Unemployment and the rate of psychoactive-substance-related psychiatric hospital admission in regional Queensland: An observational, longitudinal study.

CONCLUSIONS: There was a statistically significant association between the population unemployment rate and the rate of substance induced psychiatric hospital admissions. Implications for regional Australian service provision and unmet needs were discussed. Further research is required to confirm this observation. PMID: 31246111 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31246111?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - June 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Bui TA, Wijesekera N Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research