@article{ref1,
title="Characterization of psychiatrically hospitalized college students",
journal="Journal of American college health",
year="2018",
author="Braider, Laura and La Lima, Candice and Crimarco, Nicholas and Hollander, Beth and Reid-Russell, Azure and Kane, John and Greenwald, Blaine",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1-7",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To characterize contemporary college students requiring psychiatric hospitalization. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: Sociodemographic and diagnostic information was gathered retrospectively and analyzed from the electronic medical records (EMRs) of the consecutive inpatient hospitalizations of 905 college students admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit. <br><br>RESULTS: Significantly more females compared to males experienced the following: more hospitalizations, more family and financial stressors, more depression, and less psychotic and bipolar disorder. The most frequent diagnosis was a depressive disorder, followed by bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, and personality disorder, most frequently borderline personality disorder. Half of participants had comorbid diagnoses with substance abuse most common. More than two-thirds of students endorsed social or intimate relationship, academic, and family challenges as psychosocial stressors. In all, 15% of participants had repeat admissions. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The present study provides demographic data from a sample of psychiatrically hospitalized college students. <br><br>FINDINGS can help improve screening and identification of decompensation in college students.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0744-8481",
doi="10.1080/07448481.2018.1500471",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1500471"
}