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Accident and its correlates in a psychiatric hospital
Author(s) -
Abbott A.
Publication year - 1978
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.1600-0447.1978.tb06872.x
Subject(s) - accidental , psychiatry , injury prevention , psychology , multivariate analysis , poison control , suicide prevention , psychiatric hospital , occupational safety and health , medicine , clinical psychology , medical emergency , physics , pathology , acoustics
The literature on accidental and violent minor injuries in hospitals is reviewed. From it hypotheses about the causes and correlates of such accidents are derived. These theories are tested on a 2‐year sample of accidents in a 2,400‐patient mental hospital, using standard multivariate statistical procedures, Age, psychiatric disability, and sex prove to be corelates of rates of injury. Social disorganization is shown to be the intervening variable in the common theory that crowding leads to violent injury.