Impact of social-psychiatric services and psychiatric clinics on involuntary admissions

Conclusion:
Social-psychiatric services show a preventive impact on involuntary acute psychiatry interventions. Sociodemographic factors and patient variables play a role with regard to the number of involuntary hospitalizations, whereas characteristics of hospitals seemed to play no role.

Source: International Journal of Social Psychiatry - October 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Emons, B., Haussleiter, I. S., Kalthoff, J., Schramm, A., Hoffmann, K., Jendreyschak, J., Schaub, M., Armgart, C., Juckel, G., Illes, F. Tags: Articles Source Type: research