Esophageal foreign bodies rarely cause respiratory distress in adults. While it is well known that upper airway obstruction can occur with esophageal foreign bodies in children, the otorlaryngologic literature mentions little of this problem in older patients. Two adults with airway obstruction from unsuspected esophageal foreign bodies are described, with emphasis on the problems of diagnosis ...

The psychiatric care of opioid users receiving agonist therapies is often complicated by high rates of illicit drug use (Brooner et al., 2013). The present study evaluates if illicit drug use (i.e., opioids, cocaine, sedatives) detected at the start of psychiatric care affects treatment response. Methadone maintenance patients (n = 125) with at least one current psychiatric disorder completed a...

This article explores a paradigmatic case of legal mobilisation in the UK: successful litigation taken by RF, an anonymous claimant, against Department Work and Pensions’ cuts to disability mobility benefits for those facing ‘psychological distress’. While there is now flourishing literature on rights around world, socio-legal scholarship has tended overlook law experiencing mental ill health o...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to improve the health care of people repeatedly admitted to private hospitals. METHOD An open trial in which frequent utilizers were offered telephone case management over a 12 month period, was conducted. RESULTS An average of 24 phone calls were made to the 99 who remained in the programme for the 12 months. Psychological distress declined signif...

Interviews with spouses of individually referred psychiatric outpatients reveal relevant complaints about the ways the spouses have been approached by previous psychotherapists of their patient-partner. Suggestions are given to incorporate these complaints into efficient strategies for the involvement of spouses in the treatment of the patients.

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BACKGROUND Although hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can potentially cure some hematological malignancies, patients who undergo HSCT experience psychological distress. However, there have been few studies on the short-term influence of HSCT on psychological distress. METHODS The subjects were 71 patients with hematological malignancies who underwent HSCT: 33 with acute leukemia,...

background: this study aimed to investigate the impact ofinternet addiction on some psychiatric symptoms among universitystudents.methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 250students selected via quota sampling from universities in isfahan,iran. participants completed demographic questionnaire, youngdiagnostic questionnaire, internet addiction test and symptomchecklist‑90‑revisio...

Method Ageneralpopulation sample of 7076 individualswas interviewedwith the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) in1996 (baseline),1997 (T1) and1999 (T2).At T2, clinicians also scored the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) item‘unusual thoughtcontent’. Analyses comparedhallucinatory experienceswith andwithout subjective distress at baseline for riskof delusion formation at fol...

OBJECTIVE To assess distress in a sample of carers who were selected from a community survey rather than recruited via community-service agencies. METHODS A community survey was carried out on 630 people aged 75 or over living in Sydney, Australia. Informants nominated by these elderly people were divided into full carer (n = 21), partial carer (n = 187) and non-carer groups (n = 344). Inform...