Tansella M, Bisoffi G, Thornicroft G
Servizio di Psicologia Medica, Università di Verona, Italy.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 1993 Oct;28(5):225-30. doi: 10.1007/BF00788741.
Measures of service utilisation from the South Verona psychiatric case register in North-East Italy for the years 1983, 1986 and 1989 were used to identify possible associations with sociodemographic variables from the 1981 census for neurotic disorders. There were no consistent patterns of associations between local social and demographic predictors and rates of psychiatric service utilisation. This contrasts markedly with the associations found previously in England (for all psychiatric admissions) and in Italy (for various measures of service utilisation concerning contacts both in and outside hospital for schizophrenic as well as for all psychiatric patients) where social deprivation factors proved to be strong predictors of service use.
利用意大利东北部维罗纳南部精神病病例登记处1983年、1986年和1989年的服务利用数据，来确定与1981年人口普查中神经症的社会人口统计学变量之间可能存在的关联。当地社会和人口统计学预测因素与精神科服务利用率之间没有一致的关联模式。这与之前在英国（针对所有精神病住院患者）和意大利（针对与精神分裂症患者以及所有精神病患者在医院内外接触的各种服务利用指标）发现的关联形成了显著对比，在英国和意大利，社会剥夺因素被证明是服务利用的有力预测因素。
