Patient characteristics predicting better treatment outcomes in day hospitals compared with inpatient wards

Abstract

Patients' age, diagnostic category, and living status (alone or not) did not predict differences in outcomes between the two settings. However, patients with higher symptom levels at baseline experienced greater symptom improvements after treatment on a ward, and those with more years of education had greater symptom improvements after day hospital treatment.

Keywords

• randomized controlled-trial
• mental-health-care
• psychiatric day hospitals
• current state
• rating-scale
• schizophrenia