Publications by authors named "Francesco D Fritz"
Article Synopsis
- This study looked at how many psychiatric hospital beds are needed compared to how many are actually available.
- Researchers gathered information from many sources to find out the trends in bed needs over time.
- They found that the need for beds went down until 2000, and since then, it has remained steady but is still higher than the number of beds that really exist.
Objective: To investigate the housing situation, service use and substance use among patients with substance use disorders seeking psychiatric treatment.
Methods: Structured interview among 540 psychiatric inpatients including day clinics in a psychiatric centre in Berlin, Germany.
Results: Patients under instable housing conditions were significantly more often diagnosed with a comorbid psychotic disorder and were significantly younger when first psychiatric or substance use treatment occurred, on average before onset of homelessness.
Background: In 1990, Latin American countries committed to psychiatric reforms including psychiatric bed removals. Aim of the study was to quantify changes in psychiatric bed numbers and prison population rates after the initiation of psychiatric reforms in Latin America.
Methods: We searched primary sources to collect numbers of psychiatric beds and prison population rates across Latin America between the years 1991 and 2017.