AIM OF DATABASE The purpose of the Danish Depression Database (DDD) is to monitor and facilitate the improvement of the quality of the treatment of depression in Denmark. Furthermore, the DDD has been designed to facilitate research. STUDY POPULATION Inpatients as well as outpatients with depression, aged above 18 years, and treated in the public psychiatric hospital system were enrolled. M...

Background: Many psychiatric patients have nicotine and other substance dependence. Objective: To determine the prevalence of nicotine and opium dependence among psychiatric in-patients inKerman, a city in southwesternIran. Methods: Three groups of psychiatric inpatients, chronic medical patients and a sample from local population, each including 400 subjects were selected.  Nicotine dependence...

OBJECTIVE Older adults have elevated suicide rates, especially in the presence of a psychiatric disorder, yet not much is known about predictors for suicide within this high-risk group. The current study examines the characteristics associated with suicide among older adults who are admitted to a psychiatric hospital. METHOD All persons aged 60 and older living in Denmark who were hospitalize...

We studied the prolactin response to TRH in 53 unmedicated psychiatric inpatients. The prolactin response of females was significantly greater than the response of male subjects. There was no significant difference in the prolactin response to TRH between depressed patients and those with other psychiatric diagnoses. There was no significant relationship between the prolactin response to TRH an...

Despite the fact that antipsychotic medication increases the risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS), the rate of MetS among psychiatric patients in Indonesia is rarely reported. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of MetS among inpatients with schizophrenia in Indonesia. Eighty-six hospitalised psychiatric patients with schizophrenia were randomly recruited, and underwent physical examina...

OBJECTIVE To assess the severity of psychiatric symptoms among residents of hostels for homeless people. DESIGN Survey of residents in two hostels in Oxford, comprising three weeks of background fieldwork, a demographic questionnaire, and rating behaviour over two weeks with a behavioural rating scale (REHAB) and mental state with the brief psychiatric rating scale. SETTING Two hostels for ...

In a prospective open-label study, the substitution of immediate-release valproic acid for divalproex sodium was evaluated in the treatment of 47 adult psychiatric inpatients who had been stabilized on divalproex for at least one month. After two weeks, no significant change in Clinical Global Impressions scale (CGI) scores or in seizure frequency occurred, and serum valproate concentrations de...

This article describes the efficacy of a guided imagery intervention for decreasing depression, anxiety, and stress and increasing comfort in psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders. A quasi-experimental design sampled 60 short-term hospitalized depressive patients selected consecutively. The experimental group listened to a guided imagery compact disk once a day for 10 days. The Psych...

A 15-item questionnaire was used to evaluate competency to consent to hospitalization in 30 adolescent psychiatric inpatients. For competency, 17 percent of the subjects met minimal clinical criteria, 30 percent met broad clinical criteria, and 37 percent satisfied legally oriented criteria. Only 22 percent of the adolescent subjects met combined clinical and legal criteria. When compared with ...

The development and initial validation of the Drug Abuse Screening Test for Adolescents (DAST-A) is summarized. The DAST-A, derived from a modification of the original adult version called the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST: Skinner, 1982), was psychometrically tested in a study group of adolescent inpatients. The DAST-A demonstrated good internal consistency, high test-retest reliability, uni...