Sixty-seven adults with severe prednisone-dependent asthma, 47 with severe non-prednisone dependent and 73 patients with mild-moderate asthma completed the HADS depression and anxiety subscale and the NEO-FFI for personality traits. In addition, asthma duration, body mass index and FEV1 were ...
Only behavioral symptoms associated with anxiety could be reliably assessed in these individuals. Unfortunately; this ruled out many core symptoms of the disorder. Implications of the findings are discussed.doi:10.1016/S0891-4222(96)00036-4Johnny L. Matson...
Case Study: Acute Basal Ganglia Enlargement and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in an Adolescent Boy This is a report of severe worsening of obsessive-compulsive symptoms In an adolescent boy following infection with group A 尾-hemolytic streptococci for ... JN Giedd,JL Rapoport,HL Leonard,... - ...
All reported estimates were weighted to reflect the population of persons treated in Chicago. Procedures Interviewers were master’s-level clinicians experienced with adults with chronic and severe mental illnesses. Interviewers randomly selected potential participants from waiting rooms and day rooms (...
Recovery is a key objective in Mental Health Care (MHC) for people with severe mental illness (SMI), but its definition has changed radically in the last few decades. Originally, recovery was limited to clinical recovery, the reduction of symptoms in individuals with anxiety or no relapse in ...
This mental–physical health interface has multiple adverse impacts for the person in their daily life, and also appears to generate greater difficulty in the person’s healthcare management. It is particularly challenging for community-living adults with SMI who have to rely on the overburdened ...
used a BMI of 35 or greater as a cut-off for severe obesity.) Using their criteria, researchers predicted that close to one in four U.S. adults will have severe obesity by 2030, with the prevalence swelling even higher in 25 states. Super obesity is also on the rise, particularly for...
Evidence from a variety of sources suggests that there has been an increase of around 1% per annum in the prevalence of learning disability (LD) in adults over the last 35 years, due mainly to increases in survival. This trend is likely to continue for at least another ten years. Ninety-...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains largely untreated among adults with severe mental illnesses (SMI). The treatment of psychotic symptoms usually takes precedence in the care of adults with SMI. Such oversight is problematic in that PTSD in SMI populations is common (19%-43%), contribute...
3), revealing significant associations of childhood maltreatment and adverse lifetime experiences with post-injury psychopathology, in a dose–response manner and with similar magnitudes for all specific psychopathology (i.e., stress-related disorders, anxiety and depression, see results of the partly ...