[Deinstitutionalization of long-stay psychiatric patients in upper Austria -- utilization of healthcare resources and costs of outpatient care].

Objective: The study was intended to evaluate the therapeutic and healthcare services utilized by 116 former long-stay patients after an average of 42.9 months of deinstitutionalization during a follow-up time of (1/2) year and to calculate the costs thus incurred.

Methods: 116 patients and their caregivers were interviewed during a period of 6 months using the German version of the Client Sociodemographic and Service Receipt Inventory.

[Needs for care of former long-stay-patients living outside of the psychiatric hospital].

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the needs for care of 116 former long-stay patients during the first 42.9 months after discharge.

Method: Patients and mental health professionals rated needs using the "Berliner Bedürfnisinventar" (Berlin Needs for Care Inventory).

[Deinstitutionalization of long-stay psychiatric patients in upper austria - living situation, social and clinical characteristics more than one year after discharge].

Objective: In Upper Austria, a total of 409 long-stay patients were discharged to various residential facilities between 1995 and 2000. This paper describes psychopathology and sociodemographic characteristics.

Methods: A random sample of 116 former long-stay patients were followed for an average 42.