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Admitting personal problems and outcomes in hospitalized psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
McClure Robert F.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197801)34:1<44::aid-jclp2270340108>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - psychology , psychiatry , psychiatric hospital , outcome (game theory) , clinical psychology , medicine , mathematical economics , mathematics
Willingness to admit that have a signifiant effect on behavioral outcomes of hospitalized psychiatric patients. Specifically, patients who admitted emotional problems were more likely to want to change than non‐admitters. Further, admitters stayed in the hospital a significantly shorter time and were less likely to return to the hospital within a year than patients not willing to admit problems. Other similar findigs indicated that admitting problems and desire to change were better predictors of patiens' outcome than staff physicians' opinions.