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Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:12
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Pharmacological treatment of ambulatory schizophrenic patients in Belgium
the objective of this study was twofold:
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:11 -
Hannover study on long-stay hospitalization – part I: prediction of long-stay hospitalisation in cases of chronic mental illness
The problem of long-stay hospitalization is still a pressing issue. In this study we examined the possibility of detecting and characterising the group at risk of long-stay hospitalization in advance.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:10 -
Topiramate plus citalopram in the treatment of Compulsive-Impulsive Sexual Behaviors
Compulsive-Impulsive Sexual Behaviors (C-ISBs) include repetitive sexual acts and compulsive sexual thoughts which occur so frequently and with such intensity that they interfere with sexual intimacy and inter...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:9 -
Attitudes and beliefs among patients treated with mood stabilizers
There is increasing evidence that attitudes and beliefs are important in predicting adherence in depressive and bipolar disorders. However, such attitudes and beliefs on mood stabilizers have not been analysed...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:8 -
Traumatic events, PTSD, and psychiatric comorbidity in forensic patients – assessed by questionnaires and diagnostic interview
Relationships between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), comorbid illness and experiences of traumatic stressors have been reported for large and different groups. The present study investigated this relati...
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Muscle dissatisfaction in young adult men
Appearance concerns are of increasing importance in young men's lives. We investigated whether muscle dissatisfaction is associated with psychological symptoms, dietary supplement or anabolic steroid use, or p...
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Outcome assessment of the VADO approach in psychiatric rehabilitation: a partially randomised multicentric trial
Recent studies on representative samples of psychiatric services have shown that low proportions of cases received effective rehabilitation interventions. The following are likely to be the most important caus...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:5 -
Substance abuse in first-episode schizophrenic patients: a retrospective study
Several studies suggest a high comorbidity of substance abuse and schizophrenia, associated with higher frequency of relapse, more positive symptoms and depression, cognitive impairment, poorer outcome and tre...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:4 -
Helping to prioritise interventions for depression and schizophrenia: use of Population Impact Measures
To demonstrate the potential of Population Impact Measures in helping to prioritise alternative interventions for psychiatry, this paper estimates the number of relapses and hospital readmissions prevented for...
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The accuracy of the Italian version of the Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) for the screening of bipolar disorders and comparison with the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) in a clinical sample
The study measured the accuracy of the Italian version of the Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) for self-assessment as a screening instrument for bipolar disorder (BPD) in a psychiatric setting and compared results...
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Association of Huntington's disease and schizophrenia-like psychosis in a Huntington's disease pedigree
Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited, neurodegenerative disorder due to expansion of a polymorphic trinucleotide repeat in the short arm of chromosome 4. Clinical manifestations consist of a tri...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2006 2:1 -
Psychiatric patients turnaround times in the emergency department
To analyze the turnaround times of psychiatric patients within the Emergency Department (ED) from registration to discharge or hospitalization in a University Hospital in 2002.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:27 -
Effectiveness of sertraline in treatment of depression in a consecutive sample of patients with acute myocardial infarction: six month prospective study on outcome
A considerable proportion of patients suffer from depression following acute myocardial infarction. Information regarding this prevalence in Indian patients and response to treatment is lacking.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:26 -
Clinical and Social Outcomes five years after closing a mental hospital: a trial of cognitive behavioural interventions
To investigate the outcome of patients transferred from hospital to community care in Como, Italy after 6 months intensive psychosocial rehabilitation prior to discharge.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:25 -
Short report: autistic gastrointestinal and eating symptoms treated with secretin: a subtype of autism
Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) are chronic, lifelong disorders for which there is as yet no effective cure, and medical management remains a challenge for clinicians. The current report describes two ...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:24 -
A case control study on psychiatric disorders in Hashimoto disease and euthyroid goitre: not only depressive but also anxiety disorders are associated with thyroid autoimmunity
To evaluate the association between mood and anxiety disorders in Hashimoto disease and Euthyroid Goitre in a case control study.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:23 -
Prevalence and co-occurrence of psychiatric symptom clusters in the U.S. adolescent population using DISC predictive scales
To estimate 12-month prevalence and co-occurrence of symptoms of specific mental problems among US adolescents (12–17 years) by age, sex and racial/ethnic subgroups.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:22 -
Comorbidity issues in the pharmacological treatment of pathological gambling: a critical review
Pathological Gambling (PG) is an impulse control disorder often comorbid with other psychopathology, particularly bipolar spectrum disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive diso...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:21 -
Clinical use of coping in affective disorder, a critical review of the literature
The relationship between life stressors, coping and affective disorder is interesting when predicting onset of a affective disorder and relapse of mood episodes.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:20 -
Heart failure and health related quality of life
Quality of life is a major goal in the context of preventive and therapeutic cardiology. It is important, both as an outcome measure in clinical trials of congestive heart failure (CHF) and as a consideration ...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:19 -
Asthma and depression: a pragmatic review of the literature and recommendations for future research
Although the association between asthma and psychosocial factors has long been recognised, it is only in the last decade that the impact of coexisting asthma and depression has become the focus of considerable...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:18 -
Long-term consequences of traumatic experiences: an assessment of former political detainees in romania
Research has suggested that organized violence and torture have long-term psychological effects that persist throughout the lifespan. The present survey aimed at examining the prevalence of posttraumatic stres...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:17 -
An epidemiological survey of psychiatric disorders in Iran
The nation-wide epidemiological survey of psychiatric disorders in term of lifetime prevalence is not adequately known in Iran. The prevalence of lifetime psychiatric disorders was estimated among the populati...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:16 -
Sudden psychotic episode probably due to meningoencephalitis and Chlamydia pneumoniaeacute infection
Since 9% to 20% of all cases of acute psychosis presenting to an Emergency Department (ED) are due to a general medical condition, cautious medical workup should be mandatory in such patients. Differential dia...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:15 -
The distribution of the common mental disorders: social inequalities in Europe
The social class distribution of the common mental disorders (mostly anxiety and/or depression) has been in doubt until recently. This paper reviews the evidence of associations between the prevalence of the c...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:14 -
Migration and mental health in Europe (the state of the mental health in Europe working group: appendix 1)
This paper is a part of the work of the group that carried out the report "The state of the mental health in Europe" (European Commission, DG Health and Consumer Protection, 2004) and deals with the mental hea...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:13 -
The prevalence of psychiatric disease in the significant others of patients with known mood and anxious disease
Information about the Significant Others (S.O.) of 530 patients with mood and anxious spectrum disorders has been tabulated in this multicentre, retrospective, clinical observational study in order to learn th...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:12 -
Hostility and violence of acute psychiatric inpatients
The aim of the present study was to find out the extent of hostility and violence and the factors that are associated with such hostility and violence in a psychiatric intensive care unit.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:11 -
Hepatitis B virus infection among inpatients of a psychiatric hospital of Mexico
The epidemiology of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in psychiatric patients from developing countries is poorly studied. Therefore, we sought to determine the frequency of HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) and...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:10 -
Level of positive mental health in the European Union: Results from the Eurobarometer 2002 survey
Few epidemiological studies have focused on the occurrence of positive mental health, and those comparing several countries practically non-existent. This study presents comparative findings of positive mental...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:9 -
Validation of the Italian version of the "Mood Disorder Questionnaire" for the screening of bipolar disorders
The study measured the accuracy of the Italian version of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) as a screening instrument for bipolar disorders in a psychiatric setting.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:8 -
Combination quetiapine therapy in the long-term treatment of patients with bipolar I disorder
Determine the long-term effectiveness of quetiapine in combination with standard treatments in preventing relapses for patients with bipolar I disorders
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:7 -
Heterozygous β-thalassaemia as a susceptibility factor in mood disorders: excessive prevalence in bipolar patients
Previous preliminary reports have suggested potential interactions between microcytic anaemia and mood disorders. In particular, heterozygous β-thalassaemia has been implicated in the bipolar spectrum. This st...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:6 -
Parasuicide and drug self-poisoning: analysis of the epidemiological and clinical variables of the patients admitted to the Poisoning Treatment Centre (CAV), Niguarda General Hospital, Milan
Epidemiological knowledge of parasuicides and drug self-poisoning is still limited by a lack of data. A number of preliminary studies, which require further analysis, evidenced that parasuicidal acts occur mor...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:5 -
Epidemiological and clinical aspects of bipolar disorders: controversies or a common need to redefine the aims and methodological aspects of surveys
Data from surveys of large samples showed the lifetime prevalence rates of bipolar disorder around 1.5%. A main question is whether the low prevalence rates of bipolar disorders are not an artefact of the over...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:4 -
Violence, misconduct and schizophrenia: Outcome after four years of optimal treatment
Aggressive behaviour in patients with schizophrenic disorders is an ongoing source of concern to community-based services. It has been suggested that optimal treatment may reduce the risk of serious misconduct.
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:3 -
Markov models of major depression for linking psychiatric epidemiology to clinical practice
Most epidemiological studies of major depression report estimates of period prevalence. Such estimates are useful for public health applications, but are not very helpful for informing clinical practice. Perio...
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Why a new online open access journal in the field of clinical and epidemiological research in mental health?
Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health will encompass all aspects of clinical and epidemiological research in psychiatry and mental health, and will aim to build a bridge between clinical and epidemi...
Citation: Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health 2005 1:1