Patient populations from three institutions were used in the study. One group of relocated patients resided at Lapeer County Medical Care Facility with 92 beds prior to their move to a new building on the same property. A second group of patients resided at Washtenaw County Medical Care Facility with 63 beds prior to the move of al,l but 5 patients to a private nursing home in a community 15 miles away. A control group of 93 nonrelocated patients residing at Sandusky County Home was matched with the relocated patients from both facilities on age, sex, length of stay,primary medical diagnosis and times of administration of the Privacy Preference Scale.