Staff and Patient Perceptions of the Least Restrictive Alternatives for the Short-term Control of Disturbed Behavior

1989 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant T. Harris ◽  
Marnie E. Rice ◽  
Denise L. Preston
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Patient Perceptions ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Disturbed Behavior ◽  
Least Restrictive Alternative ◽  
Remarkable Agreement

Although there is agreement within professional and legal communities that the least restrictive alternative should be used when restraining upset psychiatric patients, there is disagreement as to what constitutes the least restrictive alternative. Forty patients and 38 staff who had either much or little direct experience with restraint techniques were asked their opinions about various aspects of the appropriateness and restrictiveness of nine different techniques or combinations of techniques for managing upset patients in each of four different hypothetical situations. The results revealed remarkable agreement about the relative intrusiveness of the techniques. The implications for the management of disturbed patients are discussed.

Cardiac adverse drug reactions of risperidone among psychiatric patients: A short term prospective study

2020 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
pp. 113123
Author(s):  
Faten Amdouni ◽  
Emira Khelifa ◽  
Salma Longo ◽  
Zouhaier El Hechmi
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Study ◽  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Short Term

scholarly journals Survey of patient perceptions towards short-term mobile medical aid for those living in a medically underserved area of Swaziland

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Hao Weng ◽  
Hung-Yi Chiou ◽  
Chi-Cheng Tu ◽  
Say-Tsung Liao ◽  
Patience Thulile Bhembe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Perceptions ◽  
Medically Underserved ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Underserved Area ◽  
Medical Aid ◽  
Medically Underserved Area

Social Support Systems: Contributors to the Incidence of Schizophrenia?

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-878
Author(s):  
Steven Taylor ◽  
Elizabeth Hinton
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
Reproductive Rates ◽  
Social Support Systems

The present article considers the recent increase in community-based support systems for psychiatric patients. Although these systems appear to offer some short-term benefits, the long-term consequences have received little attention. Here, the case is examined for such systems actually facilitating the reproductive rates and hence general incidence of genetically transmitted disorders such as schizophrenia.

Different yet similar? Prisoners versus psychiatric patients – A comparison of their mental health

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 97-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Otte ◽  
N. Vasic ◽  
S. Nigel ◽  
J. Streb ◽  
T. Ross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Paranoid Ideation ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Need For Treatment ◽  
Distress Level ◽  
Clinically Significant

AbstractBackground:Previous research indicates that prisoners have severe psychological distress. To assess their distress level and potential need for treatment, the present study compared the subjective psychological distress of long- and short-term prisoners with that of psychiatric and forensic patients.Methods:Long- (n = 98) and short-term prisoners (n = 94) and forensic (n = 102) and psychiatric (n = 199) patients completed the German versions of the Symptom Checklist Revised (SCL-90-R) and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI).Results:In general, long-term prisoners showed the same level of mental distress as psychiatric patients and more than that reported by forensic patients. Short-term prisoners reported the least level of distress. Long- but not short-term prisoners showed clinically significant results on the scales for depression, paranoid ideation, and psychosis.Conclusions:The improvements in psychiatric treatment for inmates demanded by many stakeholders need to differentiate between long- and short-term prisoners. Because depression seems to cause the most psychological distress among inmates, suicide prevention seems to be an important issue in prisons.

The Short-Term Storage of Auditory and Visual Two-Channel Digits by Elderly Patients with Memory Disorder

1961 ◽  
Vol 107 (451) ◽  
pp. 1062-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. K. Caird ◽  
James Inglis
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Simultaneous Presentation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Previous Evidence ◽  
Memory Disorder ◽  
Term Retention ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
With Memory ◽  
Term Storage ◽  
Normal Adults

The investigation to be reported in this paper was conducted with two principal aims in view. Firstly, it was desired to confirm evidence that memory disorder in elderly psychiatric patients may be due to a breakdown of processes underlying short-term retention (Inglis, 1960; Inglis and Sanderson, 1961). Such previous evidence supported the notion that memory disorder may in fact result from a disturbance of one of the mechanisms adduced by Broadbent (1957) to account for the ability of young normal adults to respond sequentially to information simultaneously presented through different sensory channels (e.g. both ears at once). Secondly, it was desired to extend the study of these retention processes in such patients to the case in which the channels for the simultaneous presentation of digits comprise two different sensory modalities (i.e. eye and ear together).

scholarly journals Short-term outcomes of laparoscopic colorectal resection in psychiatric patients

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Yuu ◽  
Kazuhito Yajima ◽  
Masanori Tada ◽  
Nasry Baongoc ◽  
Kurumi Tsuchihashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Resection ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Laparoscopic Colorectal Resection

RELATIONSHIPS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF LOCUS OF CONTROL AND TRAIT ANXIETY AMONG INPATIENTS

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P. Archer ◽  
Jeffrey R. Bedell ◽  
Kathy Amuso
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Post Treatment ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Conduct Disordered ◽  
Diagnostic Categories

This study investigated the locus of control and anxiety characteristics of psychiatric patients in a 9-week residential skill training program. Statistical analyses of the admission responses of 127 patients showed that greater internality on the I-E Scale was related to lower STAI Trait Anxiety scores. Further, significant I-E and STAI Scale differences were found between patients in varying diagnostic categories. Conduct disordered patients were significantly more internal than other diagnostic groups, and the trait anxiety mean score for neurotic patients was significantly higher than that of conduct disordered and psychotic patients. Finally, statistical analyses compared scores from the pre- and post-treatment administrations of the I-E and STAI A-Trait Scales for a subgroup of 44 patients. Results demonstrated significant shifts toward greater internality and lower trait anxiety as a function of short-term skill training treatment.

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