Results: 35

Family of older adults with mental disorder: perception of mental health professionals

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the perceptions of healthcare professionals of the Psychosocial Care Centers regarding the family of older adults with mental disorders. Method: study of a Qualitative Case conducted with 12 healthcare professionals from a Psychosocial Care Center, with a convenient an...

Suicide detection in Chile: proposing a predictive model for suicide risk in a clinical sample of patients with mood disorders

Objective: To analyze suicidal behavior and build a predictive model for suicide risk using data mining (DM) analysis. Methods: A study of 707 Chilean mental health patients (with and without suicide risk) was carried out across three healthcare centers in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile. Thr...

Recent illicit drug use among psychiatric patients in Brazil: a national representative study

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate factors associated to illicit drug use among patients with mental illness in Brazil according to gender. METHODS A cross-sectional representative sample of psychiatric patients (2,475 individuals) was randomly selected from 11 hospitals and 15 public mental health outpa...

Tobacco addiction in the psychiatric population and in the general population

ABSTRACT Objective: To estimate the degree of tobacco addiction and identify independently associated factors by comparing the psychiatric population of secondary and tertiary care with the general population of the primary healthcare network. Method: This is a cross-sectional epidemiological study, co...

Trastornos psiquiátricos asociados a las epilepsias
Psychiatric disorders associated to the epilepsy

Introducción: La Epilepsia representa un problema de salud mundial y es considerada tan antigua como la humanidad misma y uno de los trastornos del Sistema Nervioso Central más frecuentes. Los pacientes que padecen esta enfermedad, tienen una comorbilidad psiquiátrica asociada y, a su vez, consecuenci...

Mental disorders in children and adolescents with lower urinary tract dysfunction

J. bras. nefrol; 38 (4), 2016
Abstract Lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD) affects about 2-25% of the pediatric population and is associated with the presence of emotional and behavioral disorders. The purpose of this literature review was to identify studies focusing on mental disorders in children and adolescents with LUTD. The ...

Main mental disorders in crack-cocaine users treated at Psychosocial Care Centers for Alcohol and Drugs in the city of Recife, Brazil

Abstract Introduction: Brazil's Northeast region has the highest crack-cocaine consumption in the country. Crack-cocaine has more intense effects than cocaine powder and can cause greater chemical dependence. Psychosocial Care Centers for Alcohol and Drugs (CAPSad) are public health services that provi...

Development of the TabacoQuest app for computerization of data collection on smoking in psychiatric nursing

ABSTRACT Objective: to develop a mobile app for research on the use of tobacco among psychiatric patients and the general population. Method: applied research with the technological development of an app for data collection on an Android tablet. For its development, we considered three criteria: data...

Factors associated with problematic drug use among psychiatric outpatients

ABSTRACT Objective: to examine the factors associated with problematic drug use among psychiatric outpatients. Method: a cross-sectional study was carried out in two mental health services. Eligible individuals were patients of these mental health services, who used them within the data collection peri...