A longitudinal evaluation of two psychiatric inpatient units attached to a Community Mental Health Centre. Outcomes and costs

Abstract

concept scale (KK. Scale). The total costs of treatment in the past year were estimated including all outpatient services used within the last year. Results: The costs of treatment amounted on average 31000 DM/year in the year before index admission and 43000 DM/year in the following year (including index admission). The costs were highly correlated with social disability (12) (p < 0.000 1) and moderately correlated with negative symptoms (t!, 12) (p < .05), but not with positive or general symptoms. Negative symptoms were highly correlated with social disability (t!, 12) (p < .01), positive and general symptoms only moderately (12) (p < .05). The t 1-12-correlation of the KK.S was pretty good with mean r = .4 in the 7 subscales. A negative correlation was found between drug confidence and the costs of treatment in the following year (p <