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The British Journal of Psychiatry 158: 251-254 (1991)
© 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

The psychiatric symptoms, diagnoses and care needs of 100 mentally handicapped patients

BR Ballinger, CB Ballinger, AH Reid and E McQueen
Royal Dundee Liff Hospital.

One hundred randomly selected residents of a mental handicap hospital originating from Dundee were interviewed using a standardised assessment based on the modified Standardised Clinical Interview Schedule. Information on certain behavioural items and self-care skills was obtained from nursing staff and case records. An ICD-9 diagnosis could be made for 80 individuals, including diagnoses usually reserved for children. Thirty subjects were regarded as needing long-term psychiatric mental handicap hospital care. All but one of the remaining 70 subjects required a staffed residential placement and all but 15 some form of out-patient or short-term in-patient provision from specialist health services. The findings indicate a need for approximately 30 psychiatric mental handicap beds per 100,000 population.


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