ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID

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Recent research has further documented the need for and the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for patients with cancer and their families.Interventions have been shown to reduce emotional distress, improve quality of life, decrease cancer-related pain, lessen anticipatory nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy, improve immune parameters, and facilitate familial adjustment to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. In light of such findings, it is reasonable to assert that psychosocial interventions should be used as an integral part of competent, comprehensive medical care, and not just an independent treatment modality for cancer. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:601-605.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID

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Recent research exploring the association between hostility and risk for disease is generally supportive of the previous literature that suggests the existence of a link between hostility and health.Both past and current findings also indicate that there are numerous biobehavioral routes through which hostility might have an impact on health. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:607-613.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID

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Human immunodeficiency virus seroprevalence in individuals with severe mental illness has been reported to be significantly higher than that in the general population.Education and prevention programmes based on cognitive behavioural theories have recently been shown to be effective in reducing human immunodeficiency virus risk behaviours in this group. The present review provides an outline of currently available literature on the subject. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:615-619.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID

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Mood and anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric conditions in organ transplantation.Risk factors for these disorders in transplant populations include psychiatric history and gender, and may also include social supports and coping style. There is consistent evidence that mental health outcomes, both diagnosable disorder and psychiatric symptom levels, improve from pretransplant to post-transplant. However, follow-up periods have generally been brief. There is little evidence as to whether psychiatric morbidity rates and risk factors change in the extended years post-transplant. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:621-626.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID

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Depression is common in neurological disorders, although the precise prevalence rates and aetiological factors are still under debate.Modern imaging techniques are giving a better understanding of the pathogenesis of depression. New standardized depression rating scales designed for use in neurological and medical illnesses are shedding new light on the phenomenology. Finally, newer and safer antidepressants may be of particular use in this group of patients. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:627-633.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID

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Assessment of mental state in paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry is reviewed, including screening issues. Assessment covering psychological/psychiatric and cognitive aspects of mental state, together with quality of life and other disease-related aspects, and the use of multiple informants and methods are advocated. Awareness of psychometric properties of the methods is emphasized. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:635-641.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID

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This article focuses on mental state assessments that are relevant to clinical consultation-liaison psychiatry, including psychiatric/psychological and cognitive functioning. Cultural, psychological and structural conditions of relevance to assessment are emphasized and the future role of consultation-liaison psychiatry is discussed. New data on psychometric instruments and two new instruments are briefly reviewed. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:643-647.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

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This review highlights recent work on socioeconomic status and health.These studies include a wider range of measures of socioeconomic status and inequality than have previously existed in the literature. They examine psychologic, sociologic, and physiologic mechanisms by which socioeconomic status may affect health, and show increasing attention to race and sex in the socioeconomic status-health relationship. Curr Opin Psychiatry 11:649-653.

ISSN:0951-7367    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1998

数据来源: OVID