Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T15:36:32.939Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The TAPS Project. 8: Design of the Research Study on the Long-Stay Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Catherine O'Driscoll
Affiliation:
Child and Family Department, Tavistock Centre, London (formerly TAPS)
Julian Leff
Affiliation:
Social and Cultural Psychiatry, Honorary Director, TAPS, and Director, MRC Social and Community Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London

Abstract

This paper describes the origins of the TAPS project and the design of the prospective study of the long-stay patient populations of Friern and Claybury hospitals, two large mental hospitals in north-east London scheduled for reprovision and closure by the regional health authority.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Abrahamson, D. & Brenner, D. (1982) Do long-stay patients want to leave hospital? Health Trends, 14, 9597.Google Scholar
Beels, C. C., Gutwirth, L., Berkeley, J., et al (1984) Measurements of social support in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10, 399411.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Crow, T. J. & Mitchell, W. S. (1975) Subjective age in chronic schizophrenia: evidence for a sub-group of patients with defective learning capacity? British Journal of Psychiatry, 126, 360363.Google Scholar
Cunningham Owens, D. G. & Johnstone, E. C. (1980) The disabilities of chronic schizophrenia - their nature and the factors contributing to their development. British Journal of Psychiatry, 136, 384395.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dunn, M., O'Driscoll, C., Dayson, D., et al (1990) The TAPS Project. 4: An observational study of the social life of long-stay patients. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 842848.Google Scholar
Freeman, J., Mandelbrote, B. & Waldron, J. (1965) Attitudes to discharge among long-stay mental hospital patients and their relation to social and clinical factors. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 4, 270274.Google Scholar
Goldberg, D. & Blackwell, B. (1970) Psychiatric illness in general practice. A detailed study using a new method of case identification. British Medical Journal, ii, 439443.Google Scholar
Hall, J. (1980) Ward rating scales for long stay patients - a review. Psychological Medicine, 10, 277288.Google Scholar
Henderson, S., Duncan-Jones, P. & Byrne, D. G. (1980) Measuring social relationships. The Interview Schedule for Social Interaction. Psychological Medicine, 10, 723734.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jones, D. W. & Margolius, O. (1989) The accumulation of ‘new long-stay’ at Claybury and Friern Hospitals. TAPS Conference Report. Available from TAPS.Google Scholar
Knapp, M., Beecham, J., Anderson, J., et al (1990) The TAPS Project. 3: Predicting the community costs of closing psychiatric hospitals. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 661670.Google Scholar
Krawiecka, M., Goldberg, D. & Vaughan, M. (1977) A standardised psychiatric assessment schedule for rating psychotic patients. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 55, 299308.Google Scholar
Leff, J., O'Driscoll, C., Dayson, D., et al (1990) The TAPS Project. 5: The structure of social-network data obtained from long-stay patients. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 848852.Google Scholar
O'Driscoll, C., Marshall, J. & Reed, J. (1990) Chronically ill psychiatric patients in a district general hospital unit: a survey and two-year follow-up in an inner London health district. British Journal of Psychiatry, 157, 694702.Google Scholar
Sturt, E. & Wykes, T. (1986) The Social Behaviour Schedule: a validity and reliability study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 148, 111.Google Scholar
Tomlinson, D. (1991) Utopia, Community Care and the Retreat from the Asylums. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.Google Scholar
Wing, J. K. (1960) The measurement of behaviour in chronic schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 35, 245254.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wing, J. K. (1961) A simple and reliable subclassification of chronic schizophrenia. Journal of Mental Science, 107, 862875.Google Scholar
Wing, J. K. & Brown, G. W. (1970) Institutionalism and Schizophrenia. London: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Wing, J. K., Cooper, J. E. & Sartorius, N. (1974) Description and Classification of Psychiatric Symptoms. London: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Wing, L. (1989) Hospital Closure and the Resettlement of Residents. Aldershot: Gower.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.