Collected and neglected: are Oxford hostels for the homeless filling up with disabled psychiatric patients?

Collected and neglected: are Oxford hostels for the homeless filling up with disabled psychiatric patients?

OBJECTIVE To assess the severity of psychiatric symptoms among residents of hostels for homeless people. DESIGN Survey of residents in two hostels in Oxford, comprising three weeks of background fieldwork, a demographic questionnaire, and rating behaviour over two weeks with a behavioural rating scale (REHAB) and mental state with the brief psychiatric rating scale. SETTING Two hostels for ...

the past hospitalization and its association with suicide attempts and ideation in patients with mdd and comparison with bmd (depressed type) group

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Psychiatric Halfway Hostels

Miss Brete Huseth's article in June* describes the results of a study which she made in this country during May, 1959 to June, 1960; that is, very early in a transitional period of the mental health services, and we think it is important to try to clarify some of her statements, and to point out some seeming anachronisms; as misconceptions in the field of mental health are only too easily forme...

[10-year follow-up study of mortality among users of hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen].

OBJECTIVES To investigate mortality among users of hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen, and to identify predictors of death such as conditions during upbringing, mental illness, and misuse of alcohol and drugs. DESIGN Register based follow up study. SETTING Two hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen, Denmark PARTICIPANTS 579 people who stayed in one hostel in Copenhagen in 1991, ...

The need for setting up tuberculosis hostels.