[The German adaptation of the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale: an instrument for patients' satisfaction with mental health care].

abstract：:Patients are mostly passive utilizer of the health-care-system. They are confronted with a supply of medical service and they are allowed to show their satisfaction with it retrospectively. Our medical system has in future to develop itself from an effective perspective to an utilizer orientated medicine. Orientation ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Fleischmann H

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients from opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) may taper off from opioids during rehab treatment. It is investigated whether this option improves treatment outcomes in particular for those patients who are affected by psychiatric or somatic comorbidity, or by social problems. METHODS:Multicenter study with...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kuhlmann T,Specka M,Rhode A,Post Y,Pietras M,Funke W,Feugmann K,Scherbaum N

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manic disorders and bipolar psychoses have long been underdiagnosed in child and adolescent psychiatry. Scientific research has been rare as well. In particular in adolescence and young adulthood bipolar disorders are not easy to diagnose. Therefore these disorders should be included in differential diagnosis as resea...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Braun-Scharm H,Bilke O

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Attachment theory yields empirical constructs for development of human self, personality and cognition. Insecure attachment strategies were associated with various psychiatric disorders. METHOD:We investigated distribution of attachment styles in 368 adult alcoholics of German descent with or without pers...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Johann M,Laufkötter R,Lange K,Wodarz N

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Drop-outs, respectively unplanned discharges in psychiatric therapy are often explained by so-called lack of insight into the disease or difficult circumstances of admission. We were interested in the question how often drop outs are noticed in a voluntarily day clinic setting where nearly all psychiatric dis...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Garlipp P,Seidler KP,Amini K,Machleidt W,Haltenhof H

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite of the frequency of depressive disorders among the population, forensic aspects of depression are rare and usually focussed on suicidal behaviour, especially the so-called homicide-suicide (homicide followed by suicide). Today therapeutic strategies are seen in the first stage of dealing with depressed homicid...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wolfersdorf M,Frank U,Jokusch U,König F,Leibfarth M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Evaluation of the changes of ward atmosphere and job satisfaction after the implementation of the Safewards model in acute psychiatry in Germany. METHOD:A multi-perspective pre-post study design was conducted in two locked wards among patients (n = 80) and staff (n = 88) before and after the implementation o...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jäckel D,Baumgardt J,Helber-Böhlen H,Stiehm N,Morgenstern K,Voigt A,Mc Cutcheon AK,Schöppe E,Velasquez Lecca EE,Löhr M,Schulz M,Bechdolf A,Weinmann S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deinstitutionalization (DI) of most of the chronic long-stay patients has taken place in the last decades in Germany. However, a "residual" group of patients often remains in psychiatric hospitals, with an ongoing controversy on an appropriate type of their care (community based vs. hospital). Clinical, functional and...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Franz M,Meyer T,Ehlers F,Gallhofer B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:gamma-Hydroxybutyrat (GHB) is used medically for narcolepsy and as a narcotic. It is also a rare illegal drug. In this case report the development of a GHB-dependency against the background of a primary alcohol dependency is described. METHODS:Based on established alcohol withdrawal scales (AWSS by Wetterlin...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Richter C,Romanowski A,Kienast T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the rules of the Hamburg Law on Aid and Protective Measures in Mental Diseases, a psychiatric emergency service operates at night and on weekends. This emergency service is called upon to decide on the need for compulsory hospitalization and to prevent the same, if possible, via therapeutic alternative...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Spengler A,Strege W,Dörner K,Hagenah R,Meyberg U

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure and functioning of a group therapy comprising all patients of a psychiatric ward is described in terms of psychoanalytic and group dynamics, behaviour therapy and cognitive psychology. 34 acutely-ill patients with heterogenic diagnoses reported their experiences with this group technique at day of discharge....

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidt LG

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although depression and symptoms of depression belong to the most common disorders in private practice, affected patients are not always diagnosed as early as possible in Germany and often not sufficiently treated. In order to improve the care for persons with depression it is necessary that family doctors are prepare...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Goesmann C,Bühren A,Neuy-Bartmann A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency of residential placements in homes and households contrasts with the scarcity of its evaluation with respect to therapeutical effects. In order to facilitate evaluative studies, relevant structural elements and suggestions for a typology are discussed as well as methodological problems. Examples of empir...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Uchtenhagen A

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:13 patients with major depressive disorder, who responded well to the reversible MAO-A-inhibitor moclobemide after unsuccessful initial treatment with tri- or tetracyclic antidepressants were monitored under naturalistic outpatient therapy conditions with moclobemide plasma level control for an average of 7.4 months. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Carl G,Laux G

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factitious disorders have been reported in 0.5 - 1 % of general hospital patients. It often takes several years until the disorder is detected. During this period, enormous health care cost can arise not least out of iatrogenic self-induced mutilations and related secondary somatic complications. Apart from surgeons a...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rothenhäusler HB,Kapfhammer HP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting with Ciompis model of "affect logic" I want to show that affective, cognitive and behavioral patterns, once emerged in psychosis, subsequently tend to repetition and chronification on account of psychological, social but also neuronal plasticity. In the discussion about reasons of the chronification process, ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hoffmann H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the evaluation of case reports of 15 inpatients treated between 1971 and 1986 who had been suffering from persistent alcoholic jealousy mania for at least three years, the psychopathological characteristics of this disease are outlined to define two types of courses of the disturbance: on the one hand, the mo...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Soyka M,Sass H,Völcker A

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Diagnoses-related clinical case grouping for an estimation of resource consumption for psychiatric inpatients analogue to the somatic medicine till now did not lead to sufficient prediction of costs. However, this is required when regarding increasing health costs from the economic perspective. METHOD:We inv...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Herwig U,Warnke I,Rössler W

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In comparison to metabolic syndrome, edema seems to be a rare occurrence in antipsychotic treatment. METHOD:In this paper, we report on two subjects with psychotic disorders who were found to have peripheral edema during olanzapine therapy. DISCUSSION:The theoretical background and the relevance of this obs...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wustmann T,Fiedler T,Gutmann P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective The aim of the present study was to assess the health care situation and barriers to support minor children of mentally ill parents from the perspective of adult psychiatry in Germany. Methods Based on the German Hospital Register mental health practitioners of all psychiatric clinics in Germany were asked t...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wlodarczyk O,Metzner F,Pawils S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a questionnaire the therapists of the Psychiatric Hospital in Ravensburg Weissenau were requested for information on the suicidality and symptomato-logy of their patients. This was done to assess the acute and chronic suicidality prevalent in a psychiatric hospital. The number of acute and chronic suicidal patie...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmölzer C,Wolfersdorf M,Hole G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All the different branches in forensic psychiatry have to face identical handicaps resulting from the difficulties in cooperation with the law-court. For the psychiatrist, his identity as a therapist is contradictory to his forensic tasks. The paper deals with the resulting dilemmata (partiality v. neutrality; diagnos...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Küchenhoff J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide an overview of empirical findings with regard to compulsive hoarding. METHODS:A systematic literature search of medical and psychological journals was conducted using PubMed. Relevant publications from the reference lists and recent books were also identified and included. RESULTS:The article rev...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mueller A,de Zwaan M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Evaluating the establishment of social psychiatry services (SPS) in Saxony was part of a public health research project. METHOD:One of the variables in a specifically designed assessment instrument--used in 8 SPS during the period 08/95-01/97--was the retrospective statement concerning changes in the client's ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kallert TW,Leisse M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrospectively 20% of more than 200 patients with myasthenia gravis reported being initially diagnosed as having a psychiatric disorder. Younger women are significantly most at risk of a psychiatric misdiagnosis whereas men are more often subject to somatic misdiagnoses. The sample's mean duration of the disease was ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rohr W

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community care and sectorisation, specialisation and differentiation, integration of psychiatric and other medical services, crises intervention and emergency psychiatry--and patient's choice--are basic issues of the organisation of psychiatric services. They are discussed and evaluated in respect of the Region of Man...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Häfner H,Rössler W,Häfner-Ranabauer W

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The importance of causal attribution for Turkish and German patients with a psychotic disorder for the diagnostic process was examined. METHODS:Within a controlled clinical study Turkish and German patients were interviewed regarding their concepts of cause of illness. RESULTS:There was no difference betwee...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Haasen C,Blätter A,Yagdiran O,Reimer J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open clinical trial patients with full-developed delirium tremens were treated either by controlled infusion of clomethiazol (n = 21) or by intravenous injections of clorazepate (n = 20). Acute symptomatic quickly decreased after a few days and medication could be reduced. By adding haloperidol a further stabili...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Caspari D,Wappler M,Bellaire W

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper criteria for the assessment of the ability of psychiatric patients to give an informed consent are presented. Legal and medical aspects including jurisdiction are discussed. Some elements for a judgement of an informed consent are proposed. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Neubauer H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is intended as a contribution towards interpreting the development of psychiatric symptoms as a final result of disturbed processes of communication. We should like to point out that the importance of communication for normal and abnormal behaviour has been established both from the viewpoints of sociopsy...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Koukkou M,Zimmer-Höfler D

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00