Mental Disorder
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim is to provide a comprehensive assessment regarding the service provision and the accessibility to intensive mental health care in Rwanda
Detailed description
For a one-year period, descriptive data on all inpatients with age \> 18 years, discharged from Ndera Hospital the only inpatient psychiatric hospital in Rwanda, will be collected from files. The descriptive data includes diagnosis, duration of hospitalization, medication, addiction, insurance, Somatic- and psychiatric comorbidity, referral pathways, employment status, number of previous hospitalizations. To the investigators' knowledge, there is no descriptive data on psychiatric inpatients in the country of Rwanda. Therefore, this. Information will be crucial for understanding the service provision at the referral hospitals and the accessibility to intensive mental health care in Rwanda. The data will be anonymized and recorded - this ensures the data cannot be linked to anyone subject which supplied it.
Interventions
OTHERAdmission to inpatient psychiatric unit
All persons in the study are hospitalized at the only inpatient mental health hospital in Rwanda - Ndera. Data will be collected when the person is being discharged.
Sponsors
University of Rwanda
Mental Health Services in the Capital Region, Denmark
University of Aarhus
Study design
Observational model
CASE_ONLY
Time perspective
RETROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* All patients discharged from the inpatient psychiatric unit at Ndera Hospital, Rwanda
Exclusion criteria
* none
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis | 1 year | Data will be collected from files |
| Psychiatric comorbidity | 1 year | Data will be collected from files |
| Somatic comorbidity | 1 year | Data will be collected from files |
| Alcohol or drug addiction | 1 year | Data will be collected from files |
| Medical drug provided during this hospitalisation | 1 year | Data will be collected from files |
| Who made the referral | 1 year | Data will be collected from files |
| Number of previous hospitalisations | 1 year | Data will be collected from files |
| Insurance | 1 year | Data will be collected from files |
Countries
Rwanda
Contacts
Primary ContactCaroline J Arnbjerg, Msc
Backup ContactEmmanuel Musoni Rwililiza, Msc
Outcome results
None listed