abstract：:Our aim was to study factors associated with long-term non-recovery from major depression. A total of 109 patients with major depression were followed prospectively for 2 years. A diagnosis of major depression based on SCID interviews at follow-up indicated non-recovery. The effect of several established risk factors ...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Viinamäki H,Haatainen K,Honkalampi K,Tanskanen A,Koivumaa-Honkanen H,Antikainen R,Valkonen-Korhonen M,Hintikka J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is highly relevant to estimate to what extent a person with schizophrenia engages in occupations and participates in different life situations in order to understand the determinants of well-being in this group of people. This study aimed at examining the construct validity of the instrument Profile of Occupational...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Bejerholm U,Eklund M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the most frequently reported mental health problems in traumatized refugees are depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The aim of this paper is to describe a group of tortured refugees referred to the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims (RCT) and to study the importan...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Carlsson JM,Mortensen EL,Kastrup M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate internal as well as external validity of the two most frequently used mania scales, the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) and the Bech-Rafaelsen Mania Scale (MAS), in patients with DSM-IV mania. Mokken analysis was used to evaluate internal validity in which a coefficient of homogen...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Bech P,Gex-Fabry M,Aubry JM,Favre S,Bertschy G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of this study was to compare life skills between psychotic patients with substance abuse problems and psychotic patients without substance abuse problems. This is a cross-sectional study of 48 patients (26 inpatients and 22 outpatients) in a clinic for early intervention in psychosis. Patients were ...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Møller T,Linaker OM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous paper, in a series of three, presented the National Library of Medicine, Medline, PubMed and the MeSH system. Connection to PubMed via the Internet opens the PubMed search window that is the tool for retrieving references to scientific medical literature. This paper is intended as a tutorial for an inexperi...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Theander SS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the main principles of Interpersonal Psychotherapy and its adaptation for depressed adolescents (IPT-A). The work of IPT-A is put in the context of the significant problem of depression in adolescence and the other treatments and their efficacy in the treatment of adolescent depression. The paper al...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Mufson L,Sills R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies exist on the outcome of patients with personality disorders (PDs) treated at ordinary outpatient clinics. This study examines the gains of such patients 2 years after treatment start at an outpatient clinic. Three patient groups were sampled: cluster A + B PDs, cluster C PDs and axis I disorders. Fifty-eig...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Narud K,Mykletun A,Dahl AA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to explore how sexual child abusers who meet the DSM-IV criteria for paedophilia differ from those who do not. We studied DSM-IV disorders and paedophilic interests in all cases of sexual child abuse referred to forensic psychiatric investigation in Sweden between 1993 and 1997 (n=185)....

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Carlstedt A,Innala S,Brimse A,Söderström Anckarsäter H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to study associations between sense of coherence (based on Antonovsky's theory), and mental health problems, the use of mental health services, substance use, predisposition to suicide and possible psychiatric diagnosis among Finnish young men. The study included 2314 18-year-old young men wh...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Ristkari T,Sourander A,Helenius H,Nikolakaros G,Salanterä S,Multimäki P,Parkkola K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this naturalistic and retrospective follow-up study was to identify putative predictors of suicide attempts among young adults at high risk with a particular view on adverse life events. One hundred young adults who had been given emergency treatment for mental health problems in child and adolescent outpat...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Skarbø T,Rosenvinge JH,Holte A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural group treatment of panic disorder and agoraphobia in a clinical setting. Fifty-three patients were offered treatment and assessed before, after and at follow-up 1 1/2-2 years after treatment. The study included an informal w...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Rosenberg NK,Hougaard E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depressive disorders constitute a common clinical problem. However, research on psychosocial impairment and treatment-related factors among adolescent outpatients with different diagnoses of depression is scarce. This study aimed at investigating consecutively referred outpatient adolescents with depressive syndrome c...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Pelkonen M,Marttunen M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research has been done into the ways in which mothers who have experienced a series of traumatic war-related experiences perceive and interpret emotions on their babies' faces. The IFEEL instrument was used, which proved to be an interesting instrument for achieving our research goal. The data were analysed using a re...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Knezević M,Jovancević M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to account for acute stress disorder (ASD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) morbidity in a self-report survey of traffic accident victims and to evaluate the relationship between ASD and PTSD in this sample, and furthermore, to find both a model of independent variables account...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Fuglsang AK,Moergeli H,Schnyder U

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been included in the DSM category of psychiatric diagnoses since 1980, classified as an anxiety disorder. Since that time, its definition has undergone considerable change and today many physicians are not aware of its current diagnostic criteria or the clinical significance o...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Rosenbaum L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine whether social risk factors adjusted for gender and some well-known perinatal risk factors were related to parental descriptions of deviant behaviour in 3(1/2)-year-old children. The study was a prospective cohort study of 1345 mothers enrolled during early pregnancy. Parents...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Bonde E,Obel C,Nedergård NJ,Thomsen PH

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing post-traumatic stress disorder as a psychiatric diagnosis has only marginally increased awareness of traumatic experiences. Traumas are inconsistently recorded in initial psychiatric histories and, when observed, rarely reflected in the primary diagnosis and treatment. The present study aimed to investiga...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Al-Saffar S,Borgå P,Lawoko S,Edman G,Hällström T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite caregivers' impact on suicidal patients' compliance with treatment and suicide prevention, little is known about mental-health professionals' perceptions of work with suicidal patients. The roles of psychiatric staff's training and supervision in the care of suicidal patients were investigated by means of a po...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Ramberg IL,Wasserman D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to compare the screening properties of two General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) versions and the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90), and to evaluate them as psychiatric screening instruments in Finland. We administered the GHQ-36 and the SCL-90 to psychiatric outpatients (n=207) and to a community sampl...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Holi MM,Marttunen M,Aalberg V

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The connection between self-image and depressive symptoms in non-clinical adolescent populations has not been well documented in large samples of teenagers. Our purpose was to investigate the correlation between self-image and depressive symptoms. To assess the adolescent's self-concept, we used the Offer Self-Image Q...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Erkolahti R,Ilonen T,Saarijärvi S,Terho P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finland was the first European country to give a high priority to the development of specialized psychiatric services for adolescents. The aim of this paper is to 1) describe the development of these services, 2) study the status and the functioning of psychiatric services for adolescents in 2000 and 3) present some f...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Laukkanen E,Pylkkänen K,Hartikainen B,Luotoniemi M,Julma K,Aalberg V

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse the dosage pattern of antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia in ambulatory care in Sweden. METHOD:The study was based on a nationwide consecutive weekly random sample of physicians during the period 1991-98 comprising 265,331 visits. RESULTS:In 515 visits (0.19%), antipsychotics were prescribed fo...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Bingefors K,Isacson D,Lindström E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the association between cognitive performance and major depressive disorder (MDD) in adolescents seeking outpatient treatment. We used several tests comparing cognitive capacities between 16 adolescents with MDD and 25 adolescents not diagnosed as suffering from psychiatric illness according to the Str...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Korhonen V,Laukkanen E,Antikainen R,Peiponen S,Lehtonen J,Viinamäki H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the self-concept using the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire (OSIQ) in groups of Finnish adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, and a normal control group without an eating disorder. A total of 135 adolescent girls aged 16-21 (10 with anorexia nervosa, 10 with ...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Erkolahti RK,Saarijärvi S,Ilonen T,Hagman H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are a great many epidemiological studies of psychiatric diseases and the outcomes of controlled rehabilitation programmes, there is a shortage of studies of routine psychiatric care. This study is a retrospective cohort study of the total number (n=138) of patients receiving inpatient care at a psychiat...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Bülow P,Svensson T,Hansson JH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the research process, hypotheses, observations and raw data are systematically transformed into new knowledge and scientific rules. People and human input are essential features of the research; the intellectual process performed by the individual scientists and their team. Unplanned administration and human confli...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Isohanni M,Isohanni I,Veijola J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to examine associations between classroom climate and pupils' mental health in primary school, and whether pupils who had emotional and behavioural problems in the second grade are more vulnerable to the effects of a poor classroom climate 4 years later. The study was carried out by means of...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Somersalo H,Solantaus T,Almqvist F

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family therapy has emerged as the treatment of choice for young patients with anorexia nervosa, yet there is insufficient knowledge about what actually happens within the family unit in these cases. The purpose of the present study was to investigate how a family undergoing treatment due to an anorectic child changes ...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Wallin U,Kronvall P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the prevalence of personality disorders in a representative sample of patients admitted to inpatient care after a parasuicide, 64 consecutive patients were investigated with structured interviews for DSM-IV personality disorders and clinical interviews for Axis I disorders and suicidal behaviour. We found a...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Söderberg S

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a period of 20 years (1968-1988) all inpatients admitted for the first time to the adolescent psychiatric unit in Copenhagen (n = 841) were classified in accordance with social and psychiatric variables, to describe the clientele as a group and, furthermore, to investigate changes occurring during that period. ...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Pedersen J,Aarkrog T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the factor structure and the validity of the Finnish version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). As part of the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort Project, the TAS-20 was presented to a sample of 5034 31-year old persons. A confirmatory factor analysis showed that th...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Joukamaa M,Miettunen J,Kokkonen P,Koskinen M,Julkunen J,Kauhanen J,Jokelainen J,Veijola J,Läksy K,Järvelin MR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Youth Self-Report (YSR) was completed by 586 15- to 16-year-old Finnish adolescents. The internal consistency of the YSR problem scales ranged from 0.61 to 0.90. Girls reported significantly more internalizing, withdrawn, somatic, anxious-depressive thought and attention problems. The adolescent was defined as hav...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Helstelä L,Sourander A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia has gained increasing acceptance. This hypothesis assumes a disruption in the normal development of the brain, secondary to genetic factors, environmental factors, or, most likely, a combination of both. After a brief review of the various aetiologic models since the ...

journal_title：Nordic journal of psychiatry

authors： Mjellem N,Kringlen E

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00