objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the type, severity and progression of psychiatric pathologies in a sample of 372 outpatients (age range 18–65 years) referred by their primary general practitioners (gps) to an urgent referral team (urt) based in a psychiatric hospital in aberdeen, scotland. this team offers immediate appointments (1- to 7-day delays) for rapid assessments and ea...

Objectives. We aimed at examining the differences between depressed psychiatric adolescent outpatients with and without cooccurring alcohol misuse in psychosocial background, clinical characteristics, and treatment received during one-year followup. Furthermore, we investigated factors related to nonattendance at treatment. Materials and Methods. Consecutive 156 adolescent (13-19 years) psychia...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in new neurological inpatients and outpatients, and examine whether they are recognised, treated, or referred to psychiatric consultation. METHODS 198 consecutive patients referred for the first time to a neurologist were studied using a two phase design. ICD-10 psychiatric diagnoses were established by means of the SCAN (Schedule...

PURPOSE General practitioners have an important role in diagnosing a variety of patients, including psychiatric patients with complicated symptoms. We evaluated the relationship between physical symptoms and psychiatric disorders in general internal medicine (GIM) outpatients in a Japanese university hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS We coded the symptoms and diagnoses of outpatients from medic...

BACKGROUND Although brief alcohol intervention (BI) is widely studied, studies from psychiatric outpatient settings are rare. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of two variants of BI in psychiatric outpatients. By using clinical psychiatric staff to perform the interventions, we sought to collect information of the usefulness of BI in the clinical setting. METHODS Psychiatri...

BACKGROUND Crime victimisation is a serious problem in psychiatric patients. However, research has focused on patients with severe mental illness and few studies exist that address victimisation in other outpatient groups, such as patients with depression. Due to large differences in methodology of the studies that address crime victimisation, a comparison of prevalence between psychiatric diag...

Abstract Purpose: loneliness in adults increases with age. Although has been found to be associated psychiatric disorders and dementia, no information is available on prevalence of older patients. Given the negative consequences for morbidity mortality, identification specific populations vulnerable important. The aims present research were examine outpatients, including gender differences asso...