Gallegos SS, Aguilar RMM, Camarillo RMN

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 38-44
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Hospitalized patients in a Mind Health Unit face factors of risk.Some authors have made a model to value the factors for preventing falling such as: inadequate lighting, lack of placement of furniture, lack of cleaning the physical area, lack of security measures and patient characteristics like: sex, age, life style, mobility, fitness-related factors, sensory factors, being emotional and neurological altered pharmacology treatment and related devices for wandering. Material and Methods: This is a descriptive, and transversal research realized from May 2008 to May 2009, a card falling schedule was applied to 285 patients since their income to the mind health unit and every 7 days until their discharge. Results: During the hospitalization time 5% of patients were falling; 76% were women, 100% with benzodiazepines (clonazepan) treatment, 53% with depressing episodes and suicide attempts, 38% with disruptive conduct for manic episode or psychotic disorder, 61% with loss brain parenchyma volume and 28% for extrinsic factors. The most frequently risk factors founded in our patients are the combination of drugs and mental illness, unknown ledge of risk by patients, their family, their careers, and health team. Structural factors risks have the lower percentage.

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