scholarly journals Chronicle and mix

2020 ◽  
Vol V (2) ◽  
pp. 190-195
Author(s):  
V. I. Zhestkov
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
Head Physician ◽  
Psychiatric Department

The current year began very unhappily for psychiatric institutions. Disorders and discord among doctors were again discovered in Buraptev. In Odessa, with Dr. Shchipkovsky, the head of the psychiatric department, a very ugly story was also played out, which ended with the intervention of the judiciary. In the Kherson Psychiatric Clinic, an audit is being carried out regarding the abuse found in it by the head physician, who is temporarily removed from the performance of his duties. All these facts lead to very sad reflections.

scholarly journals Chronicle and mix

2020 ◽  
Vol IX (4) ◽  
pp. 243-250
Author(s):  
V. V. Nikolaev
Keyword(s):  
District Hospital ◽  
Military Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
City Hospital ◽  
Senior Physician ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Psychiatric Department ◽  
The Military

- On October 14, there was a celebration of Dr. B. I. Vorotynsky, who was leaving for the place of the senior physician of the psychiatric department of the Odessa City Hospital. Members of the Society of neuropathologists and psychiatrists took part in the supper on his departure, headed by the chairman and comrade. the chairman, including the number and colleagues in the psychiatric clinic; in addition, doctors of the Military Hospital, where B.I. was a consultant, doctors of the District Hospital, Zemsky Hospital, and graduates. The celebration was sincere. In rѣchakh, at the address leaving together with good wishes, the high quality of BI was noted as a guarantee of his future success. The next day, Dr. B. Vorotynskiy went out of Kazan.

Impact of language fluency level on patients’ pathway and clinical outcome of the Japanese psychiatric service

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S403-S403
Author(s):  
A. Yuasa ◽  
S. Nagasawa ◽  
A. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Service ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Japanese Patients ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Language Fluency ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Common ◽  
Competing Interest

Language fluency often impacts on patients’ behaviors. It might affect their pathways, how they find an available psychiatric clinic, and the clinical outcomes, if they continue their treatments. Multicultural services deficiency is serious concern in Japanese psychiatric fields. According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in 2014, more than two million of foreign visitors live in Japan, however, the psychiatric institutions providing multilingual services are rare and inadequate comparing the situation in Europe. The research sets the objective of analyzing the status quo in a multi-language providing psychiatric clinic, how the pathways and outcomes of language diffluent patients differ from these of the local patients. It further aims to find the significance of foreign patients, and strives the improvement of language services for non-native patients in Japanese mental health cares. The research utilized and quantitatively analyzed the retrospective research data among 900 Japanese patients and 902 non-Japanese patients, who have visited a psychiatric clinic located in Tokyo. The analysis revealed that the significant proportion of foreign patients relied on their acquaintances as their pathways, and that the lower their language levels were, the higher proportion they had this path. For the outcomes, the lower their language levels were, the higher continuity status they had. Our research suggested that two of the common ways to find a psychiatric service when local patients suffer from psychopathological maladjustments are researching Homepages and neighboring clinics, however, the foreigners with limited language abilities tended to follow the different pathways and outcome patterns.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Malaria therapy in Spain: 100 years after its introduction as a treatment for the general paralysis of the insane

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-340
Author(s):  
Olga Villasante
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
San Jose ◽  
General Paralysis ◽  
Malaria Therapy ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
Fever Therapy ◽  
The Military

This article addresses the implementation of malaria fever therapy in Spain. Neuropsychiatrist Rodríguez-Lafora first used it in 1924, but Vallejo-Nágera was the main advocate for the technique. He had learned the method from Wagner von Jauregg himself, and he worked in the Military Psychiatric Clinic and the San José Mental Hospital, both in Ciempozuelos (Madrid). Vallejo-Nágera worked with the parasitologist Zozaya, who had travelled to England with a Rockefeller Foundation grant in order to learn from British malariologist, Sydney Price James. This article details the results of the uneven implementation of this treatment in Spanish psychiatric institutions. Although syphilologists and internists used fever therapy for the treatment of general paralysis of the insane, they were much less enthusiastic than psychiatrists.

Suicidal Behavior in Four Ethnic Groups in The Hague, 2002–2004

Crisis ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Burger ◽  
Albert M. van Hemert ◽  
Willem J. Schudel ◽  
Barend J.C. Middelkoop
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Emergency Service ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Specific Rate ◽  
Completed Suicide ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Psychiatric Department

Background: Suicidal behavior is a severe public health problem. Aims: To determine the rates of attempted and completed suicide among ethnic groups in The Hague, The Netherlands (2002–2004). Methods: By analyzing data on attempted and completed suicide (from the psychiatric department of general medical hospitals; the psychiatric emergency service and the municipal coroners). Results: Turkish and Surinamese females aged 15–24 years were at highest risk for attempted suicide (age-specific rate 545 / 100,000 and 421 / 100,000 person-years, respectively). Both rates were significantly higher than in the same age group of Dutch females (246 / 100,000 person-years). Turkish (2%) and Surinamese (7%) had lower repeat suicide-attempt rates than did Dutch (16%) females aged 15–24. Significantly lower suicide-attempt rates were found for Surinamese than for Dutch females aged 35–54 years. Differences were not explained by socioeconomic living conditions. The ratio fatal/nonfatal events was 4.5 times higher in males than in females and varied across age, gender, and ethnicity strata. Completed suicide was rare among migrant females. No completed suicides were observed in the Turkish and Surinamese females aged 15–24 years. Conclusions: The study demonstrates a high risk of attempted suicide and a low risk of completed suicide among young Turkish and Surinamese females.

The role of personality traits in initiating and maintaining addictive behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S307-S307
Author(s):  
M. Manea ◽  
B. Savu
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Addictive Disorder ◽  
Substance Disorders ◽  
Competing Interest

IntroductionIt is well known that certain personality traits are more linked to drug abuse than others. Psychiatrists are more likely to emphasize the importance of impulsivity in the connection with substance disorders but in the following study we found an important percentage of patients that have a substance abuse were linked to anxiety through impulsiveness as a personality trait.ObjectivesMost youths admitted for a substance abuse are highly impulsive. Our quest was to differentiate what component of impulsivity was more frequently linked to a substance use disorder.MethodsIn the study were included 50 patients admitted in the 3rd Psychiatric Clinic, Substance Dependences Department, Cluj-Napoca. For the identification of the drug abused we used the multitest screening kit in correlation with the results from the Forensic Medicine Institute of Cluj-Napoca. Each patient completed the Barratt Impulsivity Scale and the Swedish Universities Scales of Personality.ResultsHigh scores on BIS-11 strongly correlated with attentional impulsiveness (Pearson's r correlation = .838) which means high inattention and cognitive instability this being linked with anxiety disorders. Cognitive Instability was correlated with Psychic Trait Anxiety (r = 0.29) and Motor Impulsiveness with Somatic Trait Anxiety (r = 0.3). Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE.ConclusionsThe underrecognized anxiety disorders in young adults whom are admitted for an addictive disorder prefrontal cortex is known to be the source of both impulsivity and could be linked to anxiety as well (valence asymmetry hypothesis). Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals A Repeated Time-to-Positive Symptoms Improvement among Malaysian Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Treated with Clozapine

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1121
Author(s):  
Orwa Albitar ◽  
Sabariah Noor Harun ◽  
Siti Nor Aizah Ahmad ◽  
Siti Maisharah Sheikh Ghadzi
Keyword(s):  
Visual Predictive Check ◽  
Clinical Importance ◽  
Antipsychotic Agent ◽  
Survival Models ◽  
Psychiatric Clinic ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum

Clozapine remains the drug of choice for resistant schizophrenia. However, its dose-response relationship is still controversial. The current investigation aimed to develop a repeated time-to-positive symptoms improvement following the onset of clozapine treatment in Malaysian schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients. Data from patients’ medical records in the Psychiatric Clinic, Penang General Hospital, were retrospectively analyzed. Several parametric survival models were evaluated using nonlinear mixed-effect modeling software (NONMEM 7.3.0). Kaplan–Meier-visual predictive check (KM-VPC) and sampling-importance resampling (SIR) methods were used to validate the final model. A total of 116 patients were included in the study, with a mean follow-up of 306 weeks. Weibull hazard function best fitted the data. The hazard of positive symptoms improvement decreased 4% for every one-year increase in age over the median of 41 years (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR), 0.96; 95% confidence intervals (95% CI), (0.93–0.98)). However, patients receiving a second atypical antipsychotic agent had four-folds higher hazard (aHR, 4.01; 95% CI, (1.97–7.17)). The hazard increased 2% (aHR, 1.02; 95% CI, (1.01–1.03)) for every 1 g increase in the clozapine six months cumulative dose over the median of 34 g. The developed model provides essential information on the hazard of positive symptoms improvement after the first clozapine dose administration, including modifiable predictors of high clinical importance.

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