Case report: Successful administration of cariprazine in a young, severely ill patient with recurrent relapses of schizophrenia and persistent negative symptoms by Jelena Vrublevska

“…The combination of medications mentioned above facilitated the therapeutic alliance, thus providing control over the symptoms and preventing psychiatric hospitalizations.…”
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Politicization of psychiatry and the improvement of ethical standards in the 1970s by Oxana Kosenko, Florian Steger

“…In general, the reaction of Western psychiatrists to the information about the internment of dissidents in psychiatric hospitals was restrained and focused on attempts to solve the issue together with the Soviet colleagues.ConclusionThe international policy of détente of the time as well as collisions between different medical concepts and ethical dimensions did not allow Western psychiatrists to condemn cases of politicization of psychiatry without proir clarification of the situation. …”
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THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF BULIMIA NERVOSA - 2 COMMUNITY STUDIES by Fairburn, C, Cooper, P

“…These women closely resembled bulimia nervosa patients attending psychiatric hospitals. Although more than half reported that they wanted medical help, less than one-third had discussed their eating difficulties with a doctor and only 2.5% were currently receiving treatment. …”

Perinatal risk factors in offenders with severe personality disorder: a population-based investigation. by Fazel, S, Bakiyeva, L, Cnattingius, S, Grann, M, Hultman, C, Lichtenstein, P, Geddes, J

“…Two control groups were used: (1) A sample of forensic evaluations without any psychiatric disorder (n = 97) allowing for a nested case-control investigation; and (2) A population-based sample matched by age and gender with no history of psychiatric hospitalization (n = 1498). Prematurity (<37 weeks of completed gestation) was significantly associated with a diagnosis of personality disorder, both in the nested and the population-based case-control comparisons with adjusted odds ratios (OR) for this risk factor ranging from 2 to 4. …”

Perinatal Risk Factors in Offenders with Severe Personality Disorder: A Population-based Investigation. by Fazel, S, Bakiyeva, L, Cnattingius, S, Grann, M, Hultman, C, Lichtenstein, P, Geddes, J

“…Two control groups were used: (1) A sample of forensic evaluations without any psychiatric disorder (n = 97) allowing for a nested case-control investigation; and (2) A population-based sample matched by age and gender with no history of psychiatric hospitalization (n = 1498). Prematurity (<37 weeks of completed gestation) was significantly associated with a diagnosis of personality disorder, both in the nested and the population-based case-control comparisons with adjusted odds ratios (OR) for this risk factor ranging from 2 to 4. …”

Development of the FORUM: a new patient and clinician reported outcome measure for forensic mental health services by Ryland, H, Cook, J, Ferris, R, Markham, S, Sales, C, Fitzpatrick, R, Fazel, S

“…Forensic mental health services provide care to people in secure psychiatric hospitals and via specialised community teams. …”

Adherence level and knowledge about psychopharmacological treatment among patients discharged from psychiatric internment Grado de adhesión y conocimiento sobre tratamiento psicofa... by Lucilene Cardoso, Adriana Inocenti Miasso, Sueli Aparecida Frari Galera, Beatriz Marques Maia, Rafael Braga Esteves

“…This exploratory, descriptive and prospective study aimed to identify the degree of adherence to psychopharmacological treatment of patients who were discharged from psychiatric hospitalization and their knowledge about their prescription and diagnosis. …”
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The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on psychiatric admissions: role of gender by Monica Davies, Luke Hogarth

“…Aims We examined whether the first UK lockdown changed the demographics of patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals (to include gender, legality, route of admission and diagnoses), independent of seasonal variation.. …”
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Tunisian sociodemographic profile of elderly patients hospitalized in psychiatry by F. Djemal, N. Messedi, A. Chamseddine, W. Bouattour, F. Charfeddine, L. Aribi, J. Aloulou

“…There are few studies focused on this growing particular population, especially with mental pathologies. Thus, psychiatric hospitalization of the elderly population is more frequent nowadays. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of depression, anxiety and stress among psychiatric nurses in Ghana: a cross-sectional study by Sampson Opoku Agyemang, Jerry Paul Ninnoni, Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan

“…Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in three psychiatric hospitals in Ghana between March 2020 and May 2021. …”
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Moral distress in psychiatric nurses in Covid-19 crisis by Nahid Tavakol, Zahra Molazem, Mahnaz Rakhshan, Omid Asemani, Shahpar Bagheri

“…Managers and planners should equip psychiatric hospitals with isolation facilities and Personal Protection Equipment for patients and nurses. …”
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Age and adverse drug reactions from psychopharmacological treatment by Waldemar Greil, Anne Häberle, Thomas Schuhmann, Renate Grohmann, Pierre Baumann

“…METHODS: Prescription rates of psychotropic drugs and reports of severe ADRs were collected in psychiatric hospitals in Switzerland between 2001 and 2010. …”
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Is the disparity in perinatal mental health services dependent on race? A narrative review. “A race to access” by T. Awolesi

“…It was also found that that black African, Asian and minority White women had a higher percentage of involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals when compared to white British women. …”
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Pad in forensic psychiatry by I. Franke

“…Consequently, the discussion regarding PAD needs to be extended to people who are in forensic/secure psychiatric hospitals or prisons, sometimes without any prospects of release. …”
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Effect of long-acting injectable antipsychotics on hospitalizations and global functioning in schizophrenia: a naturalistic mirror-image study by Cristiana Montemagni, Elisa Del Favero, Elena Cocuzza, Flavio Vischia, Paola Rocca

“…Methods: This 1-year mirror-image study evaluated the effect of switching from OAs to LAIs on the reduction of psychiatric hospitalizations and the improvement of global functioning in patients with schizophrenia. …”
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Effect of Interior Design of Healthcare Environments on Patients Function Hospitalized in Psychiatric Department by آزاده نجفی, سیده مرضیه طبائیان, عباس عطاری

“…In this study we aimed to evaluate the effect of light, color and other details of interior design on hospitalized patients function in psychiatric hospitals. Methods and Materials: We evaluated the effect of physical environmental factors associated with hospital’s interior design on patients’ function. …”
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Estimating costs of bedside assessment by a judge in each case of mechanical restraint in Germany after new legislation by Sophie Hirsch, Erich Flammer, Tilman Steinert

“…The objective of our study was to determine the number of saved coercive episodes and saved hours in seclusion or restraint in 2019 compared to the average of the previous years, 2015–2017, as well as costs per saved episode, hour, and case saved from any coercive measure.MethodsWe used data from the Baden–Wuerttemberg case registry for coercive measures, covering all 32 psychiatric hospitals of the Federal State and 435,767 admissions in the study period. …”
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Investigation on the quality of life and demands of family members of patients with mental disorders in hospice care by Zhang Xiao, Zhang Qian, Luo Cairun, Zhang Lingyan, Xu Ruiyu, Wu Junmei

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the quality of life and demands of family members of patients with mental disorders in hospice care， in order to create a better medical care environment for patients to meet their demands.MethodsA total of 205 family members of patients with mental disorders in hospice care were consecutively sampled from two special psychiatric hospitals in Deyang city with convenient sampling method. …”
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A unidimensional short form of the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS-7) derived using item response theory by Tyrone B. Pretorius, Anita Padmanabhanunni

“…The BHS-9 was developed to address these critiques and formulated based on psychiatrically hospitalized adult patients. The current study investigates the dimensionality of the BHS-9 among a non-clinical sample using item response theory (Mokken scale analysis and Rasch) and CTT. …”
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In-patient suicide: Selection of people at risk, failure of protection and the possibility of causation by Matthew Michael Large, Daniel Thomas Chung, Michael Davidson, Mark Weiser, Christopher James Ryan

“…In the absence of an RCT, the possibility of a causal role provides further impetus to calls to make care in the community more available and psychiatric hospitals more acceptable to patients. …”
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