Functional health status of adults with serious mental illness and diabetes mellitus: A latent profile analysis.
Christine L McKibbinAaron LeeDale GlaserStephanie KanuchKristin CassidyCharles ThomasDouglas GunzlerRichard McCormickNeal V DawsonMartha SajatovicPublished in: International journal of psychiatry in medicine (2018)
Although individuals with schizophrenia generally have poor prognosis once they develop diabetes, latent profile analysis identified distinct health status subgroups. Although all three groups demonstrated illness burden, the pattern of differences between these groups across measures may suggest the need for different interventions for highly diverse adults who received care within safety-net primary care.