title: Psychiatric hospital treatment of young people.
abstract: To develop and extend psychiatric work among the young, information is required on, e.g., the manner and extent to which young people have so far made use of psychiatric hospital services. In this study report, psychiatric hospital treatment from age 15-21 years is described epidemiologically. The percentage of young people treated in psychiatric institutions during the 7-year follow-up period was 2.7. Of all the young psychiatric patients in this cohort, only some 20% required institutional care. A small group of about 0.7% of the total young population accounted for some 70% of the total number of psychiatric hospital days involving young people.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*