Psychiatric Inpatient Discharge Data - Rwanda

University of Aarhus

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Mental Disorder

Treatments

Other: Admission to inpatient psychiatric unit

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04648982

AUUR2020DKRW_2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to provide a comprehensive assessment regarding the service provision and the accessibility to intensive mental health care in Rwanda

Full 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.

Enrollment

1,000 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria