Quality of life in schizophrenia in India: comparison of three approaches.

abstract：:Therapeutic relationship has been considered an important ingredient of all psychotherapies. In communities in which no familiar conventions of such a relationship are available, the therapeutic encounter poses very different problems from those in the West, where such conventions freely prevail. This study has been c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Neki JS,Joinet B,Hogan M,Hauli JG,Kilonzo G

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to ascertain whether suicide victims had ever been in contact with a primary health-care centre, a psychiatric out-patient treatment centre or any form of institutional psychiatric care, and whether there had been any change in such patterns over time. The results show an increase in the numb...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Hydén LC

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the development of psychosexuality and object relationships in 58 young males who had survived malignancies in childhood. Using a psychodynamically oriented, semistructured psychiatric interview, we formed 13 criteria for comparisons between patients over and under 18 years of age. Of these 13 criteria, 12 ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ropponen P,Siimes MA,Rautonen J,Aalberg V

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy Japanese DSM-III-R schizophrenic patients were assessed for 30 clinical symptoms using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) of Kay et al. Principal component analysis was applied to the full item set of this scale and disclosed 5 orthogonal independent symptom groups: negative, hostile/excited, tho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kawasaki Y,Maeda Y,Sakai N,Higashima M,Urata K,Yamaguchi N,Kurachi M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiology behind the abnormalities of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal cortex axis found in patients with major depressive disorder was studied by the use of the vasopressin test. The response of plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol to the injection of 10 IU lysine-vasopressin (LVP) was investiga...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Akner G,Ljunggren JG,Kjellman BF,Undén F,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 30 patients with newly diagnosed motor conversion disorder were consecutively investigated by means of a Swedish self-rating inventory designed to assess perceived parental rearing practices (EMBU), and the Karolinska Scale of Personality (KSP). DSM Axis I and II psychopathology was assessed using a Structu...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Binzer M,Eisemann M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a 5-year follow-up study of 76 patients in a crisis intervention ward who were suffering from an adjustment reaction (brief or prolonged depressive reaction) according to ICD-9 criteria indicate a rather favorable course and outcome using standardized instruments. Only 17% developed a chronic or severe ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bronisch T

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence from follow-up studies concerned with the mortality of epilepsy suggests the suicide rate is increased. The risk of suicide seems to be higher from temporal lobe epilepsy, for epilepsy with a greater degree of handicap and in the early years of the condition. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Barraclough BM

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Examine the overall incidence of medically treated depression in Denmark among individuals 15-44 years old, and estimate the 5-year cumulative incidence of psychiatric hospital care among individuals treated first in non-hospital-based care. METHODS:We followed all individuals born in Denmark between 1969 an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Musliner KL,Liu X,Gasse C,Christensen KS,Wimberley T,Munk-Olsen T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An empirical classification of 203 adolescent suicide attempters (mean age 17.3) was achieved using multiple correspondence analysis. The characteristics upon which the classification is based concern sociodemographic as well as psychological variables. Two groups are identified: the first is predominantly characteriz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kienhorst CW,de Wilde EJ,van den Bout J,van der Burg E,Diekstra RF,Wolters WH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one of 50 patients satisfying the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria of probable or possible Alzheimer's disease showed psychotic features during a 2-year observation period. Paranoid delusions were reported in 23 patients, delusional misidentification in 17, visual hallucinations in 16 and auditory hallucinations in 8. All...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Förstl H,Besthorn C,Geiger-Kabisch C,Sattel H,Schreiter-Gasser U

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zuclopenthixol decanoate (ZPT-D) and haloperidol decanoate (HAL-D) were compared in the maintenance treatment of chronic schizophrenic patients. All patients were treated with either ZPT-D or HAL-D for at least 3 months and were then randomly allocated to treatment with either ZPT-D (100-600 mg every 4 weeks) or HAL-D...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Wistedt B,Koskinen T,Thelander S,Nerdrum T,Pedersen V,Mølbjerg C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, provisional research criteria for "schizo-affective" and related psychoses were published by the St. Louis Group. These rigorous criteria were modified and expanded for purposes of the present study in order to analyze the case records of 83 first admissions of Schneider-positive schizophrenics, that is, tho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Koehler K,Seminario I

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the reliability of a brief instrument to assess coping with symptoms by patients with psychotic illness. METHOD:A semi-structured interview (MACS) was developed to assess the amounts of distress, control and coping in relation to psychotic symptoms. Two raters interviewed 23 symptomatic but stable...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bak M,van der Spil F,Gunther N,Radstake S,Delespaul P,van Os J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:At least 50% of bipolar disorder (BD) patients have an additional diagnosis, one of the most difficult to manage being obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Defining the nosology of BD-OCD comorbidity has important clinical implications, given that treatments for OCD can worsen BD outcomes. METHOD:A systemati...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Amerio A,Odone A,Liapis CC,Ghaemi SN

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Depression in bipolar disorder (BipD) requires a therapeutic approach that is from treating unipolar major depressive disorder (UniD), but to date, no reliable methods could separate these two disorders. The aim of this study was to establish the clinical validity and utility of a non-invasive functional MRI-...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Li M,Das T,Deng W,Wang Q,Li Y,Zhao L,Ma X,Wang Y,Yu H,Li X,Meng Y,Palaniyappan L,Li T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined data from double-blind risperidone studies were used to analyse the severity of extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) associated with treatment in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Factors associated with maximum EPS severity were increasing risperidone dose (< or = 8 mg/day was similar to placebo), lower baseline...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lemmens P,Brecher M,Van Baelen B

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:419 patients in Sri Lanka, 150 patients in U.K. and 172 patients in Canada who were suffering from "Functional Psychoses" were interviewed using the Present State Examination to elicit Schneider's First Rank Symptoms (FRS). Nationality and ethnicity were found to be significant variables associated with lower prevalen...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Chandrasena R

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gender discriminating vocabulary tests administered to a consecutive series of 53 male transsexuals show different results. The Slater Selective Vocabulary Test, Cohen's factors and the Terman-Miles Attitude Interest Analysis Test (M-F) show male transsexuals to have a higher degree of feminization than normal control...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kenna JC,Hoenig J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the premenstrual and follicular phases of the menstrual cycle, 41 women who had generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) plus premenstrual syndrome (PMS) were assessed with psychiatric rating scales and compared with 21 GAD patients without PMS and 19 controls. The latter two groups were rated only once, in the typic...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McLeod DR,Hoehn-Saric R,Foster GV,Hipsley PA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In one of the hypotheses on the causes of schizophrenia it is proposed that viruses may play a role in the etiology and pathogenesis of at least some forms of schizophrenia. In our study, 30 healthy adults and 30 schizophrenic patients were investigated for humoral and cellular immunity against herpes simplex virus (H...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schindler L,Leroux M,Beck J,Moises HW,Kirchner H

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Treatment of schizophrenia is frequently complicated by patients' ambivalence and lack of insight into the disease, occasionally warranting involuntary treatment. This study aims to describe involuntary treatment in Danish schizophrenia patients. METHOD:Patients diagnosed with a lifetime ICD-10 F20 schizophr...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Andersen TH,Kappers D,Sneider B,Uggerby P,Nielsen J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-blind study was carried out to compare the efficacy and tolerability of nomifensine and amitriptyline in 17 Malaysian patients with moderate to severe depression. The two drugs did not differ with regard to antidepressant effect but nomifensine-treated subjects report fewer side-effects with no complaints of ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Ong SB,Lee CT

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied whether regular treatment with tranquilizing and hypnotic drugs among 30,344 twins in Sweden 15-47 years old was associated with robust indicators of poor health. Longitudinal psychiatric diagnoses and subsequent suicides were analyzed with data from cross-sectional health questionnaires. Women were almost ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Allgulander C,Nowak J,Rice JP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate morbidity during long-term follow-up with clinical treatment of affective and schizoaffective disorder subjects followed from hospitalization for first major psychotic episodes. METHODS:We followed adult subjects systematically at regular intervals from hospitalization for first-lifetime episodes...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Salvatore P,Khalsa HK,Tohen M,Baldessarini RJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the hypothesis that drug addiction may be due to "masked depression", lithium was administered to 20 opiate addicts. Only nine patients took the lithium carbonate tablets for more than a few weeks; during this period they seemed to abstain from taking opiates. After 1 year, all the patients were off lithium and mos...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Altamura AC

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether adolescents who self-harm are at increased risk of heavy and dependent substance use in adulthood. METHOD:Fifteen-year prospective cohort study of a random sample of 1943 adolescents recruited from secondary schools across the state of Victoria, Australia. Data pertaining to self-harm an...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Moran P,Coffey C,Romaniuk H,Degenhardt L,Borschmann R,Patton GC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the population-level first- and second-order effects among candidate correlates of labour force activity by people with ICD-10 depression and anxiety disorders. METHOD:Australian Bureau of Statistics multistage sampling strategies obtained a household sample of 37,580 individuals. Analyses were c...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Waghorn G,Chant D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting and pre-infusion heart rates recorded in 66 panic disorder patients revealed no significant differences between panickers and nonpanickers. There was also no significant difference in pre-fusion heart rates between either lactate or isoproterenol panickers and placebo nonpanickers. There was neither a sensitiz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Yeragani VK,Pohl R,Rainey JM,Balon R,Ortiz A,Lycaki H,Gershon S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a long-term potential adverse effect of neuroleptic treatment, and older age has been correlated with the development of TD. We conducted a chart review of current out-patients and examined annual Abnormal Inventory Movement Scale (AIMS) evaluations for the period 1987-1995 for 43 patients w...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Labbate LA,Lande RG,Jones F,Oleshansky MA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00