BACKGROUND Frequent attendance, which accounts for a high proportion of the general practitioner's (GP's) workload, is still poorly understood. AIM To assess the association and impact of exposure to chronic physical illness, mental disorders, life stress, and sociodemographic factors on the frequent attendance of primary health care medical services. METHOD Nine general practices in Bizkai...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of comorbidity among people with arthritis in the US adult population and to determine the role of comorbidity in accounting for the association of arthritis with days out of role (a measure of inability to work or carry out normal activities). METHODS Data come from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), a nationally representative household...

Growing research finds that reports of discrimination are associated with mental health. However, many US studies are focused on regional samples and do not control for important confounders such as other stressors and response factors. The present study examines the association between self-reported racial discrimination and DSM-IV defined mental disorders among Asian respondents to the 2002-2...

OBJECTIVE To identify the determinants of service use by young Canadians with mental health problems. METHODS Data were drawn from a recent large Canadian mental health survey. The analyses were conducted on a subsample of 1092 Canadians aged 15 to 24 years and identified as presenting a mood disorder, an anxiety disorder, or a substance-related disorder in the 12 months preceding the survey....

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe and chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by marked impulsivity, instability of affect and interpersonal relationships, and suicidal behavior that can complicate medical care. Few data are available on its prevalence or clinical presentation outside of specialty mental health care settings. METHODS We examined data from a surve...

BACKGROUND There are only a small number of prospective studies that have systematically evaluated standardised diagnostic criteria for mental disorder for more than a decade. The aim of this study is to present the approximated overall and sex-specific cumulative incidence of mental disorder in the Zurich cohort study, a prospective cohort study of 18-19 years olds from the canton of Zurich, S...

BACKGROUND Chronic temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is known to have strong correlations with psychological factors and to display gender disparity. However, while chronic TMD is known to affect quality of life, large-scale studies investigating the influence on quality of life by gender are scarce. METHODS This cross-sectional study assessed the data of 17,198 participants aged ≥19 years who...

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Major Depressive Disorder often has a chronic course. Mental Health Care Users (MHCUs) with this diagnosis report experiencing challenges the transition to their home and in resuming previous activities of daily living or functional recovery after short-term admission hospital. This research aimed explore these which MHCUs perceived had contributed re-admission within six...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is affecting approximately 5% of children and adolescents, it a developmental disorder characterised by inappropriate degrees inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity. It arises in early childhood, also chronic pervasive nature. not accounted or based on gross neurological, sensory, language, motor impairment, mental retardation, severe emotional disturba...