Depression in Korean immigrants with hepatitis B and related liver diseases.

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:Falls and delirium in general-hospital inpatients are related to increases in morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Patients fall despite safeguards and programs to reduce falling. OBJECTIVE:The authors sought to determine the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed delirium in patients who fell durin...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Lakatos BE,Capasso V,Mitchell MT,Kilroy SM,Lussier-Cushing M,Sumner L,Repper-Delisi J,Kelleher EP,Delisle LA,Cruz C,Stern TA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is the major psychiatric complication of Parkinson's disease, and it occurs in approximately one-third of all cases. Diagnosis of depression is complicated by the overlap of depressive and parkinsonian symptoms. Its etiology is not fully understood but involves changes in dopamine and serotonin. Depression ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Guze BH,Barrio JC

更新日期：1991-10-01 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:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of hepatocellular carcinoma and cirrhosis in the United States and is known to be transmitted via pathways associated with substance use (e.g., injection drug use and intranasal drug use). OBJECTIVE:Although individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) have a high...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Himelhoch S,McCarthy JF,Ganoczy D,Medoff D,Kilbourne A,Goldberg R,Dixon L,Blow FC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescent cancer survivors were compared with nondiseased control subjects on measures of adaptation, coping, body image, sexual adjustment, psychopathology, and family functioning. Cancer survivors reported no major difficulties in social competence, overall coping, and family communication. Although their school te...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Madan-Swain A,Brown RT,Sexson SB,Baldwin K,Pais R,Ragab A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry clerkship rotations may improve medical students' understanding of psychiatric principles relevant to the settings in which they will ultimately practice. This study aimed to characterize students' experiences on C-L rotations. METHODS:This cross-sectional survey study,...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Meyer F,Abbasi O,Kasick D,Lee K,Pelic C,Zinser J,Harris T,Funk M,Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine’s Medical Student Education Subcommittee.

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scurvy is a disease with well-known peripheral symptoms, such as bleeding and pain. METHODS:The clinical and historical evidence for a distinct form of scurvy affecting the central nervous system, called neuropsychiatric scurvy, is reviewed. Pathophysiologic factors are described, as well as its diagnosis a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Brown TM

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 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：:Authors reviewed consecutive charts of 155 cognitive-disorder patients from a psychosomatic medicine service in 2001, analyzing factors of age, cognitive-disorder diagnosis, and length of stay. Mean length of stay for this cohort exceeded the typical hospital length of stay, and decreased with age. Increased age was a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Bourgeois JA,Hilty DM,Wegelin JA,Hales RE

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify the proximate causes through which dementia and delirium extend length of stay (LOS) in elderly general hospital patients. Among 93 patients age >/=65 years admitted to a tertiary-care teaching hospital through the emergency department, admission ratings of cognitive impairmen...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Saravay SM,Kaplowitz M,Kurek J,Zeman D,Pollack S,Novik S,Knowlton S,Brendel M,Hoffman L

更新日期：2004-05-01 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: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：: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：:Thirty inpatients with multiple somatoform symptoms admitted to a psychosomatic hospital were diagnosed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R and questionnaires. Two years later, a reexamination by interview and a follow-up questionnaire took place. The authors found high comorbidity rates not only for...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Rief W,Hiller W,Geissner E,Fichter MM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compared the severity and clinical profiles of patients with two etiologically different apathy syndromes: apathy after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and deficit schizophrenia (DSS). Patients from both groups were equally apathetic, but those with DSS had more severe anhedonia, blunted affect, and alogia, a...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Rao V,Spiro JR,Schretlen DJ,Cascella NG

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Factitious disorder (FD) is the deliberate production or simulation of symptoms in order to adopt the sick role. OBJECTIVE:The authors look at FD in the neurology setting. METHOD:The authors examined documented, published cases. RESULTS:FD cases in neurology are strikingly different from those in other sp...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Kanaan RA,Wessely SC

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although physical restraint is still used in psychiatric inpatient settings, it sometimes causes serious side effects, including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and resulting pulmonary embolism. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of the DVT in restrained patients who were receiving ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Ishida T,Katagiri T,Uchida H,Takeuchi H,Sakurai H,Watanabe K,Mimura M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to describe past traumatic experiences in medically-admitted pediatric and young adult patients diagnosed with somatoform disorders and to explore the demographic, diagnostic, and psychosocial differences between those with and without trauma histories. METHODS:Retrospective medi...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Thomson K,Randall E,Ibeziako P,Bujoreanu IS

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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：:The results of an experimental training program in sexologic interviewing for a multidisciplinary arthritis patient care team are reported. The program included didactic instruction, observation and practice of interviewing skills, a seminar, and a case presentation. Trainees had gained more knowledge than control sub...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Blake DJ,Weaver W,Maisiak R,Alarcon GS,Brown S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the treatment of psychiatric patients with complicating medical illness, clinicians may encounter patients who cannot take oral medications. This review will acquaint the practicing clinical psychiatrist with psychotropic medications available by nonenteral routes of administration. A computerized MEDLINE search wa...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Thompson D,DiMartini A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression in patients with diabetes is associated with poorer adherence and worse health outcomes, however treating depression may help improve these outcomes. OBJECTIVE:The present systematic review identified published papers to evaluate treatments for depression in patients with diabetes. RESULTS:Seven...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Markowitz SM,Gonzalez JS,Wilkinson JL,Safren SA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comorbidity between vestibular and psychiatric disorders in predisposed individuals is underestimated, untreated, and may result in chronicization and poor quality of life. There are few studies concerning the type and the prevalence of psychiatric-psychosomatic distress in patients with benign paroxysmal po...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Ferrari S,Monzani D,Baraldi S,Simoni E,Prati G,Forghieri M,Rigatelli M,Genovese E,Pingani L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been found to be comorbid with various medical conditions in clinical samples, but little research has investigated CFS comorbidity in population-based samples. OBJECTIVE:This study investigated conditions concurrent with a CFS-like illness among twins in the population-ba...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Dansie EJ,Furberg H,Afari N,Buchwald D,Edwards K,Goldberg J,Schur E,Sullivan PF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflicts among consultants are frequent in general hospitals. Unfortunately, such disputes are rarely resolved to the satisfaction of all concerned. The authors discuss the conflicts that may arise among consultants and review techniques that can lead to more effective collaboration. Authors review the literature on ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Caplan JP,Epstein LA,Stern TA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe 12 patients with antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinemia. Six patients had erroneous ideas of being pregnant (four delusional and two non-delusional) temporally associated with hyperprolactinemia and resolving as prolactin levels returned to normal. The remaining six patients did not develop such...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Ahuja N,Moorhead S,Lloyd AJ,Cole AJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have been reported to occur in Type I diabetes mellitus. Although prevalence estimates vary, the most rigorous studies yield rates similar to the population at large. Intentional insulin omission is more common, especially in young diabetic women, and at times ...

journal_title：Psychosomatics

authors： Crow SJ,Keel PK,Kendall D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00