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abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse sociodemographic characteristics, descriptive psychopathology and therapy in the first decade of service of the Hospital Psiquiátrico San Isidro del Valle del Cauca, 1958-1968.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective descriptive study of a series of case histories of the studied period, and by qualitative analysis and conceptual networks.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Sociodemographic variables were analysed, and it was observed that, although the patient population increased, hospitalisation was reduced due to the implementation of a "Day Hospital" and outpatient services. The majority of patients were young adults, women engaged in housework, and several lower-middle income patients, primarily referred by their families. Hospital stay was short, with a high frequency of readmissions. The main reason for discharge was improvement, and the predominant diagnosis and symptomatology was schizophrenia, with the treatment being antipsychotic neuroleptics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The correlation of the short time of hospitalisation, more outpatient clinics, the large number of readmissions, and improvement as the reason for discharge, is consistent with the results of the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia 1968, which included a sample of 100 patients from Hospital psychiatric San Isidro del Valle del Cauca, in which it was concluded that the disorder did not cause a progressive deterioration in patients and that, on the contrary, showed a significant percentage recovery.
authors.affiliation: Grupo Estudios de Fenómenos Psicosociales, Fundación Universitaria Luis Amigó, Medellín, Colombia. Electronic address: Jairo.gutierrezav@amigo.edu.co.
authors.forename: Jairo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez Avendaño
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D014150:Antipsychotic Agents
keywords: Dynamic psychiatry; Esquizofrenia; Historia de la psicopatología; History of psychopathology; Hospital Psiquiátrico San Isidro del Valle del Cauca; Psiquiatría dinámica; Schizophrenia