Objectives. To identify progress and challenges in mental healthcare in South Africa, as well
as future mental health services research priorities. Method. A systematic review of mental …

Background: The treatment of psychiatric patients has suffered a major change over the last
decades, with long-term hospitalizations being replaced by short-term stays and appropriate …

BACKGROUND: This follow-up study compared patients with schizophrenia with co-
occurring substance use disorder to patients with schizophrenia and no substance use …

Before psychiatry emerged as a medical discipline, hospitalizing individuals with mental
disorders was more of a social stigmatizing act than a therapeutic act. After the birth of the …

Objective: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric illness with multifactorial etiology
and unsatisfactory treatment outcomes. Hospitalization is required for a substantial number …

Severe mental illnesses (SMI) contribute significantly to the global burden of disease. In low-
and-middle-income countries (LMICs), the treatment gap impacts the clinical and personal …

Abstract Frequent Psychiatric Readmission (FPR)(revolving door phenomenon) is
characterized by repeated and frequent hospitalizations that occur shortly after discharge …

To highlight the revolving door (RD) phenomenon in an acute psychiatric ward, we
retrospectively identified the patients hospitalized three or more times in a calendar year …

Background: A small proportion of people who have serious mental illness and rapid and
frequent incarcerations account for a disproportionate amount of overall service use and …

Aim: To explore length of stay (LOS) and associated factors of patients with schizophrenia
and schizoaffective disorder, admitted to a public sector specialised psychiatric hospital …