BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines suggest routine screening for distress among cancer patients for immediate early psychiatric care. However, previous studies focusing on routine screening for psychological distress among cancer inpatients in Taiwan are scant. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and related factors of psychological distress and mental illness among ...

A slightly modified version (the CQ-Med) of a 15-item competency questionnaire (the CQ) was used to assess competency to consent to hospitalization in general hospital patients. The purpose of the study was to determine whether voluntary psychiatric inpatients would score comparably with general hospital inpatients using a similar questionnaire. The patients studied performed better in nearly a...

Introduction: Amphetamine and methamphetamine are man-made materials. They were only used as drugs at the beginning, but gradually outspreaded as psychedelics because of their sympathomimetic effects. Different studies have shown that the frequency of amphetamine and methamphetamine abuse has been increasing; also, there is a close relationship in amphetamine and methamphetamine abuse with psyc...

INTRODUCTION In this study, we aimed to investigate and compare the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of psychiatric inpatients hospitalized involuntarily and voluntarily. To our knowledge, there is no study analyzing involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in our country. METHOD In this retrospective study, we included a total of 504 patients who were involuntarily or voluntarily...

The Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) sees medical and surgical inpatients with comorbid psychiatric symptoms and conditions. Such consultations require the integration of medical and psychiatric knowledge. During their thrice-weekly rounds, Dr. Stern and other members of the Psychiatric Consultation Service discuss the diagnosis and management of conditio...

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurocognitive disorder characterized by symptoms of inattention, impulsivity and motor hyperactivity. The worldwide prevalence of ADHD, in the general adult population, has been estimated to be 2.8%. Patients with ADHD have a high incidence of comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders. Those with a psychiatric disorder as well as ADHD hav...

BACKGROUND Research on length of stay (LOS) of psychiatric inpatients is an under-investigated issue. In this naturalistic study factors which affect LOS of two groups of patients were investigated, focusing on the impact on LOS of medical comorbidity severe enough to require referral. METHODS Active medical comorbidity was quantified using referral as the criterion. The study sample consiste...

Although self-harming behavior is a common and costly problem for psychiatric inpatients released from the hospital, standardized tools that assess patients' risk for self-harm are rarely used in clinical settings. In this study of dually diagnosed psychiatric inpatients (N = 147), we assessed the utility of patients' self-perceptions of risk in predicting self-harm in the community. Patients' ...

BACKGROUND The problem list is a meaningful use incentivized criterion, and >80% of patients should have 1 problem entered as structured data. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to use a series of interventions to increase the use of the problem list for inpatients to >80% as measured by at least 1 hospital problem at discharge. METHODS This study was a quasi-experimental time serie...

We determined the pattern and severity of symptoms in Turkish and German depressed inpatients. Psychopathological and somatic symptoms were documented on standardized rating scales of the Association for Methodology and Documentation in Psychiatry (AMDP) System. Of a total sample of 6000 inpatients admitted to the Psychiatric Department of the Free University of Berlin from 1981 to 1989, 28 Tur...