Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol · Nov 2002
How the inner world is reflected in relation to perceived ward atmosphere among patients with psychosis.
This study focused on how cognitive ability, personality traits, self-rated psychiatric symptoms, and social functioning were related to the way in which patients with psychosis perceived supportive aspects of the ward atmosphere. ⋯ The results from this study indicate that individual factors such as self-control, paranoid symptoms and social competence may be important for how the ward atmosphere is perceived. This is important knowledge when monitoring the ward atmosphere to better fit a unit's target group.