ABSTRACT
El presente estudio se realiza en el Hospital Diurno Infanto Juvenil de Viña del Mar, buscando describir el tipo de usuario (sexo, edad, escolaridad, comuna de residencia, centro derivador) y si existe pertinencia entre el diagnóstico de ingreso y el de egreso. Se analizaron 266 fichas clínicas entre los años 2002 y 2016 utilizando estadística descriptiva, encontrando que la mayoría de los usuarios son adolescentes (entre 12 y 17 años), escolarizados, que han presentado intervenciones en salud mental previas (77% derivados desde atención Hospitalaria), presentan una distribución similar entre hombres y mujeres (51% y 49%) respectivamente, mostrando como diagnósticos más frecuentes de ingreso y egreso los Trastornos de ánimo y esquizofrenia. Residiendo el 49,6% en Viña del Mar.Palabras claves: Hospital Diurno, Infancia, adolescencia, características usuario.
This study has been done in Viña del Mar's Youth Day Hospital, the goal is to characterize the users by sex, age, education level, and place of residence, and also to look for some process related characteristics like the center that first received the patient, the diagnostic with which the patient is received and discharged. There were 266 medical records between years 2002 and 2016, which were analyzed using descriptive statistics. It was found that the main bulk of users were teenagers (between 12 and 17), attending school, with previous mental health interventions (77% of them where coming from other hospitals), the distribution between men and woman was even (51% men and 49% women), where the most common diagnostic both when entering the program and at discharge was Mood disorder and schizophrenia. Most of them live in Viña del Mar (49,6%).Key Words: Day Hospital, Childhood, Adolescence, user characterization.