ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Factors Affecting Length of Inpatient Forensic Stay: Retrospective Study From Czechia.
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- Factors influencing the length of stay in forensic psychiatric settings: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
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- Short stays, high needs: gender disparities in Czech forensic psychiatric inpatient care.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Factors predicting the length of stay in inpatient forensic psychiatric care in Hungary.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Barriers to discharge: A retrospective study of factors associated with stays of longer than 2 years in a French secure hospital unit.Criminal behaviour and mental health : CBMH · 2024Article
- Markers of predicting discharge from forensic psychiatric hospitals in Czechia.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Article
- Factors Affecting Length of Stay of Patients in a General Psychiatric Hospital in Bahrain: A Retrospective Study.Cureus · 2024Article
- Predictors of the length of stay in psychiatric inpatient units: a retrospective study for the Paris Psychiatry Hospital Group.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Institutional influence on length of stay in German forensic hospitals: a multilevel analysis of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Determinants of clinical outcome and length of stay in acute care forensic psychiatry units.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Court-ordered inpatient psychiatric care in Switzerland: determinants of length of stay and treatment outcome.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Duration of forensic psychiatric care and subsequent criminal recidivism in individuals sentenced in Sweden between 2009 and 2019.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Violence risk and personality assessment in adolescents by Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) and high school personality questionnaire (HSPQ): Focus on protective factors strengthening.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Objectives: The length of forensic stay (LoS) is a subject to country-specific legal and service systems. Therefore, the identification of common factors targetable by treatment is at the forefront of forensic psychiatric research. In this study, we present the first reports of forensic characteristics of patients from the Czechia. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of data from 260 inpatients discharged from the Bohnice Hospital (Prague) and obtained a set of sociodemographic and clinical variables as well as the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale (HoNOS) and HoNOS-secure scores. Results: The following variables were identified as significantly associated with a longer LoS: older age, length of previous psychiatric hospitalization, olanzapine equivalent, clozapine treatment, psychosocial dysfunction, psychotic or paraphilic disorder diagnosis, and sexual offense. A shorter LoS was associated with being in a relationship, being employed before hospitalization, receiving personal support, and committing an index offense under the influence of substance. While the HoNOS score and HoNOS symptom subscale predicted a longer LoS, the HoNOS-secure subscale predicted a shorter stay. Conclusion: In the European context, our hospital has a relatively low LoS. The results are consistent with findings linking psychotic disorders and paraphilia with a longer LoS in forensic treatment. Higher doses of antipsychotic medication or clozapine prescriptions were associated with a longer LoS. The results show a high level of unmet needs in this population, highlighting the importance of the availability of follow-up service.
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