R Kohn

..Having that knowledge would make it possible to improve advocacy, adopt better policies, formulate innovative intervention programs, and apportion resources commensurate with needs...

..There was also a bias against accepting individuals with primary psychiatric disorders. CONCLUSIONS: Although the population of homebound elders with mental illness is increasing, their needs are not being met by these agencies...

..Handwashing and fear of having sinned were more common. There were few differences in clinical features of OCD among the elderly patients compared with younger OCD patients...

..This study explored various psychopathological reactions and their respective risk factors two months after Hurricane Mitch struck Honduras in October 1998...

..Depression and alcohol misuse were examined using screening instruments. The SRQ was used as both a measure of emotional distress and dichotomized to screen for probable psychiatric disorder...

..To address this major public health challenge, WHO has adopted in 2002 a global action programme that has been endorsed by the Member States...

..Research is vital to enable the field of cultural psychiatry to be a vibrant, evidence-based discipline within psychiatry...

..The primary objective of this study was to examine the perception of the quality of psychiatric services five years after apartheid, and specifically whether care for black patients had improved...

..When the MMSE scores were controlled for sociodemographic variables, those with any psychiatric disorder had significantly lower scores; however, specific diagnoses did not affect MMSE scores...

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..The prevalence rates for psychiatric disorders in Chile among those 65 and older compared with younger individuals, and the prevalence rate of psychiatric disorders among those age 75 and older are presented...

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..Especially disconcerting was the lack of knowledge on mental illness among nurses, teachers, and police officers, that is, professionals directly involved in the pathway to care...

..The multidisciplinary team approach appeared to lessen psychiatric disability in homebound mentally ill elderly patients...

..Our findings suggest that specific disorders are linked to interpersonal trauma and PTEs that occur in childhood rather than later in life...

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..Studies on the course of major depressive disorder (MDD) among elderly persons are limited to short periods of follow-up, seldom provide comparisons with younger cohorts, and raise other methodological concerns...

..The current study compared the quality of interpersonal relationships in individuals with major depressive disorder to individuals with dysthymia, comorbid depression, nonaffective disorders, and no psychiatric disorders...

..Falls and ECT were associated with longer hospital stay, when adjusted for confounders including ECT. CONCLUSIONS: These findings support previous results and identify ECT as a possible risk factor for falling in a hospital setting...

..To determine whether severity of depression and severity of anxiety were associated with particular types of sleep disturbance in patients with Parkinson's disease...

..Data are presented on the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders, demographic correlates, comorbidity, and service utilization in a nationally representative adult sample from Chile...

..In addition, in large countries with dispersed populations national rates may have low value for estimating the need for mental health services and programs...

..This study investigates the risk for cancer among psychiatric inpatients diagnosed with bipolar disorder...

..The Brazilian-Portuguese version of the GARF has acceptable validity coefficients, and may be a useful tool in cross-cultural settings...

..However, the two previous epidemiological studies conducted so far failed to show enhanced psychopathology when the children of the Holocaust survivors were compared with suitable controls...

..Only recently has research focused on mental health service delivery following disasters. This review examines the rates, predictors, and barriers to mental health service utilization following a disaster...

..Highly structured interviews such as Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) allow the evaluation of psychiatric disorders in large samples, with great accuracy...

..The authors report the results of a study examining mental health service utilization in the general population of Chile...

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..Undertreatment of serious cases is most pronounced among young poorly educated males. Outreach is needed to reduce barriers to care among serious cases and young people at risk of serious disorders...

..Few South American studies have examined current prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders...

..The overall objective was to optimize the use of the limited resources available for mental health care in the countries of the Americas, especially Chile...

..The Mapuche are the largest indigenous group in Chile; yet almost all data on the mental health of indigenous populations are from North America...

..There is a perception among lay persons, that psychiatric treatments lack efficacy, despite evidence demonstrating the contrary. Not addressing the treatment gap in mental health has serious public health implications...

..The mortality exponential function of age is a description that provides a life-span perspective of suicide and suggests data-informed criteria for future suicide and public health research...

..This study evaluated the materials developed by the World Psychiatric Association in a training program on depression among primary care physicians by measuring changes in their knowledge, attitudes, and practice (KAP)...

..This study evaluated the results of an educational training program for Brazilian primary care physicians that measured changes in knowledge, attitudes, and practice...

..Men with PD had more aggressive dreams compared to females with PD. Aggressive dream content was characteristic of RBD patients and sex differences exist in the dream content of the PD population...

..They differ, however, in that one of them keeps fully the collectivist ideology, while the other is undergoing privatization; this is a process that may loosen the solidarity on which the kibbutz movement was conceived...

..This World Psychiatric Association (WPA) program was adopted to overcome diagnostic and treatment problems that are found among primary care practitioners...

..A cultural response style may be entertained as a possible explanation. However, these factors do not impact the risk for suspected psychopathology where no differential risk was noted after adjustments for confounders...

..Its ubiquitous presence may be reinforced by iatrogenic factors, such as the terms used to name mental disorders and disability. This preliminary study examines opinions with regard to the use of these terms in Hebrew...

..Also, nearly half of the women in an abusive relationship left the relationship within the period. Leaving the abusive relationship was associated with lower individual income and more social support at wave 1...