Demographic and clinical features of patients with substance-induced mental disorders admitted to the psychiatric hospital in Kermanshah, Iran

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Farnia ◽  
Jalal Shakeri ◽  
Toraj Ahmadi Juibari ◽  
Faezeh Tatari ◽  
Maryam Khoshbakht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Clinical Features

The Biopsychosocial Paradigm in the Assessment of Mental Health of Older Persons

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S464-S464
Author(s):  
L. Pishchikova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Biopsychosocial Determinants

The vulnerability of patients of late age in psychiatry increases the professional and ethical requirements to the quality of psychiatric and forensic psychiatric help. It must account for the clinical and dynamic features of mental disorders in old age, biopsychosocial determinants of their formation, be based on a conceptual approach and a comprehensive understanding of the involution processes. To identify biopsychosocial determinants of mental disorders in old age and (or) involving patients to the forensic psychiatric examination, we examined 235 late age patients in criminal and civil cases. Revealed: «non-dement» mental disorders – with 45.5%, psychosis – with 7.7%, dementia – with 46,8%. The results of biopsychosocial determinants of involution are determined as follows: biological: sensory and motor deprivation, multicomorbid somatic neurological pathology, specific syndromes and disorders if late age, dementia; socio-psychological: termination of labor activity, living alone and loneliness, problematic relationship with children because of housing disputes and alcohol; legal: conclusion and contestation of legal civil acts, participation in criminal proceedings as victims and defendants, legal illiteracy, legal controversy, lack of legal protection; victimological: physical (assault, abuse), psychological (threats of commitment into social security institutions, involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital and examination by a psychiatrist, hold in the psychiatric hospital), financial violence (fraud with housing for older people and deception, manipulation during conclusion of civil-legal acts), violation of rights of older person (unlawful deprivation of legal capacity).Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Características sociodemográficas de las personas admitidas en un centro hospitalario psiquiátrico alemán: un estudio retrospectivo.

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Blanca Patricia Silva-Barrera ◽  
Rocio Juliá-Sanchis ◽  
Andrés Montoyo-Guijarro ◽  
Rosa Requena-Morales
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Clinical History ◽  
Severe Mental Disorders ◽  
Salud Mental

Resumen En los últimos años se han suscitado cambios en la salud mental de las personas, debido a las diversas problemáticas sociodemográficas actuales. Se requiere de la exploración de los acontecimientos que causan síntomas psiquiátricos en las personas con necesidad de ingreso y hospitalización. Es por eso que se realizó este estudio retrospectivo sobre 1.593 historias clínicas del hospital psiquiátrico Main-Kinzig-Kreis Schlüchtern en Alemania durante el período 2000-2014 en pacientes de 18 a 69 años. Se identificó como motivo de ingreso a un 37.16% de personas como pacientes con síntomas agudos, una relación con consumos de sustancias provocadas por adicciones en un 41.62% y el trastorno depresivo en un 28.75%. Se detecta la descompensación de trastornos mentales graves en 27.05%, en donde el 34.71% de los pacientes fueron derivadas desde otros dispositivos asistenciales y el 32.89% decidió ingresar por sí mismo. El perfil del paciente ingresado es de ser hombre entre 41-50 años, casado o con pareja, derivado por recurso asistencial relacionado con la descompensación de un trastorno mental grave. Abstract In recent years, changes have occurred in people's mental health due to various current socio- demographic issues. The exploration of the events that cause psychiatric symptoms in people who need admission and hospitalization is required. That is why this retrospective study was conducted on 1.593 clinical history from the Main-Kinzig-Kreis Schlüchtern psychiatric hospital in Germany during the period 2000-2014 in patients aged 18 to 69. A total of 37.16% of the patients were identified as having acute symptoms, 41.62% as having substance abuse due to addiction and 28.75% as having a depressive disorder. Decompensation of severe mental disorders was detected in 27.05%, where 34.71% of the patients were referred from other care devices and 32.89% decided to be admitted on their own. The profile of the admitted patient is a man between 41-50 years old, married or with a partner, referred to the psychiatric hospital for health care resources due to a decompensation of some serious mental disorder.

scholarly journals The ability of juvenile offenders with personality immaturity to conscious leadership by their actions

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-192
Author(s):  
A.A. Fedonkina
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
And Control

This article discusses the characteristics of the phenomenon of personality immaturity, stand out its main features, described differences in their quantitative representation of juvenile offenders, clinical features the diagnosis of mental disorders in juvenile offenders with personality immaturity. Special attention is given to how identified characteristics of personality immaturity affects to the ability of juvenile offenders to conscious regulation of their activities, including the potential ability and current ability of minors accused to realize the significance of their actions and control them when they commit socially dangerous acts. The studied parameters are compared in samples of juvenile offenders with personality immaturity and without it.

Fitness, Responsibility, and Judicially Ordered Assessments

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 491-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice M Ohayon ◽  
Anne Crocker ◽  
Bernard St-Onge ◽  
M Caulet
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Fitness To Stand Trial ◽  
Not Criminally Responsible ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Good Agreement

Objective: To compare the characteristics of individuals assessed for fitness to stand trial (FST) with those assessed for criminal responsibility (CR). Method: This study examines all the consecutive requests of FST or CR addressed to the only forensic psychiatric hospital in the province of Quebec and 2 prisons in the Montreal area over a 1-year period. Results: In all, 170 FST, 52 CR, and 29 both FST and CR assessment requests were received (251 subjects). Psychiatrists' recommendations and court verdicts of unfitness to stand trial or not criminally responsible on account of mental disorders were mostly related to the presence of a psychotic-spectrum disorder. There is generally a good agreement between psychiatric recommendations and verdicts of the court, with the exception of unfitness recommendations. Conclusions: Defendants referred for a FST or a CR assessment displayed similar characteristics. However, although subjects with psychotic disorders represented more than one-half of the unfit or not criminally responsible verdicts, most of the subjects with psychoses were found competent to stand trial or responsible.

scholarly journals Gender Differences in Demographic and Clinical Features of Physicians Admitted to a Program for Medical Professionals with Mental Disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Dolores Braquehais ◽  
Pilar Arrizabalaga ◽  
Pilar Lusilla ◽  
Sergi Valero ◽  
Miquel Jordi Bel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
Medical Professionals

scholarly journals HIV risk behavior in persons with severe mental disorders in a psychiatric hospital in Ogun, Nigeria

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 380 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Abayomi ◽  
A Adelufosi ◽  
P Adebayo ◽  
M Ighoroje ◽  
D Ajogbon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Hiv Risk Behavior ◽  
Severe Mental Disorders

scholarly journals Clinical Features of Mental Disorders among Pregnant Women

Helix ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 2602-2606
Author(s):  
Victor A. Ruzhenkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Clinical Features

scholarly journals Focus on psychosis

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
The Core ◽  
Thought Disorders ◽  
Reality Distortion ◽  
Neuropsychological Mechanisms

The concept of psychosis has been shaped by traditions in the concepts of mental disorders during the last 170 years. The term “psychosis” still lacks a unified definition, but denotes a clinical construct composed of several symptoms. Delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorders are the core clinical features. The search for a common denominator of psychotic symptoms points toward combinations of neuropsychological mechanisms resulting in reality distortion. To advance the elucidation of the causes and the pathophysiology of the symptoms of psychosis, a deconstruction of the term into its component symptoms is therefore warranted. Current research is dealing with the delineation from “normality”, the genetic underpinnings, and the causes and pathophysiology of the symptoms of psychosis.

scholarly journals Strategies for coping with family members of patients with mental disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Alcalá Pompeo ◽  
Arélica de Carvalho ◽  
Aline Morgado Olive ◽  
Maria da Graça Girade Souza ◽  
Sueli Aparecida Frari Galera
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mothers And Fathers

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the coping strategies of family members of patients with mental disorders and relate them to family member sociodemographic variables and to the patient's clinical variables. Method: this was a descriptive study conducted at a psychiatric hospital in the interior of the state of São Paulo, with 40 family members of hospitalized patients over the age of 18, and who followed the patient before and during hospitalization. We used tools to characterize the subjects and the Folkman and Lazarus Inventory of Coping Strategies. Results: the coping strategies most often used by family members were social support and problem solving. Mothers and fathers used more functional strategies (self-control p=0.037, positive reappraisal p=0.037, and social support p=0,021). We found no significant differences between the strategies and other variables examined. Conclusion: despite the suffering resulting from the illness of a dear one, family members make more use of functional strategies, allowing them to cope with adversities in a more well-adjusted way.

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