Transitions from jail to rural community for adults with mental illness

Abstract

Objectives: Describe the facilitators and inhibitors of accessing healthcare services for adults with mental illness transitioning from a rural jail to a rural community.Design/Sample/Measurements: A qualitative descriptive approach was used to conduct this study in a rural southwest county. Purposive sampling was used to recruit eight adults. Data were collected using semi-structured telephonic interviews and analyzed using open coding and thematic analysis with clustering of emergent data.