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Aims of the study
Author(s) -
J. Doyle,
E-J. Hoogerwerf,
J. Kuiper,
E. Murphy,
C. Hannigan,
T. van der Auwermeulen,
J. Albert,
A. Jacobs,
L. Malucelli,
L. Desideri,
V. Fiordelmondo,
J. Dinsmore
Publication year - 1983
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.1600-0447.1983.tb05023.x
Subject(s) - citation , information retrieval , psychology , computer science , library science
The aims of the study were to find relevant methods and to compare the effects of two services, one old and one new. o n former mental hospital patients. The situation at Beckomberga ,Mental 1Iospital. the second largest mental hospital in Sweden. offered a possibility for a prospective comparison in many respects between the I IVP-Project. which had a new organization. and the original six divisions of the hospital. The original divisions continued their operation and did not change in some profound way up till 1981. There were several reasons why the inpatient population of Beckomberga I iospital 1976 was chosen to be the basis of the study. 1976 came to be the last year which was relatively unaffected by changes in organization. In September 1977, the HVP-Project went into operation. A pilot experiment in sectorized psychiatry in Stockholm was the Nacka-Project, which started in 1974 as an outpatient program, without integrated inpatient resources up till 1981. The HVP-Project had from its start both inand outpatient facilities and was thus the first complete sector organization in the Stockholm area. It was found important to study the effects given by the new division for a sector on identified mental hospital inpatients with an emphasis on long-stay patients. The formation of a study group of IiVP-patients could have been achieved by manual methods. but the finding of suitable controls in the original divisions was facilitated by the use o f the computerized patient registration system. When this study was begun in the autumn of 1977, a sufficient number of hospital stays. regarding 1976, had been processed by the computer department. Information on the IiVP-Project, Beckomberga Hospital and the 1976 inpatient population will be presented under the heading Background of the study. Information o n study patients. controls and methods used in the comparison will be presented under the headings Putietits und matching procerlurc. and Methods. Based on the previous review of literature. the following issues were found important t o investigate and relevant to the former mental hospital patients. The issues concern expected positive goals as well as some possible negative effects and were formulated as hypotheses: