Cognitive behavioural therapy versus supportive therapy for persistent positive symptoms in psychotic disorders: the POSITIVE Study, a multicenter, prospective, single-blind, randomised controlled clinical trial [PDF]
Background: It has been demonstrated that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has a moderate effect on symptom reduction and on general well being of patients suffering from psychosis.
Klingberg, Stefan +13 more
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Web of Objects Based Ambient Assisted Living Framework for Emergency Psychiatric State Prediction
Ambient assisted living can facilitate optimum health and wellness by aiding physical, mental and social well-being. In this paper, patients’ psychiatric symptoms are collected through lightweight biosensors and web-based psychiatric screening scales in ...
Md Golam Rabiul Alam +3 more
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Evaluating Depressive Symptoms in Schizophrenia: A Psychometric Comparison of the Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale [PDF]
Background: The aim of this study was to compare two measures of depression in patients with schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorder, including patients with delusional and schizoaffective disorder, to conclude implications for their ...
Addington D +52 more
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Associations between purine metabolites and clinical symptoms in schizophrenia [PDF]
Background: The antioxidant defense system, which is known to be dysregulated in schizophrenia, is closely linked to the dynamics of purine pathway. Thus, alterations in the homeostatic balance in the purine pathway may be involved in the pathophysiology
Debra M. Montrose +9 more
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Classification and prediction of suicide attempts in high-risk groups is important for preventing suicide. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the information from multiple clinical scales has classification power for identifying actual ...
Jihoon Oh +4 more
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Introduction: The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised has been developed to evaluate the severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in both clinical and non-clinical individuals.
Gonçalo Varela Cunha +6 more
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Interventions for treating depression after stroke [PDF]
Background: Depression is an important consequence of stroke that impacts on recovery yet is often not detected or inadequately treated. This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2004.
Agnoli +254 more
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Psychological symptoms in obesity and related factors [PDF]
Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between levels of depression and anxiety symptoms and quality of life, self-esteem in obesity.
Değirmenci, T. +4 more
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An analysis of minimal depressive symptoms and minimal anxiety symptoms in patients with subjective cognitive decline [PDF]
Objective To investigate the characteristics of minimal depressive symptoms (MDS) and minimal anxiety symptoms (MAS) in patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), and to provide a basis for early prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease ...
CUI Ruiping, GAO Peiyang, CHEN Yanming, WANG Yudong, TAN Mengshan, TAN Lan
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How can we best assess the quality of life of people with dementia? The Bath Assessment of Subjective Quality of Life in Dementia (BASQID) [PDF]
Purpose of the Study - The study aim was to develop a measure of self-reported QoL for people with mild to moderate dementia based on their views - the Bath Assessment of Subjective Quality of Life in Dementia (BASQID).
Jones, RW, Skevington, SM, Trigg, R
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