Advances and challenges of the Back Home Program as a deinstitutionalization strategy: an integrative review.

The aim of the current article is to identify scientific evidence about advances, possibilities, and challenges of using the Back Home Program (BHP) to deinstitutionalize former psychiatric hospitalization patients. This study is an integrative review based on the scientific literature available in the Virtual Health Library and the PubMed portal, as well as in the Cinahl, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, Scopus, and PsycINFO databases. The analysis of all nine selected studies was based on the interpretation of discursive practices observed in public domain materials.