Measuring the level of compulsory hospitalisation in mental health care: The performance of different measures across areas and over time.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A variety of measures are used for reporting levels of compulsory psychiatric hospitalisation. This complicates comparisons between studies and makes it hard to establish the extent of geographic variation. We aimed to investigate how measures based on events, individuals and duration portray geographical variation differently and perform over time, how they correlate and how well they predict future ranked levels of compulsory hospitalisation.

Methods

Small-area analysis, correlation analysis and linear regressions of data from a Norwegian health registry containing whole population data from 2014 to 2018.

Results

The average compulsory hospitalisation rate per 100,000 inhabitant was 5.6 times higher in the highest area, compared to the lowest, while the di

SUBMITTER: Hofstad T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8412230 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature