BACKGROUND In the last decade (2001-2010) the Ministry of Health implemented two major inter-related reforms: a 'structural reform' to reduce the number of psychiatric beds and the 'Rehabilitation of the Mentally Disabled in the Community Law', which allocated funds for a variety of residential and vocational programs in the community for these patients. The objective of the present paper was t...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the relationship between cannabis use and the course of illness in schizophrenia over 10 years of follow-up after first psychiatric hospitalization. METHOD The authors assessed 229 patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder five times: during the first admission and 6 months, 2 years, 4 years, and 10 years later. Ratings of cannabis use and psychiatric symp...

BACKGROUND Many patients with serious mental illness are addicted to drugs and alcohol. This comorbidity creates additional problems for the patients and for the clinicians, health care systems, and social-service agencies that provide services to this population. One problem is that disability income, which many people with serious mental illness receive to pay for basic needs, may facilitate ...

introduction: comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) has been reported among patients with schizophrenia in other countries. but, the literature is not well-documented on this issue in iran (persia). the present study aimed to investigate the prevalence and severity of ocd and some of its related factors in a group of patients with schizophrenia in iran.  methods: this is a cross-sectiona...

introduction: a number of research studies have shown that the new generation of neuroleptic medications can more effectively contribute to treating negative symptoms of schizophrenia compared with the first generation by influence cognitive functioning. the present study examined the therapeutic effectiveness of manufactured risperidone and haloperidol in iran on treating the negative symptoms...

anorexia nervosa (an) is a serious psychiatric illness marked by an inability to maintain a normal healthy body weight. the prevalence of an comorbid with other psychiatric disorders has been reported to be quite high. whereas depression and anxiety disorders are the most common comorbid diagnoses in anorexic patients, the dual-diagnosis of anorexia and schizophrenia is a relatively rare condit...

OBJECTIVE To develop a decision-analytic model to estimate the cost-effectiveness of initiating maintenance treatment with aripiprazole once-monthly (AOM) vs paliperidone long-acting injectable (PLAI) once-monthly among patients with schizophrenia in the US. METHODS A decision-analytic model was developed to evaluate a hypothetical cohort of patients initiating maintenance treatment with AOM ...

Background: Psychotic disorder due to industrial drug, such as methamphetamine addiction, is one of the important causes for referral to psychiatric hospital. Psychotic symptoms in these patients are varied. A group of researchers believe that methamphetamine-induced psychosis is completely similar to schizophrenia. Others believe that at least some cases of permanent psychotic clinical manifes...

Long-acting depot antipsychotics were developed specifically to promote treatment adherence (compliance) and they are a valuable option for patients requiring maintenance medication for schizophrenia. Depot use has fallen in recent years, perhaps owing to the introduction of oral atypical antipsychotics. Psychiatrist and patient acceptance of depot medication is variable. The depot formulation ...