[Diagnosed Depression and Utilization of Health Care Services and Preventive Measures in the General Adult Population in Germany - Results from a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Telephone Survey].

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To relieve the burden on family caregivers of dementia patients, the utilisation of day hospitals should be increased. Therefore, the predictive variables for utilisation as well as family caregivers' views regarding the quality of day hospitals must be investigated. METHODS:The cross-sectional study was car...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Donath C,Bleich S,Grässel E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Qualitative research methods give an opportunity to investigate the everyday reality of dealing with and understanding of chronic mental illness as a social reality in local context. By the reconstruction of the perspective of the mentally ill, their relatives and their professional caregivers we analyze the cultural ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Zaumseil M

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:Records of violent behaviour and its sequels gain increasing interest as a matter of quality assurance. The paper presents scales and instruments applied in psychiatric institutions until now. While problems of reliability are solved sufficiently, there are major problems of validity in the measurement of violence. To...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Steinert T,Gebhardt RP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philippe Pinel is generally regarded as the leading con-founder of scientific psychiatry. His "chain liberation" of the insane is in this context often seen as breakbrough to an human conception of psychiatry. This article describes in two parts the historical backgrounds of Pinels activities and analyses the discipli...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kohl F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three publications by K.P. Kisker that appeared in the 'sixties of the present century are milestones along an important path of panoramic changes in the recent history of psychiatry. They are model reflections of the steps or stages towards a new approach to understanding the social system represented by the hospital...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Veltin A

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Assessing long-term effects of a family systems therapy approach (systems therapy methods in acute psychiatry, SYMPA) on occupational stress and interdisciplinary cooperation of team members in three German psychiatric hospitals. METHODS:Pre-post-follow-up survey using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Haun MW,Kordy H,Ochs M,Schweitzer J,Zwack J

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planning of health care is primarily an administrative task. Service research supports the health administration in this task by supplying empirical data to objectify the need for care and ways to cater for that need. In this, service research on the one hand draws on descriptive and analytical data of epidemiolog...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rössler W

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions determining statutory offences as represented by indictable sex offences, have been amended and revised by the 4th Penal Reform Law of the Federal German Penal Code, in 1973, under the heading "Indictable Offences against Sexual Self-Determination". This heading, which is meant to convey a programme, ho...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rasch W,Sassenberg U

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Shared decision-making during the course of treatment is important for people with severe mental illness. However, there is still insufficient knowledge about how people with mental illness view decisions, what kind of decisions are made and how patients experience and perceive the process of participation in...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Loos S,Neumann P,Arnold K,Slade M,Fiorillo A,Krogsgaard Bording M,Ivanka T,Kawohl W,Puschner B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is still poor acceptance for pain without somatic causes, and patients with somatoform pain disorder carry a stigma per se. The aim of this study was to identify predictors of fear of stigma including depression, anxiety and somatisation among patients with somatoform pain disorder. METHODS:132 patien...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Freidl M,Piralic-Spitzl S,Grohe N,Aigner M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Folie à deux describes a rare psychiatric disorder of mostly closely related persons. The main feature of this disease is the unconditional adoption of the delusions of the primarily diseased person by the second person. This disturbance most frequently originates from a paranoid schizophrenia. METHOD:Our...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Roth C,Stüwe R,Böger A,Serafin S,Franz M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since community mental health care started public attitudes towards mentally ill and mental health care had been development to an important influencing factor in planning mental health care and in rehabilitation of patients. This paper describes the historical development of research in public attitudes in psychiatry...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rössler W,Salize HJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delirium--a state of acute or subacute confusion--is a common organic mental syndrome occurring predominantly in old age. The disorder is highly prevalent in psychiatric institutions, in general hospitals and nursing homes. Patients affected by delirium carry an increased mortality-risk and will become dependent on nu...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hewer W,Förstl H

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:The effectiveness of day hospital care of geriatric psychiatric patients was evaluated in a pilot study. The main aspect was the training of social competence, i.e. a training leading to growing personal independence of the demands of every day life, such as hygiene , fitness considering the household, etc. During day...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kersten B,Brauer H,Heinrich K

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the rare case of a 19-year old man, first diagnosed with schizophrenia but finally shown to have subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). Initial symptoms were hallucinations and negative symptoms until the onset of a seizure. Changes in the CSF, MRI, EEG and increasing neurological symptoms led to the co...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jähnel M

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：: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：:"Psychopathy" describes a type of personality disorder characterized by a dysregulation of emotion processing. Social behaviour, emotion regulation and competency are of particular relevance in forensic psychiatry. Structural-morphological and functional imaging studies prove that emotion regulation, aggressive-impuls...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Müller JL,Schuierer G,Marienhagen J,Putzhammer A,Klein HE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vocational rehabilitation of mentally ill patients is now focused outside the psychiatric hospital. Three types of programmes play a major role: outpatient work therapy programmes at psychiatric hospitals, jobs in (partly) sheltered employment facilities as in companies specially adapted for employing mentally ill per...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Reker T,Eikelmann B,Schonauer K,Folkerts H

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presented document discusses the problems of psychological/psychiatric and emergency long term users. The author, director of the East Berlin Crisis Centre, describes the long-term patient phenomenon from different perspectives. He develops ideas to change the concept of acute intervention. The crisis intervention...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Neumann O

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on retrospective investigation using hospital records of 44 schizophrenic patients of a rehabilitation department, who committed suicide between 1966 and 1986, the paper discusses demographic and psychological features of schizophrenic suicide in comparison with international literature. Subjects who committed s...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Resch F,Strobl R

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety, depressive and somatoform disorders are highly prevalent in primary care. Managing these disorders is time-consuming and requires strong commitment on behalf of the general practitioners (GPs). Furthermore, the resources for the management of these patients are limited by the increasing workload in primary ca...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Zimmermann T,Puschmann E,Porzelt S,Ebersbach M,Ernst A,Thomsen P,Scherer M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Delirium tremens and withdrawal seizures are serious complications of an alcohol withdrawal syndrome. This review presents the diagnostic procedures required in case of the occurrence of a withdrawal seizure and delirium tremens as well as possible treatment options including prophylactic medication regime...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lutz UC,Batra A

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Currently, substantial effort is made to establish prevention as one of the main parts of the German health care system. In this context we investigated the current role of prevention in social-psychiatric research. METHODS:We analysed original papers published in the journal Psychiatrische Praxis in the yea...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidt CK,Angermeyer MC,Riedel-Heller SG

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although guidelines usually recommend monotherapy, in clinical practice, antipsychotic polypharmacy is common especially with chronically ill patients. We therefore assessed the current practice of antipsychotic polypharmacy in "high-utilising" patients with schizophrenia in Germany. METHODS:Antipsychotic m...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidt-Kraepelin C,Puschner B,Loos S,Janssen B

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This project evaluates whether a multidisciplinary consultation-liaison team with special geropsychiatric experience can help to reduce complex care problems in mentally ill nursing-home residents. METHODS:Prospective longitudinal study of patients living in 5 nursing homes in Germany, supplemented by exper...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kirchen-Peters S,Fehrenbach RA,Diefenbacher A

更新日期：2012-01-01 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