BACKGROUND Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood condition, and is more prevalent in boys. The adult outcome of girls with ADHD has never been studied. AIMS To identify predictors for adult psychiatric outcome of children with ADHD, including gender and comorbidity. METHOD Children aged 4-15 years, referred for hyperactivity/inattention and treated with stimu...

Polyvictimization involves experiencing multiple forms of maltreatment or other interpersonal victimization, and places children at risk for severe psychosocial impairment. Children with psychiatric problems are at risk for polyvictimization, and polyvictimized child psychiatric inpatients have been found to have particularly severe psychiatric symptoms. Cluster analysis was used to identify a ...

objective: fragile x syndrome is the second etiology for inherited mental retardation. it may concomitant with other psychiatric disorders. intellectual disability (id) is a state of functioning that typically begins in childhood and is characterized by limitations in intelligence and adaptive skills. we intend to introduce a male young patient with fragile x syndrome and obsessive-compulsive d...

X he interest in preventive psychiatry was given a great fillip with the advent of the Community Psychiatry movement in the U.S.A. in the early sixties. Caplan (1964) saw primary prevention as an essentially public health concept. It aims at reducing the incidence (occurrence of fresh or new cases) of psychiatric disorders of all types in a community and at promoting mental health among its mem...

quality of life measures can provide an important source of medical information for promoting the health status of chronically ill patients. the purpose of the present study was to evaluate health related quality of life in psychiatric veterans of the iraq- iran war of the 1980s.they were out patients diagnosed with various psychiatric symptoms. the present study used a cross sectional design, ...

Introduction. Psychiatric problems and stresses may deteriorate the prognosis of patients with IHD. So evaluating their frequency possibly will promote our perspective regarding their vital importance in the field of consultation-liaison psychiatry. Method and Materials. One hundred and one (101) patients with IHD were interviewed in CCU of a general hospital by a psychiatrist to find whether t...

The rate of growth among the world's elderly population is reflected by the fact that while the total world population would have increased by 26% between 1980 and 2000, the rate of population growth over 65 years of age would have increased by more than 35%. "While the elderly population of the developed countries would have increased by 29.4% in the 20 yeatS 1980 to 2000, that of the developi...

Of the several papers published on unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients, most have appeared in psychiatric journals and may not have come to the attention of general or specialist physicians. Nevertheless, in the Lancet review in 1979 the incidence of psychiatric illness reported ranged from 25% to 83%.' Clearly this figure depended on how psychiatric illness was defined and the...