Missed post-hospitalisation clinic appointment in a psychiatric hospital in Southeast Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
Patients who have been attended to at psychiatric institutions sometimes fail to keep their scheduled appointments. This study was designed to assess the extent and determinants of missed first clinic appointments among recently discharged patients with schizophrenia. A total of 311 inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia were participated in the study. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was confirmed using Munich version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Socio-demographic and clinical data were collected using the socio-demographic questionnaire while analysis was done using SPSS (version 16). The rate of missed first outpatient appointment was found to be 25.7%. Missed appointment was associated with male gender, state of origin outside the study site, long distance from hospital to place of abode, longer appointment duration and illness severity at discharge. The findings in this study support the need for the introduction of community psychiatric services to improve patient access to services in Nigeria
Diagnosis of schizophrenia · Family medicine · Outpatient clinic · Psychiatric hospital · Psychiatry · Psychosis · State hospital · Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization · Medicine · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Schizophrenia research and treatment
Cross-cultural Feasibility, Reliability and Sources of Variance of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)
Perception and beliefs about mental illness among adults in Karfi village, northern Nigeria
Missed first appointments
Returning for Follow Up
The Empty Chair Appointment
From hospital to community psychiatry
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