The Influence of Marital and Family Therapy on Health Care Utilization in a Health Maintenance Organization

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Issue

26

Publication Date

2000

First Page

281

Last Page

291

Abstract

Research has shown that people reduce their use of health care after individual psychotherapy. However, little research has been done to learn if marital and family therapy has a similar effect. Subjects (n = 292) from a health-maintenance organization were randomly selected according to the type of therapy they had received. Subjects' medical records were examined for 6 months before, during, and after therapy. Those who received marital and family therapy significantly reduced their use of health care services by 21.5%. These results show an “offset effect” for marriage and family therapy.

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