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Studying ICD-11 Primary Health Care bodily stress syndrome in Brazil: do many functional disorders represent just one syndrome?

Rev. bras. psiquiatr; 41 (1), 2019
Objective: Disorders characterized by "distressing unexplained somatic symptoms" are challenging. In the ICD-11 Primary Health Care (PHC) Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Mental Disorders (ICD-11 PHC), a new category, bodily stress syndrome (BSS), was included to diagnose patients presenting un...

Virtual reality exposure therapy for fear of driving: analysis of clinical characteristics, physiological response, and sense of presence

Objective: To investigate the reactions of women with driving phobia to a therapeutic program of scheduled virtual reality exposure treatment (VRET) sessions. Methods: The study intervention consisted of a computer game with car-driving scenarios that included several traffic situations. We investigated...

Dificuldades na utilizacao de escalas de avaliacao de sintomas ansiosos em psicofarmacologia clinica e experimental
Difficulties on the use of rating scales of anxiety symptoms in clinical and experimental psychopharmacology

Escalas de avaliacao de sintomatologia psiquiatrica ainda sao o principal instrumento de mensuracao em pesquisa psiquiatrica. As reformulacoes conceituais e nosograficas encontradas na area dos transtornos neuroticos (ansiosos), bem como disputas ideologicas, levam a proliferacao de instrumentos e conseq...

Comentarios do debatedor: escalas de avaliacao de ansiedade
Chairman comments: anxiety rating scales

Apesar de as escalas de avaliacao de sintomas ansiosos serem muito utilizadas em pesquisas clinicas, nao ha acordo em relacao ao grupo de escalas mais indicado para a avaliacao sintomatologica em cada transtorno especifico. O treinamento em psicopatologia fenomenologica e a aplicacao criteriosa de escala...

Ansiedad ante el acto quirúrgico:un estudio en pacientes y sus familiares
Anxiety before the surgical act: a study with patients and their relatives

Con el objeto de comparar cualitativamente la angustia ante el acto quirúrgico en los pacientes dispuestos a ser intervenidos y sus familiares, se estudiaron, mediante escalas de Taylor y de Hamilton, dos grupos, uno de 40 pacientes y otro de 40 familiares. En el grupo de pacientes se realizó una evalu...