Psychiatric Services
- Volume 48
- Number 2
- February 1997
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages195–199OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the prevalence of lack of insight among outpatients with schizophrenia and the relationship between lack of insight and other variables, including whether patients received professional residential supervision. METHODS: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.195Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages200–203OBJECTIVE: The study examined outcomes of patients enrolled in a Veterans Affairs ambulatory detoxification program. METHODS: Descriptive statistical data were collected by routine clerical processes at a VA medical center. Patients' outcomes were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.200Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages204–208OBJECTIVE: Clinicians' assessments of patients' suicide risk at admission to and discharge from a psychiatric hospital were examined to learn how clinical estimates of risk changed over the course of hospitalization and to identify which demographic and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.204Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages209–212Major depression, as well as depressive symptoms that do not meet the full diagnostic criteria for a diagnosis of depression, can chronically and variably affect a woman patient's decisions about the management of pregnancy, including the decision about ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.209Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages213–217OBJECTIVE: This survey describes neuroleptic prescribing practices in Italian mental health services 15 years after implementation of a mental health reform law that shifted the focus of care from mental hospitals to community services. METHODS: The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.213Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages218–223In periods of change, psychiatric services must project outcomes of decisions about service innovations and reductions, including budgetary implications. To support such decision making, a public-sector psychiatric service in Melbourne, Victoria, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.218Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages224–230OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between a measure of quality of life and measures of depressive symptoms among patients with major depression. METHODS: One hundred patients with primary major depression and 61 control subjects from the San ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.224Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages231–236In 1992 the New York State Office of Mental Health issued a statewide plan for mental health services to reduce the number of inpatient beds in state-run facilities from approximately 11,000 to between 6,000 and 8,000 by the year 2000. This reduction ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.231Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages237–238To assess the frequency of HIV testing and the incidence of HIV infection among patients with new-onset psychosis, the records of 811 patients referred to a military hospital for acute psychosis during a two-year period were reviewed. Records of 518 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.237Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages239–241In the early 1990s the National Institute of Mental Health sponsored projects in four cities that served a total of 896 homeless mentally ill adults. Each project tested the effectiveness of different housing, support, and rehabilitative services in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.239Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages242–244This paper describes a combined inpatient and partial hospital program, with a ten-bed short-term inpatient unit and a partial hospital program that can accommodate 24 patients. Inpatients and partial hospital patients are treated together by the same ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.48.2.242Publication date: 01 February 1997
Pages244–246To estimate the prevalence of dissociative disorders in a day hospital and examine their relation to traumatic experiences, trained clinicians evaluated 70 of 229 patients consecutively admitted to an acute care day hospital. They used the Mini-Structured ...
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