Psychiatric Services
- Volume 42
- Number 7
- July 1991
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages695–700Sometime during the 1990s, the U.S. Congress could enact legislation that would establish universal access to basic hospital and physician services and, later, create a national health insurance plan. The author explores the potential effect of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.695Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages701–705In the last two decades, men's social roles have changed to incorporate the increasing time they spend with their families, their greater concern about adult children's leaving or returning home, and alternative sexual preferences and lifestyles. One ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.701Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages705–707Mental patients are a population who have special needs for which architectural interventions can be helpful. The physical settings in state hospitals often do not provide the proper environment for therapeutic progress, nor do they contribute to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.705Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages708–713The ten-year risk of mortality was assessed for a sample of 393 former psychiatric patients who were living in sheltered care settings in California in 1973. Compared with the general state population, residents of sheltered care facilities were 2.85 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.708Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages714–720Several factors increase the psychiatric inpatient's risk of falling, including side effects of medications and mental disorders that decrease awareness of environmental hazards. in this study, rates of falling were determined for a cohort of 4,156 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.714Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages721–725Multiple regression analysis was used to identify correlates of problem drinking among 165 homeless men in St. Louis, Missouri. Variables that were the strongest predictors of alcoholism included number of stressful events before becoming homeless, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.721Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages725–728Characteristics of adolescents discharged from a psychiatric residential treatment center were examined to create a model for predicting patient discharge against medical advice (AMA). Subjects were 81 adolescents in two consecutive cohorts discharged ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.725Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages729–734To gauge whether more stringent civil commitment criteria have led to the criminalization of mentally ill Persons, forcing them into jails and prisons instead of treating them, a statewide sample of 1,226 civil commitment candidates in North Carolina was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.729Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages735–738Moonlighting by psychiatric residents, or employment outside the residency program, is a longstanding and widespread practice. The author contends that moonlighting detracts from residents' ability to gain full benefit from their educational program, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.42.7.735Publication date: 01 July 1991
Pages739–742Available data do not support the claim that moonlighting, or employment outside psychiatric residency programs, is a dangerous activity for residents, patients, or employers of moonlighters. Moonlighting may beneficially supplement the education of a ...
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