BACKGROUND The affective burden of psychotic disorder has been increasingly recognised. However, subjective reports of distress and its covariates, especially those related to service use, remain under-investigated in patients with psychosis. METHODS This study investigated subjective distress and its covariates in a representative sample of 401 outpatients with a confirmed diagnosis of psych...

Schizophrenia patients exhibit deficits in recognition and identification of facial emotional expressions, but it is unclear whether these deficits result from abnormal affective processing or an impaired ability to process complex visual stimuli such as faces. Participants comprised 16 outpatients with schizophrenia and 22 matched healthy control subjects who performed two computerized visual ...

Theorists have long thought that negative experiences in childhood (e.g., abuse) may contribute to the development of psychopathology in adolescence and adulthood [e.g., Beck, 1967; Bowlby, 1973, 1980]. More recently, they have hypothesized that different types of childhood abuse may contribute specific vulnerability to certain forms of psychopathology. Specifically, theorists have suggested th...

AIM The quality of services plays a primary role in achieving patient satisfaction. The main purpose of this study was to explore the effect of outpatient service quality on patient satisfaction in teaching hospitals in Iran. METHODS this cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014. The study sample included 500 patients were selected with systematic random method from the outpatient departme...

When the National Mental Health Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1946, a programme to improve the mental health of the nation became a public responsibility. It is traditional in the United States for the majority of severe cases of mental illness to be cared for in public mental hospitals, but the passage of the Mental Health Act was a significant step forward. It provided Feder...

BACKGROUND In fiscal year 1990, administration accounted for 24.8 percent of total hospital costs in the United States - nearly twice the share in Canada. Studies from the 1970s and early 1980s found high costs, especially for administration, at for-profit hospitals. METHODS We calculated administrative costs for 6227 nonfederal hospitals and the total costs of inpatient care for 5201 acute c...

This study focuses on children from multiproblem families when they appear at an outpatient psychiatric clinic for children. The sample consisted of the first 50 children and their families referred to a large children's outpatient psychiatric facility early in 1974. A multiproblem family was defined in terms of the number of helping agencies and/or professionals contacted by family members wit...

To ascertain the dimensions of the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) in clinically depressed outpatients, exploratory factor analyses were performed with the BDI-II responses of 210 adult (> or =18 years) outpatients who were diagnosed with DSM-IV depressive disorders. Two factors representing Somatic-Affective and Cognitive dimensions were found whose compositio...

OBJECTIVE Nocturnal sleep disturbances, including insomnia and recurrent nightmares, represent common distressing sleep complaints that might have important prognostic and therapeutic implications in psychiatric patients. The present study aimed at investigating nocturnal sleep disturbances in relation to the risk of suicide attempts in a consecutive cohort of psychiatric outpatients. METHOD ...