ED FROM Laursen TM, Munk-Olsen T, Nordentoft M, et al. Increased mortality among patients admitted with major psychiatric disorders: a register-based study comparing mortality in unipolar depressive disorder, bipolar affective disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia. J Clin Psychiatry 2007;68:899–907. Notes: Overlaps in the diagnostic groups (for example, where an individual had m...

background and purpose: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache ii) is a scoring system that describes and predicts the severity of acute illness in patients admitted in intensive care units. its application is helpful in therapeutic monitoring methods, comparing the effectiveness of treatments and the decision to change the treatment, and comparing the performance and quality of...

background: implementing community-based psychiatric services is one of the priorities of the who/emro mental health programs. this study presents an aftercare service, as a community based-service, for patients with severe mental illness (smis).   methods : in this randomized controlled clinical trial design, 176 patients, who attended selective hospitals with smi, were allocated into three gr...

background: since the mortality rate of mothers and infants is due to preventable factors, this study aimed to determine the effects of interventions on decreasing the mortality rate of pregnant women in isfahan province, iran. methods: this was an interventional study. the study population included all dead mothers in isfahan province from 21 march 2002 to 20 march 2005 and after intervention ...

BACKGROUND The effect of gender, age, and urban versus rural residence on suicide risk among people with different mental disorders is unknown. AIMS To estimate cohort-specific risk of suicide among people with different types of mental disorders using data from China's National Psychological Autopsy Study. METHOD Logistic regression models estimated adjusted odd ratios (OR) in 895 suicides...

BACKGROUND End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients have increased mortality and morbidity. According to Leventhal's self-regulation model, these patients mentally develop illness representations and coping strategies in order to better understand their condition. Mental representations seem to be an important factor for clinical and psychosocial outcomes. We aimed to systematically review all a...

Globally, authorities and “experts” continually assert that suicide is a major public health concern and it is preventable. However, decades of suicide prevention strategies have seen “more of the same” action plans but no change in the upward suicide trend. Therefore, the current suicide prevention model is less relevant to indigenous and minority populations with a high suicide rate. Current ...

The theme of the world health day 2001 was stop exclusion dare to care. The message was that there is no justification for excluding people with mental illness or brain disorder from our communitiesthere is room for every one (WHR,2001). This year marks the 10th anniversary of the rights of mentally ill for protection and care as laid by the UN a decade ago. In this very year we saw the horrifi...