Beliefs about medications: measurement and relationship to adherence in patients with severe mental disorders.

abstract：:Ecological correlates of suicide were explored for the counties of Hungary and the states of the United States. Only one common correlate was identified (divorce rates). The remaining social indicators that were associated with suicide rates in the United States were not associated with suicide rates in Hungary. The i...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lester D,Moksony F

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our clinical experience that lithium is an agent used infrequently for self-poisoning was investigated. The rate at which such overdoses occurred was determined from hospital records. A retrospective case notes study then compared overdose rates in patients taking lithium versus patients on antidepressant medication. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Waddington D,McKenzie IP

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subjective quality of life (QOL) (i.e. individual evaluation of one's life experiences) has been studied according to a series of different parameters such as resource availability, and sociodemographic and clinical variables, at times yielding contradictory results. Subjective quality of life and standard of life...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Carpiniello B,Lai GL,Pariante CM,Carta MG,Rudas N

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Prognostic studies of major depression have mainly focused on episode remission and relapse, and only a limited number of studies have examined long-term course of depressive symptomatology at threshold and subthreshold levels. METHOD:The Group for Longitudinal Affective Disorders Study has conducted prospec...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Furukawa TA,Yoshimura R,Harai H,Imaizumi T,Takeuchi H,Kitamura T,Takahashi K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Somatizing patients often report cognitive complaints but neuropsychological research on somatization is scarce. We investigated somatizing patients for functioning in different cognitive domains. METHOD:Ten female patients with somatization disorder or undifferentiated somatoform disorder and 10 non-somatiz...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Niemi PM,Portin R,Aalto S,Hakala M,Karlsson H

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective 1-year study was conducted in 69 patients with affective disorder. Despite remission, there was a significant continued presence at each visit of major symptoms of mania and depression and of mean mood shift. Furthermore, sub-clinical affective symptoms, as determined by General Behavior Inventory self-r...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Goodnick PJ,Fieve RR,Schlegel A,Kaufman K

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platelet levels of serotonin and the amino acids aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid and gamma-aminobutyric acid were measured in 18 drug-free autistic (DSM-III criteria) and 14 age-matched healthy children. Serotonin was significantly increased while the amino acids aspartic acid, glutamine, glutamic acid and...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Rolf LH,Haarmann FY,Grotemeyer KH,Kehrer H

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of 167 consecutive patients admitted to a general hospital following an episode of deliberate self-harm was carried out; 102 patients were interviewed by computer and then by a psychiatrist who was blind to the results of the computer interview. The computer interview consisted of a self-rating mod...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Levine S,Ancill RJ,Roberts AP

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few empirical studies have examined the attitudes and ethical beliefs of psychiatrists. In this study, 328 members of the Swedish Psychiatric Association were randomly selected to respond to a questionnaire containing three clinical vignettes examining involuntary hospitalization, other compulsory interventions, and r...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kullgren G,Jacobsson L,Lynöe N,Kohn R,Levav I

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug use and psychiatric symptoms were independently assessed in a random sample of 177 adolescents from a junior high school population. Pupils who used cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, solutions (sniffing), and tranquilizers, all had higher frequencies of psychiatric symptoms than non-users. The use of alcohol was sho...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lavik NJ,Onstad S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) to investigate brain structural alterations related to trait dissociation and its relationship with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHOD:Thirty-two subjects either developing (N = 15) or non-developing (N = 17) PTSD underwent MRI scanning and were assess...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nardo D,Högberg G,Lanius RA,Jacobsson H,Jonsson C,Hällström T,Pagani M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The impact of religious/spiritual activities on clinical outcomes in patients with serious mental illnesses remains controversial, which was addressed in this international cross-sectional study. METHOD:Three-hundred sixty-nine subjects were recruited from Austria (n = 189) and Japan (n = 180), consisting of...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Mizuno Y,Hofer A,Frajo-Apor B,Wartelsteiner F,Kemmler G,Pardeller S,Suzuki T,Mimura M,Fleischhacker WW,Uchida H

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promise of adopting a valid and reliable tool for diagnosing addiction-related problems is offered by the Addiction Severity Index (ASI). Socially determined admissions and poor treatment facilities may have biased the representativeness of our sample, though methodological difficulties were minimal. The ASI was u...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Bilal AM

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article illustrates the development of psychiatric register research and discusses the strengths, limitations, and possible directions for future activities. METHOD:Examples illustrating the development from the post-World War II introduction of psychiatric register research until today are selected. R...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Munk-Jørgensen P,Okkels N,Golberg D,Ruggeri M,Thornicroft G

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a sample of 88 pregnant women with a history of nonorganic psychosis, mental health characteristics during pregnancy, assessed prospectively through interviews and psychiatric records, were studied in relationship to the development of 25 postpartum psychotic episodes (PPPs) occurring during the first 6 months ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： McNeil TF

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional linkage between platelet MAO activity and psychopathology was explored by analyzing temperamental correlates in 40 male subjects by means of scales from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), the Zuckerman Sensation Seeking Inventory, and the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP). Linear correlat...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Schalling D,Asberg M,Edman G,Oreland L

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ICD-10 and DSM-IV classifications have both given low priority to "reactivity" to acute stress as a classificatory principle for functional psychoses. In Scandinavia, reactivity is still considered an important factor in the development of such psychoses. Reactivity is a complex concept, and its various components...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Guldberg CA,Dahl AA,Bertelsen A,Hansen H,Haslerud J,Hytten K,Narud K

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Several studies have found an increase in hippocampal volume following electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), but the effect on cortical thickness has been less investigated. We aimed to examine the effects of ECT on cortical thickness and their associations with clinical outcome. METHOD:Using 3 Tesla MRI scanner,...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Gbyl K,Rostrup E,Raghava JM,Carlsen JF,Schmidt LS,Lindberg U,Ashraf A,Jørgensen MB,Larsson HBW,Rosenberg R,Videbech P

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lithium-neuroleptics induced encephalopathy is a rare drug interaction. Here I am reporting a patient who developed reversible encepatholopathy with lithium-risperidone combination. METHOD:A single case report. RESULT:A patient of bipolar disorder, who presented with manic symptoms with psychotic feature, s...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Boora K,Xu J,Hyatt J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six patients who had hypochondriacal neurosis for 6 months or longer were treated with individual psychotherapy which focused predominantly on presenting complaints, fears and beliefs. Antianxiety drugs were used at times of anxiety. Sixty-four percent either recovered or improved to the extent that they no lon...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Kellner R

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 289 Greenlanders admitted for the first time to a mental hospital from 1980 to 1983, were followed for 7 years. Thirty-seven patients, 24 men and 13 women, were diagnosed with schizophrenia at least once during the follow-up period. The annual first admission rate per 100,000 was 41 for men and 23 for women...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lynge I,Jacobsen J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric condition in which the patient believes in being transformed into an animal. Belief in the transformation of another person into an animal has not been reported, so far. Here, a patient with an impression of bipolar mood disorder (mixed type) and such delusion is reported. ...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Nejad AG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) was administered to 30 inpatients who met the DSM-III-R criteria for chronic schizophrenia and shared similar environments. Four of them (13%) were DST nonsuppressors. The mean and maximum postdexamethasone cortisol levels were correlated with the patient's score on the scale f...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Garyfallos G,Lavrentiadis G,Amoutzias D,Monas K,Manos N

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study sample consisting of 51 patients suffering from acute and transient psychotic disorder (ATPD) (ICD-10) on initial examination was evaluated at 1-year follow-up. The findings show a diagnostic change in half of the patients (48%), most often to schizophrenia (15%) and affective disorder (28%). From index admiss...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Jørgensen P,Bennedsen B,Christensen J,Hyllested A

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonazepam (CLN), a benzodiazepine originally used as an anti-epileptic, was tested in schizophrenia in a double blind comparison in combination with haloperidol (HL). Twenty-four schizophrenic inpatients, diagnosed according to DSM III were treated with HL and CLN (Group 1) or HL and placebo (Group 2) for 4 weeks. Th...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Altamura AC,Mauri MC,Mantero M,Brunetti M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of depression in a community with 15 000 inhabitants in Brazil (Bambuí). METHOD:The Composite International Diagnostic Interview was applied in a random sample of 1041 residents aged 18+ years. RESULTS:The ICD-10 1-month, 1-year and lifetime prevalences of depression were 8.2% (9...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Vorcaro CM,Lima-Costa MF,Barreto SM,Uchoa E

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort of 330 Chinese schizophrenic patients below age 40 were interviewed 5, 10 and 15 years later to determine which variables could predict their outcome. There were 189 males (57%) and 141 females (43%). At the end of 15 years, 48 (15%) died (34 (10%) from suicide). At the end of 5, 10 and 15 years, the percenta...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Tsoi WF,Wong KE

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent discussions on euthanasia the question about mercy killing without consent of mentally ill persons has turned up, particularly in cases of hopeless suffering among senile or chronically insane patients. Possible analogies to the actions under the German Nazi-regimen and relations to the concept of Social Dar...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Lauter H,Meyer JE

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide was a crime in England and Wales until 1961. This paper compares the English legal treatment of suicide with that in other Western countries. The delayed English decriminalization of suicide is a likely result of the nature of English common law, rather than a reflection of actual public opinion and medico-leg...

journal_title：Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica

authors： Neeleman J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00