Treatment of behavioral problems with pindolol.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is commonly reported in patients after cardiac surgery and increases the risk of postoperative cardiac morbidity or mortality or both. Although preoperative depression has been implicated as the strongest predictor of depression after surgery, the characteristics thought to influence reactive or p...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Patron E,Messerotti Benvenuti S,Palomba D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with serious medical illnesses, such as cancer, are at increased risk of suicide but are also often facing death. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is widely used to screen patients for depression. It includes an item that asks about thoughts of death and hurting yourself (Item-9). OBJECTI...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Walker J,Hansen CH,Butcher I,Sharma N,Wall L,Murray G,Sharpe M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors aim to facilitate the psychiatric evaluation of death-hastening decisions, such as cessation of life-support treatment or physician-assisted suicide, by deriving principles for evaluating patients from a literature review and a recently completed prospective study on dialysis discontinuation conducted by c...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Cohen LM,Steinberg MD,Hails KC,Dobscha SK,Fischel SV

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical activity is strongly associated with lower risk of recurrent cardiac events in patients who experience an acute coronary syndrome (ACS), yet most patients do not meet recommended levels of physical activity. Psychological well-being is associated with higher levels of physical activity, but midlife ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Feig EH,Celano CM,Massey CN,Chung WJ,Romero P,Harnedy LE,Huffman JC

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have prospectively examined characteristics of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients as predictors of postimplant outcome. In this study the authors considered the association between preimplant psychological characteristics, ICD shocks, and postimplant quality of life at short- and long-te...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Sears SF,Lewis TS,Kuhl EA,Conti JB

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors previously reported four clinical cues that predicted a subgroup of ambulatory patients likely to have depressive and anxiety disorders. The authors' purpose in this study was to validate this model in another cohort of 185 consecutive adult referrals to a rheumatology clinic. The authors found 4 variables...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Jackson JL,O'Malley PG,Kroenke K

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertensive diseases in pregnancy (HDP) are a great challenge for healthcare providers. OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to investigate the experience of women developing HDP with different stressors associated with healthcare after a diagnosis of HDP. METHOD:A self- administered questionnaire referring to stres...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Leeners B,Stiller R,Neumaier-Wagner P,Kuse S,Schmitt A,Rath W

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the published interim report of the DSM-V Workgroup onSomatic Symptom Disorders (SSDs). "SSD" is the term proposed by the Workgroup to replace "somatoform disorder." ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Sykes R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between life satisfaction and alexithymia was studied in a sample of 229 patients as a part of a naturalistic follow-up study of depression in Finnish primary health care. The measures were the abbreviated Life Satisfaction Scale and the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. Depression was assessed by te...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Mattila AK,Poutanen O,Koivisto AM,Salokangas RK,Joukamaa M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a rare, heritable disorder that affects connective tissue. Men and women are equally affected. Clinical manifestations involve multiple sites, especially bones and ligaments and heart and blood vessels. OBJECTIVE:Authors sought to investigate quality of life (QoL) in MFS patients, a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Fusar-Poli P,Klersy C,Stramesi F,Callegari A,Arbustini E,Politi P

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychoneuroimmunology represents the newest interdisciplinary endeavor relevant to psychosomatic medicine. Work in this area is particularly exciting because it promises to reveal a more unified view of the individual and the complex interactions between social, psychological, neural, endocrinological, immunological, ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Daruna JH,Morgan JE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, training of general psychiatry residents in Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) varies significantly between programs. In 1996, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) developed guidelines for residency training in PM. Since then, the...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Heinrich TW,Schwartz AC,Zimbrean PC,Wright MT,Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine's Residency Education Subcommittee.

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression and anxiety disorders are common clinical problems in organ transplant recipients, but there is a paucity of clinical data to inform the selection of psychopharmacologic treatment. The authors retrospectively compared 13 depressed organ transplant recipients treated with fluoxetine with 13 nondepressed matc...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Strouse TB,Fairbanks LA,Skotzko CE,Fawzy FI

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews diagnostic issues about body dysmorphic disorder and discusses its relationship to other disorders. Diagnostic and symptomatic overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder is explored; associated features, course of illness, presumed etiology, and treatment outcome are compared; and similarities and...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hollander E,Neville D,Frenkel M,Josephson S,Liebowitz MR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibromyalgia, as defined by the American College of Rheumatology, is characterized by widespread pain lasting for at least 3 months, with pain in at least 11 out of 18 tender points when palpated with digital pressure. OBJECTIVE:The authors investigated the relationship between changes in pain and symptoms ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Arnold LM,Leon T,Whalen E,Barrett J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined data collected from a randomly selected, representative sample of 755 women (ages 23-97 years) from southeastern Australia. Self-report questionnaires were utilized to determine lifetime rates of depression and cardiovascular risk factors within the study sample. A lifetime history of depression (...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Jacka FN,Pasco JA,McConnell S,Williams LJ,Kotowicz MA,Nicholson GC,Berk M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article characterizes the academic, administrative, clinical service, and fiscal characteristics of departments of psychiatry in traditional children's hospitals to determine the characteristics of fiscally successful programs. A survey of chairs of psychiatry from short-term general children's hospitals was cond...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Campo JV,Kingsley RS,Bridge J,Mrazek D

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the psychiatric literature advocates vigorous confrontation of patients with factitious physical disorder. Believing that such a strategy often drives the patient to a new physician, the author developed alternatives to confrontation. These strategies include use of inexact interpretations of psychological def...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Eisendrath SJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven-hundred and three patients from a general medical outpatient clinic at a Veterans Affairs hospital completed the SCREENER, a brief self-report questionnaire that screens for psychiatric disorders. The authors found that 7.3% of the patients had suicidal ideation. The younger and white patients were at increased ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lish JD,Zimmerman M,Farber NJ,Lush DT,Kuzma MA,Plescia G

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Job descriptions for psychiatrists will change significantly over the next decade, as psychiatrists will be called on to work as caseload consultants to the primary care team. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effects of an American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residenc...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Huang H,Barkil-Oteo A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of depression and the economic consequences in the 6-month period after hospitalization for congestive heart failure were examined in a prospective observational cohort study involving 203 older adults (mean age=76.8 years, SD=7.8). At discharge, 73 of 203 subjects (36%) were depressed according to the scre...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Fulop G,Strain JJ,Stettin G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Provision of palliative care is part of the standard of care for patients with serious, life-limiting medical illnesses. Patients in the palliative care setting have high rates of psychiatric co-morbidity. However, integration of mental health care into palliative care remains a significant gap. With appropr...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Shalev D,Nash SS,Levenson JA,Shapiro PA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second in a series reviewing the HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs. This review summarizes the non-protease inhibitor antiretrovirals: nucleoside and nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), the nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), and cell membrane fusion inhibitors. In an ove...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Zapor MJ,Cozza KL,Wynn GH,Wortmann GW,Armstrong SC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injuries from blows to the head often are manifested only as subjective complaints. Postconcussional syndrome thus can be feigned for financial or psychological gain. The authors review the pathology of brain trauma, symptoms of postconcussional syndrome, and criteria for diagnosis. In addition to somatic deficits, ps...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hall RC,Hall RC,Chapman MJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the utilization of medical specialists by anxiety disorder patients. The setting was a university's clinical outpatient drug trails for anxiety disorders. The participants were subjects identified by advertisement and diagnosed by psychiatric interviews and, in some instances...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kennedy BL,Schwab JJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the use of substance abuse and mental health services among older adults with substance use disorders. METHODS:Participants were members of Humana Cares, a subsidiary of Humana, Inc., a care management program for chronically ill Medicare Advantage members, between 2008 and 2010. All adul...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Huang H,Chan YF,Bauer AM,Suzuki J,Katon W,Russo J,Hogan D,Unützer J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-seven of 100 women with recurrent abortion completed questionnaires designed to assess demographic and reproductive variables, depression, anxiety, social desirability, self-esteem, locus of control, and marital adjustment. The results indicated that 32% of the women could be classified as depressed. The subject...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Klock SC,Chang G,Hiley A,Hill J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some studies suggest intensive psychiatric consultation services facilitate medical care and reduce length of stay (LOS) in general hospitals. OBJECTIVE:To compare LOS between a consultation-as-usual model and a proactive consultation model involving review of all admissions, rapid consultation, and close f...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Desan PH,Zimbrean PC,Weinstein AJ,Bozzo JE,Sledge WH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author describes some problems emerging from the approach to and comprehension of somatization symptoms, discussing ambiguities regarding somatization seen in the current classification manuals (ICD-10 and DSM-IV). Then the author presents a case report of a man who presented with a bizarre symptom of feminization...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Avila LA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study identifies characteristics associated with problem substance use among 1,187 patients with either depressive symptoms (44%) or depressive disorders (56%) in primary care clinics of six managed care organizations. Sedative misuse (reported by 14% of all patients) was associated with greater wealth, social ph...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Roeloffs CA,Wells KB,Ziedonis D,Tang L,Unützer J

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00