Sociodemographic and Clinical Predictors of the Length of Psychiatric Inpatient Stay of Immigrants in Switzerland.

ABSTRACT: Immigrants with mental disorders have consistently been reported to spend shorter time in the psychiatric hospital compared to native patients. The aim of this study was to identify sociodemographic, clinical and migration-related predictors of a shorter length of psychiatric inpatient stay among immigrants in Switzerland. All patients of a foreign nationality admitted for inpatient treatment in the year 2016 (N = 279) were included in this study. The sample characteristics were drawn from the register of the psychiatric hospital. Within this sample, self-harm and substance use predicted a shorter inpatient treatment episode whereas disturbances of general psychosocial functioning were a predictor of a longer length of stay. As similar results were also reported for non-immigrant pa

SUBMITTER: Frizi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7755930 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature