Mental health admissions in paediatric populations in North Wales: two cohorts compared 1875-1924 and 1994-2008.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate frequency of under-18s admitted to mental health services (MHS) in North West Wales (NWW) between 1875 and 2008. There are claims that 1 in 10 children have a mental illness, but there are little data on their inpatient MHS utilisation.

Setting

Looking at admissions at the secondary care level, three data samples were included; the first comprises historical asylum admissions, the second comprises contemporary admissions to acute psychiatric beds, and the third comprises admissions to district general hospital (DGH) beds that resulted in a mental health coding.

Participants

All were under 18. There were 65 historical patients, 41 contemporary mental illness admissions and 943 DGH admissions.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The p

SUBMITTER: Basa FB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3975741 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature