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The TAPS Project. 6: New Long-Stay Psychiatric Patients and Social Deprivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Graham Thornicroft ,
Olga Margolius  and
David Jones
Graham Thornicroft*
Affiliation:
Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet Road, London N11 3BP, now PRiSM, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
Olga Margolius
Affiliation:
Psychology Service, Haringey Health District
David Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Social Science and Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The clinical and social characteristics of new long-stay (NLS) patients at Friern and Claybury hospitals are described, together with their accumulation rates within health districts in northeast London, and the associations between accumulation rates and social deprivation. There is a fourfold variation between local districts in annual accumulation rates of NLS patients (between 2.5 and 11 per 100 000 population); 0.55 of this variation is accounted for by the Jarman scores of social deprivation, and 0.81 by local rates of unemployment. Other recent British studies support this finding that measures of social deprivation can statistically explain a large proportion of the variation in treated rates of psychiatric morbidity, and may be useful in predicting needs for psychiatric services.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 161 , Issue 5 , November 1992 , pp. 621 - 624
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Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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