O'Neill R M, Bornstein R F
State University of New York--Health Science Center at Syracuse, NY, USA.
J Clin Psychol. 2001 Mar;57(3):289-98. doi: 10.1002/jclp.1012.
To examine the relationship between interpersonal dependency and medical service use in a hospital setting, the number of medical consultations and psychotropic medication prescriptions were compared in matched, mixed-sex samples of 40 dependent and 40 nondependent psychiatric inpatients. Results indicated that dependent patients received more medical consultations and a greater number of medications than did nondependent patients with similar demographic and diagnostic profiles. Implications of these results for theoretical models of interpersonal dependency and for previous research on the dependency-help-seeking relationship are discussed. Practical implications of these findings for work with dependent patients are summarized.
为了研究在医院环境中人际依赖与医疗服务使用之间的关系，对40名依赖型和40名非依赖型精神科住院患者的匹配混合性别样本中的医疗会诊次数和精神药物处方数量进行了比较。结果表明，与具有相似人口统计学和诊断特征的非依赖型患者相比，依赖型患者接受了更多的医疗会诊，服用的药物数量也更多。讨论了这些结果对人际依赖理论模型以及先前关于依赖-求助关系研究的意义。总结了这些发现对依赖型患者治疗工作的实际意义。
