Sexual offender treatment has evolved considerably over the course of the last two decades. The introduction of the Relapse Prevention (RP) model to the field considerably advanced the provision of effective service (Hanson, Gordon, Harris, Marques, Murphy, Quinsey, & Seto, 2002). However, over the course of the 1990s some (e.g., Hudson & Ward, 2000) began to criticize the RP model due to a num...

General hospital staff is experienced in dealing with the death of a patient. However, aside from cases of sudden death among psychiatric inpatients, psychiatric medical staff faces such situations considerably less frequently. Many chronic psychiatric patients do not have a family or home, a situation which may become even more painful if the patient is dying of a physical illness. Coping with...

Chronic itch is known to have psychogenic elements; however, there is no data on itch prevalence and characteristics among hospitalized psychiatric patients. We investigated the prevalence and types of itching among hospitalized psychiatric patients who met DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia, affective or other psychiatric disorders. A validated itch questionnaire based on the McGill Pain Questi...

On entering psychiatry from general hospital posts, I found that part of my work lay in the wards for feeble, elderly patients. I felt it might be of interest to study these patients, and to see if they had all been admitted as young psychotics and grown old in hospital, or whether they had been admitted as elderly people. Also I wondered how many of them really needed mental hospital care, and...

Introduction A boy aged 12 presented with pain in his left leg and inability to walk. He said that his symptoms started 6 months previously after a fall while playing football. He had increasing pain in his left leg and for the last 3 months he had a discharging sinus from his tibia. On examination he was apyrexial and appeared poorly nourished. Pulse was regular at 90, BP 110/70 mmHg, with nor...

Psychiatric chronotherapeutics is the controlled exposure to environmental stimuli that act on biological rhythms in order to achieve therapeutic effects in the treatment of psychiatric conditions. In recent years some techniques (mainly light therapy and sleep deprivation) have passed the experimental developmental phase and reached the status of powerful and affordable clinical interventions ...

If you have ever been a hospital in-patient, you will know what it means to look forward to ward rounds and to fear them at the same time. On the one hand, you lie there hoping for the doctors to come round because you will hear news of your progress, and perhaps whether you can go home. On the other hand, you almost certainly know from experience that the encounter with doctors will be brief a...

BACKGROUND Stroke complications can occur not only in the acute ward but also during the subsequent rehabilitation period. However, existing studies have not adequately addressed the incidence of various complications among stroke in patients undergoing rehabilitation using a longitudinal method. We aimed to investigate the longitudinal impact of age on complication rates in patients undergoing...

A study was undertaken to determine typical concentrations of airborne bacteria and fungi (microflora) in Teaching Hospital environment in Benin City in the tropical rainforest environment of Nigeria. Aerial sampling was conducted at various hospital wards each day. The air samples were collected thrice daily. Concentrations of airborne microflora exceeded available local guidelines for indoor ...