The phrase
"psychiatric comorbidity" refers to the situation when a person has more than one mental health condition at the same time. It means they are dealing with multiple mental illnesses or disorders together, such as depression and anxiety.
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Analysis of the data found that patients
with psychiatric comorbidities in the previous year were readmitted to the hospital 3 to 5 percent more often within 30 days than those without a psychiatric diagnosis.
As a result of this study, Dr. Kumar and her team are researching the effect of
specific psychiatric comorbidities commonly seen in individuals with ADHD on the development of obesity.
Patients with
severe psychiatric comorbidity or receiving current psychiatrist treatment were excluded, meaning the results can not be extrapolated to patients with significant mental illness.
The area under the curve and 95 % confidence interval from ROC analysis using CBCL scales to
predict psychiatric comorbidity in a paediatrically referred ADHD sample (n = 121)
«This group showed significant levels of ADHD symptoms and impairment, as well as poor functioning and high rates
of psychiatric comorbidity,» the authors write.
Service use records of more than 400 homeless individuals
with psychiatric comorbidities were analyzed to examine patterns of geographic relocation, as well as health, justice, and social welfare service utilization.
«Brain connectivity and
psychiatric comorbidity in adolescents with Internet gaming disorder» was published in Addiction Biology online on December 21, 2015.
«Inactivity, sleep disturbance,
psychiatric comorbidity, medication, and ongoing stress experienced by people with CFS will affect HPA axis function, and the findings that HPA axis dysregulation is more prominent in patients with a longer duration of illness suggest that the endocrine changes may be secondary.»
Review: childhood sexual abuse is associated with bulimia nervosa especially when there is psychiatric comorbidity
Siblings of adolescents with ADHD who themselves have ADHD are more likely to have
psychiatric comorbidities than are unaffected siblings or controls without ADHD
Parents with
psychiatric comorbidity and parents who made use of other relaxation techniques, and parents on who were using psychotropic medications were excluded.
He received a PhD from USC, where his research investigated explanations of
psychiatric comorbidity.
At inception, patients underwent a criterion standard, diagnostic interview, and assessment of hypochondriacal symptoms, medical and
psychiatric comorbidity, functional status, and medical care.13 - 19 A comparison group of nonhypochondriacal patients from the same medical setting underwent the same battery.
Patients with Axis
I psychiatric comorbidity, imminent suicide risk,...
Explain which binge features, when examined together, are associated with clinical impairment and
psychiatric comorbidity.
This national survey of US adults presents findings on the prevalence, correlates,
psychiatric comorbidity, functioning, and treatment of DSM - 5 major depressive disorder.
Current studies about IAD have focused on case summaries, behavioral components, negative consequences in daily life, along with clinical diagnosis, epidemiology, associated psychosocial factors, symptom management,
psychiatric comorbidity and treatment outcome [7], [8], [9], [10], [11].
The adolescent and young adult with ADHD is at risk for school failure, emotional difficulties, poor peer relationships, and trouble with the law.29, 30 Factors identifiable in younger youth that predict the persistence of ADHD into adulthood include familiality with ADHD and
psychiatric comorbidity — particularly aggression or delinquency problems.28,, 29,31,32
Prior studies on
psychiatric comorbidity have applied a range of methods, from traditional regression models for estimating associations between different disorders (20, 21, 24) to multinomial logistic models that compare combinations of pairs of comorbid disorders (25) to latent growth models that jointly estimate trajectories of behavior clusters (26, 27).
Also,
psychiatric comorbidity with depressive, anxiety, and / or personality disorders is frequently present.
Rates of
psychiatric comorbidity, or dual diagnosis, among substance - abusing youths range from 25 to 82 percent.
We first ran bivariate and point - biserial correlations between the variables that showed significant group effects and IQ, SES, and
psychiatric comorbidity.
We also assessed the effects of potential confounds (i.e., group differences in IQ, SES, and
psychiatric comorbidity).