RELATED FACTORS OF PROLONGED PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALIZATION WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA
Keywords:
prolonged psychiatric hospitalization, schizophreniaAbstract
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the related factors of prolong psychiatric hospitalization in patients with schizophrenia at Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry.
Material and method: This cross-sectional study evaluated 448 schizophrenia inpatients institutionalized between 1January to 31 December 2014. The related factors of prolonged psychiatric hospitalization with schizophrenia at Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry was included patients’ demographic data, clinical conditions, plan for the discharge dynamics of prolonged hospitalized patients. The results were analysed with binary logistic regression and multiple logistic regression.
Results: An analysis of the study with binary logistic regression the demonstrated factors which significantly related to prolonged hospitalization were prearranging with social workers, CPZ equivalent dose more than 1000 mg per day, the complication of treatment, under Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the discharge dynamics of long-stay patients who lived with families/relatives. The results were still statistically significant even analysed with multiple logistic regression technique.
Conclusion: Lack of social support and residential setting after discharge, reverify of symptoms, complication of treatment and under ECT were significantly correlated with prolonged psychiatric hospitalization at Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry.
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