Admitting personal problems and outcomes in hospitalized psychiatric patients

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Abstract
Willingness to admit that have a signifiant effect on behavioral outcomes of hospitalized psychiatric patients. Specifically, patients who admitted emotional problems were more likely to want to change than non-admitters. Further, admitters stayed in the hospital a significantly shorter time and were less likely to return to the hospital within a year than patients not willing to admit problems. Other similar findigs indicated that admitting problems and desire to change were better predictors of patiens' outcome than staff physicians' opinions.

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