INTRODUCTION The relationship among labor difficulties and psychiatric disorders is important and bidirectional. However, current information about the influence of psychiatric disorders in temporary work disability in Spain is inconclusive. For this reason, we aimed to describe the prevalence of the conclusions of psychiatric expert’s reports including maintain o revoke the temporary dis...

Prevalence of psychiatric disorders and violent crime is unprecedented in the national health emergency sectors especially FMC, Keffi a box. Psychiatric clients were recorded among cases clinic federal medical centre, Keffi. The cardinal objective study to investigate prevalence ways curtail incidences psychosocial mental behaviour process under examination. current states disturbance patient c...

OBJECTIVES The ability of nursing homes to manage the mental health needs of their residents is crucial to providing high quality care. An important element is preventing exacerbations of psychiatric conditions that trigger discharge from the nursing home (NH) because of an emergency commitment (EC) for an involuntary psychiatric examination. The objective of this study was to examine the relat...

A psychiatric survey was carried out in an urban area of Ahmedabad which consisted mainly of middle class population. 461 families were surveyed which consisted of a total number of 2712 persons.The data was collected in a predetermined form. The index cases were individually evaluated in detail with the help of a structured Psychiatric proforma, case work and psychiatric examination by a consu...

since 1960s, many experts criticized the use of traditional examinations to assess the skills of medical trainees at all levels and many efforts implemented to create a feasible instrument to measure these skills. objective structured clinical examination (osce) is a modern type of evaluation which is used in many psychiatric and other clinical centers worldwide and has shown a credible validit...

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, ...

An examination of a report published by the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association.

Two hundred and two consecutive patients with dizziness were evaluated using blind neuro-otological testing and examination, blind psychiatric examination, including structured interviews (according to DSM-IV), the Symptom Check-List (SCL 90 R), and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). In 28% of the patients (N=50) dizziness was of organic origin (O group); in 55.3% (N=99) of psychogenic o...

There has been much discussion in the literature concerning the medical evaluation of the psychiatric patient. The medical evaluation of the psychiatric patient involves obtaining a history, performing an appropriate physical and mental status examination, and testing, when indicated. This review applies the rigors of evidence-based evaluation of the medical literature that is currently availab...