One hundred and thirty two women with normal breast screening results were interviewed six months after their attendance at the Edinburgh Breast Screening Clinic. Eight percent of women said screening had made them more anxious about developing breast cancer. Thirty eight percent said they were more aware of the disease since screening but they regarded this as advantageous. Seventy percent of ...

This paper presents an account of morbidity in a suburban practice in London with special reference to psychiatric disability. Clinical and administrative features of this practice (Chalke and Fisher, 1957) and its social and demographic characteristics (Stein, 1960) have also been described, and an outline of the present investigation has been presented elsewhere (Shepherd, Fisher, Stein, and ...

BACKGROUND Distress and psychiatric morbidity in cancer patients are associated with poorer outcomes including mortality. In this study, we examined the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and its association with cancer survival over time. METHODS Participants were 467 consecutive adult cancer patients attending oncology follow-ups at a single academic medical centre. Assessment consisted of...

BACKGROUND Skin, which is the largest organ in the body, carries immense psychological significance. Disfiguring skin disorders may impact negatively on the mental health of individuals. AIM This study compared the psychiatric morbidity of subjects with leprosy and albinism. SUBJECTS AND METHODS One hundred subjects with leprosy and 100 with albinism were interviewed. Sociodemographic quest...

Thirty one victims of bomb blast in a bus caused by terrorist activity in Dausa district, Rajasthan on 22.5.96, were evaluated for psychological reactions 3 days & 2 weeks after the incident. All hospitalized & non hospitalised bomb blast victims were assessed within 3 days of injury by objective predictors (percent of burnt area, facial disfigurement, limb amputations, fractures etc.) and subj...

The General Health Questionnaire of Goldberg was used as an indicator of morbidity in three groups of a Military General Practice in British Army of the Rhine. Group 1 consisted of 299 service and civilian consecutive new attenders at the General Practice. Group 2 of 80 attenders for routine medical examination and Group 3 of a community sample of 446 soldiers from units in the practice area. P...

journal.publications.chestnet.org of lesions associated with TBI is compounded by the Marshall clas sifi cation of head injury based on CT scanning. 2 These conditions cause coma when they affect brain perfusion and cortical or brain stem activity. DAI is only one possible physiopathologic mechanism causing coma after TBI and typically occurs during high-speed impact trauma causing rotational a...

The relation of minor psychiatric morbidity with labour turnover is examined, using data from a study of young, predominantly middle class, white collar men and women. The results suggest that the presence of psychiatric symptomatology is at least as important as occupational attitudes in identifying individuals who would subsequently leave the organisation.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE The seroincidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Taiwan has drastically increased since 2004, particularly among injection drug users and prisoners. The major purpose of this study was to explore the prevalence and correlates of psychiatric morbidity among HIV-infected male prisoners. METHODS In 2006, data were collected from all of HIV-infected male prisoners (n ...