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LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL
A study of the long stay patients in a state mental hospital on 30th June 1980 revealed that 70 per cent of the total 1,434, i.e. 1015 had spent more than two years continuously; most of them are chronic schizophrenics, admitted by the police, lacking social support. The need for rehabilitating them...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965936 |
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author | Somasundaram, O. Jayachandran, P. Kumar, R. |
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description | A study of the long stay patients in a state mental hospital on 30th June 1980 revealed that 70 per cent of the total 1,434, i.e. 1015 had spent more than two years continuously; most of them are chronic schizophrenics, admitted by the police, lacking social support. The need for rehabilitating them both within and outside the hospital is stressed. |
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spelling | pubmed-30127942011-10-02 LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL Somasundaram, O. Jayachandran, P. Kumar, R. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A study of the long stay patients in a state mental hospital on 30th June 1980 revealed that 70 per cent of the total 1,434, i.e. 1015 had spent more than two years continuously; most of them are chronic schizophrenics, admitted by the police, lacking social support. The need for rehabilitating them both within and outside the hospital is stressed. Medknow Publications 1982 /pmc/articles/PMC3012794/ /pubmed/21965936 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. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Somasundaram, O. Jayachandran, P. Kumar, R. LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL |
title | LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL |
title_full | LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL |
title_fullStr | LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL |
title_full_unstemmed | LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL |
title_short | LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL |
title_sort | long stay patients in a state mental hospital |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965936 |
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