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Psychiatric disorders and psychiatric consultation in a general hospital: A case- control study
(2003-03-01)
Introduction: Psychiatric consultation (PC) has been considered an efficient tool to develop research, to track and to give assistance benefiting patients, health professionals and the institution. However, it has not been ...
Enfermeiros e a família do portador de transtorno mental.
(2010-07-01)
This qualitative study aimed at investigating how mental health nurses acquired knowledge about the theme family during their academic training, how they see families in their daily practice, and how should professional ...
Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a Brazilian birth cohort of 11-year-olds
(Dr Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag, 2010-01-01)
Objective To estimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in preadolescents aged 11-12 years from a birth cohort in a southern Brazilian city.Methods This is a cross-sectional investigation nested in a cohort study ...
Eating disorders in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Prevalence and clinical correlates
(2010-05-01)
Objective: The objective is to evaluate the prevalence and associated clinical characteristics of eating disorders (ED) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Method: This is a cross-sectional study comparing ...
Impulsive compulsivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A phenotypic marker of patients with poor clinical outcome
(2012-09-01)
Although traditionally obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and impulse control disorders (ICD) have represented opposing ends of a continuum, recent research has demonstrated a frequent co-occurrence of impulsive and ...
Clinical correlates of social adjustment in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
(Pergamon-Elsevier B.V. Ltd, 2012-10-01)
Background: Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) frequently show poor social adjustment, which has been associated with OCD severity. Little is known about the effects that age at symptom onset, specific OCD ...
Towards a post-traumatic subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(2012-03-01)
We evaluated whether traumatic events are associated with a distinctive pattern of socio-demographic and clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We compared socio-demographic and clinical features of 106 ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Influence of age at onset on comorbidity patterns
(2008-04-01)
Purpose: This study investigates the influence of age at onset of OCS on psychiatric comorbidities, and tries to establish a cut-off point for age at onset. Methods: Three hundred and thirty OCD patients were consecutively ...
Comorbidity of obsessive-compulsive disorder and personality disorders. A Brazilian controlled study
(1995-12-01)
The aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of personality disorders (PDs) in 40 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (DSM-III-R criteria) from the Medical School of Botucatu (UNESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil. It ...
Risk factors for vascular dementia in elderly psychiatric outpatients with preserved cognitive functions
(2007-06-15)
The aim of the study was to assess risk factors for vascular dementia (VaD) in elderly psychiatric outpatients without dementia, and to determine to what extent clinical interventions targeted such risk factors. Out of 250 ...