Grishman M H, López-Martínez P, Alvelo J
VA Medical Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927-5800.
P R Health Sci J. 1992 Dec;11(3):167-72.
As a result of public law 99-166 the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Juan (DVAMC), Puerto Rico engaged in a planned de-institutionalization of psychiatric veteran patients who had been treated in two contracted psychiatric hospitals in the community. This research seeks to determine whether they were receiving treatment after the deinstitutionalization effort was completed, the types of psychosocial problems they were facing and the resources utilized to cope with them. The authors found that the veterans were receiving treatment for their psychosocial problems, they relied to a great extent on DVAMC for services and that the psychosocial problems of those veterans over age 55 were less and differed from those under age 55.
根据第99 - 166号公法，位于波多黎各圣胡安的退伍军人事务部医疗中心（DVAMC）对在社区两家签约精神病医院接受治疗的退伍军人精神病患者进行了有计划的非机构化安置。本研究旨在确定在非机构化安置工作完成后，他们是否仍在接受治疗、他们面临的心理社会问题类型以及用于应对这些问题的资源。作者发现，退伍军人正在接受心理社会问题的治疗，他们在很大程度上依赖DVAMC提供服务，并且55岁以上退伍军人的心理社会问题较少，且与55岁以下退伍军人的问题不同。
