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Identification of risk factors for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization: using environmental socioeconomic data and methods of machine learning to improve prediction
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The engagement of psychiatrists in the assessment of euthanasia requests from psychiatric patients in Belgium: a survey study
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“It means so much for me to have a choice”: a qualitative study providing first-person perspectives on medication-free treatment in mental health care
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Effect of self-care counselling on depression and anxiety in women with endometriosis: a randomized controlled trial
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Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders
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Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review
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A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people
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Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition
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Crime and victimisation in people with intellectual disability: a case linkage study
Aims and scope
BMC Psychiatry is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of psychiatric disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.
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Sections
- Causes, treatment and prevention of suicide
- Child, adolescent and developmental psychiatry
- Eating disorders
- Forensic psychiatry
- Geriatric psychiatry and cognitive disorders
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders and disorders of adult behavior
- Psychiatric molecular genetics
- Psychotic disorders
- Sleep disorders
- Social psychiatry, therapy and provision of mental health care
- Stress and anxiety
- Substance-related disorders, addiction and impulse control
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- Darren Byrne, BMC
Manuscript Editors
- Ana Donnelly, BMC
- Kelda Manser-Smith, BMC
Assistant Editor
- Maire Clayton, BMC
Section Editors
- Cathy Barr, The Toronto Western Hospital
- Ruth Benca, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Linda Davies, University of Manchester
- Secondo Fassino, Turin University
- Seena Fazel, University of Oxford
- Morten Hesse, University of Aarhus
- Ute Lewitzka, Technische Universität Dresden
- Joanne Ryan, Monash University
- Florian Seemüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- Wei Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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3.386 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.514 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
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