BACKGROUND Very few studies from Pakistan have examined the profile of patients seen by psychiatrists in general hospital. The aim of this research is to describe the clinical and demographic characteristics of patients referred to the psychiatric unit of a general hospital over a one year period. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, from...

Background: More psychiatric visits, especially non-emergency ones, to emergency departments (EDs) of general hospitals have been observed in recent years. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of psychiatric visits to the ED of Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, during a two-month period, all psychiatric presentations and consult...

BACKGROUND Although modern psychiatric services seek alternatives to hospitalisation wherever appropriate, the national trend toward higher bed occupancies on acute psychiatric wards has refocused attention on community-based alternatives and methods of assessing reed for acute care. METHOD We surveyed key decision makers in a community-oriented district service with a low acute psychiatric b...

Introduction: Many conditions can mimic psychiatric symptoms. Amongst them, intracranial mass and space occupying lesions have a significant importance. Aggression and hallucination are seen in association with a basal frontal lesion, and may mimic psychotic syndromes. Case Presentation: A 37-year-old man with no previous mental illness presented with a month history of headache, blurred vision...

BACKGROUND More psychiatric visits, especially non-emergency ones, to emergency departments (EDs) of general hospitals have been observed in recent years. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of psychiatric visits to the ED of Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Tehran, Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, during a two-month period, all psychiatric presentations and consult...

BACKGROUND Few controlled studies have investigated factors associated with suicide in current in-patients. We aimed to identify psychosocial, behavioural and clinical risk factors, including variations in care, for in-patient suicide. METHOD We conducted a national population-based case-control study of people who died by suicide between 1 April 1999 and 31 December 2000 while in psychiatric...

BACKGROUND Previous research on mental health care has shown considerable differences in use of seclusion, restraint and involuntary medication among different wards and geographical areas. This study investigates to what extent use of seclusion, restraint and involuntary medication for involuntary admitted patients in Norwegian acute psychiatric wards is associated with patient, staff and ward...

Introduction The Covid-19 pandemic has restructured the entire health care system. As systems of were overwhelmed, many professionals in related professional areas became increasingly involved providing medical aid. We highlight a comparative analysis between two psychiatric wards same hospital, with qualified staff, similar levels competence, one caring for patients exclusively major pathologi...

ôbjectivity, reliability and validity of examinations in psychiatry have always been one of the major concerns of experts in this discipline. recently, objective structured clinical examination (ôsçë) for its unique approach and by providing the requirements of psychiatric examinations has been a topic of interest. ïn ïran, an ôsçë has been replaced the individual patient assessment (ïpâ) for e...