FINAL PROJECT 9
We also did not separate type of substance used. This is a general look at the potential association between drug use, suicidality, and mental health. General hospital. This is a non-specialty hospital that accepts any and all patients. This type of hospital may decide to treat or transfer a patient to a specialty hospital. Because this type of hospital handles general medical complaints they may or may not run special tests such as drug or mental health panels. They are not required to upon intake, it is left to their discretion. Psychiatric hospital. This hospital specializes in psychiatric care and is expected to run a full mental health screening on all patients upon intake. They may or may not run
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The mental health status of a patient is very important when you are dealing with drug abuse and suicidality. Knowing if there is co-morbidity in the diagnosis will help determine the best treatment plan for the patient. However, not all hospitals are required to run mental health screening on their patients. Often this test is left up to the desecration of the medical staff on duty at the time of the patients intake.
Data Analysis Plan I used a linear multiple regression to determine whether or not an association is present. For the multiple regression the independent variables were general hospital, psychiatric hospital, “other specialty” hospital, testing drug/alcohol blood screening, and drug/alcohol urine screening to determine drug use. The dependent variable was whether or not the hospital conducted a mental health screening to determine potential mental health issues. The confidence was set at 95%, also known as p = 0.05. I used Enter for the method.
Using a linear multiple regression gave us a breakdown of all of the coefficients for each variable tested. One of the independent variables was excluded from the SPSS data analysis. Hospital type- general did not yield useful