Mobile phones are popular devices that may generate problems for a section of the community. A previous study using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire found that extraverts with low self-esteem reported more problems with their mobile phone use. The present study used the NEO FI and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory to predict the self reported mobile phone use of 112 participants. Multiple ...

A recent claim has been made that there must be a self-regulation in the waiting times to see hospital consultants on the ground that the relative changes in the size of waiting lists follow a power law [4]. In agreement with simulations of Frecketon and Sutherland, we explain the general non-selfregulating mechanism underlying this result and derive the exponent value −2 exactly. In addition, ...

A retrospective study of referrals to a child psychiatry liaison service was carried out in order to assess the impact of the reorganisation of the service. A total of 55% of referrals were of in-patients on the paediatric ward; other in-patients made up 12.5%. Of all referrals, 67% were from paediatricians. Of the children who had not harmed themselves, most were referred either for help with ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of self-care education on rehabilitation of hemiplegic stroke patients discharged from hospital. METHODS For this experimental study, 80 patients were randomly assigned to 2 groups at Urmia University of Medical Sciences Hospitals, Iran, in 2008. First, we recorded the demographic data, and ability performance of both groups, then self-care education was gi...

Krystyna Zdziechowska1, Izabela Czyżak1, Sławomir Murawiec2, Katarzyna Prot2: 1TacyJakJa.pl 29 Czarnieckiego Str., 05-502 Piaseczno, Poland. 2 Mental Health Centre, The Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, 9 Sobieskiego Str., 02-957 Warszawa, Poland. Correspondence address: Sławomir Murawiec, Mental Health Centre, The Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Sobieskiego Str. 9, 02-957 Warszawa,...

Researchers have suggested that the psychoticism (P) personality dimension of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire may be largely redundant with the agreeableness (A) and conscientiousness (C) constructs of the five-factor model. Little research has examined the distinctiveness of these constructs. We utilized a multi-wave, multi-method design to examine the ability of C, A, and P to uniquely ...

OBJECTIVE To review the case records of patients admitted to an accident and emergency (A&E) observation ward following deliberate self harm. METHODS The hospital notes of 568 patients admitted during one year following episodes of deliberate self harm were reviewed. The study was retrospective. RESULTS The majority of these patients had taken an overdose and were between 18 and 35 years of...