Conference paper
CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF DEPOT AND WELL BEING CLINIC. RESULTS OF PHYSICAL HEALTH CARE CHECKS
Helen Wildin
; Mental Health Unit, Basildon Hospital, Basildon, Essex, UK
Hellme Najim
; Mental Health Unit, Basildon Hospital, Basildon, Essex, UK
Abstract
Aims and method: To establish the level of physical care of people suffering from severe mental illness attending a psychiatric
depot clinic. 37 Records of patients who were on long acting injectable antipsychotics, were reviewed to establish their physical care
arrangement against the POMT-UK standards,and also to establish the type of antipsychotics, whether they suffer from metabolic
syndrome, or whether other physical illness has been recorded.
Results: Records lacked any reference to baseline arrangements of physical monitoring. 22% suffered from diabetes and 75% of
them were identified by The Depot and Well Being clinic (DWBC), 73% had abnormal lipid profile 59% were identified by (DWBC).
22% suffer from hypertension, all of them were identified by (DWBC).
Clinical implication: Physical care is an important aspect of care of people with severe mental illness total care. This study has
demonstrated that this area is still not looked after adequately. Improvement in this area will improve the global outcome for these
patients.
Keywords
schizophrenia; physical health; depot injections
Hrčak ID:
266512
URI
Publication date:
26.8.2013.
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