background various studies have shown high prevalence of psychiatric disorders among dermatology outpatients and inpatients. as pruritus is the most common complaint in dermatology, we investigated the status of mental health in outpatients with chronic itch as a chief compliant. material and methods we administered the symptom checklist-90-r (scl-90-r)to 193 consecutive patients with chronic i...

Taking into account findings in the literature, the author aimed to test whether specific graphical characteristics of handwriting can distinguish patients diagnosed with schizophrenic disorders from healthy controls. Handwriting samples (one sample from each person) from 60 outpatients (29 women, 31 men; age M = 28.5, SD = 5.4) with paranoid schizophrenia were analyzed by three documents exami...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of depression in adult male dermatology outpatients. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Combined Military Hospital, Bahawalpur, from January to March 2007. METHODOLOGY A consecutive sample was screened for depression by using Urdu version of General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12). The final diagnosis of depression was bas...