Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution
Background: A good number of psychiatric patients continue to stay in psychiatric hospitals for longer period of time despite their recovery. Inevitably, they tend to experience limitations to their freedom, personal choice and social isolation, and loss of self. It is important to assess the charac...
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| author | Mysore N. Vranda James P. Ranjith Shivaleela Agadi Cicil R. Vasanthra Jagadisha Thirthalli Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar Ammapattian Thirumoorthy Anekal C. Amaresha |
| author_facet | Mysore N. Vranda James P. Ranjith Shivaleela Agadi Cicil R. Vasanthra Jagadisha Thirthalli Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar Ammapattian Thirumoorthy Anekal C. Amaresha |
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| description | Background:
A good number of psychiatric patients continue to stay in psychiatric hospitals for longer period of time despite their recovery. Inevitably, they tend to experience limitations to their freedom, personal choice and social isolation, and loss of self. It is important to assess the characteristics of these patients and the challenges in social integration.
Materials and Methods:
A cross-sectional study was conducted at a mental health hospital from May 2018 to January 2023. The data were collected from a retrospective review of 101 case files of all the long-stay patients (LSPs) who were admitted to psychiatric closed wards. Furthermore, cases were utilized to analyze the psychosocial situations of LSP.
Results:
This study reveals that the majority of the subjects were unmarried, females, unemployed, and hailing from rural background. Nearly 50% of the patients’ families are untraceable. About three-fourths of those patients had the wrong address and lacked community psychiatric rehabilitation facilities and employment opportunities in their neighborhood. Caregivers’ burden and poverty are major causes for prolonged or long-term hospitalization of patients in the mental hospital and barriers to community reintegration.
Conclusion:
Facilitating the transition of patients from the psychiatric hospital to community care is the need of the hour. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-85b0eb6e220c4340bad2967faf812be82024-11-11T11:12:42ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care2249-48632278-71352023-10-0112102456246210.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_650_23Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institutionMysore N. VrandaJames P. RanjithShivaleela AgadiCicil R. VasanthraJagadisha ThirthalliChannaveerachari Naveen KumarAmmapattian ThirumoorthyAnekal C. AmareshaBackground: A good number of psychiatric patients continue to stay in psychiatric hospitals for longer period of time despite their recovery. Inevitably, they tend to experience limitations to their freedom, personal choice and social isolation, and loss of self. It is important to assess the characteristics of these patients and the challenges in social integration. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at a mental health hospital from May 2018 to January 2023. The data were collected from a retrospective review of 101 case files of all the long-stay patients (LSPs) who were admitted to psychiatric closed wards. Furthermore, cases were utilized to analyze the psychosocial situations of LSP. Results: This study reveals that the majority of the subjects were unmarried, females, unemployed, and hailing from rural background. Nearly 50% of the patients’ families are untraceable. About three-fourths of those patients had the wrong address and lacked community psychiatric rehabilitation facilities and employment opportunities in their neighborhood. Caregivers’ burden and poverty are major causes for prolonged or long-term hospitalization of patients in the mental hospital and barriers to community reintegration. Conclusion: Facilitating the transition of patients from the psychiatric hospital to community care is the need of the hour.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_650_23length of staymental hospitalmental illness prolonged hospitalizationrehabilitation |
| spellingShingle | Mysore N. Vranda James P. Ranjith Shivaleela Agadi Cicil R. Vasanthra Jagadisha Thirthalli Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar Ammapattian Thirumoorthy Anekal C. Amaresha Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care length of stay mental hospital mental illness prolonged hospitalization rehabilitation |
| title | Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution |
| title_full | Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution |
| title_fullStr | Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution |
| title_short | Psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long-stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution |
| title_sort | psychosocial and clinical profile of chronic long stay psychiatric patients in teaching institution |
| topic | length of stay mental hospital mental illness prolonged hospitalization rehabilitation |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_650_23 |
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