Sentences with phrase «assessing psychotic symptoms»

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Pimavanserin is currently the subject of a Phase III trial In the US to assess its safety in a wider group, and to see if it can prevent relapse of psychotic symptoms in some of the most common forms of dementia.

«When young people come to youth mental health services, we should be assessing for trauma and for emerging psychotic symptoms, and treating them as soon as they emerge,» Dr Bendall said.

At the age of 12, participants in the study were interviewed to assess for the presence of psychotic - like symptoms including hallucinations, delusions and thought interference in the previous six months.

Standardised measures were used to assess positive psychotic symptoms as the primary outcome measure.

The remaining 108 items assessed a range of child mental health and well - being constructs, including: Social Integration, Prosocial Behaviour, Peer Relationship Problems, Supportive Relationships (at home, school and in the community), Empathy, Emotional Symptoms, Conduct Problems, Aggression, Attention, Inhibitory Control, Hyperactivity - Inattention, Total Difficulties (internalising and externalising psychopathology), Perceptual Sensitivity, Psychotic - Like Experiences, Personality, Self - esteem, Daytime Sleepiness and Connection to Nature (engagement with natural environment).

Items assessed psychotic - like experiences (child - and caregiver - report), internalising and externalising psychopathology (emotional symptoms, peer relationship problems, conduct problems, and hyperactivity — inattention; child - and caregiver - report using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [11, 12]-RRB-, and delays or abnormalities in speech and / or motor milestone development (caregiver - report).

An insecure attachment style has been reported in association with psychotic symptoms in both nonclinical41 — 46 and patient samples.47, 48 Although these findings are based on cross-sectional comparisons in which participants» current styles of relating to others are assessed rather than the quality of past relationships, prospective data suggest that disrupted attachment relations may be causal.

Using the experience sampling method (ESM), a structured diary technique assessing current context, mood, and psychotic symptoms in daily life (I.M. - G., M. Oorschot, D. Collip, J. Lataster, P. Delespaul, J. Van Os, unpublished data), 20 it was shown that increased risk for psychosis is associated with increased emotional reactivity to the small stresses of daily life.