Some Factors Relating to Satisfactory Post-Discharge Community Maintenance of Chronic Psychotic Patients
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 35 (1) , 71-73
- https://doi.org/10.1177/070674379003500111
Abstract
The length of time a group of 70 psychiatric patients could be maintained in the community following discharge from a provincial hospital was found to be significantly related to post-discharge compliance with medication and to the level of discharge planning (well planned versus unplanned, or patient prematurely self-discharged against medical advice). Various demographic and clinical variables were unrelated to the length of post-discharge survival in the community.Keywords
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