Better off in the community? A 5-year follow up study of long-term psychiatric patients discharged into the community

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 469-473

  McInerney, Shane J ^a   Finnerty, Susan ^b   Avalos, Gloria ^c   Walsh, Elizabeth ^d  

^a Galway Mental Health Services   (Ireland)

^b Mental Health Ireland   (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d West Galway Mental Health Services ^*  (Ireland)

Author keywords

Community psychiatry; Deinstitutionalisation; Quality of life; Severe mental illness; Treatment satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77952242325     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0086-5     Document Type: Article

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