TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Characteristics of co-morbid psychiatric disability and injury caused disability in Chinese population
JO  - Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi
A1  - Liu, Tianli
A1  - Pang, Lihua
A1  - Wen, Xu
A1  - Chen, Gong
A1  - Zheng, Xiaoying
SP  - 344
EP  - 348
VL  - 36
IS  - 4
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relations between psychiatric disability and co-morbid disability caused by injury, severity of the disabilities, as well as the unmet health care need among people living with both disabilities. <br><br>METHODS: Data collected through both the Second China National Sample Survey on Disabilities in 2006 and the Follow-up Studies in 2009, were utilized. Sampling weights were considered to appropriately estimate situations in the total Chinese population. <br><br>RESULTS: Among people with psychiatric disability, 2.7% of them were affected by other injury-caused disabilities as visual, hearing, speech, psychical and intellectual disabilities. Among people with disability that caused by injuries, 1.8% of them were living with psychiatric disability as well. The prevalence rates of psychiatric disability and injury caused disability were as 0.94% and 0.63%, respectively. More than half of the co-morbid people were living with profound disabilities while 46.32% of the people living with both disabilities developed co-morbid disabilities in the same year. Data from the follow-up program showed that 56.25% of the people living with co-morbid disabilities did not receive any psychiatric treatment which were in need. <br><br>CONCLUSION: There seemed a close but bidirectional relationship existed between the mental disorders and injuries that calling for better mental health services provided for people with psychiatric disabilities.<p />  <p>Language: zh</p>
LA  - zh
SN  - 0254-6450
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -