Impact of the January 25 Egyptian Revolution on different psychological domains in Assiut University students
Background
Arab country revolutions reflect long-term governorate’s authority for many years effect on the people. Dissatisfactory feelings about political and economic systems were the main firing of Januray 25 Egyptian Revolution. This dissatisfaction precipitated many psychological symptoms among Egyptian youth, which was expressed as anger.
Aim
The aim of this study was to identify the impact of January 25 Egyptian Revolution on the behavior and different psychological domains in Assiut University students immediately and 2 years after the revolution.
Participants and methods
Phase 1 (immediately after the re...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Measuring health-related quality of life in children with chronic medical conditions: reliability and validity of the Arabic version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales
Conclusion
The Arabic version of the PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales proved to be understandable and feasible to use. It showed good reliability for healthy and children with chronic medical conditions and their parents. It also shows good construct and discriminant validity properties in this setting, making this instrument suitable for research and clinical use in the Egyptian setting. The results also demonstrate the effects of pediatric chronic conditions on patient health-related quality of life across disease clusters. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Internet Gaming Disorder Scale: Arabic version validation
Background and aim
The aim of this study was to test the reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale (IGD Scale). The original version was developed to measure IGD on the basis of the proposed nine criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed. (DSM-5).
Individuals and methods
The scale had been adapted into Arabic. The two versions were compared by experts to ensure their consistency and then the two versions were administered to bilingual individuals who played internet games. Then, the Arabic version was distributed among 204 university studen...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Assessment of cognitive functions in the euthymic phase in patients with bipolar I disorder attending the outpatient clinic of Assiut University Hospital
Conclusions and recommendations
Persistence of impairment of cognitive functions during the euthymic phase in bipolar disorder patients that need attention during their psychiatric assessment. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Assessment of cognitive functions in tramadol-dependent patients
Background
Tramadol is a synthetic opioid analgesic that acts mainly on the µ-opioid receptors with less activity on norepinephrine and serotonin by reuptake inhibition. In the last decade, tramadol addiction presents an increasing medical and legal crisis in Egypt.
Objective
Few works in the literature studied the cognitive profile in tramadol-dependent patients without focusing on prolonged duration of dependence or on its use in high doses.
Patients and methods
The present work studied the cognitive functions in 30 tramadol-dependent patients in comparison to 30 healthy cross-matching controls regarding short-t...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Psychiatry forecast: hopefully sunny
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Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Impact of primary nocturnal enuresis on the quality of life in Egyptian mothers: a case–control study
Conclusion
Mothers of children with NE experience more severe depression and anxiety compared with mothers of children without NE. The severity of anxiety correlates significantly with quality-of-life measures. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Cognitive behavioral group therapy on a sample of obese female patients with binge-eating disorder: Egyptian study
Conclusion
Cognitive behavioral group therapy showed effectiveness in improvement of self-esteem with less concerns about weight, shape, eating, and dietary restraint. Reduced frequency of binge eating episodes and less psychological distress were also areas of efficacy with no change in BMI. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Relationship of serum interleukin-6 and cognitive functions in patients with schizophrenia, a case–control study
Conclusion
Patients with schizophrenia have higher levels of serum IL-6. They show poorer cognitive performance in the domains of sustained attention, verbal and visual working memory, processing speed and executive functions, and visual memory deficits. There is a correlation between serum IL-6 and visual memory deficits in patients with schizophrenia. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Obsessive compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia
Conclusion
OCS and OCD are more common and more severe in schizophrenic patients than in general population. The global functioning is worse in the schizophrenic patients with OCD than in those patients without OCD. Moreover, serotonin dysfunction may be involved in various mental disorder- related OCS. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Sexual dysfunctions in drug-naive male patients with first-episode schizophrenia: a case–control study
Conclusion
The prevalence of sexual dysfunction in psychotropic drug-naive male patients with first-episode schizophrenia was generally high and would suggest that sexual dysfunction is an integral part of the development of illness and unlikely to be related to the prolactin-increasing properties of the antipsychotic medication. The study also concludes that greater symptom severity in the patient group was associated with greater impairment in sexual function. Therefore, sexual assessment should be a part of every psychiatric examination. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
The assessment of sexuality and sex hormone levels in a group of synthetic opioid-dependent patients
Conclusion
According to our study, it was shown that there was an effect of synthetic opioid dependency not only on the sexual functions of dependent men, including their erectile function, sexual orgasm, and desire, and their level of sexual esteem in which they experience low sexual esteem and low sexual preoccupation and high sexual depression compared with nondependent men but also on the level of their testosterone levels especially and high prolactin, which inhibit their sexual desire compared with nondependent men. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with mood disorders
Conclusion
The prevalence of the MetS among BDs patients is high (37.6%). Although this study found that the prevalence of MetS in BDs patients was according to ATP III (24.8%), it is increased when ATP III-A (35.0%) and International Diabetes Federation (36.3%) were taken into account. There are statistically significant differences between patients with MetS and those without MetS as regards age and duration of the illness. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
A longitudinal study of psychiatric consequences of hepatitis C virus patients receiving interferon therapy
This study aimed to identify the possible psychiatric complications in patients infected chronically with HCV and follow up these complications on treatment with pegylated IFN plus ribavirin.
Patients and methods
This is a longitudinal follow-up, comparative (case–control) study conducted on 90 patients, all of whom were subjected to a semistructured interview, psychometric assessment by International Classification of Diseases-10 Symptom Checklist for Mental Disorder version 1.1 for psychiatric evaluation, laboratory investigations to exclude decompensate liver cases, liver biopsy, and abdominal ultrasonography.
Res...
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Impact of primary nocturnal enuresis on the quality of life in Egyptian mothers: a case–control study
Conclusion: Mothers of children with NE experience more severe depression and anxiety compared with mothers of children without NE. The severity of anxiety correlates significantly with quality-of-life measures. (Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry)
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - October 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
