ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Kobchok Choovong, Buppawan Purpanprasert.

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: The average length of stay and psychiatric symptoms.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of Mental Health of Thailand, Vol. 14, No. 2, May 2006, Page 76.

รายละเอียด / Details:

This study was investigated the average length of stsy (LOS) of acute psychiatric in patients. Samples are 2,040 acute psychiatric in patients at Psychiatric hospital by purposive sampling. Demographic data and clinical symptoms according to the questionnaire (Health of the Nation outcome scales : HoNOS) were collected Percentage, arithmetic mean and standare deviation were analyzed. The averae length of stay was 17.6+-12.3 days. The top three syndromes having maximum LOS were epilepsy, mental retardation and organic brain syndromes at 22.1+-17.4, 20.3+-13.1 and 20.0+-8.4 respectively. Schizophrenia, alcohol related psychiatric disorders and mood disorders were 3 most frequent diagnoses at 54.5, 15.2 and 9.7% respectively. The majority psychiatric symptoms were behavioral problems, aggression, hallucination, delusion and social relationship problems at 27.7, 24.8, 24.0 and 24.0% respectively. In conclusion, HoNOS could be the standard tool to evaluate LOS and clinical symptoms for psychiatric hospital and provide reliable data for health consumer, policy makers and providers

Keywords: unit cost, LOS, length of stay, psychiatric symptoms, psychiatry, psychiatric patient

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2006

Address: Suansaranrom Hospital, Department of Mental Health, Suanprung Hospital, Department of Mental Health

Code: 20050000555

ISSN/ISBN: 2859-497-X

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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