Is Patient Ethnicity Related to the Public Mental Health Care for State Hospital Psychiatric Inpatients?
This study will assess the associations between ethnicity and psychiatric admissions, diagnoses, types of treatment, and treatment outcomes in a multiethnic, Asian/Pacific Islander inpatient population. At the site of the proposed research, the Hawaii State Hospital (HSH), the inpatient population is comprised of the following ethnic groups: European American, Native Hawaiian, other Pacific Islander, Asian American (i.e., Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Southeast Asian), and African American. Phase 1 will involve a retrospective study examining archived medical records. Phase 1 hypotheses are: 1) patients of Native-Hawaiian and other Pacific-Islander ancestry will have a higher rate of forensic-to-civil legal status than patients of other ethnic groups; 2) proportions of patients diagnosed by psychiatrists as having psychosis, affective disorder, somatic disorder, and substance abuse will differ consistently across the various ethnic groups; 3) ethnicity and types of treatment will be
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- If a patient is transferred from a general hospital to an inpatient psychiatric facility, who is responsible for obtaining admission certification?
- Is Patient Ethnicity Related to the Public Mental Health Care for State Hospital Psychiatric Inpatients?
- What is the current state of the public mental health system?
