Christiane Roick

..Burden on the relatives of patients with schizophrenia may be influenced not only by patient and caregiver characteristics, but also by differences in mental health service provision...

..The aim of the study was to analyze the physical activity, dietary, drinking, and smoking habits of schizophrenia patients (SP)...

..This review gives an overview of the possibilities and methodological problems of QoL measurement in dementia patients...

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..To analyze the impact of a capitated multi-sector-financing model for psychiatric care (RPB) on costs and effectiveness of care...

..Individuals with anxiety disorders often do not receive an accurate diagnosis or adequate treatment in primary care...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the potentially contributory factors of frequent use of psychiatric inpatient services by schizophrenia patients and to test the influence single factors have in an overall model...

..A common approach to elicit utility scores is the use of the time trade-off (TTO) method; however, the data on TTO utility scores in patients with mental disorders are scarce...

..This study aimed to analyze the responsiveness of EQ-5D-based utilities in patients with alcohol dependence...

..CONCLUSIONS: Further qualitative analyses should identify reasons for heavy users to utilize inpatient services and find out other opportunities of care for these patients...

..This study aimed to analyse the discriminative ability and validity of the EQ-5D in patients with schizophrenic, schizotypal or delusional disorders...

..The aim of this study was to compare differences in EQ-5D utility scores with differences in quality of life, psychopathology, and social functioning scores...

..g. EQ VAS, British and German EQ-5D indices) for economic evaluation. This study examined if the EQ-5D could be a valid measure describing and valuing HRQOL in alcohol dependent individuals...

..Frequent utilization of psychiatric inpatient care was mainly analysed by quantitative methods. The present study combines quantitative with qualitative methods and discusses the results obtained from these different perspectives...

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..Therefore the suitability of such indices for mental health and non-mental health conditions was analysed and their ability to detect effects of medical interventions was examined...

..Patients who spend an above-average amount of time in inpatient care are termed heavy users. Up to this point, very little has been known about what drives these patients to their heavy use of inpatient treatment...

..The EQ-5D is a generic questionnaire which generates a health profile as well as index scores for health-related quality of life that may be used in cost-utility analysis...

..However, transformation may cause difficulties in the interpretation of regression coefficients and the retransformation of predicted values...

..Telephone interviews can be an accurate data collection method for calculating mean total costs in mental health care. In the future more standardization is needed...

..Do readers, who are themselves also authors of scientific publications, have different opinions regarding the conception of medical journals than pure readers?..

..CONCLUSIONS: Heavy users should be identified early, in order to offer them alternative services, which better fulfil the patients specific conditions and prevent an inadequate heavy use of expensive services...

..Psychiatry and Sociology have followed separate avenues in Germany since the mid 1970 s. The aim of this work is to investigate their present relationship by means of an analysis of a scientific journal...