (i) describe who the Ukrainian CMHTs are enrolling, which services they most provide, and where they are provided and (ii) identify whether any clinical and/or functional improvements were detectable among service users after six CMHT visits (intake + five follow-up visits) and, if so, identify principal predictors of such improvements.