Long-term trends in co-occurring medical and psychiatric hospitalizations among children and adolescents in Ontario, Canada. [PDF]
Background Psychiatric conditions are common amongst hospitalized children. Co-occurring psychiatric conditions for medical hospitalizations contribute to length of stay, costs, and readmissions.
Natasha Saunders +9 more
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Foreign National Patients in German Prison Psychiatry [PDF]
Introduction: Over the past few years, the share of foreign national prisoners in the European and American justice systems has increased at a disproportionately high rate, yet studies on mental health issues among this diverse group are rare.
Neumann, Britta +2 more
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Background: Despite the well-known deleterious health effects of childhood adversity (CA) and adulthood trauma (AT) and ageing of the global population, little is known about self-reported CA and AT in older populations.
David Bürgin +4 more
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'Often there is a good deal to be done, but socially rather than medically': the psychiatric social worker as social therapist, 1945-70 [PDF]
Seeking to align psychiatric practice with general medicine following the inauguration of the National Health Service, psychiatric hospitals in post-war Britain deployed new treatments designed to induce somatic change, such as ECT, leucotomy and ...
Long, Vicky
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Part-time hospitalisation and stigma experiences: a study in contemporary psychiatric hospitals. [PDF]
Background: Because numerous studies have revealed the negative consequences of stigmatisation, this study explores the determinants of stigma experiences.
Mieke Verhaeghe +40 more
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The experience of long-stay patients in a forensic psychiatric hospital in China: a qualitative study [PDF]
open access articleBackground Long stay in forensic psychiatric hospitals is common in patients who are defined as “not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder”.
Chen, Hui +13 more
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Chronic stress is associated with accelerated biological aging as indexed by short age-adjusted leukocyte telomere length (LTL). Exploring links of biological stress responses with LTL has proved challenging due to the lack of biological measures of ...
David Bürgin +7 more
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The Effect of Psychiatric Rehabilitation on the Activity and Participation Level of Clients with Long-Term Psychiatric Disabilities [PDF]
During the last decades of the 20th century, many psychiatric hospitals changed the living environments of their clients with long-term psychiatric disabilities.
Felling, Albert, +2 more
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Position of mentally ill persons in the 19th century Serbia - legal aspects [PDF]
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Kulauzov Maša
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Background Although child welfare youth and juvenile offenders in residential care have different judicial placement reasons, there seems to be overlap in their demographic and psychosocial backgrounds.
Lena Jäggi +5 more
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