A Longitudinal Study of Patients First Admitted to Mental Hospitals

Brooke, Eileen M.

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“…, admissions for schizophrenics included a higher Astrup et al (1962) Bland et al (1976) Langfeldt (1937) Stalker (1939 Stephens et al ) Affleck et al (1976) Brown et al (1972) Fuller (1935 Goldberg et al (1966) Guttmann et al (1939) Huber et al (1975 Lo & Lo (1977) Malamud & Render (1939) Shepherd (1957) Farina et al (1963 Holmboe & Astrup (1957) Lehrman (1960) Shepherd (1957) nostic group, most marked in males. This was noted also by Brooke (1963).…”

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“…Brooke (1963) found that a higher proportion of ever-married than of single were readmitted, but this was probably accounted for by the higher proportion of ever-married who were discharged. Considering single schizophrenics only, she found more males than females were readmitted.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Considering single schizophrenics only, she found more males than females were readmitted. Age at first admission affected the readmission of schizophrenics, in that those under 35 years were more frequently readmitted than those over 35, the difference being more marked in males (Brooke, 1963).…”

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The effect of sex, marriage and age at first admission on the hospitalization of schizophrenics during 2 years followings discharge

Watt

Szulecka

1979

Psychol. Med.

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SYNOPSIS Two hundred and eighty-two schizophrenics discharged from St John's Hospital, Stone, were followed-up. The reliability of the diagnosis was measured by the extent of agreement among the hospital clinicians. The number of readmissions and the time spent in hospital were ascertained and correlated with the sex, civil state and age at first admission of the subjects.It was found that a higher proportion of males than of females was readmitted; that the proportion of single persons among male schizophrenics is higher than among comparable age groups in the general population; that single males are more frequently admitted than single females; that the peak age of first admission for males is 10 years earlier than for females and that men whose age at first admission is below the median are more frequently readmitted than those whose age at first admission is above it.Women are more frequently married than men at the onset of schizophrenia, giving rise to the suggestion that marriage has a protective effect in schizophrenia. This hypothesis was not supported by our findings. The bearing of these findings on the course, genetics and marital handicap of schizophrenia is discussed. INTRODUCTIONprobably received most attention.During 1929-31 The significance of the effects of age at onset, sex i n N e w Y o r k State > Malzberg (1935) found the and marriage in schizophrenia lies in the insight first admission rate greater for males than for they afford to the interaction of biological and females but the rate considered at different age social processes affecting it and their bearing on P e r i o d s d i f f e r e d considerably between the sexes, aetiology and outcome. Studies of the effect of F r°m 1 4 t o 2 4 y e a r s t h e m a l e r a t e r o s e r a P l d l y t o these variableson outcome have produced varying a maximum of 52 per 100000 at 20-24 and thereresults, as shown in Tables 1 and 2, where from af *er decreased. Female rates were lower and various sources the effect of sex and age of onset r e a c h e d a l o w e r maximum more slowly: 35 per on outcome of schizophrenia is categorized ac-1 0 0 0 0° a t 3 5~3 9 y e a r s -T h e married had a cording to whether each is favourable or un-markedly lower first admission rate (23 per favourable. The variability in results can be 100000) than the single (97 per 100000); the rate attributed in part to the different criteria of out-f°r single males was higher but for married males come adopted and the unreliability of the diag-l o w e r t h a n f o r corresponding groups of females, nosis of schizophrenia. If hospitalization is T h e s e r e s u I t s h a v e b e e n confirmed for other adopted as the criterion of outcome, it can Pl ac es and t.mes by Oedegaard (1946) for the conveniently be considered at 3 stages: admission, population of Norway

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The effect of sex, marriage and age at first admission on the hospitalization of schizophrenics during 2 years followings discharge

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Szulecka

1979

Psychol. Med.

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“…The high proportion of the single, divorced and widowed in our cases was similar to that noted in other institutions (Brook, 1963;Malzberg, 1964;Shanas, 1973;Somers, 1974). Factors that prevented the discharge of patients in our study were similar to those found in African countries e.g.…”

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Factors Influencing Long-Term Psychiatric Hospitalisation of the Elderly in Kuwait

Malasi

Mirza

El‐Islam

1989

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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In this study both psychosocial and clinical aspects of elderly patients were investigated in relation to long hospital stay in the only psychiatric hospital in Kuwait. Patients with longer stay did not differ statistically from short stay patients in distributions of sex, age, nationality, marital status, family system, diagnostic categories or factors blocking patients' discharge from hospital. Significant association was found between withdrawal from social interaction, and those admitted for personal suffering and those who had poor relationships with their families. Long stay elderly patients who came from extended families were more likely to be medically unfit for discharge than patients who came from nuclear families. Multivariate explorations of possible associations were performed by hierarchical loglinear analysis which revealed that long stay in hospital was significantly more likely in the widowed who had physical illness and came from extended families with poor relationships. The findings are discussed in relation to cultural and clinical background and compared to similar findings published abroad.

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Readmission rates in schizophrenia.

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A Longitudinal Study of Patients First Admitted to Mental Hospitals

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The effect of sex, marriage and age at first admission on the hospitalization of schizophrenics during 2 years followings discharge

The effect of sex, marriage and age at first admission on the hospitalization of schizophrenics during 2 years followings discharge

Factors Influencing Long-Term Psychiatric Hospitalisation of the Elderly in Kuwait

Readmission rates in schizophrenia.

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