Efficacy of "Family Connections", a program for relatives of people with borderline personality disorder, in the Spanish population: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

abstract：BACKGROUND:While observational studies show that an active lifestyle including cognitive, physical, and social activities is associated with a reduced risk of cognitive decline and dementia, experimental evidence from corresponding training interventions is more inconsistent with less pronounced effects. The aim of thi...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Küster OC,Fissler P,Laptinskaya D,Thurm F,Scharpf A,Woll A,Kolassa S,Kramer AF,Elbert T,von Arnim CA,Kolassa IT

更新日期：2016-09-08 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:Shared decision making is a promising model for patient-centred medicine, resulting in better clinical outcomes overall. In the mental health field, interventions that consider the patient-centred perspective--such as patient quality of life, involvement in the treatment, treatment satisfaction, and working ...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Ishii M,Okumura Y,Sugiyama N,Hasegawa H,Noda T,Hirayasu Y,Ito H

更新日期：2014-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) for mental healthcare, where a consulting psychiatrist supports primary care and behavioral health workers, has the potential to address the large unmet burden of mental illness worldwide. A core component of this model is that the psychiatrist reviews treatment plans for ...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Rimal P,Maru D,Chwastiak L,Agrawal P,Rao D,Swar S,Citrin D,Acharya B

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atypical antipsychotics are increasingly used for treatment of mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and considered to have fewer extrapyramidal effects than older antipsychotics. METHODS:We examined efficacy in randomised trials of bipolar disorder where the presenting episode was eithe...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Derry S,Moore RA

更新日期：2007-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 1963, Nicolaas Tinbergen published an article on "the aims and methods of ethology" in which he identified a fundamental framework for the scientific inquiry into the understanding of biological phenomena. In particular, he emphasized to not only study what he called the "proximate" causes, that is, mecha...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Brüne M

更新日期：2014-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reports of inappropriate medication use are widespread. There is a growing literature detailing abuse of drugs not typically thought to have high abuse liability. Melatonin is considered to be generally safe and is categorized by the Food and Drug Administration as a nutritional supplement. There are no know...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Warren MB,Stabler J,Hagman MM

更新日期：2016-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with schizophrenia may have a higher risk of encounters with the criminal justice system than the general population, but there are limited data on such encounters and their attendant costs. This study assessed the prevalence of encounters with the criminal justice system, encounter types, and th...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Ascher-Svanum H,Nyhuis AW,Faries DE,Ball DE,Kinon BJ

更新日期：2010-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of smoking in patients with schizophrenia is higher than that in the general population and is an important medical issue. Short-term smoking cessation tends to worsen psychiatric symptoms in patients with schizophrenia but decreases sympathetic nervous system activity and improves plasma chol...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Miyauchi M,Kishida I,Suda A,Shiraishi Y,Fujibayashi M,Taguri M,Ishii C,Ishii N,Moritani T,Hirayasu Y

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The number of psychiatric care beds and the mean length of stay in psychiatric care beds in Japan have decreased over the past 10 years. However, as has long been indicated here and elsewhere, Japan lags behind other countries in terms of deinstitutionalization. Furthermore, the population of inpatients in p...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Okayama T,Usuda K,Okazaki E,Yamanouchi Y

更新日期：2020-11-03 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:Widespread cortical gray matter alternations in people with schizophrenia are correlated with both psychotic symptoms and cognitive/behavioral abnormalities, including the impairments of exploratory eye movement (EEM). Particularly, the loss of gray matter density is specifically related to deficits of the r...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Qiu L,Yan H,Zhu R,Yan J,Yuan H,Han Y,Yue W,Tian L,Zhang D

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals affected by severe Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are often heavy users of Mental Health Services (MHS). Short-term treatments currently used in BPD therapy are useful to target disruptive behaviors but they are less effective in reducing heavy MHS use. Therefore, alternative short-term tr...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Amianto F,Ferrero A,Pierò A,Cairo E,Rocca G,Simonelli B,Fassina S,Abbate-Daga G,Fassino S

更新日期：2011-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With a rapidly ageing population and increasing life expectancy, programs directed at improving the mental health and quality of life (QOL) of older persons are extremely important. This issue may be particularly relevant in the aged-care residential sector, where very high rates of depression and poor QOL a...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Atkins J,Naismith SL,Luscombe GM,Hickie IB

更新日期：2013-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent prevalence studies suggest that self-harm among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa is as common as it is in high income countries. However, very few qualitative studies exploring first-person accounts of adolescent self-harm are available from sub-Saharan Africa. We sought to explore the experiences an...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Quarshie EN,Waterman MG,House AO

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) is the most widely and frequently used scale to assess positive and negative affect. The PANAS has been validated in several languages, and it has shown excellent psychometric properties in the general population and some clinical samples, such as forensic sa...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Díaz-García A,González-Robles A,Mor S,Mira A,Quero S,García-Palacios A,Baños RM,Botella C

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimal treatment of patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) requires an awareness of their comorbid mental disorders and vice versa. The prevalence of comorbidity in first-time-admitted SUD patients has been insufficiently studied. Diagnosing comorbidity in substance users is complicated by symptom...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Langås AM,Malt UF,Opjordsmoen S

更新日期：2011-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Societies strive for fast-delivered, evidence-based and need-oriented depression treatment within budget constraints. To explore potential improvements, selective contracts can be implemented. Here, we evaluate if the German collaborative psychiatry-neurology-psychotherapy contract (PNP), which extends the g...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Engels A,König HH,Magaard JL,Härter M,Hawighorst-Knapstein S,Chaudhuri A,Brettschneider C

更新日期：2020-12-14 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: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:Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with exposure and response prevention (ERP) is the first-line treatment for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, not all of them achieve remission on a longterm basis. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) represents a new 8-week group therapy pr...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Hertenstein E,Rose N,Voderholzer U,Heidenreich T,Nissen C,Thiel N,Herbst N,Külz AK

更新日期：2012-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological factors influencing individual response to drugs are being extensively studied in psychiatry. Strikingly, there are few studies addressing social and cultural differences in attitudes toward psychotropic medications. The objective of this study was to investigate ethno-culturally determined belief...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Thorens G,Gex-Fabry M,Zullino DF,Eytan A

更新日期：2008-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the range of available, evidence-based treatment options for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), the rather low response and remission rates suggest that treatment is not optimal, yet. Computerized attention bias modification (ABM) trainings may have the potential to be provided as cost-effective interv...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Ferrari GR,Becker ES,Smit F,Rinck M,Spijker J

更新日期：2016-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postnatal depression is a non-psychotic depressive disorder that begins within 4 weeks of childbirth and occurs in 13% of mothers and 10% of fathers. A prospective study with the aim to evaluate the prevalence of postnatal depression by screening parents with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) i...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Clavenna A,Seletti E,Cartabia M,Didoni A,Fortinguerra F,Sciascia T,Brivio L,Malnis D,Bonati M,Postnatal Depression Study Group.

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While considerable progress has been made in exploring the psychological, the neural, and the neurochemical dimensions of OCD separately, their interplay is still an open question, especially their changes during psychotherapy. METHODS:Seventeen patients were assessed at these three levels by psychological ...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Viol K,Schiepek G,Kronbichler M,Hartl A,Grafetstätter C,Strasser P,Kastinger A,Schöller H,Reiter EM,Said-Yürekli S,Kronbichler L,Kravanja-Spannberger B,Stöger-Schmidinger B,Hütt MT,Aichhorn W,Aas B

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a lack of consistency in findings across studies on the prevalence of schizophrenia, and no recent systematic review of the literature exists. The purpose of this study is to provide an updated systematic review of population-based prevalence estimates and to understand the factors that could accoun...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Simeone JC,Ward AJ,Rotella P,Collins J,Windisch R

更新日期：2015-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autistic personality traits (APT) and schizotypal personality traits (SPT) are associated with depression. However, mediating factors within these relationships have not yet been explored. Thus, the focus of the current study was to examine the effects of childhood neglect on the relationship between APT/SPT...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Liu J,Gong J,Nie G,He Y,Xiao B,Shen Y,Luo X

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this systematic review is to synthesize existing evidence about treatment satisfaction among clients with substance misuse and mental health co-morbidity (dual diagnoses, DD). METHODS:We examined satisfaction with treatment received, variations in satisfaction levels by type of treatment interven...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Schulte SJ,Meier PS,Stirling J

更新日期：2011-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Synapsins (SYN1, SYN2, and SYN3) are important players in the adult brain, given their involvement in synaptic transmission and plasticity, as well as in the developing brain through roles in axon outgrowth and synaptogenesis. We and others previously reported gene expression dysregulation, both as incre...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Cruceanu C,Kutsarova E,Chen ES,Checknita DR,Nagy C,Lopez JP,Alda M,Rouleau GA,Turecki G

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with stress-related exhaustion suffer from cognitive impairments, which often remain after psychological treatment or work place interventions. It is important to find effective treatments that can address this problem. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects on cognitive per...

journal_title：BMC psychiatry

authors： Eskilsson T,Slunga Järvholm L,Malmberg Gavelin H,Stigsdotter Neely A,Boraxbekk CJ

更新日期：2017-09-02 00:00:00