Sentences with phrase «more psychiatric symptoms»

Results Before the casino opened, the persistently poor and ex-poor children had more psychiatric symptoms (4.38 and 4.28, respectively) than the never - poor children (2.75), but after the opening levels among the ex-poor fell to those of the never - poor children, while levels among those who were persistently poor remained high (odds ratio, 1.50; 95 % confidence interval, 1.08 - 2.09; and odds ratio, 0.91; 95 % confidence interval, 0.77 - 1.07, respectively).

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«Depressed patients with earlier and more severe symptoms have high genetic risk for major psychiatric disorders.»

Since 1982 Marton has been involved with the production of art by psychiatric patients, not as art therapy, he says, but more as occupational training and as an aid in distracting the patients from symptoms that can worsen with the monotony of rehabilitation.

«There is no doubt that mefloquine does cause more sleeplessness, abnormal dreams, anxiety and depressed mood than the alternatives» says Dr Tickell - Painter, «but the review clarifies that these are symptoms reported by people taking mefloquine and not formal psychiatric diagnoses.

In fact, we know very well that people with PTSD who use marijuana — a potent cannabinoid — often experience more relief from their symptoms than they do from antidepressants and other psychiatric medications.

Emotional psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide were more common among girls.

Almost in an effort to escape these implications, this advanced medical training has, at some sites, been rebranded as Consultation - Liaison Psychiatry, to invoke the seemingly more legitimate study of psychiatric symptoms emerging in medical and surgical patients.

Results from a one - way MANOVA revealed that patients with a premorbid and current psychiat - ric disorder reported significantly higher pain severity, more somatic symptoms, poorer sleep quality, and poorer quality of life than those with no psychiatric history.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Conclusion: Preschoolers with PDD exhibit more severe DSM - IV psychiatric symptoms than children in regular and special early childhood programs, and to some extent nonPDD psychiatric referrals.

Patients who present overt psychological symptoms suffer more psychiatric distress and have more abnormal attachment than those presenting physical symptoms (either organically explained or unexplained).

Another noteworthy issue is that psychological or psychiatric conditions are reported by 47 % of PWH, with 29 % relating these symptoms to haemophilia.4 This is even more relevant considering that psychological factors can influence both pain experience and QoL in PWH.12 Interestingly, Cassis et al 6 state that variations in QoL are better explained by psychosocial, rather than clinical predictors.

Compared to non-LD peers, youth with LD frequently report feelings of loneliness, stress, depression and suicide, among other psychiatric symptoms.15, 16 For example, in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the LD sample was twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.16 Longitudinal research on risk - taking indicates that, compared to non-LD peers, adolescents with LD engage more frequently in various risk behaviours.17 Therefore, the presence of LD in childhood appears to confer a general risk for adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and into adulthood.

Validation for preschool MDD (based on meeting all DSM - IV symptom criteria) has been supported by the finding of a specific symptom constellation that was distinct from other psychiatric disorders and stable during a 6 - month period.22 Additionally, alterations in the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal axis reactivity similar to those known in adults with depression, greater family history of mood disorders, as well as observational evidence of depressive affects and behaviors were detected in preschoolers with depression, providing further validation.22,25,27 - 30 More recent findings from a larger independent sample (N = 306) ascertained from community sites (and serving as the population for this investigation) have replicated the findings described above and have also demonstrated that preschoolers with depression display significant functional impairment evident in multiple contexts rated by both parents and teachers.24

Persons with comorbid psychiatric disorders have more severe psychiatric symptoms and a lower level of social competence than those with a single disorder (18, 19, 22, 23).

Results indicated that MST - CAN was significantly more effective than EOT in reducing youth mental health symptoms, parent psychiatric distress, parenting behaviors associated with maltreatment, youth out - of - home placements, and changes in youth placement.

In numerous studies, the more positive people expected their futures to be, the better their mood, the fewer their psychiatric symptoms, and the better their adjustment to diverse situations including college transition, pregnancy, cardiac surgery, and caregiving (see Carver and Scheier, 1999; for a review).»

The results revealed that (1) for females and males, higher levels of depressive symptoms correlated with a more depressive attributional style; (2) females and males who met diagnostic criteria for a current depressive disorder evidenced more depres - sogenic attributions than psychiatric controls, and never and past depressed adolescents; (3) although no sex differences in terms of attributional patterns for positive events, negative events, or for positive and negative events combined emerged, sex differences were revealed on a number of dimensional scores; (4) across the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) subscale and dimensional scores, the relation between attributions and current self - reported depressive symptoms was stronger for females than males; and (5) no Sex × Diagnostic Group Status interaction effects emerged for CASQ subscale or dimensional scores.

Kavanagh39 reported the median proportion of high EE families in their meta - analysis as 54 % with a range from 23 % to 77 %, whereas figures are typically lower than 40 % in staff - patient studies.12, 23,24,27,28,40 — 42 It may be the case that psychiatric staff have both more experience and training in managing patients» problems than relatives which may be protective factors against the development of high EE.43 In support of this hypothesis, an early study which involved interviewing nurses about how they cope with patients» symptoms of schizophrenia found that more experienced senior staff used a greater number and range of coping strategies than less experienced staff.43 High EE ratings in staff - patient studies are also almost exclusively based on the presence of critical comments with infrequent hostility and very little evidence of EOI.

Among a series of depressed psychiatric patients, significantly more neurotic depressions than endogenous depressions had maladjusted marriages, and in the majority of cases the maladjustment was observed to antedate the onset of symptoms.