Japanese Journal of National Medical Services
Online ISSN : 1884-8729
Print ISSN : 0021-1699
ISSN-L : 0021-1699
Patients with and without Visitors in the Mental Hospital
Tadashi YOSHIMURA
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1961 Volume 15 Issue 11 Pages 880-883

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On the frequency of the visitors, generally speaking, the older the ages of the patients are or the longer the periods of the hospitalization are, the fewer visitors they have. Majority of the unvisited patients have not been married, even if they were married sooner or later they are divorced.
A family who has an inpatient for a long period of time oblige to adjust or reestablish its daily life without the patient. And patient use to show manic and regressive behaviour.
It is believed essential that the mental hospital has to make every efforts in shortening the period of the patient's hospitalization, particularly the institution has to expect the discharge of the patient in his early stage. Simultaneously the mental hospital has to prevail upon the family of each patient that the frequent visit will be a most significant and invaluable therapy for the patient.
The ages of patients who have the frequent visitors are averagely 20-50 years old.
It is said that in the United States of America a house wife will visit the mental hospital very rarely, but in Japan mother of the patient is the most frequent visitor and the wife follows this.
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