The Chronically Mentally Ill in Community Facilities

1989 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Simpson ◽  
C. E. Hyde ◽  
E. B. Faragher
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Chronically Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Facilities ◽  
Acute Wards

The quality of life of chronically mentally ill patients in acute wards in a district general hospital, a hostel ward and group homes was compared. Within the spectrum of care of these patients, the severity of psychopathology corresponded to their placement. Analysis, including adjustments for the influence of psychopathology, showed differences between the three types of facility. Although differences existed between all types of care, residents in group homes and the hostel ward shared more similarities in quality of life than those in the district general hospital. Problems of caring for the chronically mentally ill on acute wards are highlighted.

scholarly journals The Quality of Life Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) Patients in Hemodialysis Unit at District General Hospital Pringsewu Regency Lampung Province in 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Virna Widora Saputri ◽  
Rico Januar Sitorus ◽  
H. M. Zulkarnain
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Family Support ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Hemodialysis Unit ◽  
The Mean

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that affect the quality of life of CRF patients in Hemodialysis Unit at Pringsewu District General Hospital. This study was conducted from February to May 2018 with cross sectional study design. The sampling technique using total sampling technique. Measurement of quality of life using KDQOL-SFTM version 1.3. The results found that quality of life scores were quite low in some domains and subscales. The mean of total score was 55.70 ± 21.30 with mean of Physical Health Composite (PHC) = 38.85 ± 9.26 and mean of Mental Health Composite (MHC) = 36.13 ± 7.08. Regarding the targeted area of ESRD, the scale of renal disease burden and occupational status scale resulted in the lowest score. The sleep quality scale score was 56.18 ± 20.72. Only 61 patients responded to questions of sexual activity with a score of 55.53 ± 27.44 on the scale of sexual function. In the 36-item health survey, the mean total score was 45.90 ± 21.95. The lowest score represented the limitations of roles caused by physical and emotional health problems. The result of statistical test showed that the variables significantly related to the quality of life of CRF patients were age, income, duration of hemodialysis and family support. Thus, family support was the variable that had the greatest impact on determining the quality of life of CRF patients. The CRF patients who lacked family support were 4.6 times more likely to lead poorer life compared to CRF patients who received good family support after being controlled by age, income, duration of hemodialysis, gender, working status, and diabetes mellitus variables.

Work and Quality of Life of the Chronically Mentally Ill

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (S2) ◽  
pp. 168s-168s
Author(s):  
I. Lindenbach ◽  
C.C. Angermeyer ◽  
R. Kilian ◽  
M. Uhle ◽  
U. Löbig
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Chronically Mentally Ill

Quality of life experiences of the chronically mentally ill

1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Lehman ◽  
Jean G. Slaughter ◽  
C.Patrick Myers
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Chronically Mentally Ill

Psychological morbidity following laryngectomy: a pilot study

1999 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Gibson ◽  
A. W. McCombe
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Psychological Treatment ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Psychological Morbidity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Discharge From Hospital

AbstractThis study evaluated the nature and extent of problems faced by patients following discharge from hospital following laryngectomy. Semi-structured interviews investigated the practical and psychological concerns of a cohort of laryngectomy patients in a district general hospital. A number of simple practical measures can be employed to reduce early hospital re-admission following laryngectomy. Psychological morbidity is an important cause of low quality of life following laryngectomy. Formal psychological treatment could be of benefit in the management of these patients.

Psychopathology and Quality of Life Among Mentally Ill Patients in the Community

1993 ◽  
Vol 163 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Warner ◽  
Peter Huxley
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Support System ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Hospital Beds ◽  
Community Facilities ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Sixty-nine mentally ill patients in treatment in an intensive community support system in Boulder, Colorado, were evaluated using the same measures of quality of life and psychopathology as were used in assessing mentally ill patients in hospital and community facilities in Manchester. Psychopathology was greater in the Boulder samples, but quality-of-life scores were no worse for the American patients. The relationship of these findings to systems of care and availability of psychiatric hospital beds is discussed.

Quality of Life for ‘New’ Long-stay Psychiatric In-patients

1987 ◽  
Vol 151 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Gibbons ◽  
J. P. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Abnormal Behaviour ◽  
Hospital Unit

We observed 15 ‘new’ long-stay patients in wards in a District General Hospital Unit and a mental hospital, and again when they had lived for a year in a new hospital-hostel. There were significant changes in time spent in the community, social interaction, activity and abnormal behaviour. Residents believed they had more freedom and none wanted to return to wards. Six patients remained on wards. They showed no comparable changes and all wanted to live elsewhere.

scholarly journals Estimating quality of life

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 586-589
Author(s):  
Glenn Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Chronically Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Hospitals

Enoch Powell's famous ‘Water Tower’ speech, in which he described mental hospitals as, “Majestic, imperious, brooding institutions… rising unmistak ably and daunting out of the countryside”, inaugur ated the policy of successive governments to close the large mental hospitals and care for the chronically mentally ill “in the community”.

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