Psychiatric Services
- Volume 43
- Number 12
- December 1992
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1189–1198Psychotic depression is a unique subtype of depressive illness in which mood disturbance is accompanied by delusions, ballucinations, or both. Once considered relatively uncommon, it is frequently encountered in clinical practice, particularly in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.12.1189Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1198–1203In a structured psychological autopsy study of suicide in older adults, 14 cases in which the subjects experienced chronic dyspnea in the months or weeks before death were examined. Thirteen of the subjects were white men. Most had a diagnosable ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.12.1198Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1204–1208Data from the Duke Epidemiologic Catchment Area survey were used to examine the relationship between religious affiliation and major depression among 2,850 adults in the community. Religious affiliations were categorized into six groups: mainline ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.12.1204Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1209–1212To make appropriate treatment and public policy recommendations to address the problems of homeless mentally ill persons, it is important to differentiate the homeless mentally ill population from the homeless population in general. Effective advocacy for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.12.1209Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1213–1217State-university collaboration programs often create ethical dilemmas for participants because of their conflicting values, goals, and expectations. Treatment and administrative staff in state agencies often seek to create an atmosphere of managed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.12.1213Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1218–1223Although as many as one-fifth of children and adolescents may meet DSM-III criteria for at least one psychiatric diagnosis, data from the Minnesota Department of Human Services for 1988 show that only 20 to 38 percent of children and adolescents in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.12.1218Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1223–1226Frequencies of undernutrition, bedsores, and deterioration in activities of daily living were compared in three Veterans Affairs nursing homes serving both chronic psychiatric patients and medical or neurological patients. The three facilities varied in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.12.1223Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1227–1232Mental illness imposes a substantial burden on individuals and society. Using data from national surveys and a newly developed methodology for calculating costs, the authors estimate that in 1985 the total economic costs of mental illness were $103.7 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.43.12.1227Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1233–1238Clinical differences between stable, chronic schizophrenic patients with long stays in the hospital and schizophrenic patients living in the community were investigated. Patients were matched for age, gender, and diagnosis. Hospitalized patients had more ...
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