BACKGROUND Delinquent youth frequently exhibit high-risk behaviours that can result in serious injury. However, little is known about traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and their correlates in this population. AIMS To examine the period prevalence and correlates of TBIs in delinquent youths. METHOD Interviews were conducted with 720 (97.3%) residents of 27 Missouri Division of Youth Services r...

background although the number of infectious diseases has sharply decreased in last few decades, parasitic diseases persist in developing countries. on the other hand, chronic psychiatric patients tend to have low self-control, poor personal hygiene, long term institutionalization and extremely low self-care should be monitored for parasitic diseases since psychosocial conditions can contribute...

BACKGROUND The Mexican American Prevalence and Services Survey presents lifetime prevalence rates for 12 DSM-III-R psychiatric disorders in a sample of 3012 adults of Mexican origin by place of residence and nativity, and compares these results with those of population surveys conducted in the United States and Mexico. METHODS The stratified random sample included non-institutionalized person...

Background: Consultation-liaison psychiatry is a sub specialty of Psychiatry that involves the study, practice and teaching relation between medical psychiatric disorders. There relatively insufficient data studies profile consultation-liaison across developing nations. Aims:To study clinical sociodemographic patients presenting to care in tertiary hospital south Kashmir. Materials & Method...

BACKGROUND Suicide death rates in Australia are higher in rural than urban communities however the contributors to this difference remain unclear. Geographical differences in suicidal ideation and attempts were explored using two datasets encompassing urban and rural community residents to examine associations between socioeconomic, demographic and mental health factors. Differing patterns of a...

the most common geriatric psychiatric disorder is depression, known to be a multi factorial disorder. however, the influence of common preventable factors is yet to be discovered. this study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of depression and some possible risk factors in elderly residents of nursing homes in iran.data on demographic characteristics, nutritional and health status of 244 r...

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in that has received much attention today. During last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects cultural from field epidemiology conceptualization psychiatric disorders. This narrative review article tries refer history contemporary and efforts been made this by between 1936 2019. It seems introduct...

OBJECTIVES Ethnic/racial differences in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders have been reported in hospital studies conducted in the United States, but general population studies find little or no evidence of higher rates of disorder in Black communities than White communities. Thus, ethnic/racial differences in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in treated samples may be due to biased ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and patient-specific predictors of the use of 10 presumptively inappropriate medications used to treat medical conditions among nursing home residents, and to use this information to examine alternative screening strategies using computerized assessment data to identify residents who are at high risk of receiving inappropriate medications. DESIGN Retrosp...

It was in 1947 that perhaps the first use was made of closed-circuit television when the proceedings of five surgical operations were transmitted to a group of physicians at a medical meeting at Johns Hopkins (Berger, 1970). In psychiatry, the first reports of the use of closed circuit television in the teaching of medical students and psychiatric nurses, as well as residents were probably by W...