Instrumental measurements of recovery ‐oriented practice in psychiatric services
In this study, service users were invited to rate th e received support and their relationship with service providers to benchmark our current service before we fully implement the REFOCUS model of practice.MethodsINSPIRE was translated into traditional Chinese. Service users were invited to use C ‐INSPIRE to score one service provider with whom they had the most frequent contact or had the closest relationship.ResultsA total of 147 subjects were recruited from different service units at different phases of organizational transformation in recovery ‐oriented practice. Significantly higher scores in the Relationship Sub...
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - June 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kong Chung ‐Lung,
Lee Chi‐Chiu,
Chiu Lai‐Ping,
Li Ching‐Kwok,
Sin Chi‐Kwong Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Online video psychoeducation for electroconvulsive therapy in India: A randomized controlled trial
AbstractDespite its effectiveness, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been widely but diminishingly used in India. The current study evaluated a video psychoeducation on ECT offered to adults in India who screened positive for depression. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either video or brochure psychoeducation. Both video and brochure psychoeducation significantly improved participants' perceptions, knowledge, and willingness to receive ECT with only a few significant differences between the two modalities. Together, these findings suggest that psychoeducation is effective. Video psychoeducation which can b...
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jack Tsai,
Minda Huang,
Hongbo He,
Robert A. Rosenheck Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Patterns of long acting injectable antipsychotic use and associated clinical factors in schizophrenia among 15 Asian countries and region
DiscussionThese findings behoove clinicians to be mindful when evaluating patients' need to be on LAI antipsychotics amidst multifaceted considerations, especially downstream adverse events such as metabolic and extrapyramidal side effects. (Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry)
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Chao Tian Tang,
Ee Cheong Chua,
Qian Hui Chew,
Yan ‐Ling He,
Tian‐Mei Si,
Helen F.‐K. Chiu,
Yu‐Tao Xiang,
Takahiro A. Kato,
Shigenobu Kanba,
Naotaka Shinfuku,
Min‐Soo Lee,
Seon‐Cheol Park,
Yong‐Chon Park,
Mian‐Yoon Chong,
Shi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Online video psychoeducation for electroconvulsive therapy in India: A randomized controlled trial
AbstractDespite its effectiveness, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been widely but diminishingly used in India. The current study evaluated a video psychoeducation on ECT offered to adults in India who screened positive for depression. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either video or brochure psychoeducation. Both video and brochure psychoeducation significantly improved participants' perceptions, knowledge, and willingness to receive ECT with only a few significant differences between the two modalities. Together, these findings suggest that psychoeducation is effective. Video psychoeducation which can b...
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jack Tsai,
Minda Huang,
Hongbo He,
Robert A. Rosenheck Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Patterns of long acting injectable antipsychotic use and associated clinical factors in schizophrenia among 15 Asian countries and region
DiscussionThese findings behoove clinicians to be mindful when evaluating patients' need to be on LAI antipsychotics amidst multifaceted considerations, especially downstream adverse events such as metabolic and extrapyramidal side effects. (Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry)
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Chao Tian Tang,
Ee Cheong Chua,
Qian Hui Chew,
Yan ‐Ling He,
Tian‐Mei Si,
Helen F.‐K. Chiu,
Yu‐Tao Xiang,
Takahiro A. Kato,
Shigenobu Kanba,
Naotaka Shinfuku,
Min‐Soo Lee,
Seon‐Cheol Park,
Yong‐Chon Park,
Mian‐Yoon Chong,
Shi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Online video psychoeducation for electroconvulsive therapy in India: A randomized controlled trial
AbstractDespite its effectiveness, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been widely but diminishingly used in India. The current study evaluated a video psychoeducation on ECT offered to adults in India who screened positive for depression. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either video or brochure psychoeducation. Both video and brochure psychoeducation significantly improved participants' perceptions, knowledge, and willingness to receive ECT with only a few significant differences between the two modalities. Together, these findings suggest that psychoeducation is effective. Video psychoeducation which can b...
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jack Tsai,
Minda Huang,
Hongbo He,
Robert A. Rosenheck Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Parasympathetic activity as a potential biomarker of negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia
DiscussionThe negative association between negative symptom severity and parasympathetic activity was significant, which may inspire further research into the corresponding treatment, the mechanisms, and the use of HRV as an applicable biomarker for treatment response. (Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry)
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wei ‐Chia Huang,
Wei‐Shih Liu,
Tzu‐ting Chen,
Wen‐Hao Chen,
Wei‐Lieh Huang Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Optical coherence tomography neurodegenerative findings in patients with bipolar disorder
DiscussionOur findings support the neurodegeneration hypothesis in the etiopathogenesis of BD. OCT, a non ‐invasive neuro‐imaging method, may be useful for BD diagnosis and follow‐ups. (Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry)
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nesrin Buyuktortop Gokcinar,
Sadiye Visal Buturak,
Fatma Ozkal,
Gamze Ozcicek,
Mehmet Erhan Yumusak,
Ebru Turgal Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Moral injury from war and other severe trauma
AbstractMoral injury (MI) is a relatively new syndrome among military personnel with symptoms of post ‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While MI has received considerable attention in the psychological sciences, the syndrome has received relatively little notice within psychiatry. MI has been defined as the negative emotions that emerge from transgressing moral boundaries by military personnel du ring combat such as killing enemy combatants or innocent civilians, failing to protect innocents or fellow combatants, or observing others transgress moral boundaries. MI may also be frequent among civilians and health professi...
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Harold G. Koenig,
Faten N. Al ‐Zaben Tags: BRIEF REPORT Source Type: research
Using therapeutic drug monitoring to personalize clozapine dosing in Asians
AbstractThis narrative review on clozapine blood levels or therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) includes sections focused on drug clearance and TDM, personalized dosing with TDM, clinical applications of TDM in Asians, and areas needing further study. Asian patients need half the clozapine dose (D) used in the United States to get the same blood concentrations (C). The concentration ‐to‐dose (C/D) ratio measures drug clearance. In the United States, the average clozapine patient usually needs from 300 to 600 mg/day to reach 350 ng/mL. US male smokers reach this therapeutic C with a D of 600 mg/day (C/D ratio of 0.60...
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jose Leon,
Georgios Schoretsanitis,
John M. Kane,
Can ‐Jun Ruan Tags: REVIEW Source Type: research
Issue Information
Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2020. (Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry)
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
An update to “Care for the seafarers: A review of mental health in Austronesia,” with specific recommendation to address climate change
Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2020. (Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry)
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anthony P.S. Guerrero,
Daniel Fung,
Tamasailau Suaalii ‐Sauni,
Tjhin Wiguna Tags: LETTER TO THE EDITOR Source Type: research
Speech in Catatonia —A Terra Incognita!
Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2020. (Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry)
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ahmed Naguy Tags: LETTER TO THE EDITOR Source Type: research
Association between arterial hypertension and depressive symptoms: Results from population ‐based surveys in Peru
ConclusionsThere is an association between hypertension and depressive symptoms, but this varies depending on time since diagnosis. Thus, individuals with<1 year since diagnosis had the highest probability of having depressive symptoms; after that, that probability decreased as the time since diagnosis increased. (Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry)
Source: Asia-Pacific Psychiatry - May 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: David Villarreal ‐Zegarra,
Antonio Bernabe‐Ortiz Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
