Hospitalization and Some Sociodemographic Characteristics of Patients Registered with a Community Mental Health Center
| Autor: | Etem Erdal Erşan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Health (social science)
Community Mental Health Centers Wilcoxon signed-rank test business.industry Mental Disorders Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease Mental health Community Mental Health Services 030227 psychiatry Test (assessment) Hospitalization 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine Schizophrenia medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Community Mental Health Journal. 56:498-505 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2789 0010-3853 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10597-019-00506-5 |
| Popis: | One of the most important indicators evaluating the effectiveness of community mental health centers is the decrease in hospitalization rates of registered patients. The aim of our study was to compare the annual hospitalization rates of patients receiving community mental health services before enrollment with the annual hospitalization rates after enrollment. The study included 400 patients with a registration period of at least 1 year as of the end of 2018. Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to test the significance of the difference between pre-registration and post-registration patients’ annual hospitalizations. The annual hospitalization rates (0.32 ± 0.35) and the annual hospitalization rates (0.15 ± 0.35) before and after registration were found to be statistically significant (p |
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