Resource Tag: SYMPTOMS

Aims: This scoping study aimed to interview school staff, secondary school students, parents, and mental health professionals in Merseyside to determine the social validity of the MAPSS programme, and to identify any  necessary adaptations that should be made before it can be trialled, initially in Northwest England, and eventually in the whole of the UK. […]

The authors present a series of questions & answers about depression in men, including: what is depression? are men’s symptoms different than women’s? how would a man describe his depression? why does depression seem to be different in men? how long do men usually suffer from depression? why do men not get help? are men […]

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This study assessed the association between depressive characteristics & completed suicide despite adequate antidepressant therapy in severe depression & investigated the frequency of lethal antidepressant overdoses. A record evaluation was performed of 98 suicide victims with a primary severe depression & admitted to the Department of Psychiatry, Lund University Hospital between 1956-1969. Follow-up continued to […]

Parents completed the Child Bipolar Questionnaire via a secure, Internet-based acquisition system. In multivariate modelling analysis, with age & gender as covariates, Questionnaire items that were most closely correlated with parent-reported suicide threat were identified. The strength of this multifactor association was then examined among subjects reported to have a community diagnosis of bipolar disorder […]

Suicide risk was reevaluated in a group of patients with schizophrenia who were considered to be at high risk 20 years previously. Symptomatology & pharmacotherapy were investigated. Subjects were interviewed & a questionnaire evaluating suicide risk was completed along with other scales. Psychological autopsies were performed for 3 subjects who had died by suicide. 14 […]

The Japanese government established the goal of reducing the annual number of suicides to 22,000 by 2010; towards this end, several programs have been proposed. However, the number of suicides has not declined over the past 10 years. Achieiving the goal in the remaining years will require extensive & consistent campaigns dealing with the issues […]

Factors affecting suicidal ideas in 120 Turkish patients with schizophrenia were evaluated in terms of socio-demographic & clinical properties. All patients were evaluated with a number of questionnaires, including the Reasons for Living Inventory, the Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia, & the Positive & Negative Syndromes Scale. 31.6% of the patients had suicide ideation. Negative […]

The prevalence of suicidal symptoms & their co-occurrence with psychotic symptoms in patients at the Mathari Psychiatric Hospital in Nairobi were investigated. A descriptive cross-sectional study was done in June 2004. Data on sociodemographic characteristics & clinical diagnoses of inpatients were extracted from their clinical notes. A total of 691 patients were interviewed; 308 had […]

The recognition & correct treatment of bipolar disorders is particularly important since untreated bipolar disorder carries an extremely high risk of both suicide attempts & deaths. Considering the clinically explorable suicide risk factors in bipolar disorders, suicidal behaviour in the majority of cases is predictable. There is also evidence that long-term treatment of bipolar patients […]

Schizophrenia may impart to self-concept a quality of self-hatred that encourages suicidality in people with schizophrenia. If so, an index of self-hatred should be more correlated with suicidality among people with schizophrenia-spectrum symptoms than among people with fewer such symptoms. 2 studies evaluated this possibility. In Study 1 of 243 suicidal outpatients affiliated with the […]

The demographic & clinical correlates of current suicide ideation were examined in 44 Turkish patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Following Bonferroni correction, only the severity of depression differed significantly between patients with & patients without current suicide ideation. The presence of major depression, aggressive obsessions, the level of hopelessness, & the severity of obsessive-compulsive symptomatology were […]

Medical records of 570 Korean patients with bipolar disorder were retrospectively reviewed to detect significant clinical characteristics associated with suicide attempts. Demographic characteristics & clinical features between patients with & without bipolar disorder were compared using an analysis of covariance & chi-square tests. Logistic regression was performed to evaluate significant risk factors associated with suicide […]

The outcome of individuals with major depressive disorder after a serious suicide attempt was studied & the effect of psychotic symptoms on their outcome examined. The study population included all 1,820 persons aged 16 years or older in Finland who were hospitalized with major depressive disorder & attempted suicide from 1996-2003. During the 4-year follow-up […]

A questionnaire-based interview elicited details concerning mental & somatic symptoms in patients visiting a psychosomatic clinic in Japan. Univariate logistic regression analyses followed by multiple regression models using a stepwise method were selected for identifying the candidate symptoms. Overall, symptoms related to depression were associated with suicide ideation in both genders. Although women showed more […]

The association between suicide attempt & atypical depression, in addition to other major risk factors, was evaluated in 390 bipolar I & II Spanish outpatients. History of suicide attempts was obtained through interviews with patients & relatives. Attempters & non-attempters were compared using univariate & multivariate analysis. Attempters showed significantly higher rates of atypical depression, […]

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In this letter to the editor, the authors describe their study in which they tried to replicate the results of Schurhoff et al’s (2000) research that found an early age of onset in manic-depressive illness to be an indicator of a more severe phenotype that went along with a higher familial loading. Schulze et al […]

2 experiments examined the effects of potentially biasing information on judgments of symptom severity pertaining to the diagnosis of major depressive episode. In both experiments, psychologists viewed videotapes of two actor-simulated patients responding to questions from a standardized diagnostic interview. In Study 1, an expectancy effect was found for both patients such that prior information […]

The authors examined whether the severity of borderline personality disorder, as measured by the number of criteria present, is associated with comorbidity of Axis I & Axis II diagnoses, as well as demographic factors & psychosocial functioning. 2300 psychiatric outpatients were interviewed. Approximately 10% of the patients were diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. There were […]

Symptoms associated with suicidality in bipolar I patients were identified & suicide risk during treatment with olanzapine in combination with lithium or divalproex was assessed. Data were used from a previous study in which patients with bipolar I manic or mixed-episode who were partially responsive to at least 2 weeks of lithium or divalproex monotherapy […]

This study investigated factors associated with suicidal behaviour in eating disorder patients. 150 patients at an outpatient clinic were included & data were gathered by retrospective chart analysis. 48 patients had a history of parasuicide. A significantly greater percentage of parasuicidal patients than nonparasuicidal patients had eating disorders with bingeing/purging symptomatology, used more than one […]

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