in this article, methods of intervention for increasing the social relationship of chronic psychiatric patients are discussed. the three interventionprocedures are: 1) development of new social relationships 2) maintaining and reinforcing the existing social relationships and 3) improving family relationships.in addition, theproblems of implementing these procedures and the role of mental healt...

Objectives: Explores significant differences in types of mental health facilities accessed by and services received by elderly in the United States as compared with the total population, how frequently chronic disease management needs are met, and variance by state. Methods: Secondary analysis of the National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS), 2010, of 15,562 facilities in the United State...

Objective To determine whether a psychiatric-psychosomatic consultation can identify unmet treatment needs and improve treatment of patients with mental disorders in general practice. Methods In 40 primary care practices, 307 consecutive primary patients who met criteria for chronic mental disorders were assessed by a psychiatric-psychosomatic consultant. After random assignment, general prac...

schizophrenia is a chronic psychotic disorder with unknown etiology that causes cognitive impairment, affecting thinking, behavior, social function, sleep and dream content. this study considered the dream content of patients with schizophrenia, siblings of patients with schizophrenia, patients with psychiatric diagnoses other than schizophrenia, and a group of healthy controls. the aim of this...

introduction: patients with schizophrenia characteristically exhibit cognitive deficits. the level of cognitive impairment is found to predict the functional outcome of the illness more strongly than the severity of positive or negative symptoms. the purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of ondansetron, a 5-ht3 receptor antagonist as an adjuvant agent in the treatment of chronic schi...

Background: Mental disorders in patients with chronic medical disorders are associated with, performance degradation, poor quality of life, lack of cooperation with treatment and inappropriate use of medical services, and increased costs. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population referring to an educational medical hospital in Rash...

Background: Caring of the patients with mental disorders is a responsibility which brings lots of pressures and stresses to family members and lowers their quality of life. The current research aimed to study the effect of training coping strategies on the quality of life of caregivers of patients with chronic mental disorders.  Methods: This study is a non-randomized clinical trial condu...