A CENSUS OF LONG-STAY PATIENTS IN GOVERNMENT MENTAL HOSPITALS IN INDIA

A single day census found that long-stay patients (LSP) numbering 7,307 accounted for about 48% of the total inpatient strength of 15,345 in government mental hospitals in India. A load of 2695 (37%) LSP were in two to five years duration of stay, 2782 (38%) were in five to fifteen years duration of...

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Autor principal: Reddy, Venkataswamy M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407834
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description A single day census found that long-stay patients (LSP) numbering 7,307 accounted for about 48% of the total inpatient strength of 15,345 in government mental hospitals in India. A load of 2695 (37%) LSP were in two to five years duration of stay, 2782 (38%) were in five to fifteen years duration of stay, and the remaining 1830 (25%) were staying for more than fifteen years. About 11% of LSP were aged sixty years and above, majority (53%) were males, non-voluntary cases constituted 80%. and more than two-thirds (69%) were schizophrenics. The characteristics distributions associated with high rates of LSP at individual hospitals were identified. The load of LSP was decreased by 9% during the period from 1993 to 1999.
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spelling pubmed-29559272011-03-15 A CENSUS OF LONG-STAY PATIENTS IN GOVERNMENT MENTAL HOSPITALS IN INDIA Reddy, Venkataswamy M. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A single day census found that long-stay patients (LSP) numbering 7,307 accounted for about 48% of the total inpatient strength of 15,345 in government mental hospitals in India. A load of 2695 (37%) LSP were in two to five years duration of stay, 2782 (38%) were in five to fifteen years duration of stay, and the remaining 1830 (25%) were staying for more than fifteen years. About 11% of LSP were aged sixty years and above, majority (53%) were males, non-voluntary cases constituted 80%. and more than two-thirds (69%) were schizophrenics. The characteristics distributions associated with high rates of LSP at individual hospitals were identified. The load of LSP was decreased by 9% during the period from 1993 to 1999. Medknow Publications 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2955927/ /pubmed/21407834 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A CENSUS OF LONG-STAY PATIENTS IN GOVERNMENT MENTAL HOSPITALS IN INDIA
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title_full A CENSUS OF LONG-STAY PATIENTS IN GOVERNMENT MENTAL HOSPITALS IN INDIA
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title_short A CENSUS OF LONG-STAY PATIENTS IN GOVERNMENT MENTAL HOSPITALS IN INDIA
title_sort census of long-stay patients in government mental hospitals in india
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407834
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