Do we need in-patient units for child and adolescent psychiatry? Data on administrative incidence from 1980-1984 from Vorarlberg/Austria.
The question of the necessity of in-patient facilities of the area of (child and) adolescent neuropsychiatry is to be discussed further. The extremely optimistic views on this question of approximately 20 years ago cannot be maintained for the examined area and the examination time. In the LNKH Valduna/Vorarlberg, an establishment that was intended exclusively for adults until 1987, from 1980-1984 (evaluated in detail) and from 1984-1987 a further 60 minors were admitted. The exact evaluation shows that the conspicuousnesses of behaviour of a main group was so clear each time that it could not be treated elsewhere and certainly not in outpatient facilities. In the examined group the amount of patients with behaviour and socialization disorders outweighed by far the psychoses, also a high percentage of patients was multi morbid and/or had multiple handicaps. The resulting conclusion seems to us to be the necessity of setting-up a specific in-patients treatment unit for this group of patients with sufficient infrastructure.
Amann
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König
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D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry; D001317:Austria; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data