We used electronic health records of the National Health Services to identify individuals who received a diagnosis of substance use disorder in the metropolitan area of Bologna from 2009 to 2019. Within this cohort, we identified those who accessed emergency departments for suicide attempt from 2009 ...
By contrast, cannabis use disorder was strikingly associated with schizophrenia. Younger patients and Maori were disproportionately affected by both alcohol and cannabis use. Substance misuse in New Zealand patients with severe mental illness is common, particularly among younger patients and Maori, and ...
As of 2018, 7.6% of Hispanic Americans (3.1 million) adults likely meet criteria for a substance use disorder. In general, rates of substance use tend to be slightly less than the overall population, with the exception of adolescent use. Increasing levels of assimilation to the dominant culture...
Emerging evidence suggests the importance of four major diagnostic groupings, those with: no diagnosis; non-substance related mental disorders (NSMD); substance use disorders (SUD); and dual diagnosis with both a substance use and another mental disorder (DDx). This study examines these diagnostic...
One hundred and seventy-seven out of 321 interviewed subjects met the criteria for mood, anxiety, or substance use disorders. Altogether 72 (41%) of the subjects with an Axis I disorder met the criteria for at least one PD. The weighted co-occurrence rate of any PD varied from 28% for...
Four internationally validated scales were used to assess knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions toward schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, and substance use disorder including the 1) Mental Health Attribution Questionnaire; 2) Five Question Stigma Indicator Questionnaire to assess Community Stigma; 3...
Psychiatric disorders characterized by disinhibition--substance use disorders, antisocial personality disorder (PD), and borderline PD--represent a serious risk to the safety and health of college students. The ability of researchers and clinicians to identify students most at risk for disinhibited disor...
A recent review reported that between 25% and 63% of pathological gamblers have met criteria for a substance use disorder at some point in their life (Crockford & el-Guebaly, 1998). Spunt, Lesieur, Hunt, and Cahill (1995) reported that 16% of methadone maintenance patients in their study...
A key component of the assessment of effectiveness is health services studies that determine the degree to which the therapy that has shown efficacy is actually applied to persons with the disorder in the general population. Using established statistical methods to control for 展开 ...
This study examined the underlying structure of DSM-IV schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) among individuals with and without a substance use disorder (SUD). Using a nationally representative sample of US adults, taxometric analyses were conducted on SPD in the total sample and among individuals ...