Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Social Phobia Inventory in university students.

abstract：:The symptomatological and diagnostic differentiations and outcome of acute psychosis were studied in 50 Egyptian patients using the Schedule of Clinical Assessment of Acute Psychotic States (SCAAPS). The prevailing symptoms were delusions, worry, irritability, mood changes, and disturbed behavior. Sixty-four percent o...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Okasha A,el Dawla AS,Khalil AH,Saad A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tonic immobility is an involuntary response to inescapable life-threatening events. Peritraumatic tonic immobility has been reported in convenience samples of female victims of sexual assault and in mixed-gender victims of different types of trauma. This study evaluated peritraumatic tonic immobility in a re...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Kalaf J,Vilete LM,Volchan E,Fiszman A,Coutinho ES,Andreoli SB,Quintana MI,de Jesus Mari J,Figueira I

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although prior studies have examined rates of bankruptcy in pathologic gambling (PG), there are only limited data regarding the clinical correlates of those with PG who declare bankruptcy because of gambling. METHOD:Five hundred seventeen consecutive subjects with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Grant JE,Schreiber L,Odlaug BL,Kim SW

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most research on the assessment and characteristics of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) has been conducted in Western bereaved samples. Limited information about PGD in Chinese samples exists. This study aims to validate the Chinese version of the Inventory of Complicated grief (ICG), examine the distinctivene...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Li J,Prigerson HG

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It is well documented that patients with schizophrenia have impoverished quality of life (QOL). Efforts to determine the underpinnings of this impoverishment have implicated negative symptoms more than positive or disorganized symptoms. However, only a minority of individuals with the liability to schizophren...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Cohen AS,Davis TE 3rd

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the initial results from a prospective study designed to assess patients' functional outcome and level of service utilization following psychiatric hospitalization. All patients admitted between March 31, 1993 and April 1, 1994 were interviewed at admission and discharge, and 350 consenting patients were rea...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Goethe JW,Dornelas EA,Fischer EH

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality disorders are common in subjects with panic disorder. Personality disorders have been shown to affect the course of panic disorder. The purpose of this study was to examine which personality disorders affect clinical severity in subjects with panic disorder. This study included 122 adults (71 women, 41 men...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ozkan M,Altindag A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:With the rate of obesity on the rise worldwide, individuals with schizophrenia represent a particularly vulnerable population. The aim of this study was to assess the metabolic profile of individuals with schizophrenia in relation to dietary and physical activity habits compared with healthy controls. METHOD...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ratliff JC,Palmese LB,Reutenauer EL,Liskov E,Grilo CM,Tek C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloninger's psychobiological model of temperament and character postulates that each of the temperament dimensions is associated with a specific emotional experience, depending on the situational cues. The aim of the present study was to test this postulate in a variety of challenging experimental tasks. The participa...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Puttonen S,Ravaja N,Keltikangas-Järvinen L

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alcohol abuse and dependence are frequently associated with psychiatric disorders and personality disorders (PDs) with differences among gender. However, only few studies investigated gender differences in PDs among alcoholics. The aim of this study was to investigate PDs in a sample of patients accessing in...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Picci RL,Vigna-Taglianti F,Oliva F,Mathis F,Salmaso S,Ostacoli L,Sodano AJ,Furlan PM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As psychiatric consultants to pediatric wards, we are often asked whether to disclose to young children full information about the invasive medical procedures they face. To date, no studies have been published offering an evidence-based answer to this question. This prospective study examined whether sharing...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ben Ari A,Margalit D,Roth Y,Udassin R,Benarroch F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Craving for substance use has been added as one of the diagnostic criteria of substance use disorders in DSM-5. However, further research is necessary to examine and expand the clinical potential of craving in the assessment and treatment for heroin users. This study aimed to examine the psychometrics of the...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Yen CF,Lin HC,Wang PW,Ko CH,Lee KH,Hsu CY,Chung KS,Wu HC,Cheng CP

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichotillomania, the compulsive urge to pull out one's hair, is a poorly studied chronic condition affecting 2 to 8 million people, 90% of whom are women. Significant gains have been made about the nature and clinical presentation of this disorder, and yet conceptualizations of trichotillomania remain inconsistent an...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Casati J,Toner BB,Yu B

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Panic Disorder (PD) and agoraphobia (AG) are frequently comorbid with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but the correlates of these comorbidities in OCD are fairly unknown. The study aims were to: 1) estimate the prevalence of PD with or without AG (PD), AG without panic (AG) and PD and/or AG (PD/AG) in a ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Torres AR,Ferrão YA,Shavitt RG,Diniz JB,Costa DL,do Rosário MC,Miguel EC,Fontenelle LF

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Recent studies have shown that sex hormones play a role in the development of schizophrenia and the severity of disease symptoms. However, study results have been inconsistent. This study compares the relationship between severity of disease symptoms and levels of estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA-S, prol...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Doğan Bulut S,Bulut S,Güriz O

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study used a qualitative research methodology to explore common themes pertaining to the period of untreated psychosis before treatment initiation in hospitalized, urban, African American, first-episode psychosis patients. METHODS:Twelve family members of 10 patients were interviewed at length to gather detai...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Bergner E,Leiner AS,Carter T,Franz L,Thompson NJ,Compton MT

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in bipolar type I (BD I) and schizoaffective (SQA) patients during a 2-year period in a naturalistic study. METHODS:This study was based on the data generated by the Bipolar Comprehensive Outcome Study, a prospective, non-interven...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Martín-Subero M,Berk L,Dodd S,Kamalesh V,Maes M,Kulkarni J,De Castella A,Fitzgerald PB,Berk M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This present study estimated the psychiatric morbidity among informal caregivers of older adults and investigated its association with their socio-demographic factors and older adult's health status, including dementia, depression and physical health conditions. METHODS:Data from a national cross-sectional s...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Vaingankar JA,Chong SA,Abdin E,Picco L,Shafie S,Seow E,Pang S,Sagayadevan V,Chua BY,Chua HC,Subramaniam M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study employed grade of membership (GoM) analysis in a clinical setting to determine if the DSM-III-R personality disorder (PD) diagnostic criteria cluster into recognizable disorders resembling the official axis II nosology. The GoM model, based on fuzzy-set theoretic concepts, explicitly examines medical diagno...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Nurnberg HG,Woodbury MA,Bogenschutz MP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) exhibits symptoms, such as attention deficit and impulsivity, that make it difficult for patients to manage social activities. In this study, we investigated the association of adult ADHD symptoms with temperament and character dimensions, taking into acco...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Park H,Suh BS,Lee HK,Lee K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is a lack of data about residual symptoms in Chinese patients with depression. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of residual symptoms with social functional impairment in these patients. METHODS:This was a multicenter cross-sectional study conducted in 11 hospitals in eight cities o...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Wang Y,Wang G,Zhang N,Huang J,Wu W,Jia F,Liu T,Gao C,Hu J,Hong W,Fang Y

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of nursing staff in the systematic rating of psychopathology has been explored in a small number of studies in recent years. Nurses are uniquely placed to carry out relatively continuous observations of high validity which are sensitive to change, yet on the basis of the limited data available, some doubts re...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： McGorry PD,Goodwin RJ,Stuart GW

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study aimed to examine the prevalence of pre-marital sex and its predicting factors among youth trainees undergoing a national skill training programme in the state of Malaysia. METHODS:Participants filled up health screening surveys at the beginning of their training period. A total of 1328 out of 1...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Manaf MR,Tahir MM,Sidi H,Midin M,Nik Jaafar NR,Das S,Malek AM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical vignettes of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizotypal personality disorder (STPD) were evaluated and rated for evidence of cognitive and perceptual distortions. The differences in the distortions of each group were then compared. The findings show that while STPD patients have signi...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Sternbach SE,Judd PH,Sabo AN,McGlashan T,Gunderson JG

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinsey concluded that homosexuality and heterosexuality were distributed dimensionally in the normal population, a significant percentage of whom experienced homosexual feelings. This conclusion has been ignored by most sex researchers. Twenty men seeking treatment for compulsive sexual behaviours reported a dimension...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： McConaghy N,Blaszczynski A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There are problems with the fatigue measures currently used in depressed patients. The Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20) covering general fatigue, physical fatigue, mental fatigue, reduced activity and reduced motivation has been widely used in patients with cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome. To ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Chung KF,Yu BY,Yung KP,Yeung WF,Ng TH,Ho FY

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms during clozapine treatment has been reported in recent case studies, yet the incidence and significance of this finding is still unclear pending reliable data from a larger sample of patients. Hospital records of 142 randomly selected inpatients started on clozapine treat...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ghaemi SN,Zarate CA Jr,Popli AP,Pillay SS,Cole JO

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that communication disturbances in the form of unclear linguistic references in schizophrenia are associated with excess-related pathophysiologic processes in some individuals and deficit-related processes in others. We divided a sample of 28 acutely ill schizophrenic inpatients into two groups: those ...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Docherty NM

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Milder forms of depression are highly prevalent in the clinical setting as well as in primary care. However, it is still unclear whether there are distinguishable groups among the various subthreshold syndromes and to what extent they are associated with impairment, thus requiring treatment. Therefore, the s...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Backenstrass M,Frank A,Joest K,Hingmann S,Mundt C,Kronmüller KT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent research suggests that there are clinical and biologic characteristics typical of late onset depression (LOD). Furthermore, evidence has been put forward that LOD may be a prodrome of dementia. OBJECTIVE:This study aims to assess the association between LOD and the development of dementia. SETTING:T...

journal_title：Comprehensive psychiatry

authors： Ohanna I,Golander H,Barak Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00