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Is Day Hospital Treatment Effective, and Can Success Be Predicted?Villes Avramidi 5, Panorama, Thessaloniki, Greece
Villes Avramidi 5, Panorama, Thessaloniki, Greece
Westminster Hospital. London. SW1P 2AP
152 Harley Street, London. W1 Clinical improvement is demonstrated in a group of 41 day patients of mixed diagnosis by changes in measures of depression, self-esteem, loquacity and sociability over a period of six weeks. Staff predictions of success, made after 2 weeks, correlated positively (Spearman's rho=0.53) with an overall assessment of success after 6 weeks, which itself was positively correlated with improvements in scores on depression (rho=0.58) and sociability (rho=0.66 and 0.60.) The patients for whom staff predicted least success were in 6 cases out of 7 men aged 20-51.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 36, No. 2,
137-142 (1990) |
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