BACKGROUND Nonpsychotic psychiatric symptoms may occasionally herald the later development of schizophrenia. This study followed a population-based cohort of adolescents with nonpsychotic, non-major affective psychiatric disorders to ascertain future hospitalization for schizophrenia. METHODS Results of the medical and mental health assessments on 124 24416- to 17-year-old males screened by t...

impact of psychoeducational groups for caregivers on the psychiatric symptoms of patients with schizophrenia     shaygan m [1] *, sharif f [2]     received: 21 nov, 2012 accepted: 11 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder, which is extremely stressful not only for the persons affected but also for their families.   materials & methods : to ...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is associated with high direct healthcare costs due to progression of disease and frequent occurrence of relapses. Aripiprazole once-monthly (AOM) has been shown to reduce total psychiatric hospitalizations among patients who switched from oral standard of care (SOC) therapy to AOM in a multicenter, open-label, mirror-image study of patients with schizophrenia. Because ...

Background: Mental disorders are generally a significant reason for increased morbidity. They constitute a serious disease burden. One of the main reasons for this disease burden is long hospitalization periods. Objective: The current study investigated the length of hospital stay and the variables affecting it in patients treated in the Gazi University H...

BACKGROUND: Decreasing hospital admissions is important for improving outcomes for people with schizophrenia and for reducing cost of hospitalization, the largest expenditure in treating this persistent and severe mental illness. This prospective observational study compared olanzapine and risperidone on one-year psychiatric hospitalization rate, duration, and time to hospitalization in the tre...

BACKGROUND Because wide variations in mental health care utilization exist throughout the world, determining long-term effectiveness of psychotropic medications in a real-world setting would be beneficial to physicians and patients. The purpose of this analysis was to describe the effectiveness of injectable risperidone long-acting therapy (RLAT) for schizophrenia across countries. METHODS Th...

Background: The treatment and hospitalization of psychiatric patients has been a dilemma for many years. Many countries have different specific legislations regarding the hospitalization and treatment of mental patients. Objective: In the current study, 4100 voluntary/involuntary psychiatric admissions and readmissions to a university hospital in Turkey w...

Introduction Several factors related to the risk of requiring psychiatric hospitalization have been described in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia treated methods other than home treatment. With regard symptoms, high global illness severity and positive symptoms most frequently schizophrenia. However, there are no studies describing which clinical increase likelihood being hospitalized whil...

INTRODUCTION In this study, we aimed to investigate and compare the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of psychiatric inpatients hospitalized involuntarily and voluntarily. To our knowledge, there is no study analyzing involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in our country. METHOD In this retrospective study, we included a total of 504 patients who were involuntarily or voluntarily...

background: schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that impairs several intellectual functions, including attention processes.   objectives: to investigate attention deficit in a group of patients with schizophrenia.   method: thirty patients with schizophrenia hospitalized in three psychiatric wards in shiraz and isfahan and 30 normal healthy subjects matched for age, gender and years of educ...