Avoidance Predicts Worse Long-term Outcomes in OCD Avoidance Predicts Worse Long-term Outcomes in OCD
Behavioral avoidance could limit the long-term of a widely used treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder, a new analysis shows.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Who Should Doctors Go to for Their Mental Health? Who Should Doctors Go to for Their Mental Health?
At one point, NHS Practitioner Health decided it wasn ’t going to be them. But they have since backtracked. Medscape UK looks at how the story evolved.Medscape News UK (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Improving Pediatric Care for Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Improving Pediatric Care for Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
A new consensus statement aims to correct inequitable access to appropriate care facing children with autism and related condition.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - April 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
State psychiatric hospital now has different location within southwest Wichita health campus
Under an agreement, Sedgwick County will lead construction of the project and then turn the hospital over to the state upon completion in late 2026. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - April 22, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Josh Witt Source Type: news
Governor Kelly expected to request millions more for state psychiatric hospital in Wichita
A state official says the governor's request could be for up to $50 million in additional funding in order to take the planned hospital's bed count higher, more quickly. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - April 22, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Josh Witt Source Type: news
Traumatic brain injury and risk of schizophrenia and other non-mood psychotic disorders: findings from a large inpatient database in the United States - Trivedi C, Reddy P, Rizvi A, Husain K, Brown K, Mansuri Z, Nabi M, Jain S.
BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is linked with an increased risk of schizophrenia and other non-mood psychotic disorders (psychotic disorders), but the prevalence and contributing factors of these psychiatric conditions post-TBI remain unclear. Th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Deliberate self-harm among pediatric psychiatric inpatients in China: a single-center retrospective study - Jiang XZ, Li HH, Yu ZZ, Wang C.
BACKGROUND: For children and adolescents, deliberate self-harm (DSH) is becoming a mental health problem of concern. Despite several studies on the prevalence and factors of DSH in the world, there is little information on DSH among children and adolescent... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Correction: Perinatal depression and its associated risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Behera D, Bohora S, Tripathy S, Thapa P, Sivakami M.
Correction: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-024-02628-y
In this article the John Briggs Institute instead of Joanna Briggs Institute wrongly written under the Abstract and Methodology section. Also, the wron... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Non-fatal suicide behaviours: recommendations for addressing mental health [letter] - Gonz ález-Sanguino C, Ausín Benito B, Muñoz López M.
In The Lancet Psychiatry, Victor Serrano-Gimeno and colleagues report trends in non-fatal suicide behaviours in the population of Catalonia, Spain, before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study shows a significant increase in the prevalence of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Detection of and response to gender-based violence: a quality improvement project across three secondary mental health services in London - Keynejad RC, Boardman-Pretty T, Barber S, Tweed J, Forshall E, Edwards A, Shotton J, Wilson CA.
AIMS AND METHOD: Our team of core and higher psychiatry trainees aimed to improve secondary mental health service detection of and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in South East London. We audited home treatment team (HTT), drug and alcohol (D&A) se... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Locum psychiatrists providing poor care in Scotland, campaigners say
Scottish NHS boards have spent more than £125m since 2019 to provide temporary cover amid drop in consultant numbersMental health campaigners have protested about the significant use oftemporary locum psychiatrists in Scotland, alleging that it leads to substandard and harmful medical care.Peter Todd, a campaigner based in Caithness in the north of Scotland, said the heavy reliance on locum psychiatrists by the NHS was a sign of a growing crisis in mental health services across the country.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 21, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Severin Carrell Tags: Scotland Mental health NHS Doctors Psychology UK news Source Type: news
NIMH Research and Science Track at 2024 APA Annual Meeting
NIMH leadership and staff will present several sessions featuring some of the major initiatives NIMH has undertaken or been involved with over the years. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)
Source: National Institute of Mental Health - April 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: National Institute of Mental Health Source Type: news
Want to Be a Better Psychiatrist? Enter a Beauty Pageant!
(MedPage Today) -- With the elegant gowns, stylized hair, carefully applied makeup, and moments in the spotlight, beauty pageants have attracted longstanding criticism for being allegedly superficial competitions that foster narcissism. But beneath... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - April 20, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Is Europe Taking Too Long to Adopt TMS for Major Depression? Is Europe Taking Too Long to Adopt TMS for Major Depression?
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation has been approved for more than a decade in the US, but Europe still needs clear guidelines.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
The gendered context of women charged with violent offences in the forensic psychiatric setting - Nagdee M, Artz L, Subramaney U, Young C, Pieterse A, Pettitt J.
BACKGROUND: Women charged with violent offences may be referred by courts for forensic psychiatric assessment to determine whether mental disorder or intellectual disability impacts their fitness to stand trial and/or criminal responsibility. The profile o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
