Department of Family Medicine, Al-Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
East Mediterr Health J. 2013 Jan;19(1):37-44.
To identify the pattern and determinants of psychiatric illness and the predictors of long stay among long-stay patients at the Mental Health Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia, we examined a total of 430 records of patients who had been admitted during the period January 1999-January 2009 and had stayed for > 9 months. More than half these patients had a history of drug addiction (60.7%). The majority were diagnosed with schizophrenia (88.8%) and mental retardation was reported in 17.7%. Personality disorders and epilepsy were diagnosed in 3.7% and 1.9% of the participants respectively. The mean duration of hospital stay was 6.16 (standard deviation 2.32; range 1-10) years. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that patients diagnosed with schizophrenia accompanied by mental retardation, those with lower education levels, and those with a history of co-morbid chronic diseases stayed for more than 2 years.
为了确定沙特阿拉伯塔伊夫的心理健康医院长期住院患者的精神疾病模式和决定因素，以及长期住院的预测因素，我们共检查了 1999 年 1 月至 2009 年 1 月期间入院且住院时间超过 9 个月的 430 名患者的记录。这些患者中有一半以上（60.7%）有药物滥用史。大多数患者被诊断为精神分裂症（88.8%），17.7%的患者被诊断为智力迟钝。分别有 3.7%和 1.9%的参与者被诊断为人格障碍和癫痫。住院时间的平均值为 6.16 年（标准差 2.32；范围 1-10）。多变量逻辑回归分析显示，同时被诊断为精神分裂症和智力迟钝的患者、教育程度较低的患者和伴有合并慢性疾病史的患者的住院时间超过 2 年。
