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  1. Major depressive disorder is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, which is associated with a high disease burden. Current treatments using antidepressants have limitations, so using medication with ne...

    Authors: Atefeh Zandifar, Maryam Panahi, Rahim Badrfam and Mostafa Qorbani
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:163
  2. The anxiety and their related disorders (AD) are the most common of all mental health conditions, and affect approximately 20% of pregnant and postpartum people. They are associated with significant distress a...

    Authors: Nichole Fairbrother, Bryn Stagg, Olivia Scoten, Cora Keeney and Claudia Cargnelli
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:162
  3. A significant association between women’s reproductive traits and the risk of schizophrenia (SCZ) has been discovered, but the causalities remain unclear. We designed a two-sample univariate Mendelian randomiz...

    Authors: Wenxi Sun, Xiaohui Wu, Haidong Yang, Shiting Yuan, Jun Chen, Yiru Fang and Xiaobin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:161
  4. When an individual is detained in hospital it is important that they maintain contact with their family, friends and communities as these can be helpful for their well-being and recovery. Maintaining these rel...

    Authors: Nicola Moran, Ruth Naughton-Doe, Mark Wilberforce, Emma Wakeman and Martin Webber
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:160
  5. Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric problems among Canadian youth and typically have an onset in childhood or adolescence. They are characterized by high rates of relapse and chronicity, often re...

    Authors: Laina McAusland, Christie L. Burton, Alexa Bagnell, Khrista Boylan, Taylor Hatchard, Patricia Lingley-Pottie, Abdullah Al Maruf, Patrick McGrath, Amanda S. Newton, Karen Rowa, Russell J. Schachar, S-M Shaheen, Sam Stewart, Paul D. Arnold, Jennifer Crosbie, Manuel Mattheisen…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:159
  6. Patients’ recall of memories from the ICU plays an important role in the occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder. This study aimed to determine the effect of nurse-initiated diary intervention on post-tra...

    Authors: Elham Rashidi, Farideh Razban and Neda Asadi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:158
  7. The purpose of the study was to investigate the status of pregnancy stress and to explore factors associated with pregnancy stress among women by China’s two-child policy.

    Authors: Lijuan Zhang, Ruirui Huang, Jun Lei, Yongrong Liu and Dan Liu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:157
  8. Although gender differences in major depressive disorder (MDD) have been widely reported, there has not been much focus on gender differences in comorbidity. In patients with MDD and comorbid metabolic syndrom...

    Authors: Wenqi Gao, Zhifang Deng, Xiaonan Cai, Dan Zhang, Han Xiao and Xiangyang Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:156
  9. Examining patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) provides opportunities to better understand the mechanism underlying these illnesses. By incorporating quantitative measures in FEP patients, we aimed to (...

    Authors: Shun-Chun Yu, Tzung–Jeng Hwang, Chih-Min Liu, Hung-Yu Chan, Chian-Jue Kuo, Tsung-Tsair Yang, Jen-Pang Wang, Chen-Chung Liu, Ming H. Hsieh, Yi-Ting Lin, Yi-Ling Chien, Po-Hsiu Kuo, Ya-Wen Shih, Sung-Liang Yu, Hsuan-Yu Chen and Wei J. Chen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:155
  10. Seeking help for severe depressive symptoms remains a major obstacle for particular groups within the general population. Value-related attitudes might contribute to this treatment gap, particularly in rural r...

    Authors: Karsten Valerius, Linnéa von Eitzen, Mirjam Göbel, Heike Ohlbrecht, Neeltje van den Berg, Henry Völzke, Hans J. Grabe, Georg Schomerus and Sven Speerforck
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:153
  11. Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychiatric condition and the largest contributor to disability worldwide. MDD is highly recurrent, yet little is known about the mechanisms that occur following ...

    Authors: Stephanie T. Gumuchian, Ariel Boyle, Lori H. Hazel and Mark A. Ellenbogen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:152
  12. The needs and characteristics of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) create significant challenges in family life, particularly for spouses. Identifying the nature of these challenges from the ...

    Authors: Zahra Maddah, Reza Negarandeh, Soheil Rahimi and Shahzad Pashaeypoor
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:151
  13. High somatic comorbidity is common among patients in treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). The present study aims to investigate changes in self-reported somatic health conditions and somatic symptoms among...

    Authors: Endre Dahlen Bjørnestad, John-Kåre Vederhus and Thomas Clausen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:149
  14. B4DT is a concentrated treatment format with prolonged sessions of exposure and ritual prevention (ERP) delivered over four consecutive days. Two previous open trials demonstrated promising results of the Berg...

    Authors: Solvei Harila Skjold, Kristen Hagen, Michael G. Wheaton, Kay Morten Hjelle, Thröstur Björgvinsson and Bjarne Hansen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:148
  15. Postpartum depression (PPD) is a major public health problem worldwide. Previous studies have shown that postpartum negative life events and neuroticism are both important risk factors for PPD. However, few st...

    Authors: Ningning Hu, Jie Luo, Wei Xiang, Guiying Yang, Ting Huang, Li Guan, Jufang Xu and Biao Peng
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:147
  16. To investigate the incidence of depression in middle-aged and elderly patients with diabetes in China and the influencing factors to provide a theoretical basis to improve the mental health of middle-aged and ...

    Authors: Shuo Bai, Jinsong Wang, Jinteng Liu, Yamin Miao, Anqi Zhang and Ziyi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:146
  17. Few studies have examined the use of concentrated and intensified cognitive behaviour therapy for treating social anxiety disorder (SAD). The aim of this study was to examine the feasibility of the Bergen 4-Da...

    Authors: Bjarne Hansen, Thorstein Olsen Eide, Marie Aaslie Reiråskag, Kristian August Tjelle, Stian Solem and Kristen Hagen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:145
  18. Insomnia is a common health problem among cancer patients, which is not only a physical problem but also a psychological problem. Sleep plays an important role in the mental and somatic rehabilitation of cance...

    Authors: Ziyun Gao, Zihan Gao, Chen Zheng, Jianing Ma, Ying Zhao, Lin Zhang and Leilei Guo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:144
  19. The association between polysubstance use disorder (pSUD), mental illness, and cognitive impairments is well established and linked to negative outcomes in substance use disorder treatment. However, it remains...

    Authors: Jens Hetland, Astri J. Lundervold and Aleksander H. Erga
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:143
  20. Children of parents with a mental illness have up to 50% chance of developing a mental illness themselves. Numerous studies have shown that preventive family-oriented interventions can decrease the risk by 40%...

    Authors: Carolin Laser, Silke Pawils, Anne Daubmann, Antonia Zapf and Silke Wiegand-Grefe
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:142
  21. Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, and involves high relapse rates in which persistent negative thinking and rumination (i.e., perseverative cognition [PC]) pla...

    Authors: Marlijn E. Besten, Marieke van Vugt, Harriëtte Riese, Claudi L. H. Bockting, Brian D. Ostafin, André Aleman and Marie-José van Tol
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:141
  22. Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) combined with suicide ideation increases the risk of suicidal behaviors. Depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are comorbidities of NSSI compounding this relationsh...

    Authors: Eunice Seong, Kyung Hwa Lee, Jong-Sun Lee, Sojung Kim, Dong Gi Seo, Jae Hyun Yoo, Doug Hyun Han, Hyunchan Hwang, Chi-Hyun Choi and Jae-Won Kim
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:138
  23. Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex mental illness characterized by different mood states, including depression, mania/hypomania, and euthymia. This study aimed to comprehensively evaluate dynamic changes in in...

    Authors: Zhenzhu Chen, Zhifang Zhang, Feng Li, Lei Zhao, Qijing Bo, Yuan Zhou and Chuanyue Wang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:137
  24. A considerable number of individuals infected with COVID-19 experience residual symptoms after the acute phase. However, the correlation between residual symptoms and psychological distress and underlying mech...

    Authors: Zhiyu Sun, Zhou Jin, Kejie Zhao, Xin Wen, Hui Lu, Nuonuo Hu, Qinxin Zhu, Yi Zhang, Minjie Ye, Yili Huang, Weihong Song, Deborah Baofeng Wang and Yili Wu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:136
  25. Little is known about mobile phone problem use (MPPU) among older adults. This study investigated critical factors affecting MPPU and filled the gap between MPPU and depressive symptoms in older people.

    Authors: Linlin Ding, Zhihan Li, Hao Jiang, Xiaona Zhang, Zhenfang Xiong and Xinhong Zhu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:135
  26. The symptoms of functional constipation (FC) were obviously affected by mental symptoms, which was consistent with somatic symptoms. However, the characteristics of FC patients with somatic symptom remains une...

    Authors: Zhifeng Zhao, Bin Bai, Shiqi Wang, Yin Zhou, Pengfei Yu, Qingchuan Zhao and Bin Yang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:134
  27. While the positive impact of homework completion on symptom alleviation is well-established, the pivotal role of therapists in reviewing these assignments has been under-investigated. This study examined thera...

    Authors: Amit Spinrad, C. Barr Taylor, Josef I. Ruzek, Samuel Jefroykin, Tamar Friedlander, Israela Feleke, Hila Lev-Ari, Natalia Szapiro and Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:133

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  28. The prevalence and burden of substance and opium use have increased worldwide over the past decades. In light of rapid population changes in Tehran, we aimed to evaluate the prevalence of opium and other subst...

    Authors: Farzad Masoudkabir, Akbar Shafiee, Amirhossein Heidari, Negin Sadat Hosseini Mohammadi, Kiarash Tavakoli, Arash Jalali, Sepehr Nayebirad, Farshid Alaeddini, Soheil Saadat, Ali Vasheghani-Farahani, Saeed Sadeghian, Vicente Artola Arita, Mohamamdali Boroumand and Abbasali Karimi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:132
  29. Nonadherence to medication contributes substantially to worse health outcomes. Especially among older adults with chronic illness, multimorbidity leads to complex medication regimes and high nonadherence rates...

    Authors: Aline Schönenberg, Konstantin G. Heimrich and Tino Prell
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:131
  30. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective treatment for depressive disorder. However, the use of ECT is limited by its cognitive side effects (CSEs), and no specific intervention has been developed...

    Authors: Renqin Hu, Junyao Li, Yulin Lu, Huirong Luo, Yinlin Zhang, Xueqian Wang, Zheng Zhang and Qinghua Luo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:130
  31. The association between antihypertensive medication and schizophrenia has received increasing attention; however, evidence of the impact of antihypertensive medication on subsequent schizophrenia based on larg...

    Authors: Dong Yun Lee, Chungsoo Kim, Jiwoo Kim, Jeongwon Yun, Yujin Lee, Celine Sze Ling Chui, Sang Joon Son, Rae Woong Park and Seng Chan You
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:128
  32. A focus on patient’s and service user’s perspectives regarding long-term antipsychotic treatment led to a declaration from the Norwegian Ministry of Health in 2015 to offer treatment without psychotropic medic...

    Authors: Elisabeth C. Klæbo Reitan, Valentina C. Iversen, Henriette Riley and Anne Høye
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:127
  33. Child abuse is widespread around the world, and one continent with particularly high rates is Africa. Research in high- and middle-income countries shows the cascading effect of parental history of child abuse...

    Authors: Amare Misganaw Mihret and Nina Heinrichs
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:126
  34. Systemic therapy (ST) is a psychotherapeutic intervention in complex human systems (both psychological and interpersonal). Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an established treatment for children and adole...

    Authors: David Henry Seidel, Martina Markes, Ulrich Grouven, Claudia-Martina Messow, Wiebke Sieben, Marco Knelangen, Rieke Oelkers-Ax, Sebastian Grümer, Heike Kölsch, Mandy Kromp and Markus von Pluto Prondzinski
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:125
  35. This study examined the association between social support and the severity of positive symptoms in rural community-dwelling schizophrenia patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Authors: Yudan Liu, Hongying Liu, Siyu Chen, Jidong Ren and Xiaobing Tian
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:124
  36. Clozapine is a highly effective second-generation antipsychotic with few extrapyramidal reactions, making it a preferred choice among clinicians. However, instances of acute clozapine poisoning resulting from ...

    Authors: Yonghua Wu, Ziyan Zhou, Ziyi Ai, Tiancheng Wang and Liyan Cui
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:123
  37. Clozapine is an antipsychotic drug with unique efficacy, and it is the only recommended treatment for treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS: failure to respond to at least two different antipsychotics). Howev...

    Authors: C. Casetta, P. Santosh, R. Bayley, J. Bisson, S. Byford, C. Dixon, R. J. Drake, R. Elvins, R. Emsley, N. Fung, D. Hayes, O. Howes, A. James, K. James, R. Jones, H. Killaspy…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:122
  38. Even though not all cyber bullies or victims think of (or consider) suicide, they clearly appear to be at an increased risk. One possible strategy to reduce suicide risk is to decrease cyberbullying occurrence...

    Authors: Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Diana Malaeb, Nour Farah, Manel Stambouli, Majda Cheour, Sahar Obeid and Souheil Hallit
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:121
  39. Persons with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition are eligible to access medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in a small number of countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg an...

    Authors: Vicky Stergiopoulos, Hamer Bastidas-Bilbao, Mona Gupta, Daniel Z. Buchman, Donna E. Stewart, Tarek Rajji, Alexander I. F. Simpson, Mary Rose van Kesteren, Vivien Cappe, David Castle, Roslyn Shields and Lisa D. Hawke
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:120
  40. Children with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) and their parents experience many problems that may influence their interactions. The study aimed to evaluate the maternal acceptance/rejection status of chi...

    Authors: Ganime Ayar, Sıddıka Songül Yalçın, Özge Tanıdır Artan, Ahmet Kahveci and Esra Çöp
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:119
  41. The circadian clock and endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling play important roles in oncogenesis and development of cancer. Sleep disorders have been linked to an elevated risk of mortality in general popula...

    Authors: Jingying Nong, Jinzhuo Tong, Ruotian Wang, Kejian Shi and Yi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:118
  42. Climate change has psychological impacts but most of the attention has been focused on the physical impact. This study was aimed at determining the association of climate change with adolescent mental health a...

    Authors: David M. Ndetei, Danuta Wasserman, Victoria Mutiso, Jenelle R. Shanley, Christine Musyimi, Pascalyne Nyamai, Timothy Munyua, Monica H. Swahn, John R. Weisz, Tom L. Osborn, Kamaldeep Bhui, Natalie E. Johnson, Panu Pihkala, Peter Memiah, Sonja Gilbert, Afzal Javed…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:117
  43. Cognitive impairments present challenges for patients, impacting memory, attention, and problem-solving abilities. Virtual reality (VR) offers innovative ways to enhance cognitive function and well-being. This...

    Authors: Khadijeh Moulaei, Hamid Sharifi, Kambiz Bahaadinbeigy and Fatemeh Dinari
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:116
  44. Psychotic symptoms may be less common than anxiety or affective symptoms, but they are still frequent and typically highly debilitating. Community members can have a role in helping to identify, offer initial ...

    Authors: Martín Agrest, Thamara Tapia-Munoz, Esteban Encina-Zúñiga, Isidora Vidal-Zamora, Norma Geffner, Sara Ardila-Gómez, Rubén Alvarado, Eduardo A. Leiderman and Nicola Reavley
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:113

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