What is it about?
The purpose of this paper is to study the role of social factors that determine the length of stay in a mental hospital and also understand the main factors leading to the phenomena as a step to solve it.
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Why is it important?
The need for this study stems from the large numbers of mental inpatients who have been lengthily admitted in mental health hospitals in Egypt while trying to understand main factors leading to the phenomena as a step to solve it. The study found that there is a highly significant difference between inpatient group and outpatient group regarding the marital status, education level, and psychosocial class, with inpatient group having more single, illiterate, and very low social class cases.
Perspectives
Research in the area of chronic psychiatric hospitalization and its effect on the course and prognosis of mental illness is still scarce, especially in the Arab world; therefore, the research will open the door for further research efforts in the future with a larger sample of patients to study the pros and cons of deinstitutionalization taking into account the past experience of health systems in other countries.
Dr Michael Elnemais Fawzy
Al Abbassia Mental Health Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Correlates of lengthy stay in a mental health hospital, International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, March 2018, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijhrh-02-2017-0006.
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