Department of Social Psychiatry
The Department of Social Psychiatry conducts “Health Services Research” in psychiatry to evaluate and to improve quality of psychiatric care including the following areas:
1) Research on comorbidity with physical illness (e.g., cardiac diseases, diabetes)
2) Health administration research (quality of care, safety management)
3) Health policy research (payment system, suicide prevention, research evaluation)
The department launched national projects to optimize the prescription of antipsychotics and to minimize restraint and seclusion in emergency and acute psychiatric care units in 2006, and to promote psychiatric care in general hospitals in 2009. These collaborative projects between clinicians and researchers are expected to become international platforms for multi-centre clinical research and driving forces for continuous quality improvement in psychiatric care.
