Psychiatric Services
- Volume 44
- Number 12
- December 1993
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1145–1149The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of clozapine in treating moderately ill schizophrenic outpatients and to determine the length of medication trial needed to identify responders and nonresponders. Methods: Rates of clinical response, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.12.1145Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1150–1154Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder may experience severely disabling symptoms and require hospitalization. Based on treatment of 77 such patients admitted to a long-term general psychiatric research unit over a seven-year period, the authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.12.1150Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1155–1161The authors' aim was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a loading-dose regimen for initiating use of a depot medication, haloperidol decanoate, with patients who bad been maintained on oral haloperidol. Patients were given a loading dose of about 20 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.12.1155Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1162–1165Adults who were age 55 and over were trained to work as case management aides for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness. The training program was a cooperative effort of several state, academic, and private agencies in the New Orleans ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.12.1162Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1166–1171This study evaluated the impact of a Department of Veterans Affairs outreach and residential treatment program for homeless mentally ill veterans on utilization and cost of health care services provided by the VA. Methods: Veterans at nine program sites (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.12.1166Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1172–1176Objective: This study sought to develop a set of indicators of chronic homelessness as a basis for better understanding and treatment of the homeless veteran population. Methods: Chi square analysis and the t test or Mann-Whitney U test were used to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.12.1172Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1177–1180The purpose of this study was to gather information about homeless adolescents, a largely invisible and understudied population. Methods: Highly trained interviewers conducted structured face-to-face field interviews with 93 homeless adolescents between ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.12.1177Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1183–1184In 1991 the comprehensive homeless center won the community council of Greater Dallas' annual award for program excellence. Dallas Mayor Annette Strauss, who nominated the center for the award, highlightedits rolein catalyzing all sectors—public, private, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.44.12.1183Publication date: 01 December 1993
Pages1189–1191This study showed that both a single educational session and an educational review process were effective in increasingstable schizophrenic patients' knowledge about the side effects of neuroleptic medication. In addition, neither intervention resulted in ...
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