Relationship of Maternal Age and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) with Traumatic Sequelae in Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth by Kirsten Byrnes, HaeSung Han, Kie Fujii

“…The current study analyzed the incidence of ACE exposure and mental health outcomes (e.g., suicidal behaviors or self-harm, psychiatric hospitalizations, and substance use) as related to early maternal age in youth known to have experienced trafficking or sexual abuse. …”
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Mental health, job satisfaction, and quality of life among psychiatric nurses in China during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study by Mengdie Li, Yating Yang, Ling Zhang, Lei Xia, Shujing Zhang, Nadine J. Kaslow, Tingfang Liu, Yuanli Liu, Feng Jiang, Yi-lang Tang, Huanzhong Liu

“…Aim: To survey the mental health symptoms, job satisfaction, and quality of life of psychiatric nurses working at psychiatric hospitals in China in the early stage of the pandemic, and to examine their associated factors. …”
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Mortality, rehospitalisation and violent crime in forensic psychiatric patients discharged from hospital: rates and risk factors by Fazel, S, Wolf, A, Fimińska, Z, Larsson, H

“…</p> <p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p> <p>Violent offending, premature mortality and rehospitalisation are prevalent in patients discharged from forensic psychiatric hospitals. Individualised treatment plans for such patients should take into account primary and comorbid psychiatric diagnoses.…”

Healing and Mental Illness in Ghana by Francis Ethelbert Kwabena Benyah

“…The article argues that prayer camps will continue to exert public influence and play a dominant role in the treatment of mental health sicknesses due to underlying religio-cultural beliefs and notions associated with illness, especially from the traditional Ghanaian Akan perspective and the inadequate resources at the disposal of state-owned psychiatric hospitals. …”
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Time to remission analysis for major depressive disorder after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) by Ann M. Manzardo, Brianna Ely, Maria Cristina Davila

“…Patients previously admitted for inpatient psychiatric hospitalization exhibited higher response rates when treated with the MagVenture rTMS unit. …”
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Morbidity and mortality in schizophrenia with comorbid substance use disorders in Finland and Sweden by M. Lähteenvuo, A. Batalla, J. Luykx, E. Mittendorfer-Rutz, A. Tanskanen, J. Tiihonen, H. Taipale

“…Then we performed Cox regression on risk of psychiatric hospitalization and mortality in patients with schizohrenia and SUD compared with those without SUD. …”
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Persistence and clinical consequences of post-traumatic and dissociative symptoms in people with depressive symptoms: a one-year follow-up study by Hong Wang Fung, Anson Kai Chun Chau, Suet Lin Hung, Stanley Kam Ki Lam, Wai Tong Chien, Vincent Wan Ping Lee

“…Participants with dissociative symptoms at baseline were significantly more likely to report lifetime psychiatric hospitalization (31.2% vs 14.7%), past-year use of psychiatric hospitalization (10.4% vs 0%) and emergency services (16.9% vs 4%) than those without dissociative symptoms. …”
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The Association between Use of ICS and Psychiatric Symptoms in Patients with COPD—A Nationwide Cohort Study of 49,500 Patients by Alexander Jordan, Pradeesh Sivapalan, Josefin Eklöf, Jakob B. Vestergaard, Howraman Meteran, Mohamad Isam Saeed, Tor Biering-Sørensen, Anders Løkke, Niels Seersholm, Jens Ulrik Stæhr Jensen

“…Prescription fillings of antidepressants and risk of admissions to psychiatric hospitals with either depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder were assessed by Cox proportional hazards models. …”
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Psychiatric Admissions, Referrals, and Suicidal Behavior Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Denmark: A Time-Trend Study by T. Rømer, R. Christensen, S. Blomberg, F. Folke, H. Christensen, M. Benros

“…Conclusions The pandemic was associated with a decrease in psychiatric hospitalizations. No significant change was observed in referrals and suicidal behavior. …”
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Impact of traditional versus nontraditional initiation dosing schedule of paliperidone palmitate on 30-day readmission and safety by Erika Kim, PharmD, BCPP, Andrew Williams, PharmD, BCPP, Justin Chang, PharmD, Niyati Butala, PharmD, BCPP, Matthew Firek

“…The primary outcomes included 30-day psychiatric readmission, index hospitalization length of stay, and time until the next psychiatric hospitalization. Secondary outcomes included 6-month readmission and the percentage of patients who experienced an adverse event after the second injection. …”
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Decline in hospitalization risk and health care cost after initiation of depot antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia by Xiaomei Peng, Haya Ascher-Svanum, Douglas Faries et al

“…Total health care costs declined from $11,111 to $7884 (P &amp;lt; 0.05) driven by reduction in costs for psychiatric hospitalizations from $5384 to $2538 (P &amp;lt; 0.05).Conclusion: Initiation of depot antipsychotic therapy appeared to be associated with a decline in hospitalization rates and costs. …”
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The probabilities of psyquiatric hospitalization of mental health clinic patients by Leonardo Naves dos Reis, Julio Cesar Ribeiro Simplicio, Edilaine Cristina da Silva Gherardi-Donato, Ana Carolina Guidorizzi Zanetti

“…The study was conducted from secondary data, extracted from the charts and analyzed through logistic regression, to obtain the prediction equation of probability of psychiatric hospitalization. The diagnoses that showed statistical significance (p < 0.05) were bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, anxious disorders and depression, and the first two showed a high magnitude association with the need of hospitalization. …”
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Challenges for Policy Makers and Organizational Leaders: Addressing Trends in Mental Health Inequalities by Christy Rentmeester

“…We typically think of acutely and chronically mentally ill patients as those who belong in psychiatric hospitals and the latter category of patients belonging in “regular” hospitals, but the intersection of physical and mental illness draws attention to important challenges for policy-makers and organizational leaders. …”
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Quetiapine Induced Acute Dystonia in a patient with History of severe Head Injury by Robert G. Bota, Joanne W. Witkowski

“…During the last psychiatric hospitalization, quetiapine was increased to therapeutic dose using a normal titration. …”
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Place of death from dementia as an underlying cause during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: a cross-sectional study from national death certificates by Miharu Nakanishi, Syudo Yamasaki, Mai Sakai, Hatsumi Yoshii, Asao Ogawa, Atsushi Nishida

“…Most people with dementia prefer to die at nursing or private homes; however, in Japan, they are often hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals for management of neuropsychiatric symptoms. …”
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The prevalence and correlates of nicotine use disorder among bipolar patients in a Hospital Setting, Malaysia by Yee, A.H.A., Ng, C.G., Abd Rashid, R., Habil, M.H.

“…Patients with nicotine use disorder had significantly more psychiatric hospitalizations than those without nicotine use disorder after adjusting for gender, race, employment status, education level and duration of illness (p < .001). …”
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Labyrinths of nursing training and the Brazilian National Mental Health Policy by Juliana Jesus Baião, João Fernando Marcolan

“…Results: it was identified that most mental health courses had insufficient workload for adequate training; theory emphasized the study of mental disorders and drug treatment; practice, in some schools, was carried out in psychiatric hospitals. There were problems that interfered with the quality of the education offered. …”
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Covid-19 and the Spanish Flu. From Suffering to Re-silience by Liliana LUCA, Liliana BAROIU, Alexandru Bogdan CIUBARA, Razvan ANGHEL, Andra Irina BULGARU ILIESCU, Lucretia ANGHEL, Anamaria CIUBARA

“…<p><em>This paper is an overview of how the pandemic affected society during the Spanish flu period and its impact on the psychiatric hospitals and asylums of that period.</em></p><p><em>The continuous changes of situations in the context of the current pandemic and the attempt of individuals to adapt led to comparisons between COVID-19 and the Spanish flu of 1918-1919.…”
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Institucionalização da juventude pobre no Brasil: questões históricas, problemas atuais by Marianne de Camargo Barbosa, Danichi Hausen Mizoguchi

“…The stories found in both institutions serve as a stage for questions regarding youth institutionalization in shelters and psychiatric hospitals today. In confronting these stories and the contemporary legislation on the care of children and youth, we propose reflections on the scars left by a long history of of criminalization of poor youth in Brazil, which persists until today.…”
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Extent and predictors of presenteeism among healthcare professionals working in Swiss hospitals, nursing homes and home care organizations by Karin Anne Peter, Maisa Gerlach, Gablu Kilcher, Reto Bürgin, Sabine Hahn, Christoph Golz

“…This study used cross-sectional data on 15,185 healthcare professionals (nursing staff, midwives, physicians, medical-technical and medical-therapeutic professionals) from various settings (acute care, rehabilitation or psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes and home care organizations). …”
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