Stress management for psychiatric patients in a state hospital setting.

All male patients above 180 cm. tall who were resident in the Århus State Hospital on 13 April, 1966, were registered: they numbered 42 out of the total of 440 resident males (8 · 1 per cent.). One patient, a 78-year-old man, died before chromosome analysis was made. Sex-chromatin analysis was made on Feulgenstained buccal smears and chromosome analysis was made on leucocyte cultures according to the method described by Moorhead et al. (1960), slightly modified. Not less than 25 metaphases were counted, at least 15 metaphases with the modal figure and all metaphases with a chromosome number deviating from the modal figures were analysed.

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Who's the Patient Here? Inpatient Psychiatric Rehabilitation in a State Hospital Setting

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services ◽

10.3928/0279-3695-19970101-12 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 10-15

Author(s):

David Starkey ◽

Barbara Glick ◽

Colleen O'Donnell ◽

Alfred Souza ◽

Suzanne Tarantino ◽

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Keyword(s):

State Hospital ◽

Psychiatric Rehabilitation ◽

Hospital Setting

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A National Audit of New Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.165.2.170 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 165 (2) ◽

pp. 170-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 47

Author(s):

Paul Lelliott ◽

John Wing

Keyword(s):

Northern Ireland ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Hospital Setting ◽

Residential Setting ◽

National Audit ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Placement ◽

Lengths Of Stay ◽

Psychiatric Beds ◽

Rate Of Accumulation

Background.This second report of a national audit of new long-stay (NLS) psychiatric patients describes the services caring for the patients and the reasons why patients were still in hospital.Method.Data analyses addressed the prevalence of NLS patients, the residential resources available to services, the distributions of patients within services, clinicians' views as to the appropriateness of current placement and the reasons for any inappropriate placements.Results.The average point prevalence was 6.1 per 100 000 population; it was significantly lower in England and Wales (5.6, s.d. = 3.2) than in Scotland and Northern Ireland (10.7, s.d. = 6.4, ANOVA F ratio = 10.9, P < 0.01). The estimated rate of accumulation was 1.3 per 100 000 population per year. Many English services had very few non-acute psychiatric beds and 31 % of English NLS patients, despite their protracted lengths of stay, were housed on acute wards. Assessors thought that 61 % of patients would be better placed in a non-hospital setting; 47% were thought to require a community-based residential setting, and of these over one-half were still in hospital because no suitable community placement was available.Conclusions.Many NLS patients remain in hospital because their residential needs are not met by existing community provision.

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Intensive Psychotherapy for Acute Psychiatric Patients in a Day Hospital Setting in Israel

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.121.6.635 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 121 (565) ◽

pp. 635-639 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Y. Fried ◽

F. Brüll

Keyword(s):

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Hospital Setting ◽

Health Clinic ◽

Day Hospital ◽

Professional Literature ◽

Sick Fund ◽

Day Hospitals ◽

Type Of Institution ◽

Autonomous Service ◽

Intensive Psychotherapy

The psychiatric services in the field of community psychiatry in Israel have developed in a number of directions over the past decade. Following the establishment by the Workers' Sick Fund (Kupat Holim) of a Rehabilitation Unit for chronic psychiatric patients (Wijsenbeek and Lindner (53)) and the opening of a Day Hospital for acute cases in conjunction with a psychiatric hospital (Ramot and Jaffe (45)), a Day Hospital was established in October 1968, at the Out-Patient Mental Health Clinic (Ramat Chen), to serve acute psychiatric patients. This represented the first attempt of its kind in Israel. The professional literature on Day Hospitals, which in the main describes a ‘half-way out’ type of hospital (Farndale (16); Epps and Hanes (14); Kramer (32)), also reports the existence of a ‘half-way in’ type of institution, operating as an autonomous service catering to a particular geographical region, without being attached directly to a mental hospital. This kind of Day Hospital, specifically designed for acute cases, has not yet been tried in Israel.

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Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy for Trauma-Related Nightmares With Psychiatric Inpatients: A Case Series

Clinical Case Studies ◽

10.1177/1534650120953614 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 3-21

Author(s):

Helen Reiter ◽

Leanne Humphreys

Keyword(s):

Acute Care ◽

Psychiatric Hospital ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Hospital Setting ◽

Case Series ◽

Psychiatric Inpatients ◽

Empirically Supported ◽

Individualized Care

Research has shown that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly prevalent diagnosis for psychiatric patients, yet individualized care and treatment is limited in the inpatient acute care sector. Two case studies are presented which examine the use of Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy (ERRT) for chronic trauma-related nightmares, within a private acute care inpatient psychiatric hospital setting. ERRT is empirically supported with efficacy for veteran and civilian populations, however no research to date has been conducted with psychiatric inpatients. Two participants diagnosed with PTSD, suffering distressing trauma-related nightmares, completed ERRT over three sessions during their psychiatric hospital admission, with the aim of reducing the frequency and severity of nightmares and related psychological symptoms. PTSD, depression, sleep quality and quantity, and nightmare frequency and related distress, were measured pre-treatment, during treatment, and follow-up at one, 3 and 6 months. Only one participant reported ongoing nightmares by the third week of the intervention, with both participants reporting an absence of nightmares at the one and 3-month follow-ups, but mixed results by the 6-month follow-up. One participant also reported a reduction in PTSD symptoms and a mild improvement in depression. The results offer some preliminary support for the provision of ERRT for the treatment of trauma-related nightmares for psychiatric inpatients.

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Psychiatric Patients' and Staff's Perceptions of Clients' Satisfaction with Hospital Services

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1980.46.3c.1343 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 46 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1343-1344 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

M. K. Distefano ◽

Margaret W. Pryer ◽

Jesse L. Garrison

Keyword(s):

State Hospital ◽

Client Satisfaction ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Hospital Services ◽

Staff Perceptions ◽

Satisfaction Scale ◽

Future Outlook

A client satisfaction scale was given to 30 psychiatric patients and 15 staff in a state hospital program. A correlation of .75 was found between staff perceptions of clients' satisfaction and the patients' reported satisfaction. Clients' satisfaction was not significantly correlated with scores on the I-E scale or Future Outlook Inventory but correlated .34 with age and —.35 with length of time in the hospital.

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Traffic violation frequencies of state hospital psychiatric patients.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry ◽

10.1111/j.1939-0025.1975.tb01217.x ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 45 (5) ◽

pp. 887-889 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

K. L. Ramadas

Keyword(s):

State Hospital ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Traffic Violation

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Social Skills Training with Chronic Psychiatric Patients

British Journal of Occupational Therapy ◽

10.1177/030802268104400907 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 44 (9) ◽

pp. 284-285 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kevin Hewitt ◽

Clare Wishart ◽

Rod Lambert

Keyword(s):

Social Skills ◽

Occupational Therapy ◽

Social Skills Training ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Hospital Setting ◽

Skills Training ◽

Training Groups ◽

Training Package ◽

Chronic Psychiatric Patients

The article presents a social skills package for use by occupational therapy staff working with chronic psychiatric patients, The training package is evaluated and results indicate its effectiveness. Difficulties encountered in running social skills training groups in a hospital setting are discussed. The importance of generalization training for social skills is stressed.

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First line in psychiatric emergency: Pre-hospital emergency protocol for mental disorders in Iran

10.21203/rs.2.16694/v2 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Fatemeh Shirzad ◽

Fateme Hadi ◽

Seyede Salehe Mortazavi ◽

Maryam Biglari ◽

Hassan Noori Sari ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Hospital Setting ◽

Access To Medicines ◽

Rapid Review ◽

Treatment Center ◽

Security Issues ◽

Patient Status ◽

Status Assessment ◽

Implementation Problems

Abstract Introduction: This article is a report of designing a rapid and effective guide for paramedics who take care of patients in a pre-hospital setting to answer developing demands. Methods: The relevant literature was reviewed, and the topics were extracted. Then, the extracted items were discussed in an expert panel. Finally, items were discussed in a meeting including emergency technicians and emergency technical assistants to identify implementation problems. Result s : Important topics for managing psychiatric patients were categorized at three levels: 1) Patient safety and security issues, 2) Patient status assessment and diagnosis, and 3) Patient management (medical, behavioral management, and referral to a treatment center). Discussion: This protocol can be a solution to improve emergency technician training. Such summarized protocols can be used for rapid review immediately before exposing a patient with an acute psychiatric condition. Due to specific cultural and different access to medicines in Iran, some issues are different.

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