Psychosocial Profiles of Patients Admitted to Psychiatric Emergency Services: Results from the Signature Biobank Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients admitted to psychiatric emergency services (PES) are highly heterogenous. New tools based on a transdiagnosis approach could help attending psychiatrists in their evaluation process and treatment planning. The goals of this study were to: (1) identify profiles of symptoms based on self-reported, dimensional outcomes in psychiatric patients upon their admission to PES, (2) link these profiles to developmental variables, that is, history of childhood abuse (CA) and trajectories of externalizing behaviours (EB), and (3) test whether this link between developmental variables and profiles was moderated by sex.

Methods

In total, 402 patients were randomly selected from the Signature Biobank, a database of measures collected from patients admitted to the emergen

SUBMITTER: Geoffrion S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9065491 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature