Browsing Research Articles (Psychiatry) by Title

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    • Facial affect recognition and exit examination performance in medical students : a prospective exploratory study 

      Roos, Tessa C.; Niehaus, Dana J. H.; Leppanen, Jukka M.; Ras, Johan; Cloete, Karen J.; Jordaan, Esme; Koen, Liezl (BioMed Central, 2014-11)
      Background: Facial affect recognition (FAR) abilities underpin emotional intelligence (EI). The latter is suggested to predict academic success and to be important for clinician-patient interaction. It is therefore ...

    • Factors moderating the relationship between childhood trauma and premorbid adjustment in first-episode schizophrenia 

      Kilian, Sanja; Burns, J. K.; Seedat, S.; Asmal, L.; Chiliza, B.; Du Plessis, S.; Du Plessis, M. R.; Kidd, Michael; Emsley, Robin A. (Public Library of Science, 2017-01-20)
      Childhood trauma is a recognised risk factor for schizophrenia. It has been proposed that childhood trauma interferes with normal neurodevelopment, thereby establishing a biological vulnerability to schizophrenia. Poor ...

    • Feasibility and acceptability of a bar-based sexual risk reduction intervention for bar patrons in Tshwane, South Africa 

      Morojele, Neo K.; Kitlelic, Naledi; Ngakod, Kgalabi; Kekwaletswe, Connie T.; Nkosi, Sebenzile; Fritz, Katherine; Parry, Charles D. H. (Taylor & Francis Open, 2014)
      Alcohol consumption is a recognised risk factor for HIV infection. Alcohol serving establishments have been identified as appropriate venues in which to deliver HIV prevention interventions. This paper describes experiences ...

    • Forensic mental health services: Current service provision and planning for a prison mental health service in the Eastern Cape 

      Sukeri, Kiran; Betancourt, Orlando A.; Emsley, Robin; Nagdee, Mohammed; Erlacher, Helmut (AOSIS Publishing, 2016)
      Objectives: No research data exists on forensic psychiatric service provision in the Eastern Cape, Republic of South Africa. The objective of this research was to assess current forensic psychiatric service provision and ...

    • Frequency and correlates of co-morbid psychiatric illness in patients with heroin use disorder admitted to Stikland Opioid Detoxification Unit, South Africa 

      Dannatt, Lisa Gwen; Weich, Lize (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-08)
      Background. There is a lack of studies addressing the frequency and correlates of co-morbidities among heroin users admitted for treatment in South Africa. Objective. To assess the frequency and correlates of psychiatric ...

    • Functional MRI in pre-surgical planning : case of study and cautionary notes 

      Spottiswoode, Bruce S.; Du Plessis, S.; Gretschel, Armin; Lotz, Jan W. (Cannon Medical Media Publication, 2012-09)
      Background. Since its inception almost 20 years ago, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has greatly advanced our knowledge of human brain function. Although the clinical applications of fMRI are still limited, ...

    • Gemeenskapspsigiatrie en die algemene praktisyn 

      Coetzee, D. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1979)
      As part of the development of a comprehensive community-oriented psychiatric service, a questionnaire with multiple-choice answers was sent to 244 general practitioners in the catchment area of Stikland Hospital. The ...

    • Generalised anxiety disorder 

      Stein, D. J. (AOSIS, 2013)
      Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common disorder witha lifetime prevalence of 6.1% and a 1-year prevalence of 2.9% inone large study.[1]It occurs most commonly in the 45 - 55-yearage group with women twice as likely ...

    • Global mortality from firearms, 1990-2016 

      Naghavi, Mohsen; Marczak, Laurie B.; Kutz, Michael; Shackelford, Katya Anne; Arora, Megha; Miller-Petrie, Molly; Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine; Akseer, Nadia; Al-Raddadi, Rajaa M.; Alam, Khurshid; Alghnam, Suliman A.; Antonio, Carl Abelardo T.; Aremu, Olatunde; Arora, Amit; Asadi-Lari, Mohsen; Assadi, Reza; Atey, Tesfay Mehari; Avila-Burgos, Leticia; Awasthi, Ashish; Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina Ayala; Barker-Collo, Suzanne Lyn; Barnighausen, Till Winfried; Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad; Behzadifar, Masoud; Behzadifar, Meysam; Bennett, James R.; Bhalla, Ashish; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Bilal, Arebu Issa; Borges, Guilherme; Borschmann, Rohan; Brazinova, Alexandra; Rincon, Julio Cesar Campuzano; Carvalho, Felix; Castaneda-Orjuela, Carlos A.; Dandona, Lalit; Dandona, Rakhi; Dargan, Paul I.; De Leo, Diego; Dharmaratne, Samath Dhamminda; Ding, Eric L.; Do, Huyen Phuc; Doku, David Teye; Doyle, Kerrie E.; Driscoll, Tim Robert; Edessa, Dumessa; El-Khatib, Ziad; Endries, Aman Yesuf; Esteghamati, Alireza; Faro, Andre; Farzadfar, Farshad; Feigin, Valery L.; Fischer, Florian; Foreman, Kyle J.; Franklin, Richard Charles; Fullman, Nancy; Futran, Neal D.; Gebrehiwot, Tsegaye Tewelde; Gutierrez, Reyna Alma; Hafezi-Nejad, Nima; Bidgoli, Hassan Haghparast; Hailu, Gessessew Bugssa; Haro, Josep Maria; Hassen, Hamid Yimam; Hawley, Caitlin; Hendrie, Delia; Hijar, Martha; Hu, Guoqing; Ilesanmi, Olayinka Stephen; Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; James, Spencer L.; Jayaraman, Sudha; Jonas, Jost B.; Kahsay, Amaha; Kasaeian, Amir; Keiyoro, Peter Njenga; Khader, Yousef; Khalil, Ibrahim A.; Khang, Young-Ho; Khubchandani, Jagdish; Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad; Kieling, Christian; Kim, Yun Jin; Kosen, Soewarta; Krohn, Kristopher J.; Kumar, G. Anil; Lami, Faris Hasan; Lansingh, Van C.; Larson, Heidi Jane; Linn, Shai; Lunevicius, Raimundas; Abd El Razek, Hassan Magdy; Abd El Razek, Muhammed Magdy; Malekzadeh, Reza; Malta, Deborah Carvalho; Mason-Jones, Amanda J.; Matzopoulos, Richard; Memiah, Peter T. N.; Mendoza, Walter; Meretoja, Tuomo J.; Mezgebe, Haftay Berhane; Miller, Ted R.; Mohammed, Shafiu; Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar; Mori, Rintaro; Nand, Devina; Nguyen, Cuong Tat; Le Nguyen, Quyen; Ningrum, Dina Nur Anggraini; Ogbo, Felix Akpojene; Olagunju, Andrew T.; Patton, George C.; Phillips, Michael R.; Polinder, Suzanne; Pourmalek, Farshad; Qorbani, Mostafa; Rahimi-Movaghar, Afarin; Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa; Rahman, Mahfuzar; Rai, Rajesh Kumar; Ranabhat, Chhabi Lal; Rawaf, David Laith; Rawaf, Salman; Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali; Safdarian, Mahdi; Safiri, Saeid; Sagar, Rajesh; Salama, Joseph S.; Sanabria, Juan; Milicevic, Milena M. Santric; Sarmiento-Suarez, Rodrigo; Sartorius, Benn; Satpathy, Maheswar; Schwebel, David C.; Seedat, Soraya; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Shaikh, Masood Ali; Sharew, Nigussie Tadesse; Shiue, Ivy; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Sisay, Mekonnen; Skirbekk, Vegard; Filho, Adauto Martins Soares; Stein, Dan J.; Stokes, Mark Andrew; Sufiyan, Mu’awiyyah Babale; Swaroop, Mamta; Sykes, Bryan L.; Tabares-Seisdedos, Rafael; Tadese, Fentaw; Tran, Bach Xuan; Tran, Tung Thanh; Ukwaja, Kingsley Nnanna; Vasankari, Tommi Juhani; Vlassov, Vasily; Werdecker, Andrea; Ye, Pengpeng; Yip, Paul; Yonemoto, Naohiro; Younis, Mustafa Z.; Zaidi, Zoubida; Zaki, Maysaa El Sayed; Hay, Simon I.; Lim, Stephen S.; Lopez, Alan D.; Mokdad, Ali H.; Vos, Theo; Murray, Christopher J. L. (American Medical Association, 2018)
      Importance: Understanding global variation in firearm mortality rates could guide prevention policies and interventions. Objective: To estimate mortality due to firearm injury deaths from 1990 to 2016 in 195 countries ...

    • Harmful use of alcohol : a shadow over Sub-Saharan Africa in need of workable solutions 

      Ferreira-Borges, Carina; Parry, Charles D. H.; Babor, Thomas F. (MDPI, 2017)
      Alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable burden of disease in Africa are expected to rise in the near future, yet. increasing alcohol-related harm receives little attention from policymakers and from the population ...

    • Health care discrimination against the mentally ill - A comparison of private health insurance benefits for major depressive disorder and ischaemic heart disease in South Africa 

      Oosthuizen, P.; Scholtz, O.; Hugo, C.; Richards, B.; Emsley, R. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2004)
      [No abstract available]

    • Health systems context(s) for integrating mental health into primary health care in six Emerald countries : a situation analysis 

      Mugisha, James; Abdulmalik, Jibril; Hanlon, Charlotte; Petersen, Inge; Lund, Crick; Upadhaya, Nawaraj; Ahuja, Shalini; Shidhaye, Rahul; Mntambo, Ntokozo; Alem, Atalay; Gureje, Oye; Kigozi, Fred (BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2017-01-05)
      Background: Mental, neurological and substance use disorders contribute to a significant proportion of the world’s disease burden, including in low and middle income countries (LMICs). In this study, we focused on the ...

    • Heavy alcohol use in patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy : what responses are needed? 

      Parry, Charles David; Kekwaletswe, Connie; Shuper, Paul A.; Nkosi, Sebenzile; Myers, Bronwyn J.; Morojele, Neo K. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2016)
      Background. Alcohol has a negative effect on antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence and HIV treatment outcomes. Method. As part of formative work for a project to test the efficacy of an alcohol-focused intervention to ...

    • Heavy drinking and contextual risk factors among adults in South Africa : findings from the international alcohol control study 

      Trangenstein, Pamela J.; Morojele, Neo K.; Lombard, Carl; Jernigan, David H.; Parry, Charles D. H. (BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2018)
      Background: There is limited information about the potential individual-level and contextual drivers of heavy drinking in South Africa. This study aimed to identify risk factors for heavy drinking in Tshwane, South ...

    • HIV/AIDS in Africa - A role for the mental health practitioner? 

      Stein, D. J.; Seedat, S.; Emsley, R. A.; Olley, B. O. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2005)
      [No abstract available]

    • HIV/AIDS mortality attributable to alcohol use in South Africa: a comparative risk assessment by socioeconomic status 

      Probst, Charlotte; Parry, Charles D. H.; Rehm, Jurgen (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-02)
      Objectives To quantify HIV/AIDS mortality attributable to alcohol use in the adult general population of South Africa in 2012 by socioeconomic status (SES). Design Comparative risk assessment based on secondary individual ...

    • Hoarding symptoms in patients on a geriatric psychiatry inpatient unit 

      Stein, D. J.; Laszlo, B.; Marais, E.; Seedat, S.; Potocnik, F. (Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1997)
      Background. While collecting may be a normal behaviour, hoarding is a symptom of various psychiatric disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). Although ...

    • HPA-axis genes as potential risk variants for neurocognitive decline in trauma-exposed, HIV-positive females 

      Jacobs, Sean; Moxley, Karis; Womersley, Jacqueline S.; Spies, Georgina; Hemmings, Sian M. J.; Seedat, Soraya (Dove Medical Press, 2018)
      Purpose: Previous studies have independently provided evidence for the effects of HIV infection, hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction and early life trauma on neurocognitive impairment (NCI). This study ...

    • Identifying perceived barriers to monitoring service quality among substance abuse treatment providers in South Africa 

      Myers, Bronwyn; Petersen, Zainonisa; Kader, Rehana; Koch, J. Randy; Manderscheid, Ron; Govender, Rajen; Parry, Charles D. H. (BioMed Central, 2014-02-05)
      Background: A performance measurement system is planned for South African substance abuse treatment services. Provider-level barriers to implementing these systems have been identified in the United States, but little ...

    • Illicit drug use and violence in acute psychosis among acute adult admissions at a South African psychiatric hospital 

      Wicomb, Robert; Jacobs, Lyndall; Ebrahim, Naasika; Rensburg, Megan; Macharia, Muiruri (AJPP, 2018)
      Abstract : Background and objective: The prevalence of mental illness and illicit substance use has increased markedly in South Africa’s Western Cape Province, over the last 2 decades; potentially increasing demand for ...