OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of a mental illness diagnosis on quality of care and outcomes among patients with heart failure. DESIGN Retrospective, national, population-based sample of patients with heart failure hospitalized from April 1, 1998, through March 31, 1999, and July 1, 2000, through June 30, 2001. SETTING Nonfederal US acute care hospitals. PATIENTS A total of 53 314 Medic...

AIM This paper reports a study of (a) popular conceptions of mental illness throughout history, (b) how current social and cultural knowledge about mental illness influences Chinese-Australian patients' and caregivers' understanding of mental illness and the consequences of this for explaining and labelling patients' problems. BACKGROUND According to traditional Chinese cultural knowledge abo...

introduction: fragile x syndrome (fxs) is one of the most prevalent genetic causes of developmental disability, representing the most frequent form of inherited severe cognitive deficit. the present study was undertaken to investigate fxs and its prevalence in moderate mentally retarded people in patients. materials and methods: nineteen people with moderate mental retardation (mr) who were cli...

background multiple population-based human studies have established a strong association between increasing levels of serum c-reactive protein, uric acid and subsequent development of hypertension. objectives we aimed to investigate the association between mental well-being with presence of hypertension, hyperuricemia and hs-crp levels. ‬‬ patients and methods this was a cross sectional study o...

schizophrenia is a chronic psychotic disorder with unknown etiology that causes cognitive impairment, affecting thinking, behavior, social function, sleep and dream content. this study considered the dream content of patients with schizophrenia, siblings of patients with schizophrenia, patients with psychiatric diagnoses other than schizophrenia, and a group of healthy controls. the aim of this...

objective: poly cystic ovary syndrome (pcos) is a common endocrine condition that affects up to one fifth of the women of reproductive age. the overall prevalence of the depressive disorders has been shown to be about 12% in a large multi-centric study of obstetric-gynecologic patients. this study was designed to evaluate the distribution of depression and mental health status in women with pco...

BACKGROUND Crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) is an emerging mode of delivering acute mental health care in the community. There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the workings of CRHT in the literature. This is the third paper in a series of three from the longitudinal survey of patients of a CRHT team in Norway, which was aimed at describing the characteristics of patients served, p...