Posttraumatic growth in the aftermath of a disaster: looking for the role of gender.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long-term work performance of persons with schizophrenia in the community is unclear. This study examined the status of long-term work functioning and the predictors of poor work status among patients with schizophrenia in a Chinese rural area. METHODS:A 10-year follow-up investigation (1994-2004) of a ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Ran MS,Chen S,Chen EY,Ran BY,Tang CP,Lin FR,Li L,Li SG,Mao WJ,Hu SH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on an epidemiological study of common mental health and substance abuse problems in a historically disadvantaged urban and rural community in South Africa. In the rural Limpopo Province of South Africa, and in a peri-urban township near Cape Town, self-report instruments were used in two random popu...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Havenaar JM,Geerlings MI,Vivian L,Collinson M,Robertson B

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies assess the reliability of case register diagnoses, despite their widespread use in psychiatric research. This study investigates case register diagnostic reliability in comparison to casenote derived diagnoses in a birth cohort. METHODS:Diagnostic information from the case register and casenotes...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： McConville P,Walker NP

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study employed semi-structured interviews and questionnaires to describe the help-seeking processes and examine the determinants of help-seeking behaviours in 100 consecutive referrals to a child psychiatric clinic in Hong Kong. The help-seeking processes were characterized by (1) a sequential pattern of lay cons...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Ho TP,Chung SY

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is great concern in the UK, and other countries, about the clinical management of psychosis and substance misuse co-morbidity. However, relatively little is known about the UK prevalence and management of co-morbidity. METHOD:We implemented a screening survey of patients who were in treatment with an ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Weaver T,Rutter D,Madden P,Ward J,Stimson G,Renton A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To explore whether the diagnostic homogeneity in a daily, routine clinical activity changed visibly over two historical periods (the ICD-8 and the ICD-10 era) across and within five psychiatric in-patient clinics. METHODS:In this register study, we analyzed the discharge diagnoses from five university-affiliated ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Nordgaard J,Jessen K,Sæbye D,Parnas J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous findings in Turkish samples of children have suggested higher prevalence of ADHD than those detected in Western cultures. Methodological problems might explain these findings. Here, we aimed to re-check the prevalence rate of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) along with other childhood ps...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Ercan ES,Bilaç Ö,Uysal Özaslan T,Rohde LA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past decades a number of studies have appeared on suicide among persons in jail and prison remand settings, and sentenced prisoners. In these papers contradictory views concerning the relation between suicide risk and length of custody were published. METHODS:This article reports on a study that in...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Frottier P,Frühwald S,Ritter K,Eher R,Schwärzler J,Bauer P

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about mortality associated with acute transient psychoses. This paper examines mortality and causes of death of ICD-10 F23 'Acute and transient psychotic disorders' (ATPD). METHOD:Data from all subjects aged over 15 years who were enrolled in 1996 in the Danish psychiatric register with a fi...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Castagnini AC,Bertelsen A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors predicting readmission and the interval between readmissions to psychiatric hospital during the early 1990s in Finland. Data were retrieved using the national register of all discharges from psychiatric hospitals during the early 1990s. Frequently admitted patie...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Korkeila JA,Lehtinen V,Tuori T,Helenius H

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Immigration to Taiwan is often connected with marriage, resulting in the presence of so-called married immigrants or foreign brides. AIMS:To compare the quality of life (QOL) and prevalence of depression between female married immigrants and native married women. METHODS:Trained assistants used the Medica...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Chou FH,Chen PC,Liu R,Ho CK,Tsai KY,Ho WW,Chao SS,Lin KS,Shen SP,Chen CC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Despite the availability of efficacious treatments, few individuals with a new-onset mental disorder access treatment in a timely manner. While barriers to mental health treatment have been studied among prevalent cases, few studies have focused specifically on incident cases. The purpose of the current study w...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Fikretoglu D,Liu A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Studies carried out in the West indicate that the incidence of self-harm (SH) is particularly high amongst adolescents, but few studies have investigated its incidence and aetiology in low-income countries. The purpose of this study was to investigate risk factors associated with new onset episodes of SH, among...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Spears M,Montgomery AA,Gunnell D,Araya R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicidal feelings, attempted suicide and aspects of work environment and well-being in Swedish psychiatric nursing personnel were studied using a questionnaire. The questionnaire, containing 190 questions, was mailed to all 242 nurses and attendants working in psychiatric care at the department of psychiatry at Karoli...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Samuelsson M,Gustavsson JP,Petterson IL,Arnetz B,Asberg M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The concept 'quality of life' (QoL) has become increasingly important as an outcome measure in the evaluation of services and in clinical trials of people with schizophrenia. This study examines the mediating role of health related quality of life (HRQoL) in the prediction of general quality of life (GQoL)...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Meijer CJ,Koeter MW,Sprangers MA,Schene AH

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare children with mental and physical health problems regarding (1) perceived disease severity; (2) the impact of their condition on their families; (3) their utilization of health care services (including satisfaction with care); and (4) parents' health literacy about their child's condition and its tre...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Dey M,Wang J,Jorm AF,Mohler-Kuo M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mortality of people suffering from psychiatric illnesses is far higher than that of the general population, all categories of diagnosis combined; mortality statistics can be used as an index of quality of care. The aim of this study was to assess the all-cause mortality in psychiatric patients covering a...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Charrel CL,Plancke L,Genin M,Defromont L,Ducrocq F,Vaiva G,Danel T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salinas et al. (J Consult Clin Psychol 4:1029-1039, 2002) found that, contrary to widely held beliefs, paranoid behavior was a positive prognostic indicator for psychiatric inpatients only due to artifactual restrictions on overall level of functioning that result from traditional classification procedures. ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Salinas JA,Paul GL,Springer JR

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among 1439 heavy cannabis users seeking treatment for abuse problems in Denmark. DESIGN:Using two different registers, we compared cannabis users with 9122 abusers of other substances. FINDINGS:(1). Cannabis users were younger and more...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Arendt M,Munk-Jørgensen P

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Nigeria, there are no national social welfare and community rehabilitation programmes for the mentally ill. Families have to bear the major burden of care. The present study aimed to assess the severity of indices of burden among relatives of 75 schizophrenics and 20 major affective disorder cases, to ide...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Ohaeri JU

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The bi-directional relationships between combat-induced posttraumatic symptoms and family relations are yet to be understood. The present study assesses the longitudinal interrelationship of posttraumatic intrusion and avoidance and family cohesion among 208 Israeli combat veterans from the 1982 Lebanon War....

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Zerach G,Solomon Z,Horesh D,Ein-Dor T

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine cross-sectional associations between perceived neighborhood environment and cognitive function among middle-aged and older Hispanic/Latino women and men. METHODS:Data from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (2008-2011) and its Sociocultural Ancillary Study (2009-2010) were used. Pa...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Estrella ML,Durazo-Arvizu RA,Gallo LC,Isasi CR,Perreira KM,Vu TT,Vasquez E,Sachdeva S,Zeng D,Llabre MM,Tarraf W,González HM,Daviglus ML,Lamar M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examined the relationship between discrepancies in beliefs about schizophrenia and Expressed Emotion (EE) in family dyads. METHOD:Illness beliefs were assessed in patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and their relatives (N=49 dyads). The degree and the direction of discrepancy were calculat...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Lobban F,Barrowclough C,Jones S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide random sample of psychiatric patients (n = 832) admitted for hospitalization in Israel in 1980 was followed up until the end of 1984. A multivariate analysis was performed, where the dependent variables were: the cumulative length of all hospitalizations, the mean duration of hospitalization and the mean ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Zilber N,Popper M,Lerner Y

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:A standardised and systematic analysis of commitment laws in the European Union Member States is still missing. This study aimed at gathering, describing and analysing information on the differences or similarities of legal frameworks for involuntary placement and treatment of mentally ill patients ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Dressing H,Salize HJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This overview sketches briefly the development of social psychiatry and its clinical application in institutions in modern times. The second and longest part addresses the family as the important social context for everybody throughout life. A systems view of family tasks and functioning is offered. In the third part,...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Fleck S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:There is a need for recent, nationally representative data on the prevalence of mental disorders in Latin America. We aim to assess the prevalence of depression in Chile and possible changes over time. METHODS:In the Chilean National Health Surveys in 2003 (n = 5469) and 2010 (n = 7212), two nationally represe...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Markkula N,Zitko P,Peña S,Margozzini P,Retamal C P

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study tested the efficacy of Ajzen's theory of planned behavior (TPB) in explaining intention to seek mental health services and compared the traditional TPB model with a TPB partial mediation model. It also aimed to understand factors related to intention to seek mental health services in Macao to inform ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Mak HW,Davis JM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hallucinations are often manifestations of severe psychiatric conditions seen clinically. However, little is known about the distribution of incident hallucinations in the community, nor whether there has been a change over the past century. Data from the NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program is used here to provi...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Tien AY

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have high disease burden. It is important to restore quality of life (QoL) in treatment, so that patients become able to live a fulfilling life. Little is known about the longitudinal course of QoL in patients with OCD, its association with remission from OCD,...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Remmerswaal KCP,Batelaan NM,Hoogendoorn AW,van der Wee NJA,van Oppen P,van Balkom AJLM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00