Persons with major psychiatric illness in prisons - A three vears study

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-16

  Banerjee, Arnab ^a   Sengupta, Prativa ^a   Ray, Tapas Kumar ^a  

^a SEVAC Mental Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Major psychiatric illness; Mental patients; Prisons in india

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIFE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION CARE; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; PRISONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70149111073     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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