Aims This is an audit evaluating the impact of inpatient COVID-19 restrictions on frequency recorded violent incidents a male acute general psychiatric ward. The aim this study to compare and disruptive behaviours between pre-COVID-19, post-COVID-19 periods Methods Inpatient adverse ward are logged into electronic system as ‘IR1’ (Incident Reporting) through Ulysses by healthcare professionals....

OBJECTIVES Recent inquiries highlight the anti-therapeutic nature of inpatient psychiatric care. We aim to assess the feasibility and potential efficacy of a ward-based psychological intervention to improve staff-patient relationships in psychiatric rehabilitation settings. METHODS A single-blind cluster randomized design compared the intervention with treatment as usual (TAU) on measures of ...

The most common adverse event for hospitalized patients is falling. Falling can result in injury and death, examinations treatments performed as a of falling increase health costs. Psychiatry inpatients are mobile while taking psychotropic medication. That poses significant risk terms fall. In this study, we aimed to examine falls incidents closed psychiatric ward compare the findings with othe...

BACKGROUND This research examines the physical health of patients with severe, chronic obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and compares the findings with patients admitted to an acute general psychiatric ward. METHODS Successive admissions to a specialist inpatient unit treating patients with OCD were included in the study. Information including gender, age, weight and height were recorded al...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively assess the performance of socially expected activities of psychiatric patients in the first year after their discharge from a psychiatric ward of a general hospital. Also, to evaluate the patients' and their family' expectations on the former's performance. METHODS The study was carried out in a general hospital in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. The Katz Scale was applied ...

In studies of psychiatric inpatients, the incidence of seclusion or restraint (S/R) varies widely (0-66%). Frequent use has been associated with e.g. violent behavior, age, sex, psychiatric symptoms and diagnosis of the patient, but also with the ward culture. The use of S/R is problematic since no randomized controlled studies of the safety or effectiveness of them were published. S/R may save...

The role of psychiatry in prisons has attracted much interest in recent years. Very little has bcen reported. howcver. about the practicc of in-patient psychiatry in prisons. 'Vhat has been written has dealt mostly with (I) the difficulties of cstablishing a psychiatric ward and (2) the perpctual conflict bctwccn the p,ychiatrically orientcd physician and staff and the custody-oriclltcd guards ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Metabolic syndrome (MS) is associated with major mental illnesses. It is a major predictor of mortality and morbidity. This research was undertaken to study the prevalence and correlates of MS in psychiatric inpatients in a tertiary care hospital in north India. METHODS Consecutive adult patients with a primary psychiatric disorder admitted to the psychiatric ward duri...

The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in inpatients with neurological disorders and the extent to which it is detected by neurologists were measured by using a two stage model of psychiatric assessment and from information recorded in the patients' medical notes. The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity was estimated as 39%, of which 72% was unrecognised by the neurologists. Only a minority of...