Resource Tag: SYMPTOMS

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 […]

This article focusses on the assessment of suicide risk in depressed patients. The discussion includes an examination of: the clinical picture of depression; risk factors for suicide in depressed patients; the relationship of stage of illness to suicide risk; suicide ideation, suicide attempt & family history of suicide; the association of risk with drinking; & […]

This study examined the agreement between depression symptoms using an assessment tool & physician documentation of the same symptoms during a clinic visit, & then examined how the presence of these symptoms affected depression diagnosis in primary care settings. A total of 304 participants were recruited from two large urban primary care community settings. Analysis […]

This article discusses the unexpected relationship between cosmetic breast implants & suicide that has been found in 6 epidemiological investigations completed in the last several years. Across the six studies, the suicide rate of women who received cosmetic breast implants is approximately twice the expected rate based on estimates of the general population. This finding […]

In this overview of the pharmacotherapy of body dysmorphic disorder, the authors briefly describe this disorder’s clinical features, associated morbidity, & how to recognize & diagnose body dysmorphic disorder. Pharmacotherapy research, with a focus on serotonin-reuptake inhibitors, is reviewed. Many patients have substantial improvement in core symptoms, psychosocial functioning, quality of life, measure of suicidality […]

The psychopathological problems of suicide ideators & suicide attempters in a sample of young Iranian female students were studied. 2,650 females students, aged 14-21 years, in 3 high-risk provinces were selected. The results showed the psychological profiles of suicide ideators & attempters differed significantly from those of non-ideators & non-attempters. Further, their profiles were characterized […]

A psychological autopsy method with best informants was used to investigate DSM-IV depressive symptoms among 156 people who died by suicide in the context of a major depressive episode & 81 major depressive controls. Suicide victims’ depressive symptoms were more likely to include weight or appetite loss, insomnia, feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt as […]

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The objectives of this study were to characterize the proximal risks for suicidality associated with anxiety, depressive, disruptive behavior, & substance use disorders, & to test whether there are critical combinations of disorders that discriminate at-risk youth independent of severity of psychopathology. The study included an epidemiological sample of youth in the Great Smoky Mountains […]

This paper reports on the prevalence of depression in 107 patients of the ABC schizophrenia study over 12 years after first hospital admission. All but one of the 107 patients experienced 1-10 episodes of depressed mood between index assessment & long-term follow-up. In any month of the observation period, about 30-35% of the patients presented […]

The goals of this study were to estimate the prevalence of psychotic symptoms among adults attending an urban general medical practice that serves a low-income population & to describe the mental health, social & occupational functioning, & mental health treatment of these patients. 210 patients (20.9% of the sample) reported 1 or more psychotic symptoms. […]