A census study with special regard to long‐stay psychiatric patients

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Abstract
The use of the psychiatric services in Randers and its neighbouring municipalities with a total population of 114,650 was analyzed by a census on March 1, 1977. 76% of the population (87,108 persons) were at least 15 years old. 716 of these persons were in psychiatric treatment, with 18% in institutionalized outpatient care, 8.4% in non‐institutionalized outpatient care, 36.9% in an alcohol clinic, 4.3% in psychiatric day‐patient care, 16.1 % in inpatient hospital care, 15.9% in psychiatric nursing homes and 0.1% at psychiatric consultant service. The prevalence of psychiatric treatment of males and females was 8.40 and 8.05 per 1,000, respectively. Peak prevalence for both sexes was found in age group 35–44 years, due mainly to the high number of patients treated as outpatients or at an alcohol clinic. The prevalence of males and females in continuous psychiatric treatment for more than one year was 2.12 and 1.18 per 1,000, respectively (143 patients in all). Of these, 55% of males and 27% of females were treated at an alcohol clinic. Only 41 patients had been long‐term inpatients. The presence of psychiatrists in private practice did not reduce the number of patients treated by other services. The private psychiatrist saw mainly the same categories of patients as were seen by psychiatrists at the outpatient clinic, but many patients probably would not have received psychiatric treatment had no private psychiatrists been available.

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