This study aimed at comparing the clinical characteristics of inpatients during the two period of times, the 736 inpatients from July 11 of 1984 to July 10 of 1986 and 2,283 inpatients from July 11 of 1986 to July 10 of 1991 at Wonkwang
Neuropsychiatric
Hospital.
@ES Result were as follows:
@EN 1. Of total inpatients, males admitted this hospital more than females as 60.9% and in the point of insurance, insured patients have increased as 45.1% and medicaid patients and uninsured patients have decreased.
2. By district, most of them resided Iri and neighbouring Iri as 84.0% and the patients who resided Iri, Iksan and Kimje have increased and two Cheonju, Wanju, Kusan and Okgu have decreased.
3. On the distribution of age, of male patients, the teens and the twenties have decreased and the forties, the fifties and sixties have increased. Of female patients, the thirties and the twenties have increased and the fifties, the teens, the
forties
have decreased. The twenties, the thirties and the forties were about 70% of total patients.
4. By diagnosis, of male patients, schizophrenia and neurotic disorder have decreased out alcoholism and organic mental disorder have increased. Schizophrenia was the most as 27.8%, secondly organic mental disorder, thirdly alcoholism. Of female
patient, neurotic disorder has decreased and mood disorder has increased. Schizophrenia was the most as 34.3%, secondly neurotic disorder, thirdly mood disorder.
5. On the distribution of age by diagnosis, the disorder found in twenties were schizophrenia, mood disorder and other psychotic disroder, in thirties were psychotic disorder and neurotic disorder and in forties alcoholism and organic mental
disorder.
6. On the distribution of age of onset, the average age of onset mood disorder has decreased; from 34.9 years to 28.3 years. Roughly schizophrenia developed during the first half of the twenties, mood disorder and other psychotic disorder
during
the
second half of the twenties, neurotic disorder during the first half of the thirties, alcoholism during the second half of the thirties and organic mental disorder during the half of the forties.
7. On the duration of illness, the average duration of illness of schizophrenia has increased; from 53.4 days to 81.2 days, other psychotic disorder has decreased; from 76.9 days to 24.4 days, and neurotic disorder has decreased; from 58.6 days
to
32.6
days.
8. On the duration of admission, the average admission day of all disorder have increased generally; schizophrenia from 84.5 days to 135.8 days, mood disorder from 31.3 days to 60.1 days and mental retardation from 53.6 days to 92.5 days.
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