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Quality of Life for ‘New’ Long-stay Psychiatric In-patients

The Effects of Moving to a Hostel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. S. Gibbons  and
J. P. Butler
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We observed 15 ‘new’ long-stay patients in wards in a District General Hospital Unit and a mental hospital, and again when they had lived for a year in a new hospital-hostel. There were significant changes in time spent in the community, social interaction, activity and abnormal behaviour. Residents believed they had more freedom and none wanted to return to wards. Six patients remained on wards. They showed no comparable changes and all wanted to live elsewhere.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 347 - 354
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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