This study scrutinizes the role of Sharia Rural Banks in encouraging development halal industry Indonesia through influence credit disbursement and third-party funds collected by (BPRS). The has significant potential requires financing based on sharia principles to create a synergy between finance. BPRS sees high priority assisting because it is intended for general public small entrepreneurs w...

Murabaha financing is one of the programs for community. The existence murabaha provides financial support people in need. purpose this research to study system related management Murabahah contract products offered by BPRS Syarikat Madani, Batam City. This a type qualitative or also known as case research. Data collection tool done through observation, interviews and documentation. data analys...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to validate the psychotic depression assessment scale (PDAS), which includes the six-item melancholia subscale from the Hamilton depression rating scale (HAMD-6) and the five-item psychosis subscale from the brief psychiatric rating scale (BPRS-5). Data from the Clinical Research Center for Depression (CRESCEND) study, which is a 52-week naturalistic trial, w...

OBJECTIVES This study seeks to determine the prevalence and pattern of thyroid dysfunction in a group of adult psychiatric inpatients with chronic schizophrenia. We also hypothesize that raised thyroid hormones are associated with more severe psychopathology. METHODS Thyroid function tests were performed on 189 patients and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) was administered by a singl...

OBJECTIVE The study was designed to assess the predictive relationship between brain structure volume and positive and negative symptom response to clozapine and haloperidol. METHOD Partially responsive outpatients with schizophrenia who participated in a 10-week, parallel-group, double-blind comparison of clozapine and haloperidol and who had an available magnetic resonance imaging scan were...

In an open trial, drug-resistant schizophrenics were treated with clozapine for sixteen weeks. The patients were rated on BPRS, PANSS, Side effects scale and Global Impression Scale at weeks 0. 9 and 16. A battery of base-line investigations were done, and hemogram was repeated at weekly intervals. Of the total 29 patient included. 25 completed the trial. The patients showed significant improve...

Aim. To confirm the efficacy and tolerability of ziprasidone as adjunctive therapy in bipolar patients partially responding to clozapine or with persisting negative symptoms, overweight, or with metabolic syndrome. Methods. Eight patients with psychotic bipolar disorder were tested with the BPRS, the HAM-D, and the CGI at T0 and retested after 2 weeks (T1). Plasma clozapine and norclozapine lev...

Obermeier and colleagues address an at-first glance trivial issue, which, however, has major implications on the analysis and interpretation of clinical trials: The scaling of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). The original version of the scale uses a 1–7 rating system that creates major problems of interpretation when it comes to the calculation of responder rates based on perce...