Mental stress and illness are common health problems in competitive sports that can reduce performance have effects beyond the end of a career as sport-specific unspecific disorders. The promotion mental safe handling illnesses require appropriate education train-ing. However, child, adolescent adult psychiatrists with specific expertise (sports psychiatrists) not yet an integral part structure...

BACKGROUND How psychiatrists introduce themselves in the first consultation may influence the therapeutic relationship. There is no evidence about what type of introduction patients prefer. AIMS To assess experimentally patients' preferences for how psychiatrists introduce themselves. METHOD Twelve psychiatrists were filmed, each with three different introductions: stating name, profession ...

abstract aim and background: job burnout is considered as the main factor of decreasing efficiency, losing manpower and making physical and mental complication's specially in human service professions, this survey intends to study job burnout for psychologists and psychiatrists of city of isfahan and it is interrelation with individual and professional factors. methods and materials: this surve...

The seven staff psychiatrists injured by patient attack in a large forensic hospital in five years were compared with the 47 who were not injured by attack. Thirteen percent of the psychiatrists were injured by patient attack (2.6 percent per year); 5.5 injuries per 100 person-years occurred. This rate is comparable to the rate of injury from patient attack noted among ward nursing staff during...

OBJECTIVE Practice settings for American psychiatrists were examined for recent trends. METHODS Surveys were conducted in 1996 (N=970) and 2002 (N=917) among members of the American Psychiatric Association. RESULTS Between 1996 and 2002 the percentage of direct patient care hours in publicly funded settings increased from 40 to 50 percent for early-career psychiatrists and from 29 to 44 per...

Emigration of doctors is an international, longstanding, and ongoing phenomenon. psychiatrists at various levels their career from the UK to other countries occurrence talked about within peer groups organisations. Here, authors explore numbers trained on specialist register General Medical Council who left in last five years destination. The research uncovers scale issue that exhibit strong ‘p...

AIMS It is possible to define at risk mental states (ARMS) that predict conversion to schizophrenia in up to 40% of help seeking individuals within a year of screening. Treatment of ARMS is controversial due to difficulties with diagnosis and uncertainties of treatment effectiveness. This survey was conducted to assess and compare attitudes of Singapore psychiatrists vs primary healthcare physi...

psychiatrists' attention on the crucial importance of the association between maternal filicide and their mental health, which is being still neglected and not extensively investigated by a nation-based medico-legal system. Maternal filicide is defined as child murder by the mother and is a multifaceted phenomenon with various causes (cultural background, economics , unwanted/unexpected pregnan...