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ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Umpaikanit Samanwongthai

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Factors Influencing the Continuity of Receiving Treatment Services of Schizophrenic Patients in Srithunya Hospital

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of Mental Health of Thailand, Vol. 9, No 3, September 2001, Page 129

รายละเอียด / Details:

The objectives wee to stuey the characteristics of sschizophrenic patients who recived the regular treatment and to investigate factors affecting the continuity of regular treatment services of patients in Srithunya Hospital. All 800 subjects of Srithunya Hospital from November 2000-June 2001 were divided equally into 20 groups regarding continuity treatment: one group did and the other did not. All subjects were interviewed by the investigator's questionnaire. The percentage of men and women in this study were nearly equal. Most subjects aged between 30-39 years (30.9%) had a secondary school education background 38.6% Patients who had duration of illness between 7-9 years were 23.8% and 32.0% of all subjects had come to see the doctors more than 60 times. Most of them were interviewed according to their illness in detail 68.5%. Sexty-three point six percent of subjects did not get the appintment note and date. More than 70.0% knew the properties of antipsychotics which they needed to take on regular basis as physician advised.In addition to these knowledge they also realized that there was the way they should ask for help if they could not handle the symptoms by themselves. More than 55.0% did not have problems when they came to the hospital. Age marital status educational background number of hospital visit the amount of schizoprenic information being told by the doctors level of patients' knowledge about the disease, being informed next appointment and the problems when they cane to the hospital had statistical significance to the continuity of receiving treatment. The finding of this study should be used as a baseline data for service improvement to increase the number of regular receiving treatment patients in the future.

Keywords: schizophrenia, continuity of receiving treatment, illness perception, psychiatry

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2001

Address: Srithunya Hospital, Department of Mental Health

Code: 0000272

ISSN/ISBN: 2859-497-X

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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