129426 20231215094312.0 doi 10.5944/rppc.vol.19.num.2.2014.13064 sideral 100197 ART-2014-100197 spa Vellisca, M. Y. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5903-6847 Patrón asociado a la inasistencia a la primera consulta de un centro de salud mental 2014 The goal of our study was to understand the characteristics of non-attenders to a first appointment in a mental health center in order to improve the response to the referral. Various characteristics (sex, age, rural or urban provenance, origin of derivation, days on waiting list, destination of derivation, and principal diagnosis) of the patients attended by the service during one year (N = 433) were evaluated and compared with those of the non-attenders during the same period of time (N = 95). First attenders to the mental health service spent less days on the waiting list than non-attenders, and were mostly derived from emergency services. We conclude that first non-attenders unnecessarily enlarge the unit''s waiting list, a fact which paradoxically relates to non-attendance of these same patients. The use of several ways to improve the nonattendance rates is discussed. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Latorre, J. I. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-4725-5556 Orejudo, S. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6492-2248 Gascón, S. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-3723-0673 Nolasco, A. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9678-6447 Villanueva, V. J. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6081-1583 4009 740 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Psicología Social 4009 735 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Psicolog.Evolut.Educac 4001 625 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Educación Área Métod.Invest.Diag.Educac. 4009 680 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Person.Eval.Trat.Psicoló. 19, 2 (2014), 141-146 Rev. psicopatol. psicol. clín. Revista de psicopatología y psicología clínica 1136-5420 145427 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129426/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2269202 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129426/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:129426 articulos driver 2023-12-14-13:22:28 ARTICLE