BACKGROUND Migrants with mental hospital orders according to section 63 of the German criminal code are overrepresented in relation to their numbers in the general population. Subgroups originating from certain world regions are diagnosed with schizophrenia at a much higher rate than others. In the present literature, there is a strong evidence for a substantial correlation between migration, s...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the rate of suicide in the 12 months after discharge from psychiatric hospital and to determine its relationship to age, diagnosis, and period. DESIGN Cohort study of patients discharged from psychiatric hospital. SETTING Scotland. PARTICIPANTS Altogether 159,742 men and 178,271 women, aged 15-84, who were discharged from Scottish psychiatric hospitals durin...

So often the mentally abnormal offender shuffles from Prison to mental hospitals, which he may have only ( JUst left a few weeks before, to pass into the hands of | *his mythical community care. As the number of hospital beds decreases, psychil atric patients, who have spent a greater part of their j 1'ves in the supportive, protective care of the mental hospital, leave to return into the world...

Although there are many theories of the causes of depression, they all assume that some cases are primarily endogenous; that is, they are largely independent of situational influences. This article proposes that most cases of depression have a social component that is closely tied to the immediate situation. During 5 months in 1965 I observed nearly all intake interviews of male patients in a m...

Criminals have their activities described as 'a career crime', and Dr. R. D. Laing has spoken of 'madness j*s a career'. Large industries have been created around careers: police, prisons, mental hospitals, psychiatrists, welfare and so on. The productive aim of oese industries is rehabilitated persons?i.e. people jfl whom the tendency to mad or criminal behaviour been eliminated. The criterion...

BACKGROUND The cooperation of patients and their consent to involve medical students in their care is vital to clinical education, but large numbers of students and lack of experience as well as loss of privacy may evoke negative attitudes of patients, which may sometimes adversely affect the clinical teaching environment. This study aimed to explore the attitudes of patients towards medical st...

specialist microfinance institutions (MFIs). The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has traditionally pursued an active "developmental" role in the microfinance sector, although this has been changing. It should further reduce its developmental activities by diluting its ownership of regional development banks and taking a less hands-on role in project implementation. Conversely, it would be appr...

What does the capacity to consent to treatment entail and what factors influence it? To date, most research has focussed on individual factors that impair capacity to consent to treatment, such as intelligence, cognitive capacity and symptoms of mental illness. In this presentation, I want to explore the social and interpersonal factors that influence capacity to consent. I discuss the complexi...

On January 1, 1987, the Board of Trustees of Southwest Washington Hospitals instituted a smoking ban in all of its facilities, including the 17-bed general psychiatry unit. Our study of ward atmosphere, PRN medications, and negative incidents related to that change are reported. We feel the change was introduced successfully with minimal impact on the successful function of our service. Others ...

Methods Each patient from 7 European centers (n = 978, 48% females) was assessed at 3 time-points: within the first seven days, 4 and 12 weeks after admission to psychiatric hospitals. The patient's subjective quality of life was assessed with the Short Assessment of Quality of Life (MANSA). The 12 subjective items assessing different life domains were used in the analyses. Several further fact...