A mental health "thermometer" to monitor and prevent adverse treatment outcomes and self-harm among psychiatric inpatients

心理健康“温度计”，用于监测和预防精神病住院患者的不良治疗结果和自残

• 批准号: LP100200749
• 负责人: Prof Andrew Page
• 金额: $ 12.99万
• 依托单位: The University of Western Australia
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2010-09-17 至 2016-04-01
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP100200749
• 关键词: mental; health; thermometer; monitor; prevent

Our project stands to prevent adverse outcomes in psychiatric patients. An estimated 660 000 people are admitted to psychiatric hospitals each year; 99 000 of these people are worse off following treatment (assuming a deterioration rate of 15 per cent). Since monitoring can halve that rate, if this project can halve the deterioration rate again, then 24 750 inpatients across the nation would not be worse off after treatment representing an annual saving of nearly $19.2 million per annum and reduce the number of patients who fall into a cycle of admission and readmission. Further, although suicide occurs in less than one per cent of admissions, if this research is able to predict and then reduce the suicide rate by as little as 10 per cent, then 660 lives can be saved each year.

我们的项目致力于防止精神病患者出现不良后果。据估计，每年有 66 万人被送进精神病院； 其中 99 000 人在治疗后病情恶化（假设病情恶化率为 15%）。 由于监测可以将这一比率减半，如果该项目能够将恶化率再次减半，那么全国 24 750 名住院患者在接受治疗后情况不会变得更糟，这意味着每年可节省近 1,920 万美元，并减少陷入困境的患者数量。一个入院和再入院的循环。 此外，尽管自杀率不足 1%，但如果这项研究能够预测自杀率并将其降低 10%，那么每年可以挽救 660 条生命。