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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Autores principales: Somasundaram, O., Jayachandran, P., Kumar, R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1982
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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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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.
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LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL
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title_short LONG STAY PATIENTS IN A STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965936
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