Al Zahrani, H. Al Qarni, A. Abdel Fattah, M. 2013 To identify the pattern and determinants of psychiatric illness and the predictors of long stay among long stay patients at the Mental Health Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia, we examined a total of 430 records of patients who had been admitted during the period January 1999 January 2009 and had stayed for 9 months. More than half these patients had a history of drug addiction 60.7 . The majority were diagnosed with schizophrenia 88.8 and mental retardation was reported in 17.7 . Personality disorders and epilepsy were diagnosed in 3.7 and ...