background: sick leave from work due to psychiatric disorders is a major public health problem, not only in japan but also worldwide. as males and females in japan tend to differ in their approach to work, a gender difference in perfectionism might be expected. we investigated the background factors leading to long-term absence from work due to sickness among psychiatric outpatients in japan . ...

BACKGROUND Traumatized refugees often report significant levels of chronic pain in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and more information is needed to understand pain in refugees exposed to traumatic events. This study aimed to assess the frequency of chronic pain among refugee psychiatric outpatients, and to compare outpatients with and without chronic pain on trauma exposure...

It is well known that there is high co morbidity between psychiatric disorders (particularly depression and personality disorders) and alcoholism. Aim of this study is to investigate the co morbidity of alcohol abuse/dependence in outpatients seeking psychiatric help in the Emergency Psychiatric Department (EPD) of two General Hospitals. For a three-month period, all the adult outpatients exami...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the epidemiology of suicide attempts among psychiatric outpatients in Mexico. This study was aimed to determine the socio-demographic, clinical and behavioral characteristics associated with suicide attempts in psychiatric outpatients in two public hospitals in Durango, Mexico. METHODS Two hundred seventy six psychiatric outpatients (154 suicide attempters and...

Evaluation of Serum Levels Vitamin D, Ferritin, and Hemoglobin in Suicide Attempters Admitted or Outpatients Referred to Hospitals Psychiatric Clinics Rafsanjan University Medical Sciences

This study was designed to assess the level of psychological distress in a heterogeneous group of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and compare them with the general population and psychiatric outpatients. A total of 118 patients with COPD, a random sample of 500 subjects from the general population and 500 psychiatric outpatients participated in this study. The Dutch ...