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ABC of mental health: common mental health problems in hospital
- Authors:
- RAMIREZ Amanda, HOUSE Allan
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 7.6.97, 1997, pp.1679-1681.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Discusses the three main types of mental health problems of patients attending acute general hospitals. Acute primary psychiatric disorder, including deliberate self harm; psychiatric disorder in patients with physical illness; and psychologically based physical syndromes (somatisation).
Relation between bed use, social deprivation, and overall bed availability in acute adult psychiatric units, and alternative residential options: a cross sectional survey, one day census data, and staff interviews
- Authors:
- SHEPHERD G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 25.01.97, 1997, pp.262-266.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Examines the relation between bed use, social deprivation, and overall bed availability in acute adult psychiatric units and explores the range of alternative residential options. Results found that bed occupancy was related to social deprivation and total availability of acute beds. However, approximately one quarter of current inpatients were judged not to need continuing admission. The major reasons preventing discharge were lack of suitable accommodation; inadequate domiciliary based hospital support; and lack of long term rehabilitation places. Concludes that shortage of beds is related to both social deprivation and the overall availability of acute beds. Recommends that patients currently inappropriately placed on acute admission wards should be relocated into more suitable accommodation, either in hospital or in the community.
'I expect to work with deprivation, but should I have been there at all?'
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, December 1997, p.14.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
An approved social worker provides a personal account of trying to cope in the last days of a decaying psychiatric hospital due for closure.
Focal points
- Authors:
- MINGHELLA Edana, FORD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 11.12.97, 1997, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Argues that the constant pressure on beds for psychiatric patients in inner cities could be reduced with better, and better targeted, community care. Presents the results of a study tracing the path of care in two trusts.
Real lives
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 22, October 1997, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Describes life inside Rampton Hospital which is the main secure unit for people with learning disabilities.
Preventing violence on mental health wards
- Authors:
- WARREN Jonathan, BEADSMOORE Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.8.97, 1997, pp.47-48.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The findings reported in this article form part of a two-year study on the quality and effectiveness of acute mental health in-patient care by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
Social networks and service use among representative cases of psychosis in South London
- Authors:
- BECKER T, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 171, July 1997, pp.15-19.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Large social networks in patients with severe mental illness have been reported to be associated with a low rate of hospitalisation. Presents the findings of a study to examine whether social network size is related to the likelihood of hospitalisation and the amount of service use. The results found that the likelihood of hospitalisation decreased with an increase in network size, while the number of services used by patients grew as the social network size increased. Concludes that while larger social networks may be associated with a lower likelihood of hospitalisation, they may also be related to wider use of non-hospital services.
HIV infection in psychiatric patients: an unlinked anonymous study
- Authors:
- AYUSO-MATEOS Jose L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 170, February 1997, pp.181-185.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Recent surveys suggest that psychiatric patients are at increased risk of being infected with HIV, although very little information is available concerning the seroprevalence of HIV infection among this population outside the USA. This article looks at seroprevalence of HIV-I among patients admitted to a psychiatric in-patient unit in Madrid, and it gathers anonymous risk-factor information. Concludes that there is a substantial prevalence of HIV infection in psychiatric patients admitted to an acute in-patient unit. History of injecting drug use was strongly associated with seropositivity. Clinicians recognised risk factors for HIV infection in the majority of the HIV-infected cases.
Seeking asylum
- Author:
- HART Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 22.1.97, 1997, pp.37-38.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Mental health nursing had a more difficult development than general nursing, with the 19th-century asylum attendants stigmatised almost as badly as their patients. Traces its growth from unpromising beginnings to today's skilled profession.
Mental health care: from problems to solutions; an NHS perspective
- Author:
- MOORE Wendy
- Publisher:
- National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 20p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Research paper presenting the findings of a nationwide survey of senior NHS managers, revealing the pressures within mental health services, including pressures on resources, beds, staff, and on patients. Identifies three key action points which those in the service believe would significantly ease the difficulties.