Hospitalized adolescents in a general-hospital psychiatric unit: their demographic and clinical characteristics.
This paper presents a profile of adolescents aged 13 to 19 years with acute psychiatric symptoms requiring hospitalization in a general-hospital psychiatric unit. Their demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics are described and their use of available services during the acute phase of their period of distress is reviewed. The establishment of specialized treatment units for adolescents within the general hospital is endorsed and the implications of the role of general-hospital psychiatric unit for the partial hospitalization of adolescents with psychiatric problems are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000298:Adolescent, Hospitalized; D000416:Alberta; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010343:Patient Admission; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013223:Statistics as Topic