Re-internações psiquiátricas - influência de variáveis sócio-demográficas, clínicas e de modalidades de tratamento / Psychiatric re-admissions influence of socio-demographic and clinics variables and modalities of treatment

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

07/11/2012

RESUMO

Psychiatric readmissions are mainly due to a complex combination of factors which go beyond the mental illness itself. Several factors associated to the patient, community and health care system have been associated to recurrent psychiatric admissions. The Psychiatric Reform has determined a shift in the basic services strengthening community treatment modalities. In this context, re-admission analyses have taken a major role in organizing mental health networks, because the dynamics of re-admissions could be an indicator of the quality of the hospital and community-based services offered allowing a better understanding of the relations between these services. As the Ribeirão Preto region has suffered from the increase of admissions and the lack of beds in psychiatric wards, we organized this research aiming at verifying possible changes in the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients admitted for the first time besides analyzing possible factors for re-admissions. In this study, all patients admitted to psychiatric wards between 2000 and 2007 were analyzed using a single data base created for this research so that all admissions and re-admissions during the period could be studied. The hospitalized patients analysis along the years was accomplished using the ratio patient/index year for each variable and through a bivariant analysis using the chi-square test. In order to analyze the re-admission risk, logistic regression was used to evaluate the relative risk reasons with their respective confidence interval. Analysis of the time between first and second admission (re-admission) was made according to survival curves. During the time under study, 6.261 patients were admitted. It occurred an increase in the proportion of patients with some socio-demographic (young and elderly people clinically affected as well as professionally inactive) and clinical characteristics (short stays due to depressive, personality and psychoactive substance abuse diagnostics). About 1/3 of admitted patients went through a re-admission during the research and the main predictors for re-admission were: younger age group, prolonged length of stay in hospitals and psychotic or bipolar affective disorder diagnoses. Precocious re-admission risk was related to a lack of social protection (younger age group and absence of occupational and marital bonds) as well as the clinical seriousness (more severe dignoses, longer stay in hospital (general or psychiatric). Our data has reached the proposed goals but new researches are needed in order to define better the re-admission predictors, because frequent users of the health care system entail higher costs. Therefore, mental health policies must prioritize these patients.

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emergência psiquiátrica. fatores preditores mental health networks predictor factors psychiatric emergency. readmission rede de saúde mental reinternações psiquiátricas

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