Criminality and mortality among a cohort of former mental patients in Sweden

Belfrage, Henrik

doi:10.3109/08039489409081373

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“…The number of consumed beds in a specific and previous year associate neither with the number of forensic patients nor with the reported number of homicides and attempted homicides, arson or violence. This result is in accordance with the findings that patients discharged from closing mental hospitals have only a limited immediate rate of criminal behaviour, if any at all [3,39].…”

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The organization of the psychiatric service and criminality committed by the mentally ill

Kramp¹,

Gabrielsen

2009

Eur. psychiatr.

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The organization of the psychiatric service and criminality committed by the mentally ill

Kramp¹,

Gabrielsen

2009

Eur. psychiatr.

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“…The government's investigation resulted in a psychiatric reform in 1994 containing directives for better support for outpatients. The psychiatric reform also focused on the comparison between caregivers and gave economic support to new care systems (13).…”

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Need assessment and quality of life in outpatients with schizophrenia: a 5‐year follow‐up study

Foldemo

Bogren

2002

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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The present study is a 5-year follow-up of patients with schizophrenia who were in-patients for more than 3 months in 1993. In all, 19 patients fulfilled the criteria and were interviewed 6 months after their discharge. Seventeen of them also participated in a follow-up 5 years later. Their needs were independently rated by themselves and by their key workers according to the Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN, research version 3.0). The interview with the patients also included quality of life assessed by the Quality of Life Scale (QLS-100). The results from CAN showed a difference when using a cut-off point for higher vs. lower problem at 10 needs. Using this cut-off point, five patients at the baseline and one at the follow-up had higher problems. The need ranking with key workers showed a correlation of rho = 0.68 at the baseline and rho = 0.74 at the follow-up. QLS-100 showed that the patient's total number of unsatisfied items were significantly higher (p = 0.01) at the baseline than at the follow-up. At the follow-up, full insight into their illness was shown by most of the patients. There are several possible explanations associated with the increased quality of life, e.g. less unsatisfied items among some patients and greater autonomy at the follow-up.

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“…Negative consequences of these changes are reported in both Swedish and international studies (1)(2)(3)(4). Problems, such as criminal behaviour, premature deaths, drug abuse, and homelessness, among former psychiatric patients are frequently attributed to a hasty reduction of inpatient care facilities, and criticism is directed against the insuf cient building up of alternative forms of care before the closing down of traditional institutions.…”

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Long-term consequences of the reformation of psychiatric care: A 15-year follow-up study

Bülow

Svensson

Hansson

2002

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

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Although there are a great many epidemiological studies of psychiatric diseases and the outcomes of controlled rehabilitation programmes, there is a shortage of studies of routine psychiatric care. This study is a retrospective cohort study of the total number (n=138) of patients receiving inpatient care at a psychiatric rehabilitation clinic in Jönköping during 1984. The follow-up period is 15 years, 1984-98. The group had a considerable amount of inpatient care, but this decreased dramatically during the time of investigation. Positive indications were that there were no suicides during the last 5 years of the period and that the number of registered crimes showed a marked decrease from 1992. Negative indications were low levels of work and occupation and few social contacts.

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Criminality and mortality among a cohort of former mental patients in Sweden

Cited by 12 publications

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The organization of the psychiatric service and criminality committed by the mentally ill

The organization of the psychiatric service and criminality committed by the mentally ill

Need assessment and quality of life in outpatients with schizophrenia: a 5‐year follow‐up study

Long-term consequences of the reformation of psychiatric care: A 15-year follow-up study

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