Which Neurotic Patients Do Psychiatrists Treat?
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 152 (2) , 222-228
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.152.2.222
Abstract
Of 336 newly referred neurotic patients, 80 were not offered continuing psychiatric treatment. The factors associated with patients' not being offered continuing treatment were: short duration of illness; history of alcohol abuse and/or deliberate self-harm; age over 50 years; being widowed; and living more than 20 miles from the main hospital complex. The implications of these findings are discussed.This publication has 45 references indexed in Scilit:
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