Browsing Research Articles (Psychiatry) by Title
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Compliance of clinical trial registries with the World Health Organization minimum data set : a survey
(BioMed Central, 2009-07)Background: Since September 2005 the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has required that trials be registered in accordance with the World Health Organization (WHO) minimum dataset, in order to be considered ... -
Computed tomography in psychiatric patients
(HMPG, 1986)In a retrospective study of 100 consecutive adult psychiatric patients referred for computed tomography (CT) for suspected intracranial lesions, abnormalities were found in 61%. Of these, 23% had focal lesions significantly ... -
Conflict of interest : a tenacious ethical dilemma in public health policy, not only in clinical practice/research
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2012-12)In addition to the ethical practice of individual health professionals, bioethical debate about conflict of interest (CoI) must include the institutional ethics of public policy-making, as failure to establish independence ... -
Correction to : The impact of drug resistance on the risk of tuberculosis infection and disease in child household contacts : a cross sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2017-11-07)Correction: After publication of the original article [1] the authors noted that the following errors had occurred: The name of the author H. Simon Schaaf had been incorrectly tagged as Simon H. Schaaf. This has ... -
Correction to: Evaluating a screener to quantify PTSD risk using emergency care information : a proof of concept study
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-06-29)An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. -
Cortisol levels in different tissue samples in posttraumatic stress disorder patients versus controls : a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2019-01-07)Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that develops following exposure to severely stressful events. Altered cortisol secretion has been reported in PTSD; however, results have been inconsistent ... -
Crisis discharges and readmission risk in acute psychiatric male inpatients
(BioMed Central, 2008-06)Background: Severe pressures on beds in psychiatric services have led to the implementation of an early ("crisis") discharge policy in the Western Cape, South Africa. The study examined the effect of this policy and length ... -
Cultural considerations in the classification of mental disorders : why and how in ICD-11
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-01-27)No abstract available. -
D8/17 in obsessive-compulsive disorder and trichotillomania
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1999)The finding that patients with Sydenham's chorea often demonstrate obsessive-compulsive disorder (OeD) has fostered increased interest in possible neuroimmunological mechanisms in OCD.' Increased expression of the ... -
Dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder in general practice
(Medpharm Publications, 2012)Traumatic experiences are prevalent in South Africa and may result in psychiatric disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is accompanied by a range of psychobiological alterations, including changes ... -
A decentralised model of psychiatric care : profile, length of stay and outcome of mental healthcare users admitted to a district-level public hospital in the Western Cape
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015-02)Background. There is a lack of studies assessing the profile and outcome of psychiatric patients at entry-level public hospitals that are prescribed by the Mental Health Care Act to provide a decentralised model of psychiatric ... -
Dementia
(AOSIS Publishing, 2013-08-30)By definition, dementia is an acquired global impairment in memory, personality and intellect in an alert patient, that is sufficiently severe to interfere with social and/or occupational functioning. -
Depression and anxiety in multisomatoform disorder : prevalence and clinical predictors in primary care
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2008)Objective. Multisomatoform disorder (MSD) is characterised by ≥3 medically inexplicable, troublesome physical symptoms, together with a ≥2-year history of somatisation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence ... -
Depression and resilience in women with HIV and early life stress : does trauma play a mediating role? : a cross-sectional study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014-02)Objectives: The present study sought to assess the relationship between depressive symptomatology and resilience among women infected with HIV and to investigate whether trauma exposure (childhood trauma, other discrete ... -
Developing the language of futility in psychiatry with care
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)In psychiatric practice, treatment success is, in many instances, not an achievable goal. Psychiatrists may often not acknowledge treatment failure in their patients and seldom consider that patients may be in situations ... -
Development and psychometric validation of a novel patient survey to assess perceived quality of substance abuse treatment in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015-11)Background: A hybrid performance measurement system that combines patient-reported outcome data with administrative data has been developed for South African substance abuse treatment services. This paper describes the ... -
The development of the visual screening tool for anxiety disorders and depression : addressing barriers to screening for depression and anxiety disorders in hypertension and/or diabetes
(AOSIS, 2018-06)Background: There is a lack of screening tools for common mental disorders that can be applied across cultures, languages and levels of education in people with diabetes and hypertension. Aim: To develop a visual screening ... -
The diagnosis and management of depression in the era of the DSM-5
(Medpharm Publications, 2018)Depressive disorders comprise a range of conditions that can be viewed along many dimensions. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) introduced several changes to the chapter on ... -
Dietary intake, nutrition, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
(Elsevier, 2014)In this study, we describe the nutritional status of women from a South African community with very high rates of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Nutrient intake (24-2 hours recall) of mothers of children with ... -
Disability claims on psychiatric grounds
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1996)Recent years have seen an alarming increase in South Africa in applications for medical disability on psychiatric grounds. Psychiatric disorders now rank as the second most common indication for these applications, after ...
