Psychiatric Services
- Volume 41
- Number 12
- December 1990
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1990
Pages1315–1321A review of 70 follow-up studies of adult inpatient psychiatric treatment published since 1975 reveals substantial methodological shortcomings. Recurring problems include lack of descriptive information about the patient population studied, inadequate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.12.1315Publication date: 01 December 1990
Pages1321–1325Investigations of the grief reactions experienced by families when a relative develops a serious mental illness have been hampered by the lack of an appropriate instrument to measure such reactions. The authors devised the Mental Illness Version of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.12.1321Publication date: 01 December 1990
Pages1325–1329Psychiatrists tend not to ascribe personality disorder to elderly patients who present with psychiatric or medical illness, perhaps because of the difficulty of defining personality disorder in older persons or because of the belief that it does not exist ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.12.1325Publication date: 01 December 1990
Pages1330–1333As the number of people over age 65 continues to grow, a clear understanding of the usefulness and limitations of psychostimulants in treating elderly persons becomes more important. The authors review the limited literature and discuss the use of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.12.1330Publication date: 01 December 1990
Pages1334–1339In a controlled psychological autopsy study of suicide in late life, eight cases in which the victim's belief that he had cancer played a major role in the decision to end his life were examined. All victims were men. The majority bad diagnosable major ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.12.1334Publication date: 01 December 1990
Pages1339–1341A caseload of 86 patients in a geriatric home visiting service was examined to identify the characteristics that determine why certain geriatric patients receive home visits. Only about a third of the patients were physically homebound. The rest left home ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.12.1339Publication date: 01 December 1990
Pages1342–1345Although emergency room psychiatrists are often faced with evaluating and planning treatment for patients who abuse substances, there is limited information about the characteristics of emergency room patients with alcohol- or drug-induced disorders. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.41.12.1342Publication date: 01 December 1990
Pages1345–1348The relationship between use of alcohol and street drugs and compliance with prescribed medication before admission to an acute psychiatric inpatient setting was studied in 42 schizophrenic patients, more than half of whom had a history of alcohol abuse ...
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