T psyc,hiatric care of patients with organ transplants IS a rapidly groWIng area. Morbidity and mortality of transplantation are directly related to a number of factors including organ rejection and adverse complications of ~edications. FK 506, a promising new immunosuppressive drug, appears to significantly reduce the rate of rejection. During our center's several years of experience using FK ...

AIM The study aimed to evaluate the association between oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) and psychiatric morbidity in a controlled manner. METHODS Matched patients were divided into three groups: Those with areca nut chewing habits with OSF (Group 1; n=50); those with areca nut chewing habits without OSF (Group 2; n=50); those without areca habits and with dental problems other than OSF (Group 3...

Parents of schizophrenic patients have frequently been thought of contributing pathogenic influences towards causation, occurrence, recurrence or progression of the disease. Lidz and his colleagues (1957) conducted an extensive enquiry about the parental characteristics of schizophrenics and observed 9 out of 15 families having a schizophrenic parents. Fleck, Lidz and Cornelison (1963) conclude...

Two hundred and six patients attending an urban general practice were surveyed using a self-rating questionnaire, the 30-item version of the General Health Questionnaire. At a cut-off score of 6/7, 34.5% of the respondents were found to be high-scorers which gives a corrected estimate of psychiatric morbidity of 29.9% in this clinic. Among those who presented with general complaints, such as ac...

Psychiatric morbidity was analysed in 5,000 female patients who attended medical OPD from July 1985 to July 1986. The Psychiatric illnesses were found in 932 patients (18.42%). The commonest age to have psychiatric illness was 21-30 years (58.8%), and neuroses constituted the most common psychiatric diagnosis (44.6%). Schizophrenia was the least common psychiatric illness (3.2%) in patients att...

The present work was carried out to study the awareness of non-psychiatric clinicians working in a teaching general hospital about the frequency of psychiatric morbidity in their clinical practice, their utilization of psychiatric consultation services, and opinion about utility of liaison psychiatry in general hospitals. A substantial proportion of doctors underestimated the psychiatric morbid...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence and nature of psychiatric morbidity among patients attending a neurology outpatient clinic. DESIGN A two-stage screening procedure with General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) was used to assess psychological disorders over a one year period. Psychiatric diagnosis...

BACKGROUND Due, in part, to family constraints in dealing with the economical burden of raising a family, a wave of street children is sweeping the developing world. Such children are prone to both somatic and mental illnesses. This is the first ever study that has been conducted to explore the psychopathology among street children in the Duhok Governorate. METHODS The study was conducted bet...

OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence and severity of depression, anxiety, and stress among male secondary schoolteachers. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted during the academic session 2004/5, covering the teachers of 65 boys` secondary schools in Abha Educational Area, Aseer Region, Saudi Arabia. A study sample of 195 teachers was obtained using the random sampling technique. Data ...

A sample of 114 women from the general population aged 40-55 years were identified as possible psychiatric cases and subjected to a standardised psychiatric interview. Mean ratings for reported symptoms and observed abnormalities were assessed in relation to menopausal status. There was no evidence of any specific combination of symptoms and signs associated with the cessation of menstrual peri...