Questions For patients with neck pain, is a brief physiotherapy intervention as effective as ‘usual’ physiotherapy? Do patient preferences for treatment influence outcome? Design Non-inferiority randomised controlled trial with concealed allocation and blinded assessors. Setting Eight community services in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, UK, involving 28 participating physiotherapists (12 trained t...

Objective: Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is characterized by somatic symptoms that are very distressing or cause considerable functional disability. SSD is associated with various medical and psychiatric conditions and imposes high costs on the patient's health care system. Therefore, diagnosis and treatment of SSD are crucial. The Somatic Symptom Scale-8 (SSS-8) is a valuable and brief self-r...

Background School-based health centers (SBHCs) offering a wide scope of health services are an expanding model of healthcare in the US. SBHCs are potential venues for brief intervention (BI), but little is known about the best way to deliver BI in these settings. The objective is to describe pilot data collected in preparation for a randomized trial of nursevs. computer-delivered BI for high sc...

Although the brief scale was developed as an experimental method, it has seemed advisable to consider its actual practicability. As a critique of its practical value I have applied the first brief scale (table III) to 154 public school children in the first four primarygrades of a large school in Millville, N. J. I am indebted to Mr. Ira J. Steiner, principal of the school, and to his teachers ...

introduction: users’ performance and their interaction with information retrieval systems can be observed in development of their mental models. users, especially users of health, use mental models to facilitate their interactions with these systems and incomplete or incorrect models can cause problems for them . the aim of this study was the adjustment and development of health user’s mental m...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between changes in symptoms and changes in self-reported quality of life among Chinese patients with schizophrenia who were switched from a typical antipsychotic to olanzapine during usual outpatient care. PATIENTS AND METHODS This post hoc analysis was conducted using data from the Chinese subgroup (n=475) of a multicountry, 12...

OBJECTIVE In this cross-sectional study, we sought to assess the extent of internalized stigma among inpatients and outpatients with schizophrenia in the People's Republic of China and to investigate whether education level correlated with the experience of stigma. METHODS Schizophrenia patients were evaluated using the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), the Positive and Negative Syndrome...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether or not risperidone is efficacious in treating self-induced water intoxication in patients with chronic schizophrenia. METHOD We carried out a prospective 11-month open-label study using risperidone to treat 8 men with chronic schizophrenia and self-induced water intoxication. RESULTS The 8 men were not able to reduce their fluid consumption compared with their...

OBJECTIVE Activation of semantic networks is indexed by the N400 effect. We used a twin study design to investigate whether N400 effect abnormalities reflect genetic/trait liability or are related to psychopathological processes in schizophrenia. METHODS We employed robust linear regression to compare N400 and behavioral priming effects across 36 monozygotic twin pairs (6 pairs concordant for...