Hospital admissions in the Crisis Intervention Unit of the "Luis Ramírez López" Provincial Psychiatric Hospital, Guantánamo 2015-2017

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hospital admission, mental disorders, depression

Abstract

Introduction: the patients admitted to the Crisis Intervention Unit (UIC) have not been characterized in the "Luis Ramírez López" Provincial Psychiatric Hospital of the Guantánamo province.

Objective: to characterize hospital admissions in said unit in the period 2015-2017.

Method: a descriptive and retrospective study of the patients admitted to this unit was carried out (n=538). The variables were studied: age, sex, origin, diagnosis and stay.

Results: the highest proportion of admitted patients was between 18 and 23 years old (21.9%), they were female (53.9%), they came from the Guantanamo municipality (42.0%), the most frequent diagnosis was Depressive adjustment disorder (27.9%) and 66.4% had a hospital stay of less than 7 days.

Conclusions: Patients in the productive stage of life were admitted to the Crisis Intervention Unit, especially women with depressive disorders, which shows the social relevance of their study.

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Author Biographies

Iliana Digurnay Durruthy, Provincial Mental Hospital "Luis Ramírez López" in Guantánamo.

1st degree Specialist in Psychiatry. Master degree in Women Comprehensive Care. Assistant teacher.

Melba Ramírez Romaguera, Provincial Mental Hospital "Luis Ramírez López" in Guantánamo.

2nd degree Specialist in Psychiatry. Master degree’s of  Natural and   Bioenergetic Medicine. Assistant Professor.

Benavides Enrique Pupo Duran, University of Medical Sciences in Guantanamo.

1st degree Specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine, 2nd degree Specialist in Psychiatry. Master degree in Women Comprehensive Care. Assistant teacher

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Published

2019-08-08

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Digurnay Durruthy I, Ramírez Romaguera M, Pupo Duran BE. Hospital admissions in the Crisis Intervention Unit of the "Luis Ramírez López" Provincial Psychiatric Hospital, Guantánamo 2015-2017. Rev Inf Cient [Internet]. 2019 Aug. 8 [cited 2025 Apr. 3];98(3):310-8. Available from: https://revinfcientifica.sld.cu/index.php/ric/article/view/2312

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