Factors related to length of psychiatric hospital stay of children and adolescents: A nationwide register study

Factors behind a remarkable increase in adolescent psychiatric inpatient treatment between 1980 and 2010 – a nationwide register study

“…This, however, should not be directly related to the shortening of LOS as in earlier studies. LOS has been found to be associated more with non-clinical factors than with any specific psychiatric diagnosis [26,46].…”

“…The number of psychiatric beds available to adolescents under 18 years rose steadily in the 1990s, notably in the early 2000s, when in two years there was a 27% increase (from 270 beds in 2000 to 342 in 2002) in beds available [14,23]. However, studies on the development of inpatient care have focused on a short-time span and relatively small numbers of participants, or these studies have been based on surveys that have depended on clinicians' response rate, have focused on both child and adolescent psychiatric patients or have focused on regionally delineated samples [19,[24][25][26][27].…”

Relation of Callous-Unemotional Traits to Length of Stay Among Youth Hospitalized at a State Psychiatric Inpatient Facility

“…Unfortunately, the available research on this question is largely contradictory. For example, male gender [9,10], younger age [8,11], overall levels of functioning and psychopathology [12], ethnic minority status [13], and the diagnosis of a Conduct Disorder or Oppositional Defiant Disorder [4,8] all have been associated with length of stay in some studies, but for each of these factors there are also findings that indicate no significant association with length of stay [13][14][15][16][17]. Moreover, when significant results are found, the patterns of association (i.e., longer vs. shorter lengths of stay) often differ from study to study.…”