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Mental health delivery‐systems and post‐treatment performance in Nigeria
Author(s) -
Erinosho O. A.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1977.tb00135.x
Subject(s) - mental health , therapeutic community , medicine , psychiatry , mental hospital , retrospective cohort study , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , community hospital , hospital admission , surgery
A retrospective study was made, investigating the post‐treatment outcomes of patients in two apparently dissimilar psychiatric therapeutic centres in Nigeria: the Aro Mental Hospital, a custodial facility, and the Aro Community Village Program, a pilot experiment in community psychiatry. A matched sample of 208 treated patients and their next of kin was focussed upon. An organizational study of the milieux was also undertaken. No significant differences exist in the range of therapies which was administered to schizophrenic patients or in the rate of re‐admission in the two therapeutic milieux. A significantly greater percent of patients were treated for over 3 months on first admission in the community centre than in the hospital centre ( P < 0.05)