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Weight change in treatment with olanzapine and a psychoeducational approachPaolo Scocco
Mental Health Department, ULSS 16 Padova, Italy
Eat Behav 7:115-24. 2006..4 kg). Poor dietary compliance correlated significantly with an increase in body weight, while higher mean dosages of olanzapine correlated with better weight-gain control...- Prevalence of suicide ideation, plans, and attempts and related risk factors in Italy: results from the European Study on the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders--World Mental Health studyPaolo Scocco
Department of Mental Health, Azienda ULSS 16, 35100 Padua, Italy
Compr Psychiatry 49:13-21. 2008..Yet, no studies to date have examined the prevalence of and risk factors for suicide ideation, plans, and attempts, in the general population in Italy... 
Psychiatrists' emotional reactions to patient suicidal behaviorPaolo Scocco
SCOCCO University of Padua, Department of Mental Health, Padua, Italy
J Psychiatr Pract 18:94-108. 2012..It is likely that psychiatrists will have to deal with an attempted or completed suicide by a patient at some point in their careers. The goal of this study was to assess psychiatrists' emotional reactions to patients' suicidal behavior...- Stigma of Suicide Attempt (STOSA) scale and Stigma of Suicide and Suicide Survivor (STOSASS) scale: two new assessment toolsPaolo Scocco
Mental Health Department, ULSS 16, Padova, Italy Soproxi Project, Italy
Psychiatry Res 200:872-8. 2012..The two scales may be helpful to quantify stigma at individual level in order to provide targeted supportive interventions, and at population level to measure changes in the beliefs and attitudes of the general population... 
Depression in primary care: interpersonal counseling vs selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. The DEPICS Study. A multicenter randomized controlled trial. Rationale and designMarco Menchetti
Institute of Psychiatry, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy
BMC Psychiatry 10:97. 2010..Psychological interventions are recommended as first-line treatment by the most authoritative international guidelines but few evidences are available on their efficacy and effectiveness for mild depression...- How the psychiatrists of a mental health department managed their patients before an attempted suicidePaolo Scocco
Community Mental Health Centre, Via Buzzaccarini 1, 35124 Padova, Italy
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 63:706-14. 2009..The aim of this survey was to describe patients in care at a large mental health department in northern Italy who attempted suicide, and the clinical management adopted by their psychiatrists before the event... - Death ideas, suicidal thoughts, and plans among nursing home residentsPaolo Scocco
Department of Mental Health, Padua, Italy
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 22:141-8. 2009..This high frequency of death and/or suicidal feelings and thoughts among older NH residents should be carefully considered when planning and implementing health care programs in these facilities... - Interpersonal problem areas and onset of panic disorderP Scocco
Department of Mental Health, Padua, Italy
Psychopathology 40:8-13. 2007.... - Role of depressive and cognitive status in self-reported evaluation of quality of life in older people: comparing proxy and physician perspectivesPaolo Scocco
Department of Mental Health, Community Mental Health Centre, Via Buzzaccarini 1, 35124 Padova, Italy
Age Ageing 35:166-71. 2006.... - SOPRoxi: a research-intervention project for suicide survivorsP Scocco
Department of Mental Health, Padua, Italy
Crisis 27:39-41. 2006.... - Nursing home institutionalization: a source of eustress or distress for the elderly?Paolo Scocco
Department of Mental Health, Padua, Italy
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:281-7. 2006..To investigate why elderly persons moved to a nursing home and detect any change in their psychopathological and cognitive profile, dependency and perceived QOL... - Suicidal behaviour in nursing homes: a survey in a region of north-east ItalyPaolo Scocco
Department of Mental Health, Padua, Italy
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:307-11. 2006..To assess suicide and attempted suicide (AS) rates and their characteristics among older residents in Nursing Homes (NHs) of the Veneto region, in the North-East of Italy... - Residential facilities for older people in Italy: a five-region surveyGiovanni de Girolamo
Department of Mental Health, ASL Bologna, and Mental Health Unit, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
Aging Clin Exp Res 19:132-8. 2007.... - Interpersonal psychotherapy as augmentation treatment in depressed elderly responding poorly to antidepressant drugs: a case seriesPaolo Scocco
Department of Mental Health, ULSS 12, Venice, Italy
Psychother Psychosom 71:357-61. 2002..This applies in particular to elderly patients. The aim of this work is to assess whether augmentation with interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) can bring about symptom remission in depressed elderly responding poorly to medication... - Addressing the challenges of a cross-national investigation: lessons from the Pittsburgh-Pisa study of treatment-relevant phenotypes of unipolar depressionEllen Frank
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Clin Trials 5:253-61. 2008..A multi-site clinical trial that includes psychotherapy as one of the treatments presents numerous challenges related to cross-site consistency and communication... - Suicide phenomena in nursing homes: a neglected issue in geriatric research and clinical management?Paolo Scocco
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1299-300. 2006 - [Residential facilities for the elderly in five Italian regions. The Progres-Anziani Project]Giovanni de Girolamo
Dipartimento di Salute Mentale, ASL di Bologna
Epidemiol Prev 29:264-70. 2005..To survey all Residential Facilities (RFs) for the elderly in five Italian Regions (Calabria, Sardinia, Sicily. Umbria and Veneto), and to evaluate their logistic and organizational characteristics, staff and residents' features...