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  • Title: Inpatient psychiatric treatment of deaf adults: demographic and diagnostic comparisons with hearing inpatients.
    Author: Landsberger SA, Diaz DR.
    Journal: Psychiatr Serv; 2010 Feb; 61(2):196-9. PubMed ID: 20123828.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: This study examined the diagnostic and clinical features of deaf psychiatric inpatients. METHODS: Archival clinical data for deaf and hard-of-hearing adults (N=30) were compared with data for a random sample of hearing adults (N=60) admitted to a state psychiatric hospital from 1998 to 2008. RESULTS: Significant differences were found between deaf and hearing inpatient groups in the frequency of impulse control disorders (23% versus 2%), pervasive developmental disorders (10% versus 0%), substance use disorders (20% versus 45%), mild mental retardation (33% versus 3%), and personality disorders (17% versus 43%). The deaf group had a larger proportion with diagnoses of psychotic disorder not otherwise specified (17% versus 2%). Deaf inpatients had longer hospitalizations than hearing inpatients (17 months versus ten months). CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians working with the underserved, understudied population of deaf and hard-of-hearing psychiatric inpatients should be aware of the cultural and linguistic differences in assessment and treatment and make efforts to modify their approach.
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