The factor structure of the GHQ-60 in a community sample.

abstract：:Increases in plasma noradrenaline were found in a group of 12 subjects smoking cigarettes. The associated rises in pulse rate, blood pressure and plasma free fatty acids could be prevented by beta-blockade with oxprenolol. This inhibition of the peripheral effects of catecholamines did not affect subjective satisfacti...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carruthers M

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although many case-control studies have replicated an association between dysfunctional parenting and a lifetime diagnosis of depression, few epidemiological studies have explored the association. In addition, little is known about the association in non-western countries. METHODS:Using logistic regression ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sato T,Sakado K,Uehara T,Narita T,Hirano S,Nishioka K,Kasahara Y

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The variations in suicide mortality in England and Wales over a 100-year period (1876-1975) are explained by the development of a descriptive model. The model used in a stepwise linear regression using 5 variables including toxic gas production. The variables give a good description of the observed changes in suicide ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Low AA,Farmer RD,Jones DR,Rohde JR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental disorders often begin during the formative years of education. They may disrupt education and lead to social underachievement. METHODS:We examined the impact of mental disorders treated in hospital (ages 16-29) on educational attainment up to 31 years in the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort (N = 10...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Isohanni I,Jones PB,Järvelin MR,Nieminen P,Rantakallio P,Jokelainen J,Croudace TJ,Isohanni M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sertraline has a proved efficacy in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but it is unknown which symptoms respond or in what sequence this occurs. Such information might be useful clinically and heuristically. METHOD:The study examined the effects of sertraline on the individual symptoms of PTSD. It also ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Davidson JR,Landerman LR,Farfel GM,Clary CM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differences between verbal and non-verbal cognitive development from childhood to adulthood may differentiate between those with and without psychotic symptoms and affective symptoms in later life. However, there has been no study exploring this in a population-based cohort. METHOD:The sample was drawn from...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Koike S,Barnett J,Jones PB,Richards M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Counselling is frequently used in the management of common mental disorders (such as anxiety and depression) in primary care. However, there are concerns over the clinical effectiveness of counselling, both in comparison with usual general practitioner care, and with other treatments such as alternative psyc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bower P,Rowland N,Hardy R

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results are reported from a large population study (of working people) comparing Holocaust survivors and a control group in regard to emotional distress, satisfaction in life and psychosomatic symptoms. It was found that, even 40 years after the traumatic experience, this group of survivors exhibited a slightly higher...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Carmil D,Carel RS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a study of the criterion validity of a newly developed computerized assessment (PROQSY) of minor psychological morbidity based on the Clinical Interview Schedule, employing a single GP's assessments as criterion measures of such morbidity and Relative Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Two-stage screenin...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wilkinson G,Markus AC

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preclinical and human studies suggest an association between chronic inflammation and the development of depressive behaviors. This is proposed to occur through downstream effects of inflammatory cytokines on neuroplasticity, neurogenesis and neurotransmitter function, although the neural correlates remain p...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Ironside M,Admon R,Maddox SA,Mehta M,Douglas S,Olson DP,Pizzagalli DA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Generalized anxiety disorder is a common condition of excessive worry and tension which tends to run a chronic course associated with significant psychiatric and medical problems. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been shown to be of clinical value in about 50% of cases with treatment gains maintained ov...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Durham RC,Chambers JA,MacDonald RR,Power KG,Major K

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is substantial variability in the degree of cognitive impairment among older depressed persons. Inconsistencies in previous findings may be due to differences in clinical and demographic characteristics across study samples. We assessed the influence of unipolar depression and severity of depression on...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pantzar A,Laukka EJ,Atti AR,Fastbom J,Fratiglioni L,Bäckman L

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parental characteristics and practices predict borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms in children. However, it is difficult to disentangle whether these effects are genetically or environmentally mediated. The present study examines the contributions of genetic and environmental influences by compari...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fatimah H,Wiernik BM,Gorey C,McGue M,Iacono WG,Bornovalova MA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary data from the National Institute of Mental Health-Clinical Research Branch Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression dealing with the human growth hormone (hGH) response to the Insulin Tolerance Test (ITT) during the pre-treatment (drug-free) period of the study are presented in this paper. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Koslow SH,Stokes PE,Mendels J,Ramsey A,Casper R

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several case reports and reviews have suggested an increased incidence of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder among persons with sex chromosome aneuploidies, but this observation may have been caused by biased sampling. METHODS:The 1122 individuals with sex chromosome aneuploidies registered in the Danish Cyt...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mors O,Mortensen PB,Ewald H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structured assessment instrument, the Quality of Life Interview, was used to explain the quality of life of seventy patients with chronic psychiatric illness attending a day treatment programme. The interview was found to have acceptable psychometric properties. Factors that best predicted the quality of life of the...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Levitt AJ,Hogan TP,Bucosky CM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is accompanied by alterations in grey matter volume. However, the biological processes associated with regional structural perturbations remain elusive. METHODS:We applied integrative omics analysis to investigate specialized transcriptome signatures and translational determi...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sha Z,Banihashemi L

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seeking compensation has been shown to have an adverse effect on the psychological health and recovery of injured patients, however, this effect requires clarification. METHODS:A total of 2019 adults sustaining a traffic injury were recruited. Of these, 709 (35.1%) lodged a compensation claim. Interviews oc...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pozzato I,Kifley A,Craig A,Gopinath B,Tran Y,Jagnoor J,Cameron ID

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bright light and high-density negative air ion exposure are efficacious for winter and non-seasonal depression compared with a low-density negative ion placebo. Similarly, auditory stimuli improve mood in clinical populations. This study compared the short-term effects of bright light, an auditory stimulus, ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Goel N,Etwaroo GR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Stress questionnaires are included in many epidemiological cohort studies but the psychometric characteristics of these questionnaires are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to describe these characteristics for two short questionnaires measuring the lifetime and past year occurrence of stress: the L...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rosmalen JG,Bos EH,de Jonge P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In other branches of epidemiology, stratum specific likelihood ratios (SSLRs) have been found to be preferable to fixed best threshold approaches to screening instruments. This paper presents SSLRs of GHQ-12 and GHQ-28 and compares the SSLR method with the traditional optimal threshold approach. METHODS:Ran...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Furukawa TA,Goldberg DP,Rabe-Hesketh S,Ustün TB

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is uncertainty about the incidence of breakthrough psychosis in treatment adherent patients, and the role that factors, such as cumulative antipsychotic exposure, play in this phenomenon. METHODS:In a nationwide cohort of individuals treated for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders in Finland between 1 Ja...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Rubio JM,Taipale H,Correll CU,Tanskanen A,Kane JM,Tiihonen J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morphometric endophenotypes which have been proposed for psychotic disorders include lateral ventricular enlargement and hippocampal volume reductions. Genetic epidemiological studies support an overlap between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and COMT, BDNF, 5-HTT, NRG1 and DTNBP1 genes have been implica...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Dutt A,McDonald C,Dempster E,Prata D,Shaikh M,Williams I,Schulze K,Marshall N,Walshe M,Allin M,Collier D,Murray R,Bramon E

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The processing of facial emotion involves a distributed network of limbic and paralimbic brain structures. Many of these regions are also implicated in the pathophysiology of mood disorders. Behavioural data indicate that depressed subjects show a state-related positive recognition bias for faces displaying ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lennox BR,Jacob R,Calder AJ,Lupson V,Bullmore ET

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Geriatric Mental State and a new computerized diagnostic system, AGECAT, are briefly described. A nomenclature for designating cases for epidemiological work is introduced. Concordance between AGECAT and psychiatrists' diagnoses for these studies, hospital and community based (total of 541 subjects), achieved over...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Copeland JR,Dewey ME,Griffiths-Jones HM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spousal concordance for common mental disorders provides evidence of the relevance of social contextual factors. There are, however, limitations within the existing literature examining spousal similarity in mental health and little consensus as to the causes of spousal similarity. This study considers a lar...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Butterworth P,Rodgers B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analyses support the efficacy of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for schizophrenia in western cultures. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of CBT and supportive therapy (ST) for patients with schizophrenia in China. METHOD:A multicentre randomized controlled, single-blinded, parallel-group tr...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Li ZJ,Guo ZH,Wang N,Xu ZY,Qu Y,Wang XQ,Sun J,Yan LQ,Ng RM,Turkington D,Kingdon D

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence of childhood anxiety disorders at specific ages and genetic etiological influences on anxiety disorders in young children have been little studied. The present study reports prevalence estimates in a community sample of 6-year-old twins, and patterns of genetic and environmental influences on thes...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bolton D,Eley TC,O'Connor TG,Perrin S,Rabe-Hesketh S,Rijsdijk F,Smith P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the pathways to psychiatric care and recognition of delay points are crucial for the development of interventions that aim to improve access to mental health-care services. METHOD:Over a 2-month period in 2003, a total of 1044 patients at the commencement of new episodes of care at Amanuel Spe...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bekele YY,Flisher AJ,Alem A,Baheretebeb Y

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factor analysis has been employed to identify latent variables that are unifying constructs and that parsimoniously describe correlations among a related group of variables. Confirmatory factor analysis is used to test hypothesized factor structures for a set of variables; it can also, as in this paper be us...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jacob KS,Everitt BS,Patel V,Weich S,Araya R,Lewis GH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00