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[Length of psychiatric hospitalizations: a clinical and socio-demographic characterization]
Damián Chebar1, Patricio Alba, Héctor Alarcán
1Unidad Internación de mujeres, Hospital de Emergencias Psiquiátricas T. de Alvear, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Aim:
The aim of this study was to determine the clinical, socio-demographic, and therapeutic variables associated with the length of hospitalization in a psychiatric emergency hospital in Buenos Aires City.
Method:
The present retrospective analytical study included 350 consecutively admitted patients aged 18-65, from June 2013 until December 2017 in a public psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires City. Data collected included socio-demographic, clinical and discharge conditions.
Results:
Variables that predicted the length of hospitalization were: diagnosis of psychosis, the use of lithium and anticonvulsants, unemployment, no economic autonomy, not have formed a family and have modified the living support group during the hospitalization.
Conclusion:
The representative of social and economic vulnerability variables were associated with the utilization of psychiatric inpatient beds. Public policies are requested to interrupt the relationship between poverty and mental pathology.
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