More than eight in every nineteen inmates were living with depression at prisons of Northwest Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia, a cross sectional study design.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Problematic internet use (PIU) is an increasingly worrisome issue, as youth population studies are establishing links with internalizing and externalizing problems. There is a need for a better understanding of psychiatric diagnostic profiles associated with this issue, as well as its unique contributions to...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Restrepo A,Scheininger T,Clucas J,Alexander L,Salum GA,Georgiades K,Paksarian D,Merikangas KR,Milham MP

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asverin® (tipepidine hibenzate) has been used as an antitussive for > 50 years in Japan. Studies revealed that tipepidine modulates monoamine levels, by inhibiting G-protein-activated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels, expecting the potential therapeutic effects of tipepidine for attention-defici...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Saito T,Yamashita Y,Tomoda A,Okada T,Umeuchi H,Iwamori S,Shinoda S,Mizuno-Yasuhira A,Urano H,Nishino I,Saito K

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Good sibling relationships in adulthood are known to be a protective factor for mental health. The present study examined and compared the relationships of siblings with either a healthy brother or sister or one experiencing schizophrenia. METHODS:In the first phase, we ran a statistical comparison of the t...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Plessis L,Wilquin H,Pavani JB,Bouteyre E

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common anxiety disorders. The efficacy of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been examined but to date its effects on Quality of Life (QoL) have not been appropriately evaluated especially in the long term.The study aimed to examine, in the long term, what ...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Watanabe N,Furukawa TA,Chen J,Kinoshita Y,Nakano Y,Ogawa S,Funayama T,Ietsugu T,Noda Y

更新日期：2010-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr. Ougrin's evaluation of cognitive therapy versus exposure in anxiety disorders reported a standardised mean difference [SMD] (95% confidence interval [CI]) of 0.52 (0.37, 0.74) for short-term outcomes and 0.46 (0.29, 0.73) for long-term outcomes in social phobia, and 0.88 (0.69, 1.11) for short-term outcomes and 1....

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Ebrahim S,Bance S

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is limited evidence on the use of antipsychotics in patients with early-onset schizophrenia, which lags significantly behind the studies on adult patients' medication and has a large disparity from actual clinical needs. Hence, this study aims to analyse the status of the drug use and its changes for p...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Zhang J,Cheng X,Zhang H,Xu P,Jin P,Ke X

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) is highest in working age people and depression causes significant impairment in occupational functioning. Work productivity and work absence should be incorporated into clinical assessments but currently available scales may not be optimized for clinical use...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Lam RW,Michalak EE,Yatham LN

更新日期：2009-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with somatoform, depressive or anxiety disorders often don't respond well to medical treatment and experience many side effects. It is thus of clinical relevance to identify alternative, scientifically based, treatments. Our approach is based on the recent evidence that urbanicity has been shown to ...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Hüfner K,Ower C,Kemmler G,Vill T,Martini C,Schmitt A,Sperner-Unterweger B

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies suggest that immigrants have higher rates of anxiety-depression than compatriots in low-middle income countries and lower rates than populations in host high income countries. Elucidating the factors that underlie these stepwise variations in prevalence may throw new light on the pathogenesis of anxi...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Liddell BJ,Chey T,Silove D,Phan TT,Giao NM,Steel Z

更新日期：2013-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To protect and maintain the positivity of self-concept, normal people usually show a self-serving bias (internal attribution of positive events and external attribution of negative events) by the motives of self-enhancement and self-protection. Additionally, self-serving assessments predominantly activate th...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Wang Y,Zheng L,Wang C,Guo X

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Co-morbidity with substance use disorders negatively influences overall functioning in patients with psychosis. However, frequencies and courses of risky use of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes are rarely investigated in patients at psychosis units. The purpose of this study is to describe the use of alcohol, d...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Cruce G,Ojehagen A

更新日期：2007-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The potential link between sleep disorders and suicidal behaviour has been the subject of several reviews. We performed this meta-analysis to estimate the overall association between sleep disorders and suicidal behaviour and to identify a more specific relationship in patients with depression. METHODS:A sy...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Wang X,Cheng S,Xu H

更新日期：2019-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is a highly prevalent and disabling mental disorder with an incidence rate which appears to be increasing in the developed world. This fact seems to be at least partially related to lifestyle factors. Some hygienic-dietary measures have shown their efficacy as a coadjuvant of standard treatment. H...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Garcia-Toro M,Roca M,Monzón S,Vives M,Oliván B,Vicens E,Salva J,Gili M

更新日期：2012-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The World Health Organization (WHO) has included comorbidity between depression and a chronic disease among the 10 leading global health priorities. Although there is a high prevalence of multimorbidity, health care systems are mainly designed for the management of individual diseases. Given the difficulty i...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Monreal-Bartolomé A,Barceló-Soler A,Castro A,Pérez-Ara MÁ,Gili M,Mayoral F,Hurtado MM,Moreno EV,Botella C,García-Palacios A,Baños RM,López-Del-Hoyo Y,García-Campayo J

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental disorders constitute a major public health problem globally with higher burden in low and middle-income countries. In Bangladesh, systematically-collected data on mental disorders are scarce and this leaves the extent of the problem not so well defined. We reviewed the literature on mental health diso...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Hossain MD,Ahmed HU,Chowdhury WA,Niessen LW,Alam DS

更新日期：2014-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The challenges of today's society call for more knowledge about how to maintain all aspects of cognitive health, such as speed/attention, memory/learning, visuospatial ability, language, executive capacity and social cognition during the life course. MAIN TEXT:Medical advances have improved treatments of nu...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Wallin A,Kettunen P,Johansson PM,Jonsdottir IH,Nilsson C,Nilsson M,Eckerström M,Nordlund A,Nyberg L,Sunnerhagen KS,Svensson J,Terzis B,Wahlund LO,Georg Kuhn H

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Among patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS), some exhibited further clozapine resistance (CR). This study aimed to investigate whether greater severity of treatment resistance in schizophrenia is associated with greater impairments in sustained attention. METHODS:Patients with a DSM-IV-defin...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Lin AS,Chan HY,Peng YC,Chen WJ

更新日期：2019-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although effective treatments are available, most individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) do not receive an appropriate diagnosis or treatment. We aimed to examine treatment utilization and barriers to treatment, and to identify associated socio-demographic and clinical characteristics. METHODS:Germ...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Schulte J,Schulz C,Wilhelm S,Buhlmann U

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is believed to be under-diagnosed and under-treated in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). Early screening and referral to mental health services for treatment has been shown to enhance HIV patients' health during the course of HIV treatment. A lack of psychiatric specialist services for PLHIV at...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Thai TT,Jones MK,Harris LM,Heard RC

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Involuntary treatment for individuals who lack sufficient capacity to make informed decisions regarding treatment has been associated with increased rates of injectable antipsychotics, antipsychotic polytherapy, and/or high doses. However, little is known about non-antipsychotic psychotropic prescription, or...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Wheeler AJ,Hu J,Profitt C,McMillan SS,Theodoros T

更新日期：2020-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Conflicting evidence exists on whether parent or spouse caregivers experience better outcomes when caring for family members with schizophrenia. The current study aims to examine relative caregiving experiences and impacts of spouse and parent caregivers for people living with schizophrenia (PLS) in China. ...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Yu Y,Li TX,Li YL,Qiu D,Xi SJ,Xiao SY,Tebes JK

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Art Therapy has been promoted as a means of helping people who may find it difficult to express themselves verbally engage in psychological treatment. Group Art Therapy has been widely used as an adjunctive treatment for people with schizophrenia but there have been few attempts to examine its effects and co...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Crawford MJ,Killaspy H,Kalaitzaki E,Barrett B,Byford S,Patterson S,Soteriou T,O'Neill FA,Clayton K,Maratos A,Barnes TR,Osborn D,Johnson T,King M,Tyrer P,Waller D

更新日期：2010-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an endogenous inhibitor of the nitric oxide synthase, and the L-arginine:ADMA ratio are markers of endothelial dysfunction that predict mortality and adverse outcome in a range of cardiovasc...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Jorgensen A,Knorr U,Soendergaard MG,Lykkesfeldt J,Fink-Jensen A,Poulsen HE,Jorgensen MB,Olsen NV,Staalsø JM

更新日期：2015-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate psychometric properties of the Clinical Decision Making Style (CDMS) scale which measures general preferences for decision making as well as preferences regarding the provision of information to the patient from the perspectives of people with severe mental i...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Puschner B,Neumann P,Jordan H,Slade M,Fiorillo A,Giacco D,Egerházi A,Ivánka T,Bording MK,Sørensen HØ,Bär A,Kawohl W,Loos S,CEDAR study group.

更新日期：2013-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Japan's tolerance of alcohol consumption and intoxication pose extreme difficulties for community-dwelling alcoholics who wish to abstain from alcohol and maintain sobriety. Emotional problems triggered in daily life can easily lead to relapse, especially after abstinence. Alcoholics Anonymous places great e...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Kihara M,Kitaoka K

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cocaine, particularly in its base form ('crack'), has become one of the drugs of most concern in the Netherlands, being associated with a wide range of medical, psychiatric and social problems for the individual, and with significant public order consequences for society. Available treatment options for coca...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Nuijten M,Blanken P,van den Brink W,Hendriks V

更新日期：2011-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alexithymia has been a familiar conception of psychosomatic phenomenon. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there were subtypes of alexithymia associating with different traits of emotional expression and regulation among a group of healthy college students. METHODS:1788 healthy college student...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Chen J,Xu T,Jing J,Chan RC

更新日期：2011-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well documented that a disproportionate number of homeless adults have childhood histories of foster care placement(s). This study examines the relationship between foster care placement as a predictor of adult substance use disorders (including frequency, severity and type), mental illness, vocational...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Patterson ML,Moniruzzaman A,Somers JM

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Agitation and containment are frequent in psychiatric care but little is known about their costs. The aim was to evaluate the use of services and costs related to agitation and containment of adult patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital or emergency service. METHODS:Systematic searches of four electron...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Rubio-Valera M,Luciano JV,Ortiz JM,Salvador-Carulla L,Gracia A,Serrano-Blanco A

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since 2009 some German health insurance companies have implemented integrated mental health care services along the principles of assertive community treatment in collaboration with local mental health service providers across Germany. Focus of this study is the analysis of effectiveness and cost-effectivene...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Stierlin AS,Herder K,Helmbrecht MJ,Prinz S,Walendzik J,Holzmann M,Becker T,Schützwohl M,Kilian R

更新日期：2014-06-04 00:00:00