MICHAEL COMPTON

..Studying legal status (and the process of legal status conversion from involuntary to voluntary) and its correlates is an important topic for further research...

..This study focused on two important dimensions of the social environment, family relationships and social support, as well as an important person-level risk factor--depressive symptoms...

..This was accomplished using a large dataset of patients who are representative of individuals in routine US psychiatric practice...

..Br J Psychiatry 189:446-452, 2006). The present analysis was conducted in an effort to replicate those findings in a predominantly low-income, urban, African American sample...

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..This study was conducted to determine the practical, readily accessible predictors of missed first outpatient appointments in a community mental health setting after psychiatric hospitalization...

..Additional research is needed to further characterize the detrimental effects of psychoticism or self-reported psychotic symptoms in the general, non-psychiatric population...

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..Specifically, a prevention orientation is relevant to administrative psychiatry in the domains of service delivery, education and training, research, and community consultation and advocacy...

..Findings indicate that a substantial portion of the variance in LOS in this setting can be predicted from basic sociodemographic and clinical factors available in hospital medical charts...

..This study determined changes in knowledge, attitudes, and social distance related to schizophrenia among police officers after CIT training...

..The literature on the prevalence, etiology, prevention, and treatment of these two risk factors, in the context of serious mental illnesses, are reviewed following a preventive approach...

..It may be advisable to use total SPQ-B scores rather than subscale scores in some situations, or to use factor analytic techniques to study the instrument's latent structure in specific samples...

..Studies have examined factors affecting medical students' specialty choice, but little research exists on stability of these specialty interests...

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..Associations between PTC-tasting status and olfactory identification scores also were examined...

..These findings may be useful to clinicians, researchers, and program planners interested in addressing the important issue of treatment-compliance problems in psychiatric care settings...

..This study also examined whether sociodemographic and work-related characteristics would predict knowledge retention...

..Findings from this pilot study indicate that some health behavior theory constructs, including PBC, may be useful in future early intervention efforts...

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..Like any other chronic medical condition, schizophrenia can be considered from a preventive perspective...

..These preliminary observations may serve to generate hypotheses for further research that aims to elucidate the determinants of treatment delays in the early course of schizophrenia, especially among African American populations...

..Behavioral and psychiatric manifestations of the disorder include attention deficits, aggressiveness, and social inhibition. The authors describe a case of psychosis that developed in a patient with Sotos syndrome...

..Additional research is needed on the correlates of substance abuse among first-episode patients, including socially disadvantaged African American patients...

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..Childhood physical and sexual abuse may be a risk factor for the initiation of cannabis dependence and other substance use disorders in the early course of schizophrenia...

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..Effects of the progression of frequency of use were examined through time-dependent covariates in survival analyses...

..Further research on self-reported psychotic symptoms in non-psychiatric populations is needed, as well as research on the personality correlates of such symptoms, including impulsivity...

..This study tested a hypothesized inverse correlation between the number of crisis intervention team (CIT) officers and the number of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) callouts in an urban police department...

..This study examined patient-level predictors of DUP and clinical correlates of both DUP and duration of untreated illness (DUI), both of which have been implicated as prognostic indicators...

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..In doing so, it is emphasized that the categorical approach is beneficial primarily in terms of reliability, whereas the dimensional approach would enhance validity...

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..These results provide insight into the etiologic beliefs of a sample of African American family members. Further research is needed to assess the potential influence of these beliefs on treatment seeking on the part of the family...

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..Additionally, associations between MPA scores and schizotypy were explored in these two groups...

..Such investigations may provide insights into service enhancements that can promote early detection and intervention, thus improving illness outcomes...

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..This study used a qualitative research methodology to explore common themes pertaining to the period of untreated psychosis before treatment initiation in hospitalized, urban, African American, first-episode psychosis patients...

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..Furthermore, differences across studies could be driven by race/ethnicity and cultural factors that may affect the reporting of unusual or distorted perceptions...

..Future interventions should take into account the reported pros and cons of smoking in this population, as well as other beliefs and attitudes regarding smoking behavior...

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..A longer duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is associated with greater morbidity in the early course of schizophrenia. This formative, hypothesis-generating study explored the effects of stigma, as perceived by family members, on DUP...

..Results highlight the potential for collaboration between law enforcement (and other public safety/criminal justice professions) and the mental health professions in the expanding CIT collaborative model...

..This study describes the prodromal period of 109 hospitalized first-episode patients from an urban, socially disadvantaged, predominantly African American population...

..Future research with larger samples is needed to confirm and extend these results...

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..differ from controls in terms of a number of specific facial measurements?, and (2) Does cluster analysis based on these facial measurements reveal distinct facial morphologies that significantly discriminate patients from controls?..

..This study determined the best-fitting factor structure from among five models that have been proposed in the literature, as well as five additional hierarchically related models...

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..Various viewpoints of key participating agencies are presented. Recommendations are provided for other localities and stakeholders who plan to incorporate a community mental health component into local disaster response plans...

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..The authors tested a population-based medical care management intervention designed to improve primary medical care in community mental health settings...

..Several correlations among dermatoglyphic indices and MPAs were found in this exploratory analysis, particularly among relatives and controls. Implications for future research are discussed...

..Findings support further research for the establishment of best-practice standards...

..Further research involving specific racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic groups is needed to better understand the complex associations underlying knowledge about schizophrenia and stigma...

..I), co-morbid psychiatric illness, and executive functioning status. The findings are consistent with deleterious effects of even residual depressive symptoms in BPD patients...

..Implications of the current findings, limitations of the review, and directions for future research are highlighted...

..Findings indicate that distance delivery of group MBCT can be effective in reducing symptoms of depression in people with epilepsy. Directions for future research are proposed...

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..Schizophr. Res. 26, 191-197), it was hypothesized that positive and negative schizotypy would be associated with poorer olfactory identification ability, at least among male participants...

..This study aimed to identify latent factors of the most widely used scale to measure neurological soft signs, the Neurological Evaluation Scale (NES), in a sample of schizophrenia patients, their relatives, and non-psychiatric controls...

..Research on both risk factors and protective factors provide a basis for culturally competent interventions aimed at reducing both the risk of future suicide attempts and completions...

..The findings indicate that past and current autistic signs are more common in adolescents with SPD, but neither current nor childhood autistic features are linked with conversion to psychosis...

..Beliefs about debunked personality, societal, family, and esoteric causes in this nonclinical sample indicate the need for improved psychoeducation of the community at large...

..This study is one of the first to examine a wide range of schizotypy domains, and to show selective effects of the disorganized domain of schizotypy...

..However, several of the items may index more than one of the hypothesized factors, so the item-factor separation is not sharp. Thus, more research is needed on the factorial validity of the increasingly used SPQ-B subscales...

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..More frequent/heavier use of alcohol in the 25-29 age-range, and cannabis in early adulthood, were associated with more schizotypy. The use of addictive substances, particularly cannabis, is related to schizotypy in complex ways...

..In the current study, these considerations were identified as instrumental in effectively meeting the healthcare needs of the evacuated population...

..Clinicians should give special attention to this issue when caring for first-episode patients...

..The overall aim of the research project is to provide an in-depth exploration of the potential causes and consequences of initially untreated psychosis among first-episode patients. ..

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