The authors studied the treatment experiences prior to psychiatric hospitalization of mental disorders of 1.844 admitting patients and 706 discharged patients, 2,550 patients in total, from 89 psychiatric hospital in Korea.
The admission subjects were surveyed by questionnaire method on 4th, July, 1974. The discharged subjects had been taken during one month, April, 1974. Twenty five hundreds and fifty total subjects were classified into two groups; the one has the experience of treatment before psychiatric admission, the other group has no psychiatric treatment.
The data of treatment experience was related to three factors, the general backgrounds, the family backgrounds and the situation of admission of the mental disorders. Statistically, These datas were analyzed by frequency and significant differences.
The summary of the findings are follows.
1. Sex and age distributions of the general background were seem to be not significant meaning, but mother´s educational status has a significant meaning.
2. Family structure is not found any significant differences by the treatment experiences.
3. The economic status seems to be not significant differences, but the times of hospitalization and the period from onset to admission are found significant differences by the treatment experiences.
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