Opinions about mental illness: Hospital social atmosphere profiles and their relevance to effectiveness.

For a sample of 12 VA mental hospitals, OMI data were obtained on representative 50% samples of hospital employees, clustered into hospital social atmosphere types, and related to time in community, adjusted for prognosis of patients admitted to these hospitals. It was found that authoritarian-restrictiveness was negatively related to in-community days and that other atmosphere types were positively related. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)