Long-term stays in hospitals: a case report

Hocaoglu C.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, cilt.39, sa.3, ss.495-497, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 39 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3906/sag-0705-16
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.495-497
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Inpatients experience frequent psychiatric disorders. Long-term stays in hospitals increase this risk of having a psychiatric disorder and cause negative effects on their ongoing treatments. Several studies emphasized that physicians should be careful for psychiatric disorders affecting the treatment process of inpatients as well as the period of stay in the hospital. This study, is a case report. Psychodynamic formulation has been made evaluating the psychiatric disease history and psychodynamic and psychosocial history as well as through psychological tests.