PMID- 17763120
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080123
LR  - 20070831
IS  - 0803-9488 (Print)
IS  - 0803-9488 (Linking)
VI  - 61
IP  - 4
DP  - 2007
TI  - Associations between patient characteristics and ratings of treatment milieu.
PG  - 271-8
AB  - The objective of the study was to investigate associations between patients 
      ratings of their treatment milieu and personal characteristics such as gender, 
      age, educational level, personality disorders, symptom distress, interpersonal 
      problems, global level of functioning, as well as treatment outcome. Data was 
      taken from 908 patients (with mainly personality, mood and anxiety disorders) 
      consecutively admitted to eight day-treatment units. Treatment milieu was 
      measured by Ward Atmosphere Scale for Therapeutic Programs (WAS-TP). Overall 
      level of psychosocial functioning was measured by Global Assessment of 
      Functioning (GAF). Diagnoses and personality traits was measured by the 
      Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (SCID-II), 
      according to DSM-IV. Symptom distress and interpersonal problems was measured by 
      Symptom Checklist 90-R and the Circumplex of Interpersonal Problems, 
      respectively. No substantial associations were found between individual personal 
      characteristics and ratings of the treatment milieu, and no substantial 
      associations were found between ratings of the treatment milieu and treatment 
      outcome or the likelihood of treatment completion. There seems to be no support 
      as to making general inferences about or from individual ratings of the treatment 
      milieu. Possible uses of individual evaluations of treatment milieu are 
      discussed.
FAU - Pedersen, Geir
AU  - Pedersen G
AD  - Norwegian Network of Psychotherapeutic Day Hospitals, Ullevaal University 
      Hospital, Oslo, Norway. geir.pedersen@medisin.uio.no
FAU - Karterud, Sigmund
AU  - Karterud S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PL  - England
TA  - Nord J Psychiatry
JT  - Nordic journal of psychiatry
JID - 100927567
SB  - IM
MH  - Aged
MH  - Anxiety Disorders/therapy
MH  - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
MH  - *Environment
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Disorders/classification/*therapy
MH  - Mood Disorders/therapy
MH  - Norway
MH  - Personality Disorders/classification/*therapy
MH  - Psychotic Disorders/classification/*therapy
MH  - Treatment Outcome
EDAT- 2007/09/01 09:00
MHDA- 2008/01/24 09:00
CRDT- 2007/09/01 09:00
PHST- 2007/09/01 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/01/24 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/09/01 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 781732984 [pii]
AID - 10.1080/08039480701414999 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nord J Psychiatry. 2007;61(4):271-8. doi: 10.1080/08039480701414999.