The average length of stay and psychiatric symptoms

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  • Kobchok Choovong
  • Buppawan Purpanprasert

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average length of stay, psychiatric symptoms, HoNOS

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This study was investigated the average length of stay (LOS) of acute psychiatric in-patients. Samples are 2,040 acute psychiatric in-patients at Psychiatric hospital by purposive sampling. Demographic data and clinical symptoms according to the questionnaire (Health of the Nation outcome scales: HoNOS) were collected Percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation were analyzed. The average length of stay was 17.6±12.3 days. The top three syndromes having maximum LOS were epilepsy, mental retardation and organic brain syndromes at 22.1±17.4, 20.3±13.1 and 20.0±8.4 respectively. Schizophrenia, alcohol related psychiatric disorders and mood disorders were 3 most frequent diagnoses at 54.5, 15.2 and 9.7 % respectively .The majority psychiatric symptoms were behavioral problems, aggression, hallucination, delusion and social relationship problems at 27.7, 24.8, 24.0 and 24.0% respectively. In conclusion, HoNOS could be the standard tool to evaluate LOS and clinical symptoms for psychiatric hospital and provide reliable data for health consumer, policy makers and providers.

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2012-05-04

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Choovong K, Purpanprasert B. The average length of stay and psychiatric symptoms. J Ment Health Thai [อินเทอร์เน็ต]. 4 พฤษภาคม 2012 [อ้างถึง 25 มกราคม 2025];14(2):75-88. available at: https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jmht/article/view/1334

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