PMID: 2479094Jan 1, 1989Paper

[Long-term clinical follow-up (2 years) of 78 patients hospitalized in a crisis situation].

Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie = Archives suisses de neurologie et de psychiatrie = Archivio svizzero di neurologia e psichiatria : offizielles Organ der Schweizerischen Neurologischen Gesellschaft und der SchweizerischenGesellschaft für
A AndreoliG Garrone

Abstract

This is a preliminary study focusing on a 2 years follow-up of 78 patients addressed to psychiatric hospitalization and psychodynamically oriented crisis intervention. Relationship between psychopathological, clinical and interactional profile at first medical interview and clinical/social assessment at 1 and 2 years follow-up were studied, indicating different predictors for long-term treatment (DSM III R diagnosis and psychotic symptoms scores) and global improvement (age and sex) as well as poorer outcome for social functioning than for symptomatic measures. Comment is also provided on the observed high concordance between clinical predictions at crisis treatment completion and research staff assessments at 1 and 2 years follow-up. The evaluated crisis intervention model was found to provide a valuable setting to structure acute psychiatric episode treatment and long-term care, even though transition from clinical recovery to effective social-interpersonal reinvestments was observed to raise problems in the addressed psychiatric population.

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