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Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 31, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Prazosin for treating sleep disturbances in adults with posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder with significant sleep morbidity and limited treatment options. Prazosin may constitute a novel management approach and has been tested recently in a number of trials. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effectiveness of prazosin for nightmares and other sleep disturbances in adults with PTSD. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 31, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Davit Khachatryan, Dianne Groll, Linda Booij, Amir A. Sepehry, Christian G. Schütz Source Type: research
Prazosin for treating sleep disturbances in adults with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a disorder with significant sleep morbidity and limited treatment options. Prazosin may constitute a novel management approach, and has been tested recently in a number of trials. We conducted a meta-analysis to examine the effectiveness of prazosin for nightmares and other sleep disturbances in adults with PTSD. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 31, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Davit Khachatryan, Dianne Groll, Linda Booij, Amir A. Sepehry, Christian G. Schütz Source Type: research
General Hospital Psychiatry: A Time of Transition
The inaugural issue of General Hospital Psychiatry was published in April of 1979 with an editorial from founding Editor-In-Chief, Dr. Don Lipsitt, entitled “Psychiatry and the General Hospital [1].” In this editorial, Dr. Lipsitt summarized the mission of the Journal in the following paragraph: “It is this physical, social, and psychological wholeness of the person that General Hospital Psychiatry will address, with a firm base in the role of psychiatry as taught, practiced, and researched in the general hospital-whether public, private, university, county, or community. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 31, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dimitry S. Davydow Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Pre- and post-discharge factors influencing early readmission to acute psychiatric wards: Implications for quality-of-care indicators in psychiatry
This study aims to describe the association between pre- and post-discharge factors and early readmission to acute psychiatric wards in a well-integrated community-based psychiatric service. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 31, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: V. Donisi, F. Tedeschi, D. Salazzari, F. Amaddeo Source Type: research
Assessment of psychosocial factors and predictors of psychopathology in a sample of heart transplantation recipients: A prospective 12-month follow-up
In the last decades, researchers of heart transplantation (HT) programs have attempted to identify the existence of psychosocial factors that might influence the clinical outcome before and after the transplantation. The first objective of this study is the prospective description of changes in psychiatric and psychosocial factors in a sample of HT recipients, through a 12-month follow-up. The second goal is to identify predictors of psychopathology one year after HT. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 25, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Roberto Sánchez, Eva Baillès, Josep Maria Peri, Anna Bastidas, Félix Pérez-Villa, Antonio Bulbena, Luis Pintor Source Type: research
High-frequency intimate partner violence during pregnancy, postnatal depression and suicidal tendencies in Harare, Zimbabwe
This study investigated the association of postnatal depression (PND) and suicidal ideation with emotional, physical and sexual IPV experienced by women during pregnancy. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 22, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Simukai Shamu, Christina Zarowsky, Kristien Roelens, Marleen Temmerman, Naeemah Abrahams Source Type: research
Perceived support in parents of children with burns
Children sustaining burns that require treatment in a Burn center have a need for multiprofessional aftercare services over a prolonged time. So far there is little research into satisfaction with care and support after pediatric burns. The aim was to investigate parents’ perception of support after pediatric burn and associations with parent-, child- and injury characteristics. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 22, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: M. Willebrand, J. Sveen Source Type: research
High frequency intimate partner violence during pregnancy, post natal depression and suicidal tendencies in Harare, Zimbabwe
This study investigated the association of postnatal depression (PND) and suicidal ideation with emotional, physical and sexual IPV experienced by women during pregnancy. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 22, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Simukai Shamu, Christina Zarowsky, Kristien Roelens, Marleen Temmerman, Naeemah Abrahams Source Type: research
Smoking and its associations with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and quality of life in patients with schizophrenia treated in primary care in China
This study investigated the rate of smoking and its associations with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and quality of life (QOL) in patients with schizophrenia treated in primary care in China. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yan Li, Cai-Lan Hou, Xin-Rong Ma, Yu Zang, Fu-Jun Jia, Bao-Liang Zhong, Yong-Qiang Lin, Helen F.K. Chiu, Gabor S. Ungvari, Seth Himelhoch, Xiao-Lan Cao, Mei-Ying Cai, Kelly Y.C. Lai, Yu-Tao Xiang Source Type: research
High prevalence of posttraumatic stress in patients with primary hypertension
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with a higher rate of arterial hypertension. However, data about prevalence rates of PTSD in patients suffering from arterial hypertension as well as the relation to blood pressure (BP) control are lacking. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Elisabeth Maria Balint, Preslava Boseva, Katharina Schury, Harald Guendel, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Christiane Waller Source Type: research
The excess mortality of patients with diabetes and concurrent psychiatric illness is markedly reduced by structured personal diabetes care
To assess the effectiveness of an intervention in type 2 diabetic patients with concurrent psychiatric illness (PI) and compare this with the effectiveness in patients without PI. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Julie Rask Larsen, Volkert D. Siersma, Annette S. Davidsen, Frans B. Waldorff, Susanne Reventlow, Niels de Fine Olivarius Source Type: research
High Prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress in Patients with primary Hypertension
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with a higher rate of arterial hypertension. However, data about prevalence rates of PTSD in patients suffering from arterial hypertension as well as the relation to blood pressure control are lacking. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Elisabeth Maria Balint, Preslava Boseva, Katharina Schury, Harald Guendel, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Christiane Waller Source Type: research
Smoking and its associations with socio-demographic and clinical characteristics and quality of life in patients with schizophrenia treated in primary care in China
This study investigated the rate of smoking and its associations with socio-demographic and clinical characteristics and quality of life (QOL) in patients with schizophrenia treated in primary care in China. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - October 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yan Li, Cai-Lan Hou, Xin-Rong Ma, Yu Zang, Fu-Jun Jia, Bao-Liang Zhong, Yong-Qiang Lin, Helen F.K. Chiu, Gabor S. Ungvari, Seth Himelhoch, Xiao-Lan Cao, Mei-Ying Cai, Kelly Y.C. Lai, Yu-Tao Xiang Source Type: research
Electroconvulsive therapy in the intensive care unit for the treatment of catatonia: a case series and review of the literature
Catatonia is an underdiagnosed syndrome that may occur in severely ill patients. The malignant subtype, consisting of motor symptoms, autonomic instability and fever, is associated with high mortality rates, though exact current mortality rates are unknown. This subtype requires a fast detection and treatment with high doses of a benzodiazepine or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), preferably in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting. (Source: General Hospital Psychiatry)
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - September 29, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Femke M. Dessens, Judith van Paassen, David J. van Westerloo, Nic J. van der Wee, Irene M. van Vliet, Martijn S. van Noorden Source Type: research
