Chronic mental disorders often result in relapses and re-hospitalization. Some patients, who are not well educated about their disorder and the treatment for it will sometimes refuse treatment, or their symptoms will be exacerbated due to side effects and they may stop using them as a result. Post-rehabilitation many patients are offered community transition and outpatient appointments, many patients (70%), however, do not utilize these assets (Duman et al., 2010).
Psychoeducational and psychosocial intervention is used to increase participation in outpatient treatment programs in order to better control patients’ symptoms and reduce re-hospitalization rates. Research from a team of Turkish scientists on inpatient psychoeducational efforts has shown a statistically significant difference in the knowledge of complex material learned in a short period of time, some of which involves various mental disorders, treatment options, and discharge readiness — some patients reported understanding their disorder better and being more open to medication treatment (Duman et al., 2010).
Relevance to Suicide: relapses may result in suicide, aside from this the necessary requirements for hospitalization are a potential for harm to self or others – the former may be in the form of suicidal ideation or suicide attempts.