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- Title
Psychotic disorders among homeless subjects attending a psychiatric emergency service.
- Authors
Cougnard, Audrey; Grolleau, Sabrina; Lamarque, Florence; Beitz, Christophe; Brugère, Stéphane; Verdoux, Hélène
- Abstract
Homelessness is an increasing problem among subjects with severe mental illnesses and little is known about the characteristics of homeless subjects with psychosis using emergency psychiatric services. The aims of the present study were to assess the frequency of psychotic disorders among subjects attending a psychiatric emergency service and to explore the clinical and demographic characteristics of these subjects and the management proposed by the emergency staff.
- Publication
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2006, Vol 41, Issue 11, p904
- ISSN
0933-7954
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00127-006-0109-4