background: elder abuse and neglect (ean) comprises emotional, financial, physical, and sexual abuse, neglect by other individuals, and self-neglect. elder abuse and neglect in seniors with psychiatric morbidity was not monitored in the czech republic at all, despite the literature shows mental morbidity as one of the important risk factor for developing elder abuse and neglect. methods: we des...

Aggressive behavior in psychiatric care is a serious problem. The causes of aggression may be ambiguous, including behaviors gender, age, or atmosphere on the ward. Other risk factors, usually not mentioned, include meteorological conditions, such as air temperature and humidity, pressure wind. available literature suggests link between conditions use coercive interventions care. In this study,...

Little is currently known about the attitudes of psychiatric nurses toward patient aggression, particularly from an international perspective. Attitudes toward patient aggression of psychiatric nurses from five European countries were investigated using a recently developed and tested attitude scale. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 1,769 student nurses and psychiatric nurses. R...

Previous studies have shown an association between low serum cholesterol concentration and suicide; however, conflicting results have also been reported. To examine this potential association, cholesterol levels in 99 patients admitted to an emergency ward following an attempted suicide were compared with those in 74 nonsuicidal psychiatric inpatients, and those in 39 psychiatrically normal ind...

Evolving concepts about the interwoven nature of physical and mental health have slowly, but incompletely, chipped away at the “reductionistic anachronism of mind/body dualism”1 that has historically separated them. The article, “Impact of Boarding Pediatric Psychiatric Patients on a Medical Ward,” in this edition of Hospital Pediatrics, however, highlights a series of challenges in which a pat...

Background Psychiatric patients have privacy concerns when it comes to technology intervention in the hospital setting. In this paper, we present scenarios for psychiatric behavioral monitoring systems to be placed in psychiatric wards to understand patients' perception regarding privacy. Psychiatric behavioral monitoring refers to systems that are deemed useful in measuring clinical outcomes, ...

A 39-year-old, unemployed Caucasian male was arrested for assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm involving an incident of extreme violence which occurred in a psychiatric ward where he was being treated as an involuntary mental health care user under the Mental Health Care Act No. 17 of 2002.1 Because of his history of treatment for mental illness, he was sent for psychiatric observa...

Introduction: Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS) is a rare neurocutaneous syndrome that is manifested by overt neurological and covert psychiatric features. Although the syndrome is known to be neurocutaneous, multiple organs and systems are involved. Case Presentation: A 45-year-old male, with type I SWS was admitted to the psychiatric ward with manic-like symptoms. The case had a history of repeated...

BACKGROUND Opium dependency is an important health problem in Iran. Several studies show that most opium dependent patients have concomitant psychiatric disorders. The aim of this study was evaluation of psychiatric disorders in opium dependency in comparison with heroin dependency. METHODS This is a descriptive study on 192 male opium dependent patients who were admitted in dual- diagnosis w...