Narrative exposure therapy for immigrant children traumatized by war: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of effectiveness and mechanisms of change.

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the perinatal period, suicides are more likely to occur in those with depression and who are not receiving active treatment at the time of death. Suicide is a common outcome in people with suicide ideation. We developed an intervention program taking care of comprehensive perinatal maternal mental hea...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Tachibana Y,Koizumi N,Mikami M,Shikada K,Yamashita S,Shimizu M,Machida K,Ito H

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Economic crises and unemployment have profound impact on mental health and well-being. Main goal of the Healthy Employment (HE) project is to enhance intersectoral actions promoting mental health among unemployed, namely through the implementation and effectiveness-evaluation of short-term and sustainable gr...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Virgolino A,Heitor MJ,Carreiras J,Lopes E,Øverland S,Torp S,Guðmundsdóttir D,Miguel JP,Fátima Reis M,Santos O

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) should follow an adequate methodology using an evidence-based approach in order to provide reliable recommendations. However, little is known regarding the quality of CPGs for Depression, which precludes its adequate use by stakeholders and mental health professionals. Thu...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Zafra-Tanaka JH,Goicochea-Lugo S,Villarreal-Zegarra D,Taype-Rondan A

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Strong longitudinal evidence exists that psychological distress is associated with a high morbidity and mortality risk in type 2 diabetes. Little is known about the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may explain this association. Moreover, the role of personality traits in these associations is still ...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： van Dooren FE,Denollet J,Verhey FR,Stehouwer CD,Sep SJ,Henry RM,Kremers SP,Dagnelie PC,Schaper NC,van der Kallen CJ,Koster A,Pouwer F,Schram MT

更新日期：2016-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is estimated that around 4% of the population engages, or has engaged, in deliberate non-suicidal self-injury. In clinical samples, the figures rise as high as 21%. There is also evidence to suggest that these figures may be increasing. A family member or friend may suspect that a person is injuring thems...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Kelly CM,Jorm AF,Kitchener BA,Langlands RL

更新日期：2008-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is a progressive and fatal cardiovascular disease if left untreated. In patients with IPAH with psychiatric illness or other complications, careful attention is required when administering medical therapies that may affect their hemodynamics. Patients sufferi...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Hobo M,Uezato A,Nishiyama M,Suzuki M,Kurata J,Makita K,Yamamoto N,Nishikawa T

更新日期：2016-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, whether, when and how to use antidepressants to treat depressive disorder in children and adolescents has been hotly debated. Relevant evidence on this topic has increased rapidly. In this paper, we present the construction and content of a database of randomised controlled trials of antidep...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Zhang Y,Zhou X,Pu J,Zhang H,Yang L,Liu L,Zhou C,Yuan S,Jiang X,Xie P

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is often comorbid with psychiatric and developmental disorders. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of obesity and overweight among Chinese children with ADHD, and to explore which subtypes of the disorder may specifically be associated with obesity/...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Yang R,Mao S,Zhang S,Li R,Zhao Z

更新日期：2013-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence-based mental health interventions have helped address health services gaps, but their reach and societal benefit can be limited in low resource settings. The current study extends an ongoing scale-up study of a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based intervention, the Youth Readiness Intervention (...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Desrosiers A,Kumar P,Dayal A,Alex L,Akram A,Betancourt T

更新日期：2020-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormalities in vocal expression during a depressed episode have frequently been reported in people with depression, but less is known about if these abnormalities only exist in special situations. In addition, the impacts of irrelevant demographic variables on voice were uncontrolled in previous studies. T...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Wang J,Zhang L,Liu T,Pan W,Hu B,Zhu T

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of anxiety/depression is quite high during the perinatal period but unfortunately its detection and treatment have been less than satisfactory. Moreover, many women are reluctant to take pharmacotherapy for fear of excretion of drugs into their breast milk. This study assesses the effectivenes...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Ali NS,Ali BS,Azam IS,Khuwaja AK

更新日期：2010-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can have long-term and far-reaching impacts on health and social and occupational functioning. This study examined factors associated with persistent PTSD among U.S. service members and veterans. METHODS:Using baseline and follow-up (2001-2013) questionnaire data collect...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Armenta RF,Rush T,LeardMann CA,Millegan J,Cooper A,Hoge CW,Millennium Cohort Study team.

更新日期：2018-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although persistent negative symptoms (PNS) are known to contribute significantly to poor functional outcome, they remain poorly understood. We examined the heuristic value of various PNS definitions and their respective prevalence in patients with first episode psychosis (FEP). We also contrasted those defi...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Hovington CL,Bodnar M,Joober R,Malla AK,Lepage M

更新日期：2012-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychological distress, psychosomatic complaints and clinical mental disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are highly prevalent among refugees than other populations. Even though there were several studies done on mental health of refugees globally, there is very few in Ethiopia reg...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Feyera F,Mihretie G,Bedaso A,Gedle D,Kumera G

更新日期：2015-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of literature shows that patients accept the use of computers in clinical care. Nonetheless, studies have shown that computers unequivocally change both verbal and non-verbal communication style and increase patients' concerns about the privacy of their records. We found no studies which evalu...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Stewart RF,Kroth PJ,Schuyler M,Bailey R

更新日期：2010-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a major public health burden in conflict areas. However, it is not known for how long and by how much the observed high rates of MDD seen in conflict settings persist into the post-conflict period. METHODS:A cross sectional survey was employed seven years after the conflic...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Mugisha J,Muyinda H,Malamba S,Kinyanda E

更新日期：2015-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the biological underpinnings of relapse in alcohol dependency is a major issue in addiction research. Based on recent evidence regarding the relevance of occipital visual evoked response potentials (ERPs) in addiction research, and its significance for relapse research, we assessed occipital ER...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Matheus-Roth C,Schenk I,Wiltfang J,Scherbaum N,Müller BW

更新日期：2016-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia is a chronic mental health disorder associated with increased hospital admissions and excessive utilization of outpatient services and long-term care. This analysis examined health care resource utilization from a 24-month observational study of patients with schizophrenia initiated on risperid...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Crivera C,DeSouza C,Kozma CM,Dirani RD,Mao L,Macfadden W

更新日期：2011-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is common in primary care and is often unrecognized and untreated. Studies are needed to demonstrate the feasibility of implementing evidence-based depression care provided by primary health care workers (PHCWs) in sub-Saharan Africa. We carried out a pilot two-parallel arm cluster randomized cont...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Oladeji BD,Kola L,Abiona T,Montgomery AA,Araya R,Gureje O

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The literature suggests that many people in the general population tend to distance themselves from those with mental illness. However, there are volunteers that behave differently, spending their free time with people with mental illness and providing direct input in the form of befriending. Whilst there ar...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Toner S,Hickling LM,Pinto da Costa M,Cassidy M,Priebe S

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Schizophrenia has been linked with intrauterine exposure to maternal stress due to bereavement, famine and major disasters. Recent evidence suggests that human vulnerability may be greatest in the first trimester of gestation and rodent experiments suggest sex specificity. We aimed to describe the consequenc...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Malaspina D,Corcoran C,Kleinhaus KR,Perrin MC,Fennig S,Nahon D,Friedlander Y,Harlap S

更新日期：2008-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The weight-gain caused by many psychotropic drugs is a major cause for poor compliance with such medications and could also increase cardio-vascular morbidity among psychiatric patients. Recent reports have shown that the anticonvulsant topiramate causes weight loss in various patient groups. The drug has al...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Kirov G,Tredget J

更新日期：2005-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical assessment of depression is an important part of pre-surgical assessment among individuals with morbid obesity. However, there is no agreed-upon instrument to identify mood psychopathology in this population. We examined the reliability and criterion validity of the clinician-administered Montgomery...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Duarte-Guerra LS,Gorenstein C,Paiva-Medeiros PF,Santo MA,Lotufo Neto F,Wang YP

更新日期：2016-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common mental disorders and causes subjective suffering and economic burden worldwide. Although effective treatments are available, a lot of cases go untreated. Internet-based self-help is a low-threshold and flexible treatment alternative for SAD. Various stu...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Schulz A,Stolz T,Berger T

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family members who care for patients with severe mental illness experience emotional distress and report a higher incidence of mental illness than those in the general population. They report feeling inadequately prepared to provide the necessary practical and emotional support for these patients. The MAT tr...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Gharavi Y,Stringer B,Hoogendoorn A,Boogaarts J,Van Raaij B,Van Meijel B

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are currently no systematic reviews or meta-analyses of Chinese calligraphy therapy (CCT) to reduce neuropsychiatric symptoms. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to explore the efficacy of CCT for people with neuropsychiatric symptoms. METHODS:We searched Chinese and English datab...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Chu KY,Huang CY,Ouyang WC

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brief Admission is a crisis and risk management strategy in which self-harming and suicidal individuals with three or more diagnostic criteria of borderline personality disorder self-admit to hospital at times of increasing risk when other efforts to stay safe are failing. Standardized in the current randomi...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Liljedahl SI,Helleman M,Daukantaité D,Westrin Å,Westling S

更新日期：2017-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polymorphisms at the G72/G30 locus on chromosome 13q have been associated with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in more than ten independent studies. Even though the genetic findings are very robust, the physiological role of the predicted G72 protein has thus far not been resolved. Initial reports suggeste...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Benzel I,Kew JN,Viknaraja R,Kelly F,de Belleroche J,Hirsch S,Sanderson TH,Maycox PR

更新日期：2008-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mentalisation-based treatment (MBT) in borderline personality disorder (BPD) has a growing evidence base, but there is a lack of effectiveness and moderator studies. The present study examined the effectiveness of MBT in a naturalistic setting and explored psychiatric and psychological moderators of outcome....

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Löf J,Clinton D,Kaldo V,Rydén G

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Catatonia is frequently associated with mood and psychotic disorders as well as with general medical conditions, especially with seizures. In the case of the latter, catatonia mostly resolves when the seizures respond to the anticonvulsive treatment. We report, to our knowledge, the first case of a patient w...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Verbraeken R,Luykx JJ

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00