The psychiatric care of opioid users receiving agonist therapies is often complicated by high rates of illicit drug use (Brooner et al., 2013). The present study evaluates if illicit drug use (i.e., opioids, cocaine, sedatives) detected at the start of psychiatric care affects treatment response. Methadone maintenance patients (n = 125) with at least one current psychiatric disorder completed a...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A cardiologist's evaluation of psychiatric symptoms in patients with chest pain is rare. This study aimed to determine the psychiatric characteristics of patients with and without coronary artery disease (CAD) and explore their relationship with the intensity of chest pain. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Out of 139 consecutive patients referred to the cardiology outpatient dep...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological and clinical studies have found a significant association between smoking and suicidal behaviour. METHOD 334 outpatients with DSM-IV diagnosis of unipolar major depression, bipolar (I+II) disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and pure panic disorder were interviewed regarding to their smoking habits and previous suicide attempts. RESULTS With the excep...

This study examines in a preliminary manner the relationship between multiple facets of religion/spirituality and depression in treatment-seeking adolescents. One hundred seventeen psychiatric outpatients aged 12 to 18 completed the brief multidimensional measure of religiousness/spirituality, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a substance abuse inventory. Controlling for substance abuse and ...

AIM This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adult psychiatric outpatients. Moreover, comorbid psychiatric diagnoses in adults with ADHD were determined. Patients with and without ADHD were compared regarding DSM Axis I-II comorbidity and sociodemographic characteristics. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included patients that present...

INTRODUCTION The aims of this study were two-fold; to investigate the validity and reliability of the Thai version of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP) and to compare the characteristics of the interpersonal problems experienced in a non-clinical sample and psychiatric outpatients. METHODS A total of 689 subjects (452 non-clinical sample and 237 psychiatric outpatients) completed ...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle factors, such as an unbalanced diet and lack of physical activity, may affect the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in schizophrenic patients. The aim of this study was to compare the MetS prevalence between inpatients and outpatients among schizophrenic population in Japan. METHODS We recruited inpatients (n = 759) and outpatients (n = 427) with a Diagnostic and St...

This study examined the relationship between components of pathological narcissism and types of depressive tendencies among a sample of 117 psychiatric outpatients. Findings revealed that depressive themes concerning dependency were associated with narcissistic grandiosity. Depressive tendencies concerning self-criticism were positively associated with narcissistic vulnerability.

As a common dermatological disorder, psoriasis is well known to be associated with psychological morbidity. The database on this aspect from the developing countries is limited. In this prospective cross-sectional study 103 psoriasis outpatients were evaluated along with 55 healthy controls matched for sociodemographic profile and on attitude to appearance (ATT) scale. Duration, severity (Psori...

Evolution of symptoms with antipsychotic treatment in schizophrenic outpatients in Greece: the GRACE Study Dimitra Karadima, Ioannis Chatzimanolis, Errikos Tsebelikos, Venetsanos Mavreas, Athanasios Fokas, Athanasios Kalogeropoulos, Simeon Deres, Theodosios Christodoulakis From 1 International Congress on Neurobiology and Clinical Psychopharmacology and European Psychiatric Association Conferen...