Admitting personal problems and outcomes in hospitalized psychiatric patients.
Willingness to admit that one has a serious emotional problem is part of a complex of attitudes that have a significant 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 hospitals 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 findings indicated that admitting problems and desire to change were better predictors of patients' outcome than staff physicians' opinions.
D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011379:Prognosis; D012649:Self Concept; D012647:Self-Assessment