Comparison of Sexual Experience and Behavior between Bipolar Outpatients and Outpatients without Mood Disorders

Metabolic syndrome among psychiatric outpatients with mood and anxiety disorders

BACKGROUND Few studies have simultaneously compared the impacts of pharmacotherapy and mental diagnoses on metabolic syndrome (MetS) among psychiatric outpatients with mood and anxiety disorders. This study aimed to investigate the impacts of pharmacotherapy and mental diagnoses on MetS and the prevalence of MetS among these patients. METHODS Two-hundred and twenty-nine outpatients (men/women...

Does the number of previous mood episodes moderate the relationship between alcohol use, smoking and mood in bipolar outpatients?

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that alcohol use and smoking are negatively associated with mood in bipolar disorders (BD). It is unknown if this relationship is moderated by the number of previous mood episodes. Therefore, this paper aims to examine whether the number of previous mood episodes moderates the relationship between alcohol use and smoking, and mood. METHOD This study assessed the o...

Metabolic syndrome among psychiatric outpatients with mood and anxiety disorders Running title: metabolic syndrome among psychiatric outpatients

Ten-year stability of personality disorders among outpatients with mood disorders.

One of the core propositions in most clinical and descriptive models of personality disorders (PDs) is that these conditions are stable over time. However, the available empirical literature suggests that PDs are far less stable than these models imply. The present study examines the 10-year stability of PDs in a sample of depressed outpatients who were assessed for the full range of Axis II co...

The prevalence of personality disorders in psychiatric outpatients with borderline intellectual functioning: Comparison with outpatients from regular mental health care and outpatients with mild intellectual disabilities.

BACKGROUND There is little research on the subject of personality disorder (PD) in individuals with borderline intellectual functioning (BIF). Unlike in most countries, in the Netherlands, patients with BIF are eligible for specialized mental health care. This offers the unique possibility of examining the rates of PDs in patients, who in other countries are treated relatively invisibly in regu...