Sensitivity and specificity of observer and self-report questionnaires in major and minor depression following myocardial infarction.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of diabetes in Canada is increasing. Multiple factors have been identified in the development of disability in diabetic patients, but the interaction of those risk factors is not clear. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this paper was to assess the association between diabetes severity, health behavio...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Schmitz N,Messier L,Nitka D,Ivanova A,Gariepy G,Wang J,Malla A,Boyer R,Lesage A,Strychar I

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental illness is associated with an increased risk for medical hospitalizations. OBJECTIVE:This study investigates the degree to which nonpsychiatric factors account for these hospitalizations. METHODS:Using National Veterans Health Administration (VHA) fiscal year 2012 data for 2 million veterans under t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Moore DT,Rosenheck RA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the prevalence of somatoform disorders (SDs) in primary care, a questionnaire including the modified 25-item version of the Symptom Checklist-90 was administered to 191 patients consecutively consulting their family physician. A stratified sample of the patients was interviewed with the Schedules for Clinical...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Fink P,Sørensen L,Engberg M,Holm M,Munk-Jørgensen P

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:First-episode secondary mania in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been described among samples of predominantly Caucasian, HIV-positive male patients in developed countries. OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to compare the demographic and clinical characteristics of HIV-positive patients ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Nakimuli-Mpungu E,Musisi S,Kiwuwa Mpungu S,Katabira E

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can be life-saving in treating depression, even for high-risk cardiac patients. A 56-year-old man with type 2 diabetes and dilated cardiomyopathy, using both a defibrillator and an experimental cardiac contractility modulator, had had episodes of severe depression superimposed...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lynch AM,Pandurangi AK,Levenson JL

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examine the relationship of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) to sociodemographic characteristics, medical history, symptomatology, and illness cognition in a sample of 244 family medicine patients. The TAS had moderate internal reliability. In multiple regression analysis, the TAS was related to age, ed...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kirmayer LJ,Robbins JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors examined the correlation of subjective body complaints (measured by the Giessen Subjective Complaints List) with sociodemographic data, objective health measures, measures of subjective well-being, and clinicians' ratings of somatization and psychological impairment in 251 cognitively unimpaired general ho...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Schneider G,Wachter M,Driesch G,Kruse A,Nehen HG,Heuft G

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with severe mental illness have elevated rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes compared with the general population, but little is known about the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome that predisposes patients with severe mental illness to both medical conditions. The purpose of this study was to...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bermudes RA,Keck PE Jr,Welge JA

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe personality disorder has been proposed as a contraindication for liver transplantation. Seventy-three subjects with alcoholic-related liver disease were evaluated for personality disorder and followed for 6 months. The subjects with severe personality disorder had higher rates of divorce, higher rates of comorb...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Yates WR,LaBrecque DR,Pfab D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the effects of psychotropic medications on the eye. Although some of these effects have been known for years, they have been largely ignored by psychiatrists. The ophthalmologic effects of antidepressants, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, carbamazepine, and lithium in therapeutic doses and overdose ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Malone DA Jr,Camara EG,Krug JH Jr

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：:The impact of a community-based consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry service on family physicians' levels of psychiatric knowledge, diagnostic and treatment confidence, and patterns of referral to mental health care agencies was evaluated over a 12-month period. The physicians with long-term access to the C-L service...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Carr VJ,Faehrmann C,Lewin TJ,Walton JM,Reid AA

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Identify the frequency with which pediatric care teams recognize delirium in patients referred for psychiatric consultation, whether their diagnosis is substantiated by the involved consultant, and whether this diagnosis is documented in the discharge problem list. METHODS:A retrospective chart review was co...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kelly P,Frosch E

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite attention to depression and cognitive disorders, the prevalence of other mental disorders following breast cancer chemotherapy has not been well described. The authors undertook a pilot study using insurance claims data to compare the prevalence of mental disorders other than depression in a population of brea...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Miller SL,Jones LE,Carney CP

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of 294 consecutive medical inpatients, the authors assessed a subsample of 157 patients for psychiatric diagnoses using an extensive semistructured interview, Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Patients rated their health and physical functioning, and medical consultants assessed t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hansen MS,Fink P,Frydenberg M,Oxhøj ML,Søndergaard L,Eriksen M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 12-week placebo-controlled study of fluoxetine in the treatment of body dysmorphic disorder, the authors investigated change in psychosocial functioning and mental health-related quality of life in 60 subjects. The subjects were assessed with the LIFE-RIFT (a measure of impaired functioning), Social and Occupatio...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Phillips KA,Rasmussen SA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The face is prominently or exclusively involved in several involuntary movement disorders, called "facial dyskinesias," in addition to the common buccolingual form of tardive dyskinesia. This review describes the appearance of the most frequently occurring facial dyskinesias: chorea, dystonia, tremor, and tics. Some n...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kaufman DM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Part 1 of this 2-part series, the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in primary care settings was reviewed as well as evidence that indicates that these conditions often go underrecognized and undertreated by primary care physicians. Educational studies to improve the psychiatric skills of primary care physician...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Stoudemire A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychosocial assessments of candidates for organ transplant surgery are conducted to ascertain that potential patients are likely to benefit from the surgery through adequate coping, good compliance, and commitment to rehabilitation. Such assessments must be based on a realistic analysis of the behavioral demands of t...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Olbrisch ME,Levenson JL

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigated the prevalence and incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan. METHODS:From the database provided by the National Health Research Institute, we obtained a random sample of 766,427 subjects aged ≥18 years in 2005. Subjects with a prima...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hsu JH,Chien IC,Lin CH,Chou YJ,Chou P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression and anxiety are common in heart failure, but the prevalence, incidence, and relationship of these conditions to health service use and mortality remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE:The authors sought to delineate these parameters and identify patient factors predicting hospitalizations for heart failure...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Cully JA,Johnson M,Moffett ML,Khan M,Deswal A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antipsychotic drugs have many side effects, including elevation of prolactin levels through tuberoinfundibular dopamine-receptor blockade. Although a number of studies claim that aripiprazole is a prolactin-sparing antipsychotic drug that may even lower prolactin levels, there has not been an exhaustive eval...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Hoffer ZS,Roth RL,Mathews M

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and risk factors for recurrent ischemia were evaluated in 65 survivors of a myocardial infarction (MI) at baseline and 6 months afterward. PTSD patients had more uncontrolled cardiovascular risk factors at baseline. Patients with PTSD (N=14) were offered trauma-focused ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Shemesh E,Koren-Michowitz M,Yehuda R,Milo-Cotter O,Murdock E,Vered Z,Shneider BL,Gorman JM,Cotter G

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation compared how perceived memory ability or level of worry about memory related to performance on objective tests of memory and cognition. Data from 1,488 participants from the Baltimore cohort of the Epidemiologic Catchment Area study were analyzed. Significant associations were found between self-rat...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Podewils LJ,McLay RN,Rebok GW,Lyketsos CG

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatizing patients present a history of vague, unexplained medical symptoms. This study compared somatizing patients with pulmonary control subjects by using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS-III-R), the Illness Attitude Scales (IAS), and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). The groups diffe...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Labott SM,Preisman RC,Torosian T,Popovich J Jr,Iannuzzi MC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medical directors need management skills; yet, few studies describe the specific tasks that directors consider most important, their confidence for these tasks, and how their confidence develops. We studied these questions among directors in the subspecialty of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. METHODS:A nee...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bronson B,Perlman G

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The motivation of patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders to accept psychotherapy (PT) as a treatment option is not known. OBJECTIVE:The authors investigated motivation for patients' refusal to participate and dropout from PT/medical management programs. METHOD:Consecutive patients with symptom...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Martens U,Enck P,Matheis A,Herzog W,Klosterhalfen S,Rühl A,Zipfel S,Sammet I

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is widely believed that women with heart disease have poorer adjustment than men, the term 'adjustment' has typically been narrowly defined as depression. Gender differences in adjustment more broadly defined to encompass functional limitations in addition to depression have seldom been investiga...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Scott KM,Collings SC

更新日期：2012-01-01 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