Relationship between Economic Decline and Mental Hospital Admissions Continues to Be Significant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13650259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | MarGaret Draughon (Fairfield Hills Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 882-882 |
| Publication date | 1975-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1975.36.3.882 |
| PMID | 1144632 |
| OpenAlex | W2094048926 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Periods of economic decline have been associated with enhanced emotional disturbance (Bakke, 1940; Hollingshead & Redlich, 1958; Neff, 1968) and particularly with increased admissions to mental hospitals (Brenner, 1973; Malzberg, 1959). The hypothesis explored by rhis study is that, during the 1974 economic decline, an increase in job-related hospitalizations would occur at a general psychiatric unit in a state mental hospital. The procedure was to search the problem lists of all the patients admitted to the unit for job-related precipitants of the present hospitalization. Considering only their first admission in the year, there were 488 such admissions. The x2 test of the hypothesis compared the number of admissions with job-related precipitants for the second half of the year with those in the first half. The results show there were 100 such patients admitted in the second half of 1974 as compared with 43 the firsc half. The $ w a s significant at < ,001 (d f = 1 ) . Thus, the null hypothesis, that there is no difference in the incidence of job-related hospitalizations for 1974 at this facility, must be rejected. The data support the idea that economic decline continues to be associated with increased mental hospitalizations with job-related precipitants. Unless the economic situation improves, these conditions should be expected to continue
Mental hospital · Psychiatry · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 1983 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |