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  1. Psychiatric service use has increased in Sweden and in other developed countries, particularly among young people. Possible explanations include lower threshold for help-seeking among young people, but evidenc...

    Authors: Kyriaki Kosidou, Andreas Lundin, Glyn Lewis, Peeter Fredlund, Henrik Dal and Christina Dalman
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:345
  2. Maternal exposure to adversity during the perinatal period has been associated with increased susceptibility for psychiatric symptoms in the offspring. The aim of this study was to investigate a possible devel...

    Authors: Johan Isaksson, Negussie Deyessa, Yemane Berhane and Ulf Högberg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:344
  3. Interest has increased in programs offering self-admission to inpatient treatment for patients with severe psychiatric illness, whereby patients who are well-known to a service are afforded the opportunity to ...

    Authors: Mattias Strand, Sanna A. Gustafsson, Cynthia M. Bulik and Yvonne von Hausswolff-Juhlin
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:343
  4. Suicide affects people from different backgrounds, ethnical groups, socio-economic status and geographical locations. In Latin America, suicide reports arescarce, specially in Andean countries. In Ecuador, ver...

    Authors: Esteban Ortiz-Prado, Katherine Simbaña, Lenin Gómez, Aquiles R. Henriquez-Trujillo, Fernando Cornejo-Leon, Eduardo Vasconez, Diana Castillo and Ginés Viscor
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:342
  5. Smartphones are becoming increasingly indispensable in everyday life for most undergraduates in China, and this has been associated with problematic use or addiction. The aim of the current study was to invest...

    Authors: Baifeng Chen, Fei Liu, Shushu Ding, Xia Ying, Lele Wang and Yufeng Wen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:341
  6. Depressive and adjustment disorders are highly prevalent in patients with physical diseases and are associated with poorer quality of life, increased morbidity and mortality, as well as higher healthcare costs...

    Authors: Miriam Ruesch, Almut Helmes and Juergen Bengel
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:340
  7. Rates of suicide appear to be increasing, indicating a critical need for more effective prevention initiatives. To increase the efficacy of future prevention initiatives, we examined the spatial distribution o...

    Authors: Michelle Torok, Paul Konings, Philip J. Batterham and Helen Christensen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:339
  8. Recovery oriented service provisions means focusing on outcomes that are important to consumers themselves rather than to clinicians or services. Partners in Recovery (PIR) is an Australia-wide initiative desi...

    Authors: Shifra Waks, Justin Newton Scanlan, Bridget Berry, Richard Schweizer, Nicola Hancock and Anne Honey
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:338
  9. Periodic catatonia has long been a challenging diagnosis and there are no absolute guidelines for treatment when precipitating factors are also unclear. We report a schizophrenia patient with periodic catatoni...

    Authors: Ruei-An Chen and Tiao-Lai Huang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:337
  10. Aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), its associated correlates and relations with clinical and behavioural problems among children and adolescen...

    Authors: Richard Stephen Mpango, Eugene Kinyanda, Godfrey Zari Rukundo, Jonathan Levin, Kenneth D. Gadow and Vikram Patel
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:336
  11. Increased prevalence of depression is found in both type 2 diabetes (T2D) and type 1 diabetes (T1D). Melancholia and atypical depression differ by cortisol secretion and clinical features. The aim was to compa...

    Authors: Eva O. Melin, Maria Thunander, Mona Landin-Olsson, Magnus Hillman and Hans O. Thulesius
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:335
  12. Previous studies focused on the relationship between body mass index and cognitive disorder and obtained many conflicting results. This study explored the potential effects of body mass index on the risk of mi...

    Authors: Feng Wang, Minghui Zhao, Zhaoli Han, Dai Li, Shishuang Zhang, Yongqiang Zhang, Xiaodong Kong, Ning Sun, Qiang Zhang and Ping Lei
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:334
  13. Family-based treatments are first-line treatments for adolescents with restrictive eating disorders (ED) but have to be improved since outcome is poor for some. We have investigated the one-year outcome of a f...

    Authors: Ingemar Swenne, Thomas Parling and Helena Salonen Ros
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:333
  14. Depression and anxiety are prevalent and under treated conditions that create enormous burden for the patient and the health system. Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy (ICBT) improves patient access...

    Authors: H.D. Hadjistavropoulos, M.M. Nugent, D. Dirkse and N. Pugh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:331
  15. Long-term effects of neglect in early life are still widely unknown. Diversity of outcomes can be explained by differences in genetic risk, epigenetics, prenatal factors, exposure to stress and/or substances, ...

    Authors: Magdalena Romanowicz, Alastair J. McKean and Jennifer Vande Voort
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:330
  16. Psychomotor agitation (PMA) is a state of motor restlessness and mental tension that requires prompt recognition, appropriate assessment and management to minimize anxiety for the patient and reduce the risk f...

    Authors: Eduard Vieta, Marina Garriga, Laura Cardete, Miquel Bernardo, María Lombraña, Jordi Blanch, Rosa Catalán, Mireia Vázquez, Victòria Soler, Noélia Ortuño and Anabel Martínez-Arán
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:328
  17. The prevalence of depressive symptoms in hypothyroidism is high. Considering that hypothyroidism and depression share some clinical features, some researchers use the “brain hypothyroidism” hypothesis to expla...

    Authors: A Talaei, N Rafee, F Rafei and A Chehrei
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:327
  18. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a condition which can have major effects on the life of both the sufferer and their family members. Previous research has shown that the impact of illness on family membe...

    Authors: Rebecca Pedley, Penny Bee, Katherine Berry and Alison Wearden
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:326
  19. A randomized controlled study (RCT) recently showed that short-term heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback in addition to standard rehabilitation care for alcohol dependence can reduce craving, anxiety and i...

    Authors: Ana Isabel Penzlin, Kristian Barlinn, Ben Min-Woo Illigens, Kerstin Weidner, Martin Siepmann and Timo Siepmann
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:325
  20. Understanding the psychosocial stressors of people with psychoses from minority ethnic groups may help in the development of culturally appropriate services. This study aimed to compare psychosocial factors as...

    Authors: Martin Rotenberg, Andrew Tuck and Kwame McKenzie
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:324
  21. Reduced funding to public health care systems during economic downturns is a common phenomenon around the world. The effect of health care cost on family members of the patients has not been established. This ...

    Authors: Hui Jun Chih and Wenbin Liang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:323
  22. Patients with stress-related exhaustion suffer from cognitive impairments, which often remain after psychological treatment or work place interventions. It is important to find effective treatments that can ad...

    Authors: Therese Eskilsson, Lisbeth Slunga Järvholm, Hanna Malmberg Gavelin, Anna Stigsdotter Neely and Carl-Johan Boraxbekk
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:322
  23. Despite many attempts to understand the genetic architecture of depression, little progress has been made. The majority of these studies, however, have been carried out in adults and do not account for the pot...

    Authors: Hannah Sallis, Jonathan Evans, Robyn Wootton, Eva Krapohl, Albertine J Oldehinkel, George Davey Smith and Lavinia Paternoster
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:321
  24. Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is an autoimmune disease involving antibodies against the NR1 subunits of NMDARs. The disease shows variable clinical presentation, and involves new-onse...

    Authors: Xia Rong, Zhenzhen Xiong, Bingrong Cao, Juan Chen, Mingli Li and Zhe Li
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:320
  25. There is a physical inactivity pandemic around the world despite the known benefits of engaging in physical activity. This is true for individuals who would receive notable benefits from physical activity, in ...

    Authors: Joanie Sims-Gould, Sara Vazirian, Neville Li, Ronald Remick and Karim Khan
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:319
  26. Limited evidence exists regarding fitness-to-drive for people with the mental health conditions of schizophrenia, stress/anxiety disorder, depression, personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder (he...

    Authors: Carolyn A. Unsworth, Anne M. Baker, Man H. So, Priscilla Harries and Desmond O’Neill
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:318
  27. Current guidelines recommend referral to highly specialized care for patients with severe personality disorders. However, criteria for allocation to highly specialized care are not clearly defined. The aim of ...

    Authors: M. Goorden, E. M. C. Willemsen, C. A. M. Bouwmans-Frijters, J. J. V. Busschbach, M. J. Noomx, C. M. van der Feltz-Cornelis, C. A. Uyl-de Groot and L. Hakkaart-van Roijen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:317
  28. It is estimated that there are about 25,000 people from UK ethnic minority groups with dementia. It is clear that there is an increasing need to improve access to dementia services for all ethnic groups to ens...

    Authors: Cassandra Kenning, Gavin Daker-White, Amy Blakemore, Maria Panagioti and Waquas Waheed
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:316
  29. The home is imperative for the possibilities for meaningful everyday activities among people with psychiatric disabilities. Knowledge of whether such possibilities vary with type of housing and housing support...

    Authors: Mona Eklund, Elisabeth Argentzell, Ulrika Bejerholm, Carina Tjörnstrand and David Brunt
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:315
  30. A randomized controlled trial ‘Money for Medication’(M4M) was conducted in which patients were offered financial incentives for taking antipsychotic depot medication. This study assessed the attitudes and ethi...

    Authors: Ernst L. Noordraven, Maartje H. N. Schermer, Peter Blanken, Cornelis L. Mulder and André I. Wierdsma
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:313
  31. This study examined how alcohol use disorder (AUD) patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) differed from those without PTSD in terms of demography, drinking patterns and C-reactive protein, inflamm...

    Authors: Sudan Prasad Neupane, Jørgen G. Bramness and Lars Lien
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:312
  32. The choice of antipsychotic treatment during pregnancy remains controversial, mainly due to a lack of exposure and outcome data. Randomized clinical trials are practically impossible due to ethical reasons. Ou...

    Authors: Andreea Teodorescu, Petru Ifteni, Marius Alexandru Moga, Victoria Burtea and Nicusor Bigiu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:311
  33. Anxiety and depression are associated with a range of adverse outcomes and represent a large global burden to individuals and health care systems. Prevention programs are an important way to avert a proportion...

    Authors: M. Deady, I. Choi, R. A. Calvo, N. Glozier, H. Christensen and S. B. Harvey
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:310
  34. The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurements for inpatients with major depressive disorder (MDD) before and after 6...

    Authors: Wei-Cheng Yang, Ching-Hua Lin, Fu-Chiang Wang and Mei-Jou Lu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:309
  35. Little is known about patients with a first episode of psychosis (FEP) who had first presented to prodromal services with an “at risk mental state” (ARMS) before making the transition to psychosis. We set out ...

    Authors: Olesya Ajnakina, Craig Morgan, Charlotte Gayer-Anderson, Sherifat Oduola, François Bourque, Sally Bramley, Jessica Williamson, James H. MacCabe, Paola Dazzan, Robin M. Murray and Anthony S. David
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:308
  36. The time following discharge from psychiatric hospitalisation is a high risk period. Rates of hospital readmission are high and there is increased risk for homelessness and suicide. Transitional and post-disch...

    Authors: Justin Newton Scanlan, Nicola Hancock and Anne Honey
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:307
  37. Psychotherapy is successful for the majority of patients, but not for every patient. Hence, further knowledge is needed on how treatments should be adapted for those who do not profit or deteriorate. In the la...

    Authors: Wolfgang Lutz, Dirk Zimmermann, Viola N. L. S. Müller, Anne-Katharina Deisenhofer and Julian A. Rubel
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:306
  38. Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder that often requires long-term pharmacotherapy to manage symptoms and prevent relapse. Cariprazine is a potent dopamine D3 and D2 receptor part...

    Authors: Henry A. Nasrallah, Willie Earley, Andrew J. Cutler, Yao Wang, Kaifeng Lu, István Laszlovszky, György Németh and Suresh Durgam
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:305
  39. Suicide by aggressive physical methods such as firearms, hanging, and jumping is well known; however, different factors may influence a person while selecting a particular method. The aim of this study was to ...

    Authors: Yosra Azizpour, Kourosh Sayehmiri, Khairollah Asadollahi, Satar Kaikhavani and Maryam Bagheri
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:304
  40. This study examined trends in the prescription of benzodiazepines for the elderly (age over 65 years) in Korea, a country with a higher level of spending on pharmaceuticals compared to that in other Organizati...

    Authors: Soo-Hee Hwang, Seungjin Han, Hyojung Choi, Choonseon Park, Sun Min Kim and Tae Hyun Kim
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:303
  41. Antenatal depressive symptoms affect around 12.3% of women in in low and middle income countries (LMICs) and data are accumulating about associations with adverse outcomes for mother and child. Studies from ru...

    Authors: Tesera Bitew, Charlotte Hanlon, Eskinder Kebede, Simone Honikman and Abebaw Fekadu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:301
  42. Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) disproportionally affects Indigenous Australians. Friends, family and frontline workers (for example, teachers, youth workers) are often best positioned to provide initial assis...

    Authors: Gregory Armstrong, Natalie Ironfield, Claire M. Kelly, Katrina Dart, Kerry Arabena, Kathy Bond and Anthony F. Jorm
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:300
  43. Non-adherence is a major public health problem despite treatment advances. Poor drug adherence in patients with psychosis is associated with more frequent relapse, re-hospitalization, increased consumption of ...

    Authors: Rafal A. H. Yeisen, Jone Bjornestad, Inge Joa, Jan Olav Johannessen and Stein Opjordsmoen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:299
  44. Increasing physical activity in patients with severe mental illness is believed to have positive effects on physical health, psychiatric symptoms and as well quality of life. Till now, little is known about th...

    Authors: Jeroen Deenik, Frank Kruisdijk, Diederik Tenback, Annemarie Braakman-Jansen, Erik Taal, Marijke Hopman-Rock, Aartjan Beekman, Erwin Tak, Ingrid Hendriksen and Peter van Harten
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:298
  45. Online and mobile telephone applications (‘apps’) have the potential to improve the scalability of effective interventions for suicidal ideation and self-harm. The aim of this review was therefore to investiga...

    Authors: Katrina Witt, Matthew J. Spittal, Gregory Carter, Jane Pirkis, Sarah Hetrick, Dianne Currier, Jo Robinson and Allison Milner
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:297
  46. Men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be at an increased risk of Violence, HIV transmission and Mental Disorders such as depression on top of many other bio-psycho-socio challenges they face as a result ...

    Authors: Lucy R. Mgopa, Jessie Mbwambo, Samuel Likindikoki and Pedro Pallangyo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2017 17:296

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