CHANGING SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: SOME INDICATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE

Demographic and clinical variables of first one thousand new patients attending a general hospital psychiatric clinic during each of the two years 1967 and 1977, were compared. The profile of a typical patient seems to have undergone a marked change over the decade. More patients are low drawn from...

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Autores principales: Kala, A. K., Kala, R., Bathia, J. C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1981
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065520
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description Demographic and clinical variables of first one thousand new patients attending a general hospital psychiatric clinic during each of the two years 1967 and 1977, were compared. The profile of a typical patient seems to have undergone a marked change over the decade. More patients are low drawn from lower income and occupational categories and the proportion of rural patients has increased. Proportion or acute psychiatric presentation particularly acute psychosis has increased markedly. Follow up rate has improved. All these indicate an increasing acceptance of this facility by the community and a better psychiatric awareness.
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spelling pubmed-30131942011-11-06 CHANGING SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: SOME INDICATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE Kala, A. K. Kala, R. Bathia, J. C. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Demographic and clinical variables of first one thousand new patients attending a general hospital psychiatric clinic during each of the two years 1967 and 1977, were compared. The profile of a typical patient seems to have undergone a marked change over the decade. More patients are low drawn from lower income and occupational categories and the proportion of rural patients has increased. Proportion or acute psychiatric presentation particularly acute psychosis has increased markedly. Follow up rate has improved. All these indicate an increasing acceptance of this facility by the community and a better psychiatric awareness. Medknow Publications 1981 /pmc/articles/PMC3013194/ /pubmed/22065520 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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Kala, A. K.
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CHANGING SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: SOME INDICATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE
title CHANGING SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: SOME INDICATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE
title_full CHANGING SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: SOME INDICATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE
title_fullStr CHANGING SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: SOME INDICATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE
title_full_unstemmed CHANGING SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: SOME INDICATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE
title_short CHANGING SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A GENERAL HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: SOME INDICATIONS OF COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE
title_sort changing sociodemographic and clinical profile of patients attending a general hospital psychiatric clinic: some indications of community acceptance
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22065520
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