The Queensland Early Intervention and Prevention of Anxiety Project evaluated a child- and family-focused group intervention for preventing anxiety problems in children. This article reports on 12- and 24-month follow-up data to previously reported outcomes at posttreatment and at 6-month follow-up. A total of 1,786 7- to 14-year-olds were screened for anxiety problems using teacher nominations...

BACKGROUND This is the first prospective longitudinal study, to our knowledge, of the natural history of the weekly symptomatic status of bipolar II disorder (BP-II). METHODS Weekly affective symptom status ratings for 86 patients with BP-II were based on interviews conducted at 6- or 12-month intervals during a mean of 13.4 years of prospective follow-up. Percentage of weeks at each symptom ...

BACKGROUND Data on the course of anxiety in late life are scarce. The present study sets out to investigate the course of anxiety, as measured by the HADS-A (Zigmond & Snaith, 1983) in community dwelling older persons, and to evaluate predictive factors for change over 3 years in anxiety symptoms following the vulnerability/stress model. METHOD Based on the first anxiety assessment, two cohor...

INTRODUCTION Despite opioids' recognized role in the treatment of moderate/severe musculoskeletal chronic pain, their long-term benefits need investigation. We explored the lasting analgesic efficacy, tolerability, influence on life quality, and chronicity stage of the novel prolonged release (PR) opioid, tapentadol, in 30 outpatients. METHODS We evaluated patients' pain intensity and relief ...

239 to be answered about fatigue and CFS. However, when seeing a patient with fatigue, GPs can now be more confident about who is at risk for chronicity and what should be done to prevent this. Even when chronicity does occur, there are evidencebased interventions available. Managing non-specific symptoms will always present challenges, but in the case of fatigue, the mounting evidence will hop...

BACKGROUND Risk for depression and other disorders is known to be high among children of depressed mothers, but little is known about the parameters of severity, chronicity, and timing of depression and its effects on children. The study addresses these issues, disaggregating their overlapping effects. METHODS A sample of 816 women and their 15-year-old children in an Australian community wer...

OBJECTIVES To describe a group of patients treated at our service for Henoch-Schönlein purpura, with emphasis on recurrent and chronic cases, and to compare clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with monocyclic and recurrent disease. METHODS Data on 67 patients who had been treated since disease onset were analyzed. Twelve patients were excluded because they failed to return fo...

The increasing prevalence of chronic Non Communicable Disease (NCD) around the world is well documented and projections suggest a frightening increase in prevalence around the world. The majority of new patients with chronic disease are expected to occur in developing countries. Effective management of chronic disease is a complex process that involves a proactive health care team working withi...

STUDY DESIGN Synthesis and application of research. OBJECTIVE To provide a framework to consider the role of signs and symptoms of postural control disturbance in the transition to chronicity after a whiplash trauma. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Dizziness is one of the most frequent complaints in those with persistent pain after a whiplash trauma and is often associated with postural control ...

BACKGROUND Fibromyalgia (FM) is a prevalent and disabling disorder characterised by widespread pain and other symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue and depression. Catastrophisation is considered to be a key clinical symptom in FM; however, few studies have investigated how contextual factors, such as catastrophisation, might contribute to the duration of the pain. The present research examined th...