abstract：BACKGROUND:This study focuses on sex differences in depression of the widowed. Previous research showed different results in sex differences and in depression after bereavement. We assessed the effects of widowhood on depressive symptoms for men and women and examined whether environmental strain like social support, f...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： van Grootheest DS,Beekman AT,Broese van Groenou MI,Deeg DJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the end of the Second World War the western and eastern parts of Germany have been exposed to very different social and cultural influences. It was our assumption that this should also be reflected in the beliefs about mental disorders held by the general public. METHODS:In autumn 1990, immediately af...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Angermeyer MC,Matschinger H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the short-term clinical outcome of schizophrenia may be better in developing than in industrialised countries. Little is known of the social outcome of the disorder in the medium term in developing societies. In a study of 120 clinically stable outpatients in a clinic in Nigeria, we examined...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Gureje O,Bamidele R

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports on the prevalence and features of depression among adolescents have been inconsistent. The purpose of the current study was to estimate the prevalence of depression among Chinese adolescents with a standardized instrument. A total of 2462 students, aged 13-22, were sampled from the Shandong province o...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Liu XC,Ma DD,Kurita H,Tang MQ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article describes the objectives and design of a prospective study of the prevalence, incidence and course of psychiatric disorders in a representative sample of non-institutionalized Dutch adults. A total of 7146 men and women aged 18-64, contacted through a multistage sample of municipalities and households, wer...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Bijl RV,van Zessen G,Ravelli A,de Rijk C,Langendoen Y

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for an association between mental illness and violence has grown in recent years, leading many to ask why such an association exists. One hypothesis links elevated rates of violence among people with mental illness to a small set of psychotic symptoms--so called threat/control-override (TCO) symptoms. Several...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Link BG,Stueve A,Phelan J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors predicting readmission and the interval between readmissions to psychiatric hospital during the early 1990s in Finland. Data were retrieved using the national register of all discharges from psychiatric hospitals during the early 1990s. Frequently admitted patie...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Korkeila JA,Lehtinen V,Tuori T,Helenius H

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate possible relationships between parental rearing practices and problem behaviours in a sample of male delinquent adolescents versus controls. A total of 133 subjects from a juvenile correction centre and 108 matched school-children in the Arkhangelsk region, Russia, were ass...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Ruchkin VV,Eisemann M,Hägglöf B

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-stay psychiatric patients discharged to two group homes from Friern Hospital were studied 1 year and 5 years after discharge. A much greater cohesiveness of social relationships was noted in the smaller home at both time points, whereas in the larger home residents had failed to develop friendships and intimacy w...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Dayson D,Lee-Jones R,Chahal KK,Leff J

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospital admission statistics for depression and mania have shown significant seasonal patterns. The present investigation was conducted to establish the pervasiveness of the impact of seasons on mood disorder presentation at Birmingham (52 degrees North) by gender and ethnicity. Non-mood disorder admissions were exam...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Suhail K,Cochrane R

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the combined test-retest and interrater reliability of different psychiatric lifetime diagnoses yielded in the course of a family study in elderly patients and controls. The following interviews and questionnaires were used in combination: the Composite International Diagno...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Heun R,Müller H,Freyberger HJ,Maier W

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have shown that psychiatric disorders are common in nursing homes, but information on the course of psychiatric morbidity shortly after admission is still lacking. Therefore, we interviewed 262 residents of Austrian nursing homes within 2 weeks following admission, and a second time after 6 months. Usi...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Wancata J,Benda N,Hajji M,Lesch OM,Müller C

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to examine sex differences in frequency, duration and severity of experience of depressed mood state in a non-clinical group and to consider how such findings contribute to the understanding of sex differences in depressive experience. A cohort of 156 subjects, assessed initially in 1978 in their...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Wilhelm K,Parker G,Asghari A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the first patients who left hospital before and during the official implementation of the hospital discharge policy in Northern Ireland. This study describes patterns of residential provision for former long-stay patients (approximately two-thirds of whom had an ICD-9 diagnosis of schizophrenia) ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Donnelly M,McGilloway S,Mays N,Perry S,Lavery C

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicidal feelings, attempted suicide and aspects of work environment and well-being in Swedish psychiatric nursing personnel were studied using a questionnaire. The questionnaire, containing 190 questions, was mailed to all 242 nurses and attendants working in psychiatric care at the department of psychiatry at Karoli...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Samuelsson M,Gustavsson JP,Petterson IL,Arnetz B,Asberg M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional purpose of psychiatric epidemiologic surveys has been the assessment of mental illness and, by implication, the need for care. Previous research has focused on unmet need, defined as those who meet "caseness" but do not receive care, but has rarely examined the converse. Since survey respondents receiv...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Lin E,Goering PN,Lesage A,Streiner DL

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the subjective and objective quality of life and needs of patients with paranoid schizophrenia between inner city areas in Berlin (69 patients) and London (75 patients). Quality of life was assessed by means of the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile (German version Berliner Lebensqualitatsprofi), a...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Heinze M,Taylor RE,Priebe S,Thornicroft G

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared demographic and diagnostic characteristics of a sample of homeless outpatient mental health clinic attenders with a domiciled comparison group from the same clinic. Data on demographic variables and DSM-III-R psychiatric diagnoses were collected over a two-year period on a consecutive sample of 166...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： North CS,Thompson SJ,Pollio DE,Ricci DA,Smith EM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was carried out to assess the influence of psychiatric training, including direct patient contact, on attitudes toward mental illness. An experimental group consisting of medical students going through their 3-week training in psychiatry was compared with a control group going through training in oph...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Arkar H,Eker D

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of committed patients in mental health care from seven different inventories between 1979 and 1993 and rates of discharge from compulsory psychiatric care during 1984, 1988 and between 1 July 1992 and 30 June 1993 were studied by using statistics from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. Ch...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Kjellin L

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of a representative survey carried out in Germany in the Autumn of 1990, hypotheses about the effect of diagnostic labelling on lay beliefs regarding schizophrenic disorders were tested. As expected, labelling the disorder as schizophrenia increased the likelihood that biological factors were considered t...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Angermeyer MC,Matschinger H

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study employed semi-structured interviews and questionnaires to describe the help-seeking processes and examine the determinants of help-seeking behaviours in 100 consecutive referrals to a child psychiatric clinic in Hong Kong. The help-seeking processes were characterized by (1) a sequential pattern of lay cons...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Ho TP,Chung SY

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of short-term interventions to reduce caregiver 'burden' has not been clearly demonstrated. This study assessed the value of six weekly sessions of counselling for key relatives of patients with schizophrenia. The counselling had educational and problem-solving components and was conducted in the fam...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Szmukler GI,Herrman H,Colusa S,Benson A,Bloch S

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 728 patients admitted to the medical, gynaecological and surgical departments of one urban and one rural general hospital in Austria were investigated for psychiatric morbidity. Using the Clinical Interview Schedule and its case criteria, the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity was found to be highest in me...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Wancata J,Benda N,Hajji M,Lesch OM,Müller C

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the association between psychosocial stressors extracted from a previous qualitative study, and psychological distress, long-term illness and self-rated ill-health among Latin American refugees in Lund, Sweden, and among repatriated Latin Americans. The study was designed as a population-based cross-...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Sundquist J,Johansson SE

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the current position of studies on the epidemiology of bipolar affective disorder. A disorder that cannot be recognized until sometime after its onset poses special difficulties for epidemiological study. These are discussed and attempts made to solve them. Community psychiatric surveys suggest a mo...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Bebbington P,Ramana R

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health care system in the United States is expensive but fails large groups of its citizens, particularly those with serious mental illness. This paper examines the resource implications of adequate treatment for depression. An analysis of the various tasks necessary for a proper treatment program is used to indic...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Sharfstein SS

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of psychosocial adversity on the onset and course of bipolar disorder has been assessed in studies that have relied on methods of eliciting life event histories and evaluating family atmosphere. The results of life event studies have been inconsistent, perhaps because the relationship between bipolar disord...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Ramana R,Bebbington P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of populations with psychosis to traumatic events (among them sexual trauma) has seldom been studied. In addition, the clinical features developed by victims with psychosis after a traumatic event are rarely taken into account. Sixty-four women with schizophrenia and 26 women with bipolar disorder (DSM-III-R ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Darves-Bornoz JM,Lempérière T,Degiovanni A,Gaillard P

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the 1-month, 6-month and 1-year prevalence rates for mental disorders in a random sample of people born in Iceland in 1931 and interviewed at the age of 55-57 years. The diagnoses were made according to DSM-III, on the basis of the National Institute of Mental Health's Diagnostic Interview Schedule...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Stefánsson JG,Líndal E,Björnsson JK,Guthmundsdóttir A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of a study carried on an urban population in Belgrade investigating the connections between relapse in schizophrenia and the expressed emotion (EE) status of families where at least one of the patient's parents was a member of the household. The overall rate of high EE was just under 50...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Ivanović M,Vuletić Z,Bebbington P

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-cultural comparison of the symptomatology of depression in Britain and Turkey was conducted in outpatient samples selected according to the same criteria, and matched for age, sex and severity; the same standardized rating instruments were also used with each sample. Comparison of the frequency and severity of...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Uluşahin A,Başoğlu M,Paykel ES

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Causal attributions of 152 Turkish non-psychotic psychiatric out-patients for the development of their psychological problems were examined by using a 31-item attributions for psychological problems questionnaire (APP). The factor analysis of the responses to the APP yielded seven factors, which were: attributions to ...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Karanci AN

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parental care was analyzed separately with the PBI for both father and mother or their surrogate to assess its association with suicidal behavior (attempt or serious ideation). The study was conducted on two French-speaking samples from Montreal: the first included 2,327 high school students and the second 701 young a...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Tousignant M,Bastien MF,Hamel S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WHO programme on epidemiology of mental disorders started in the early 1960's with a series of reviews of knowledge. These were followed by activities aiming at four main goals: the standardization of psychiatric diagnosis, classification and statistics; the development of standardized internationally applicable i...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Sartorius N

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to construct a discriminant function to predict maladjustment in foreign cultures for 123 Japanese adolescents studying abroad in home stay for 1 year. The maladjustment was defined in terms of self-reported friendship availability, friendship satisfaction and emotional distress. Among the va...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Furukawa T,Shibayama T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a study of physical health problems and their relation to psychiatric morbidity in a community sample of 105 people with severe mental handicap and over the age of 50 years from a Metropolitan Borough. An extensive outreach exercise ensured that almost 100% of people fulfilling the age and abilit...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Moss S,Goldberg D,Patel P,Wilkin D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staff members working in community facilities for patients with long-standing mental illness were assessed using a modification of the Camberwell Family Interview designed to measure their attitudes towards their key patients. This enabled an evaluation of their levels of expressed emotion (EE). Staff members and thei...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Moore E,Kuipers L

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey conducted in four French regions identified a sample of 154 autistic children born in the birth cohorts 1972 and 1976. Their mean ages were respectively 6.9 and 5.5 years when their handicaps were registered to local administrative services. The overall prevalence estimate is 4.9/10,000, with little differenc...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Fombonne E,du Mazaubrun C

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planning and organization of mental health care in developing countries frequently lacks empirical data. The World Health Organization recommended psychiatric brief inpatient programs in general hospitals for these countries as a cost-effective alternative to the traditional mental hospital. Length of hospital sta...

journal_title：Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology

authors： Dalgalarrondo P,Gattaz WF

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00