Patients in receipt of community psychiatric nursing care in Salford 1976–82

Case register data are used to describe the age and diagnostic distribution of people using the community psychiatric nursing (CPN) service in Salford. Data are related to those in hospital-based psychiatric services. Annual prevalence rates grew dramatically, and increasing numbers of people were f...

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Published in:Psychological medicine 1986-05, Vol.16 (2), p.407-414
Main Authors: Wooff, K., Goldberg, D. P., Fryers, T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Community Mental Health Services - statistics & numerical data
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depressive Disorder - therapy
England
Humans
Medical sciences
Mental Disorders - epidemiology
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mental health
Psychiatric Nursing - statistics & numerical data
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Referral and Consultation - statistics & numerical data
Schizophrenia - therapy
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
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Summary:Case register data are used to describe the age and diagnostic distribution of people using the community psychiatric nursing (CPN) service in Salford. Data are related to those in hospital-based psychiatric services. Annual prevalence rates grew dramatically, and increasing numbers of people were found to have received continuous CPN care for 2 years and over. Following the establishment of the CPN service in a primary care setting, the proportion of patients suffering from depression in receipt of CPN care increased, and the resulting overall diagnostic distribution of CPN patients became similar to that of the specialist psychiatric services as a whole. Patients under the sole care of community psychiatric nurses (about 19 % of the total CPN prevalence each calendar year) contributed to an overall increase in treated prevalence. The data indicate that CPN services in Salford are treating the morbidity found at primary care level, rather than reducing the demands made on the traditional services.
ISSN:0033-2917
1469-8978
DOI:10.1017/S0033291700009235