Method: The study sample included a group of 410 participants comprised of 282 adult psychiatric outpatients with anxiety and/or major depressive disorders according to DSM-IV criteria and 128 nonpsychiatric control subjects. The presence of psychiatric disorders was determined by using the M.I.N.I. (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview). Structured Clinical Interview for Separation An...

Materials and methods 36 patients with BD (DSM IV-TR) (25 with BD-I and 11 with BD-II) who complained a recent onset of cognitive deficits, were recruited from 2004 to 2009 at the Psychiatric Day-Hospital service of the University Medical School “Federico II”. All patients underwent a comprehensive Neuropsychological assessment, focusing on shortand long-term mnesic and executive functions. A c...

The psychiatric patient care facilities and services of fifty seven general hospitals attached to medical colleges in India were studied based on data pertaining to 1988. The average bed strength was 25 beds while the average length of stay was 21 days. Functional psychotics formed 62% of the discharged patients. On the average, 2914 new psychiatric outpatients were registered per hospital and ...

The current study tests the utility of the contextual view of reinforcement in predicting substance use among a sample of 34 psychiatric outpatients enrolled at a public psychiatric facility. Participants reported substance use, as well as the frequency and enjoyability of a variety of potential reinforcers, for the previous 30 days. A series of regression analyses revealed that a ratio of rein...

The aim of this study was to investigate traditional and alternative therapy for mental illness in Jamaica: patients' conceptions and practitioners' attitudes. The sample included 60 psychiatric patients selected from Ward 21 at the University of the West Indies, Kingston as well as Princess Margaret outpatient clinic, and 30 Afro-centric psychiatric nurses, psychiatrist and clinical psychologi...

conclusions therapeutic intervention and parent management training improves parenting skill of abusive parents, and this might lead to fewer incidents of abuse or neglect. results participants included 73 children with the mean age of 6.9 ± 4.3 year, while the mean age of parents was 31.76 ± 6.52 year for the mothers and 38.07 ± 8.45 year for the fathers. general anxiety disorder (30.1%) and d...

Background: Consultation-liaison psychiatry is a sub specialty of Psychiatry that involves the study, practice and teaching relation between medical psychiatric disorders. There relatively insufficient data studies profile consultation-liaison across developing nations. Aims:To study clinical sociodemographic patients presenting to care in tertiary hospital south Kashmir. Materials & Method...

The 15-year hospitalization course of 646 chronic schizophrenic outpatients treated between 1958 and 1963 was determined using records of the research clinic, the Kings County Psychiatric Hospital, and the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene. The cohort was heterogeneous with regard to previous history of hospitalization: 20.6 percent had never been hospitalized, 22.0 percent had experi...

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal instruments that allow competent persons to document their preferences regarding future mental health treatment and to designate a surrogate decisionmaker in the event they lose capacity to make reliable treatment decisions during an acute episode of psychiatric illness. This study reports the findings of a survey of 1,011 psychiatric outpatients ...