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Profile of the Hospitalized Patients in a Medium Stay Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

O. Euba ,
N. Sánchez ,
A. Barreiro ,
M. Torreblanca ,
E. Zallo ,
R. Merino ,
A. Arroita  and
E. Pinilla
O. Euba
Affiliation:
Hospital de Zamudio, Zamudio, Spain
N. Sánchez
Affiliation:
Hospital de Zamudio, Zamudio, Spain
A. Barreiro
Affiliation:
Hospital de Zamudio, Zamudio, Spain
M. Torreblanca
Affiliation:
Hospital de Zamudio, Zamudio, Spain
E. Zallo
Affiliation:
Hospital de Zamudio, Zamudio, Spain
R. Merino
Affiliation:
Hospital de Zamudio, Zamudio, Spain
A. Arroita
Affiliation:
Hospital de Zamudio, Zamudio, Spain
E. Pinilla
Affiliation:
Hospital de Zamudio, Zamudio, Spain

Abstract

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Aims:

A medium stay unit is a psychiatric hospitalization unit where serious patients are admitteded, basically those with psychosis and affective disorders. The complexity of the pathology extends the average stay of hospitalization with an average of 60 days to improve.

The general profile of patients in a medium stay unit is characterized by:

  • • Psychotic and affective disorders that need longer hospitalization.

  • • Disorders that are resistant to treatment and need specific strategies.

  • • Patients that give up the treatment.

  • • Patients that require sessions of electoconvulsive therapy.

Methods:

It is analyzed, retrospectively, all admission to a medium stay unit in 2007 and described the clinical and sociodemographical features of each patient entering the unit.

Results:

209 people enter the unit in 2007, most of them single and in average they are 47 years old. The relation between men and women is similar.

The 65% of the patients agree about being hospitalized with an average stay in hospital of 54 days.

Schizophrenia is the most frequent diagnosis, followed by Major Depression.

The 56% of the patients are referred to an outpatients' department.

Conclusions:

What we observed in our study fits in with the general profile of patients that entered a medium stay unit.

Type
P02-309
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue S1: 17th EPA Congress - Lisbon, Portugal, January 2009, Abstract book , January 2009 , 24-E999
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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