Objective: To assess psychiatric morbidity and the perceptions about psychiatric illness, among patients presenting to family physicians, at a teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: A questionnaire based survey was developed to collect demographic data, information on psychiatric morbidity and perceptions on psychiatric illness. It was administered to 400 patients, against a sample si...

INTRODUCTION Violence against healthcare workers in the medical setting is common and associated with both physical and psychological adversity. The objective of this study was to identify features associated with assailants to allow early identification of patients at risk for committing an assault in the healthcare setting. METHODS We used the hospital database for reporting assaults to ide...

Background: Bipolar mood disorder type 1 is one of the most serious psychiatric disorders. We aimed to assess the efficacy of a short-term family–focused treatment for patients with bipolar mood disorder type 1 in a one-year follow-up period. Methods: Sixty patients with bipolar mood disorder and acute mania episodes who referred to Ibn-e-Sina Psychiatric Hospital in Mashhad were recruited. Hal...

AIM The aim of the paper was to present the case of a patient who developed acute psychotic symptoms on her visit to Jerusalem. METHOD The analysis of the clinical case and medical history. RESULTS The presented 62-year-old women with a history of previous psychiatric disorder arrived with her husband to Jerusalem as a part of organised touristic group. She developed acute psychotic reactio...

AIM To determine oral health status and identify predictors of oral health in a representative sample of psychiatric in-patients in Serbia. METHODS The study included 186 psychiatric in-patients and 186 control participants without psychiatric illness matched to the study group by age, sex, marital status, education level, employment, and monthly income. Dental examinations were done in both ...

Technology cannot be effectively used to drive improvements in health care quality and health care cost reduction until significantly more healthcare visits are attended. Visit attendance is often perceived as an intractable problem. This formative study identified and analyzed a set of visit adherence determinants to delineate a structure of adherence. The study is distinguished from previous ...

INTRODUCTION Little is known about the use of involuntary psychiatric holds in preadolescent children. The primary objective was to characterize patients under the age of 10 years on involuntary psychiatric holds. METHODS This was a two-year retrospective study from April 2013 - April 2015 in one urban pediatric emergency department (ED). Subjects were all children under the age of 10 years w...

OBJECTIVE Despite the high prevalence of psychiatric emergency (PE) visits for attempted suicide and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents, we have limited information about assessment tools that are helpful in predicting subsequent risk for suicide attempts among adolescents in PE settings. This study examined the predictive validity of a highly promising instrument, the Columbia-Su...

Background: The international working visit of a Dutch delegation 45 clinical psychologists (in training) and science-practitioners in September 2022 to their colleagues Lisbon, Portugal as part post academic education program inspired young realize masterclass. Purpose: Exchanging information on specific treatment between the from Portuguese Psychiatric Hospital Júlio de Matos. Method: A digit...

and ignorance of the various authorities granting permission to visit; but on the whole a considerable amount was seen in the time. I propose to mention arrangements made for mental defectives in the first instance by the educational authorities, in the second instance by medical authorities. I then propose to discuss clinics of more general psychiatric interest: and lastly, one important and t...