Does staff-patient agreement on needs for care predict a better mental health outcome? A 4-year follow-up in a community service.

abstract：:Previously employed techniques for the measurement of body image are briefly described, with a short consideration of methodological or procedural limitations associated with each technique. A new procedure is described which employs a simple modification to a standard video camera to produce an image which appears fr...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Freeman RJ,Thomas CD,Solyom L,Hunter MA

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Learning and memory impairments in older adults with depression are linked to hippocampal atrophy. However, other subcortical regions may also be contributing to these deficits. We aimed to examine whether anterior caudate nucleus volume is significantly reduced in older adults with depression compared to co...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Jayaweera HK,Hickie IB,Duffy SL,Mowszowski L,Norrie L,Lagopoulos J,Naismith SL

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current mental health legislation in the UK makes provision for the use of certain treatments in severely ill patients who are unable, or unwilling, to give informed consent. Under the terms of this legislation, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be used, usually to treat severely depressed patients. A numb...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Wheeldon TJ,Robertson C,Eagles JM,Reid IC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypochondriasis is recognized as an important disorder in clinical populations, associated with increased health care utilization, disability and psychiatric co-morbidity. Few studies have investigated hypochondriasis in the community. We report on the broader concept of illness worry in a community populati...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Looper KJ,Kirmayer LJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 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:This study investigated factors contributing to suspected offending behaviour by adults with a history of learning disabilities taken into custody at a city police station. METHODS:Adults charged with offences, and/or leaving custody, during a defined period, were identified as having a possible learning di...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Winter N,Holland AJ,Collins S

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aggression has been suggested to be related to abnormal brain 5-HT activity. This amine is synthesized in brain from tryptophan, which is transported through the blood-brain barrier in competition with other amino acids. The relationship between tryptophan and its endogenous amino acid competitors in plasma ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Eriksson T,Lidberg L

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social disadvantage consistently predicts both self-reported distress and clinically diagnosed disorders such as depression. Yet, many individuals who are exposed to disadvantage do not report high levels of distress. This study extends our recent work showing that high cognitive ability may protect against ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Bridger E,Daly M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies during recent years have reported an increased occurrence of schizophrenia in selected immigrant groups. However, difficulties in establishing the population denominator for immigrant rates of mental disorder, selective referral for treatment, and other problems may have influenced such resul...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Mortensen PB,Cantor-Graae E,McNeil TF

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Classification of psychosis lacks a biological basis and current diagnostic categories may obscure underlying continuities. Data reduction methods of symptom profiles within a population-based cohort of people with a wide range of affective and non-affective psychoses may permit an empirical classification o...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Murray V,McKee I,Miller PM,Young D,Muir WJ,Pelosi AJ,Blackwood DH

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research suggests that genetic influences on disordered eating may be greater in pubertal than pre-pubertal girls. Although these findings are consistent with pubertal activation of genetic influences on disordered eating, earlier studies were unable to directly test this hypothesis. The purpose of ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Klump KL,Perkins PS,Alexandra Burt S,McGue M,Iacono WG

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spontaneous movement disorders (SMDs), such as spontaneous dyskinesia and parkinsonism, have been described in patients with schizophrenia who have never been treated with antipsychotic medication. Their presence has been documented extensively in chronic schizophrenia but not at the time of illness onset. ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Pappa S,Dazzan P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychosocial and inflammatory factors have been associated with fatigue in breast cancer survivors. Nevertheless, the relative contribution and/or interaction of these factors with cancer-related fatigue have not been well documented. METHOD:This cross-sectional study enrolled 111 stage 0-III breast cancer ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Xiao C,Miller AH,Felger J,Mister D,Liu T,Torres MA

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fatigue syndromes and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often occur together. Explanations include being different manifestations of the same condition and simply sharing some symptoms. METHOD:A matched case-control study in UK primary care, using data collected prospectively in the General Practice Research D...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Hamilton WT,Gallagher AM,Thomas JM,White PD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Personality characteristics of 87 parents of autistic probands and 38 parents of Down's syndrome probands were examined using a standardized personality interview. Using best-estimate ratings derived from subject and informant interviews, parents of autistic individuals were rated significantly higher than controls on...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Piven J,Wzorek M,Landa R,Lainhart J,Bolton P,Chase GA,Folstein S

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review the evidence that parental death in childhood predisposes to depressive disorders in later life. The findings in general are quite inconsistent; this is due in part to the methodological limitations of most studies, principally that of inadequate control of potentially confounding variables. Where e...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tennant C,Bebbington P,Hurry J

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty women recruited from attenders at the antenatal clinic of the Obstetrics Department of a general hospital were asked to complete ad hoc questionnaires during pregnancy; they were then interviewed by psychiatrists using a structured diagnostic interview, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and S...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Kitamura T,Shima S,Sugawara M,Toda MA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depressive syndromes not fulfilling the criteria for specified disorders (subthreshold depression, SD) may be clinically important. We aimed to study SD in old and very old age, in comparison with subjects with no depressive symptoms (NDS) and subjects with major depression (MD). METHODS:A community-based r...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Geiselmann B,Linden M,Helmchen H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) based on a psychiatric disorder (psychiatric EAS) continue to pose ethical and policy challenges, even in countries where the practice has been allowed for years. We conducted a systematic review of reasons, a specific type of review for bioethical questions designed to ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Nicolini ME,Kim SYH,Churchill ME,Gastmans C

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many reports which suggest that patients with effective illness (mania and/or depression) have abnormalities in the functioning of one or more neurobiological systems. At a conference convened by the Clinical Research Branch, Division of Extramural Research Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, thes...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Maas JW,Koslow SH,Davis JM,Katz MM,Mendels J,Robins E,Stokes PE,Bowden CL

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A non-recursive structural equation model designed to examine the reciprocal relationship between life event reports and depressive symptoms in women is presented. The model was fitted to data from a 2-year longitudinal study of life events and depression in a sample of women with 5-year-old children. The findings sug...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fergusson DM,Horwood LJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent anthropological studies have documented the importance of understanding the relation of culture to the experience of mental illness. The use of interviews that elicit explanatory models has facilitated such research, but currently available interviews are lengthy and impractical for epidemiological st...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Lloyd KR,Jacob KS,Patel V,St Louis L,Bhugra D,Mann AH

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and eighteen subjects with an admission diagnosis of schizophrenia were reassessed after 12 months to establish whether hospital readmission had occurred. All subjects were rated at baseline and after 12 months on the Life Skills Profile (LSP), a 39-item measure of disability, with scores demonstrating mod...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Parker G,Hadzi-Pavlovic D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monthly hospital admission rates (HA) for mania were classified by sex, type of admission (first, or re-admission) and by country (England and Wales or Scotland). Of the 8 classes thus created, all but one showed a statistically significant annual cycle with a peak in Summer and trough in Winter. There was no signific...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Myers DH,Davies P

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question addressed to in this paper is whether severely mentally ill patients are treated differently in a community mental health service without the back-up of a mental hospital (south-Verona, Italy) compared with an institution-based system in which mental hospitals, although highly modernized, are still predom...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Sytema S,Micciolo R,Tansella M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten depressed patients were assessed on an auditory signal detection task; testing was repeated on remission. The patients' clinical state was monitored by means of the Hamilton rating scale and the Beck Depression Inventory. The task was performed under three conditions: 2 button (Yes/No); 1 button (Yes); 1 button (N...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Malone JR,Hemsley DR

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to appreciate humour is essential to successful human interactions. In this study, we hypothesized that individuals with schizophrenia would have diminished ability to recognize and appreciate humour. The relationship between humour experience and clinical symptoms, cognitive and social functioni...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Tsoi DT,Lee KH,Gee KA,Holden KL,Parks RW,Woodruff PW

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delusional disorder (DD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been investigated in previous studies using probabilistic reasoning paradigms and abnormalities in each group have been reported. No study to date has compared results between these groups. This study compares patients with these disorders...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Fear CF,Healy D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The USA is currently enduring an opioid crisis. Identifying cost-effective, easy-to-implement behavioral measures that predict treatment outcomes in opioid misusers is a crucial scientific, therapeutic, and epidemiological goal. METHODS:The current study used a mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal design ...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Moeller SJ,Hanley AW,Garland EL

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reward dysfunction is a major dimension of depressive symptomatology, but it remains obscure if that dysfunction varies across different reward types. In this study, we focus on the abnormalities in anticipatory/consummatory processing of monetary and social reward associated with depressive symptoms. METHO...

journal_title：Psychological medicine

authors： Zhang D,Shen J,Bi R,Zhang Y,Zhou F,Feng C,Gu R

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00