Approximately 43 percent of board and care residents were prescribed and 41 percent used at least one psychotropic agent, primarily on a routinely scheduled basis. On average, residents were prescribed 0.64 (SE = 0.06) and used 0.59 (SE = 0.05) different psychotropic drugs. While some residents used no psychotropics, others use as many as six. Five percent of residents were prescribed and 4 percent used three or more different psychotropic drugs.
EXHIBIT 6-11. Residents with No Telephone Contact with Friends or Relative in Past 30 Days
Antipsychotics were prescribed and used by slightly more than one-fifth of the residents with about half of these using such high-potency antipsychotics as fluphenanize and haloperidol. Sixteen percent of the residents used antidepressants, while slightly fewer, 14 percent, used anxiolytics, sedatives, or hypnotics. Half of the residents who used psychotropic drugs did not use mental health services in the previous year; one-fourth of these users had no psychiatric history.
| EXHIBIT 6-12. Resident Satisfaction with Facility Environment | ||
|---|---|---|
| Total Population | ||
| % | SE | |
| Safety of possessionsa | ||
| Not safe | 7 | 1.0 |
| Safe some of the time | 10 | 1.1 |
| Safe all/most of the time | 84 | 1.3 |
| Safety of neighborhooda | ||
| Not safe | 3 | 0.6 |
| Safe some of the time | 10 | 0.9 |
| Safe all/most of the time | 87 | 1.1 |
| Allowed privacy in room | 93 | 1.5 |
| Allowed to make telephone calls in private/do not use phone | 96 | 1.9 |
| Receive mail unopened/do not get mail | 99 | 0.7 |
| Receive inadequate help witha | ||
| Dressing | 4 | 1.2 |
| Toileting | 2 | 0.6 |
| Locomotion | 4 | 2.1 |
| Transferring | 11 | 3.3 |
| Eating | 0 | 0.0 |
| Reluctance to voice a complainta | ||
| Very reluctant | 8 | 0.9 |
| Somewhat reluctant | 18 | 1.1 |
| Not at all reluctant | 73 | 1.6 |
| Would report concerns toa | ||
| Operator/manager | 37 | 3.2 |
| Owner | 10 | 0.9 |
| Other staff member | 10 | 0.8 |
| Ombudsman/legal aid | 2 | 0.5 |
| Other | 21 | 1.6 |
| No one | 3 | 0.5 |
| Chores | ||
| Required to do | 4 | 1.0 |
| Allowed to do | 55 | 4.1 |
| Neither | 38 | 4.1 |
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