OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare clinical and health services outcomes in pediatric inpatients prescribed an atypical antipsychotic (AA) to those not prescribed an AA at discharge. METHODS Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and, where necessary, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were used to compare differences between and within an inpatient group prescribed ri...

objective: violence imposed on wives by their inpatient psychiatric husbands has not been studied yet. the current study surveyed the rates and predictors of violence committed by inpatient psychiatric husbands towards their wives. methods: a convenient sample of wives of 209 married male psychiatric inpatients completed a self-reported questionnaire. they were asked about physical, emotional, ...

Although no published studies explore rates of sexual symptoms among mentally ill Hasidic Jews, anecdotal observations led to the lead author’s hypothesis that male Hasidic Jewish psychiatric inpatients often demonstrated hypersexual behavior. We examined whether male Hasidic Jewish psychiatric inpatients had higher reported rates of hypersexual behavior than controls. We reviewed charts of all...

Objectives: More attention is now paid on the importance of emotional and mental well-being of the youth. To better plan for psychiatric health care and rehabilitation in this age group, we need to shed light on the epidemiological picture of their mental disorders. The present study aimed to evaluate the demographic and clinical characteristics of the referrals to a child and adolescent psychi...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the epidemiology of adverse drug events (ADEs) and medication errors in psychiatric inpatients is limited outside Western countries. The nature of ADEs and medication errors are important for improving the quality of care worldwide; therefore, we conducted the Japan Adverse Drug Events Study, a series of cohort studies at several settings in Japan. METHODS This report ...

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 condition...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to determine the frequency of dissociative disorders in Dutch psychiatric inpatients. METHOD During a period of 12 months, 122 consecutively admitted adult psychiatric patients were screened with the Dissociative Experiences Scale. Patients scoring 25 and higher and a random selection of patients scoring lower than 25 were blindly interviewed with the Stru...

The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of impulse control disorders (ICDs) in a European psychiatric inpatient sample. Two hundred thirty four consecutive psychiatric inpatients (62% female) were examined using a module of the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition (DSM-IV) that has been developed for ICDs (SCID-ICD). ...