Therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder: Service use and mortality over 3 years' follow-up
| dc.contributor.author | Davies, Steffan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-20T15:59:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-20T15:59:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Davies, S. & Campling, P. (2003). Therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder: Service use and mortality over 3 years' follow-up. In: Bhui, K., (Ed.) 2nd Conference of the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorders, 31 Jan-3 Feb 2003 Leicester, United Kingdom. The British Journal of Psychiatry, p.s24-s27. | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1192/bjp.182.44.s24 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/9646 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: A number of studies have demonstrated reductions in the utilisation of psychiatric services, especially acute in-patient admissions, following therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder. These studies have, however, been of limited duration (1 year) and follow-up has not always been complete. Aims: To identify hospital admissions before and after therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder. Method: A naturalistic clinical cohort of patients admitted between January 1993 and December 1995 was followed up for 3 years. All subjects were traced to their current consultant psychiatrist, general practitioner or death. Results: All patients were traced at 3-year follow-up. The significant reduction in in-patient admissions seen in the first year was maintained over 3 years. Those with the poorest outcomes, suicide, accidental death or prolonged admission were all in the quartile with the shortest admissions (under 42 days) to the therapeutic community. Conclusions: Previously reported reductions in psychiatric admissions following therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder are maintained over 3 years. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/therapeutic-community-treatment-of-personality-disorder-service-use-and-mortality-over-3-years-followup/B2C09BED69F397E1790A46FFD3A0E8D1 | |
| dc.subject | Length of stay | |
| dc.subject | Personality disorders | |
| dc.subject | Therapeutic community | |
| dc.title | Therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder: Service use and mortality over 3 years' follow-up | |
| dc.type | Conference Proceeding | |
| html.description.abstract | Background: A number of studies have demonstrated reductions in the utilisation of psychiatric services, especially acute in-patient admissions, following therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder. These studies have, however, been of limited duration (1 year) and follow-up has not always been complete. Aims: To identify hospital admissions before and after therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder. Method: A naturalistic clinical cohort of patients admitted between January 1993 and December 1995 was followed up for 3 years. All subjects were traced to their current consultant psychiatrist, general practitioner or death. Results: All patients were traced at 3-year follow-up. The significant reduction in in-patient admissions seen in the first year was maintained over 3 years. Those with the poorest outcomes, suicide, accidental death or prolonged admission were all in the quartile with the shortest admissions (under 42 days) to the therapeutic community. Conclusions: Previously reported reductions in psychiatric admissions following therapeutic community treatment of personality disorder are maintained over 3 years. |