Treatment compliance and hostility levels of head-injured psychiatric outpatients.
Twenty-eight head-injured psychiatrically ill patients were compared in terms of compliance with psychiatric treatment and hostility levels to a matched control group of 28 non-head-injured psychiatrically ill patients attending a community mental health clinic. Results indicated that the two groups did not differ in treatment compliance. However, the head-injured group had significantly less rapport with their therapists. Hostility measures revealed that male head-injured patients scored significantly higher on the assaultive scale; and the severity of the head injury correlated positively with levels of hostility and with reported problems at school.
Salloum
I M
IM
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2593.
Jenkins
E J
EJ
Thompson
B
B
Levi
D
D
Burnett
Y
Y
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires