The aim is to provide a comprehensive assessment regarding the service provision and the accessibility to intensive mental health care in Rwanda
For a one-year period, descriptive data on all inpatients with age \> 18 years, discharged from Ndera Hospital the only inpatient psychiatric hospital in Rwanda, will be collected from files. The descriptive data includes diagnosis, duration of hospitalization, medication, addiction, insurance, Somatic- and psychiatric comorbidity, referral pathways, employment status, number of previous hospitalizations. To the investigators' knowledge, there is no descriptive data on psychiatric inpatients in the country of Rwanda. Therefore, this. Information will be crucial for understanding the service provision at the referral hospitals and the accessibility to intensive mental health care in Rwanda. The data will be anonymized and recorded - this ensures the data cannot be linked to anyone subject which supplied it.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1,000
All persons in the study are hospitalized at the only inpatient mental health hospital in Rwanda - Ndera. Data will be collected when the person is being discharged.
Ndera Hospital
Huye, Rwanda
RECRUITINGNdera Hospital
Kigali, Rwanda
RECRUITINGDiagnosis
Data will be collected from files
Time frame: 1 year
Psychiatric comorbidity
Data will be collected from files
Time frame: 1 year
Somatic comorbidity
Data will be collected from files
Time frame: 1 year
Alcohol or drug addiction
Data will be collected from files
Time frame: 1 year
Medical drug provided during this hospitalisation
Data will be collected from files
Time frame: 1 year
Who made the referral
Data will be collected from files
Time frame: 1 year
Number of previous hospitalisations
Data will be collected from files
Time frame: 1 year
Insurance
Data will be collected from files
Time frame: 1 year
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