OBJECTIVES Understanding the role of religion and spirituality is significant for psychiatric practice. Implementation of formal education and training on religious and spiritual issues, however, is lacking. Few psychiatric residencies offer mandatory courses or evaluation of course utility. The authors present findings from a pilot study of a course on the interface between spirituality, relig...

BACKGROUND More psychiatric visits, especially non-emergency ones, to emergency departments (EDs) of general hospitals have been observed in recent years. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of psychiatric visits to the ED of Rasoul-e-Akram Hospital, Tehran, Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, during a two-month period, all psychiatric presentations and consult...

apply in order to evaluate these predictions. It is a particularly great problem in psychotherapeutically oriented psychiatry where treatment outcome cannot be easily measured and where intellectual, interpersonal, and technical adequacy of the therapist are difficult to judge in an objective manner. The principle criteria decided upon were ratings based on general observation of routine work t...

We examined the psychopharmacological services provided within 3 months of nursing home (NH) admission to a whole population of newly admitted Florida NH residents 65 years and older (N = 947) for a 1-year period via secondary analyses of selected variables from Medicaid and the Online Survey and Certification and Reporting System. Within 3 months of admission, 12% received nonpsychopharmacolog...

BACKGROUND AND AIM To assess the prevalence and correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression and anxiety disorders other than PTSD, among three samples with different level of exposure to the March 11, 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid. METHOD We sampled three groups of persons-those injured in the attacks, the residents of Alcala de Henares, and police officers involv...

Nursing home residents with psychiatric disorders deserve to enjoy the full spectrum of therapeutic options that are available to their counterparts living in the community. These therapeutic options, the “tools” of the geriatric psychiatrist, include a broad range of traditional and novel psychotropic medications, in addition to well-recognized nonpharmacologic interventions such as psychother...

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences / Volume 24 / Issue 01 / February 2015, pp 69 77 DOI: 10.1017/S2045796013000681, Published online: 26 November 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S2045796013000681 How to cite this article: W. Rössler, V. Ajdacic-Gross, H. Haker, S. Rodgers, M. Müller and M. P. Hengartner (2015). Subclinical psychosis syndromes in the general ...

OBJECTIVE Driving under the influence (DUI) continues to be a serious public health concern in the United States. Research suggests that the substance use/abuse and psychiatric histories of repeat offenders might contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon. Because psychiatric histories could be important to recovery and likely differ substantially between men and women, the present study ...