Trust of patients and families in mental healthcare providers and institutions: a cross-cultural study in Chennai, India, and Montreal, Canada.
Salomé M XavierAshok K MallaGreeshma MohanSally S MustafaRamachandran PadmavatiThara RangaswamyRidha JooberNorbert SchmitzHoward C MargoleseSrividya N IyerPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2023)
This study uniquely focuses on trust as an outcome in psychosis, via a comparative longitudinal analysis of different trust dimensions and predictors, across two geographical settings. The consistent differences in trust levels between sites may be attributable to local cultural values and institutional structures and processes and underpin cross-cultural variations in treatment engagement and outcomes.