OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of maintenance pharmacotherapy on sustained abstinence rates between recently abstinent smokers with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (SBD) and general population smokers without psychiatric illness. METHOD We performed a person-level, pooled analysis of two randomized controlled trials of maintenance varenicline, conducted in adult smokers with SBD and gener...

OBJECTIVE The authors measured use of mental health services among young people before and during incarceration. METHODS Administrative data were used to describe mental health services received by 13,919 youths and young adults (ages 12-24) while incarcerated in Ontario, Canada, correctional centers (physician visits, April 1, 2010-March 31, 2012) and, for a subset of the population, during ...

Over the last few decades, evidence has been emerging that the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia can involve perturbations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Variations in the manifestation of these effects could be related to the differences in clinical symptoms between affected individuals as well as to differences in treatment response. Such effects c...

Little empirical research has directly examined the extent to which early and consistent participation in outpatient services and adherence to prescribed psychotropic medications after a psychiatric hospitalization can help people with serious mental illnesses avoid arrest and incarceration and what impact this might have on state and local costs. The authors examined effects of medication adhe...

Mental disorders represent about 22% of the total burden disease, and family support plays an important role in length hospitalization time these patients. We described cohesion patients psychiatric service Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo National Hospital (H.N.A.A.A) during 2019. This is a cross-sectional descriptive census-type study, which questionnaire 11 questions on was applied. Sociodemographic...

CONTEXT Consistent evidence indicates that some, but not most, patients with schizophrenia have below-average intelligence years before they manifest psychosis. However, it is not clear whether this below-average premorbid intelligence is stable or progressive. OBJECTIVE To examine whether increased risk for schizophrenia is associated with declining intellectual performance from childhood th...

Method: A standardized childhood neu­ rological examination was administered to a sample of 265 Danish children in 1972, when participants were 10–13 years old. Adult diagnostic information was available for 244 members of the sample. Participants fell into three groups: children whose mothers or fa­ thers had a psychiatric hospital diagnosis of schizophrenia (N=94); children who had at least o...

Schizophrenia is a chronic severe psychiatric disorder. Antipsychotic medications are highly efficacious modality of treating patients with schizophrenia. Non-adherence to antipsychotic medication critical problem leading increased relapse rate, hospitalization and health care costs. caused by multi-factors might be varied within the globe. Assessing non-adherence influencing factors would help...

Using three different schizophrenic populations from Northern Finland, gender differences in some sociodemographic variables, age at onset, incidence, treatment, outcome and deinstitutionalization of schizophrenia were examined. The first study population comprises the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort, which is an unselected, general population birth cohort. We followed prospectively 11017 su...

Relapse in schizophrenia remains common and cannot be entirely eliminated even by the best combination of biological and psychosocial interventions. Relapse prevention is crucial as each relapse may result in the growth of residual symptoms and accelerating social disablement. The patients suffering from schizophrenia diagnosis have one of the highest relapse rates characterized by long-stay ho...