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The authors examined racial matching between case manager and client for 677 seriously mentally ill consumers served through a rural community mental health center in the southeastern United States. Nonparametric statistics indicated that client-case manager dyads were more likely to be of the same race than of different races. Same-race dyads tended to have greater service utilization as indicated by a greater number of made appointments over the study period. An interaction was found for failed appointments where African Americans in same-race dyads were more likely to fail appointments, while caucasian consumers in same-race dyads were less likely to fail appointments.
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Blank, M.B., Tetrick, F.L., Brinkley, D.F. et al. Racial matching and service utilization among seriously mentally Ill consumers in the rural south. Community Ment Health J 30, 271–281 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02188887
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