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  1. Social skills training (SST) is a common intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) to improve their social and communication skills. Despite the fact that SSTs are often applied in clinic...

    Authors: Vera Dekker, Maaike H Nauta, Erik J Mulder, Marieke E Timmerman and Annelies de Bildt
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:189
  2. Anxiety and related disorders are among the most common mental disorders, with lifetime prevalence reportedly as high as 31%. Unfortunately, anxiety disorders are under-diagnosed and under-treated.

    Authors: Martin A Katzman, Pierre Bleau, Pierre Blier, Pratap Chokka, Kevin Kjernisted and Michael Van Ameringen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14(Suppl 1):S1

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  3. Successful linkage to care is increasingly recognised as a potentially important factor in determining the success of Antiretroviral Therapy treatment programmes. However, the role of psychological factors dur...

    Authors: Rosie Mayston, Vikram Patel, Melanie Abas, Priya Korgaonkar, Ramesh Paranjape, Savio Rodrigues and Martin Prince
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:188
  4. Studies suggest that poor physical health might be associated with increased depression and anxiety recurrence. The objectives of this study were to determine whether specific chronic diseases and pain charact...

    Authors: Marloes MJG Gerrits, Patricia van Oppen, Stephanie S Leone, Harm WJ van Marwijk, Henriëtte E van der Horst and Brenda W Penninx
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:187
  5. It has been frequently reported a higher incidence of psychotic disorders in immigrants than in native populations. There is, however, a lack of knowledge about risk factors which may explain this phenomenon. ...

    Authors: Ilaria Tarricone, Mauro Braca, Fabio Allegri, Giuseppe Barrasso, Antonello Bellomo, Vanna Berlincioni, Bernardo Carpiniello, Alessio Ceregato, Marco Conforti Donati, Samuele Defilippi, Valeria Del Vecchio, Corrado De Rosa, Luigi Ferrannini, Silvia Ferrari, Maria Antonietta Furio, Carla Gramaglia…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:186
  6. Obesity among patients with schizophrenia is a growing concern because being overweight is widely regarded as a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and premature death. Dietary patterns have been sugg...

    Authors: Norio Sugawara, Norio Yasui-Furukori, Yasushi Sato, Manabu Saito, Hanako Furukori, Taku Nakagami, Masamichi Ishioka and Sunao Kaneko
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:184
  7. This study evaluates the association between Internal Addiction (IA) and psychiatric co-morbidity in the literature.

    Authors: Roger C Ho, Melvyn WB Zhang, Tammy Y Tsang, Anastasia H Toh, Fang Pan, Yanxia Lu, Cecilia Cheng, Paul S Yip, Lawrence T Lam, Ching-Man Lai, Hiroko Watanabe and Kwok-Kei Mak
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:183
  8. People with schizophrenia face prejudice and discrimination from a number of sources including professionals and families. The degree of stigma perceived and experienced varies across cultures and communities....

    Authors: Sandra Saldivia, Ariadne Runte-Geidel, Pamela Grandón, Francisco Torres-González, Miguel Xavier, Claudio Antonioli, Dinarte A Ballester, Roberto Melipillán, Emiliano Galende, Benjamín Vicente, José Miguel Caldas, Helen Killaspy, Rachel Gibbons and Michael King
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:182
  9. Substance abuse continues to exact a significant toll, despite promising advancements in treatment, and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities remain disproportionately impacted. Understanding t...

    Authors: Rupinder Legha, Ashley Raleigh-Cohn, Alexandra Fickenscher and Douglas Novins
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:181
  10. Lack of social support is an important risk factor for antenatal depression and anxiety in low- and middle-income countries. We translated, adapted and validated the Multi-dimensional Scale of Perceived Social...

    Authors: Robert C Stewart, Eric Umar, Barbara Tomenson and Francis Creed
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:180
  11. Communicating about delusions can be challenging, particularly when a therapeutic relationship needs to be established in acute care. So far, no systematic research has explored how psychiatrists address patie...

    Authors: Alessia Zangrilli, Giuseppe Ducci, Pier Luca Bandinelli, Jemima Dooley, Rosemarie McCabe and Stefan Priebe
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:178
  12. Sleep is disrupted in depressed subjects, but it also deteriorates with age and possibly with the transition to menopause. The nature of interaction between mood, sleep, age and reproductive state is not well-...

    Authors: Elena Toffol, Nea Kalleinen, Anna Sofia Urrila, Sari-Leena Himanen, Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen, Timo Partonen and Päivi Polo-Kantola
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:177
  13. Depression and cardiovascular diseases due to arteriosclerosis are both frequent and impairing conditions. Depression and (subclinical) arteriosclerosis appear to be related in a bidirectional way, and it is p...

    Authors: Henning Teismann, Heike Wersching, Maren Nagel, Volker Arolt, Walter Heindel, Bernhard T Baune, Jürgen Wellmann, Hans-Werner Hense and Klaus Berger
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:174
  14. Functional neuroimaging techniques are widely used to elucidate changes in brain activity, and various questionnaires are used to investigate psychopathological features in patients with eating disorders (ED)....

    Authors: Hiroto Katayama, Kunihiro Kohmura, Satoshi Tanaka, Miho Imaeda, Naoko Kawano, Yukihiro Noda, Kazuo Nishioka, Masahiko Ando, Branko Aleksic, Tetsuya Iidaka and Norio Ozaki
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:173
  15. Bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) both are severe and chronic psychiatric disorders. Both disorders have overlapping symptoms, and current research shows that the presence of a BP...

    Authors: Georg Riemann, Nadine Weisscher, Peter JJ Goossens, Nel Draijer, Marjolein Apenhorst-Hol and Ralph W Kupka
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:172
  16. Carer burden is high during First Episode Psychosis (FEP) and evidence suggests that this is a predictor of poor long-term outcome. However our understanding of factors associated with higher burden is poor. W...

    Authors: Maya Patel, Rajan Chawla, Carl R Krynicki, Philip Rankin and Rachel Upthegrove
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:171
  17. Depression and anxiety are highly prevalent and represent a significant and well described public health burden. Whilst first line psychological treatments are effective for nearly half of attenders, there rem...

    Authors: Nina Grant, Matthew Hotopf, Gerome Breen, Anthony Cleare, Nick Grey, Nilay Hepgul, Sinead King, Paul Moran, Carmine M Pariante, Janet Wingrove, Allan H Young and André Tylee
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:170
  18. Shoplifting is a serious problem among patients with eating disorders. For more than a decade, we have treated many patients with eating disorders incarcerated in Hachioji Medical Prison only for repeated shop...

    Authors: Tomokuni Asami, Yoshiro Okubo, Mizuho Sekine and Toshiaki Nomura
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:169
  19. Caring for a young person experiencing first-episode psychosis is challenging and can affect carers’ well-being adversely. While some face-to-face approaches have achieved promising outcomes, they are costly a...

    Authors: Terence V McCann and Dan I Lubman
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:168
  20. With the recent attention to evidence-based medicine in psychiatry, a number of treatment guidelines for bipolar disorders have been published. This survey investigated prescribing patterns and predictors for ...

    Authors: Zuowei Wang, Keming Gao, Wu Hong, Mengjuan Xing, Zhiguo Wu, Jun Chen, Chen Zhang, Chengmei Yuan, Jia Huang, Daihui Peng, Yong Wang, Weihong Lu, Zhenghui Yi, Xin Yu, Jingping Zhao and Yiru Fang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:167
  21. Considering that depressive and anxiety symptoms are common in schizophrenia, this study investigated whether the severity of a psychotic episode in an acute phase schizophrenia cohort is predictive of concurr...

    Authors: Kalai Naidu, Werdie (CW) van Staden and Mike van der Linde
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:166
  22. People with eating disorders (ED) often report poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL), which is explicitly correlated to illness’ severity and its effects on cognitive performance. We aimed to analyze hea...

    Authors: Monica Baiano, Pierandrea Salvo, Pierluigi Righetti, Lucia Cereser, Erika Baldissera, Ilenia Camponogara and Matteo Balestrieri
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:165
  23. Major depression is associated with higher plasma levels of positive acute-phase proteins, as well as with lower plasma levels of negative acute-phase proteins. The aim of this study is to examine the levels o...

    Authors: Sokratis E Karaoulanis, Katerina A Rizouli, Andreas A Rizoulis and Nikiforos V Angelopoulos
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:164
  24. Since 2009 some German health insurance companies have implemented integrated mental health care services along the principles of assertive community treatment in collaboration with local mental health service...

    Authors: Annabel Sandra Stierlin, Katrin Herder, Marina Julia Helmbrecht, Stefanie Prinz, Julia Walendzik, Marco Holzmann, Thomas Becker, Matthias Schützwohl and Reinhold Kilian
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:163
  25. Despite improvements in psychiatric inpatient care, patient restrictions in psychiatric hospitals are still in use. Studying perceptions among patients who have been secluded or physically restrained during th...

    Authors: Päivi Soininen, Hanna Putkonen, Grigori Joffe, Jyrki Korkeila and Maritta Välimäki
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:162
  26. The rehospitalization of patients with mental disorders is common, with rehospitalization rates of up to 80% observed in these patients. This phenomenon negatively impacts families, patients, and the health ca...

    Authors: Luis Eduardo Jaramillo-Gonzalez, Ricardo Sanchez-Pedraza and Maria Isabel Herazo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:161
  27. Getting lost outside is stressful for people with dementia and their caregivers and a leading cause of long-term institutionalisation. Although Global Positional Satellite (GPS) location has been promoted to f...

    Authors: Heather Milne, Marjon van der Pol, Lucy McCloughan, Janet Hanley, Gillian Mead, John Starr, Aziz Sheikh and Brian McKinstry
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:160
  28. The Whitehall II (WHII) study of British civil servants provides a unique source of longitudinal data to investigate key factors hypothesized to affect brain health and cognitive ageing. This paper introduces ...

    Authors: Nicola Filippini, EnikÅ‘ Zsoldos, Rita Haapakoski, Claire E Sexton, Abda Mahmood, Charlotte L Allan, Anya Topiwala, Vyara Valkanova, Eric J Brunner, Martin J Shipley, Edward Auerbach, Steen Moeller, Kâmil UÄŸurbil, Junqian Xu, Essa Yacoub, Jesper Andersson…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:159
  29. The differential diagnosis of pseudo-neurological symptoms often represents a clinical challenge. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, made an attempt to improve diagnostic criteri...

    Authors: Carl E Scheidt, Kathrin Baumann, Michael Katzev, Matthias Reinhard, Sebastian Rauer, Michael Wirsching and Andreas Joos
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:158
  30. The unfair treatment of individuals with severe mental illness has been linked to poorer physical and mental health outcomes. Additionally, anticipation of discrimination may lead some individuals to avoid par...

    Authors: Simone Farrelly, Sarah Clement, Jheanell Gabbidon, Debra Jeffery, Lisa Dockery, Francesca Lassman, Elaine Brohan, R Claire Henderson, Paul Williams, Louise M Howard and Graham Thornicroft
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:157
  31. There are limited data on the parenting stress (PS) levels in sub-Saharan African mothers and on the association between ante- and postnatal depression and anxiety on PS.

    Authors: Nan Guo, Carola Bindt, Marguerite Te Bonle, John Appiah-Poku, Cecilia Tomori, Rebecca Hinz, Dana Barthel, Stefanie Schoppen, Torsten Feldt, Claus Barkmann, Mathurin Koffi, Wibke Loag, Samuel Blay Nguah, Kirsten A Eberhardt, Harry Tagbor, Judith K Bass…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:156
  32. Suicide-related behaviour among young people is of significant concern, yet little is known regarding the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce risk among this population. Of those interventions th...

    Authors: Jo Robinson, Sarah Hetrick, Georgina Cox, Sarah Bendall, Alison Yung, Hok Pan Yuen, Kate Templer and Jane Pirkis
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:155
  33. South Asian populations are the largest visible minority group in Canada; however, there is very little information on the mental health of these populations. The objective of this study was to determine the p...

    Authors: Farah Islam, Nazilla Khanlou and Hala Tamim
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:154
  34. Previous studies on the association between adiposity and mood disorder have produced contradictory results, and few have used measurements other than body mass index (BMI). We examined the association between...

    Authors: Zia Ul-Haq, Daniel J Smith, Barbara I Nicholl, Breda Cullen, Daniel Martin, Jason MR Gill, Jonathan Evans, Beverly Roberts, Ian J Deary, John Gallacher, Matthew Hotopf, Nick Craddock, Daniel F Mackay and Jill P Pell
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:153
  35. Psychiatric distress and insomnia symptoms exhibit similar patterning by gender and socioeconomic position. Prospective evidence indicates a bi-directional relationship between psychiatric distress and insomni...

    Authors: Michael J Green, Colin A Espie and Michael Benzeval
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:152
  36. Personality traits and schizophrenia present gender differences; however, gender has not been considered in most studies on personality and schizophrenia. This study aims to identify the different personality ...

    Authors: Carmen Miralles, Yolanda Alonso, Begoña Verge, Sònia Setó, Ana M Gaviria, Lorena Moreno, María J Cortés, Alfonso Gutiérrez-Zotes, Elisabet Vilella and Lourdes Martorell
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:151
  37. People with severe mental disorders (SMD) are at higher risk of suicide. However, research into suicide attempts and completed suicide in people with SMD in low- and middle-income countries is mostly limited t...

    Authors: Teshome Shibre, Charlotte Hanlon, Girmay Medhin, Atalay Alem, Derege Kebede, Solomon Teferra, Gunnar Kullgren, Lars Jacobsson and Abebaw Fekadu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:150
  38. Severe borderline personality disorder is associated with a very high psychosocial and economic burden. Current treatment guidelines suggest that several manualized treatments, including day hospital Mentaliza...

    Authors: Elisabeth MP Laurenssen, Dieuwertje Westra, Martijn J Kikkert, Marc J Noom, Hester V Eeren, Anna J van Broekhuyzen, Jaap Peen, Patrick Luyten, Jan JV Busschbach and Jack JM Dekker
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:149
  39. There is a need for psychiatric assessment instruments that enable reliable diagnoses in persons with hearing loss who have sign language as their primary language. The objective of this study was to assess th...

    Authors: Beate Øhre, Hege Saltnes, Stephen von Tetzchner and Erik Falkum
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:148
  40. The term ‘self-harm’ encompasses both attempted suicide and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Specific adolescent subpopulations such as ethnic or sexual minorities, and more controversially, those who identify...

    Authors: Robert Young, Nina Sproeber, Rebecca C Groschwitz, Marthe Preiss and Paul L Plener
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:137
  41. Depression is a high prevalence disorder, displaying high rates of lifetime incidence, early age onset, high chronicity, and role impairment. In Ireland 12-month prevalence of depression has been reported to b...

    Authors: Derek Richards, Ladislav Timulak, Gavin Doherty, John Sharry, Amy Colla, Ciara Joyce and Claire Hayes
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:147
  42. Because psychiatric disorders are risk factors for suicide, psychiatric consultation should be an essential element of suicide prevention among individuals with a high risk of suicide. The aim of the present s...

    Authors: Kohei Harada, Nobuaki Eto, Yoko Honda, Naoko Kawano, Yuma Ogushi, Mayuko Matsuo and Ryoji Nishimura
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:146
  43. Bipolar disorder is a highly recurrent disease and has great impact on the function of patients. Depressive symptoms consist of more than 50% of life time during the illness and may lead to self harm or suicid...

    Authors: Pei-Yin Pan, Meei-Shyuan Lee, Miao-Chi Lo, En-Lin Yang and Chin-Bin Yeh
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:145
  44. There is a shortage of empirical data concerning precipitating factors for suicides in Japan. The purpose of the present study was to clarify gender differences of precipitating factors for suicide attempts in...

    Authors: Ryuichiro Narishige, Yoshitaka Kawashima, Yasushi Otaka, Takuya Saito and Yoshiro Okubo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:144
  45. Depressive disorders are often recurrent and place a high burden on patients and their relatives. Psychoeducational groups for relatives may reduce relatives’ burden, help prevent relapses in patients, and are...

    Authors: Fabian Frank, Christine Rummel-Kluge, Mathias Berger, Eva M Bitzer and Lars P Hölzel
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:143
  46. Antiandrogen therapy (ADT) has been used for 30 years to treat pedophilic patients. The aim of the treatment is a reduction in sexual drive and, in consequence, a reduced risk of recidivism. Yet the therapeuti...

    Authors: Kirsten Jordan, Peter Fromberger, Helge Laubinger, Peter Dechent and Jürgen L Müller
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2014 14:142

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