A note on some recent studies of released mental hospital patients in the community
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 133 (1), 73-75
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.73
Abstract
The author conducted a literature search for follow-up studies of patients released from state mental hospitals to the community to assess the impact of released patients and the community on one another. She found that the follow-up studies lacked comparability in several ways and concludes that there is a need for greater comparability in future studies so that their validity as indicators of patients' postrelease functioning may be increased.Keywords
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