Sentences with phrase «psychiatric problems found»

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Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

Finding employment is often difficult because of prejudice against those who have had major psychiatric problems.

A study of military families, in which co-sleeping is common because fathers (and, nowadays, mothers) are often away from home for extended periods, found that children who had coslept as babies received higher evaluations of their comportment in school and exhibited fewer psychiatric problems.

Their findings could lead to better treatments for psychiatric problems

While weight gain and unwanted body hair can be distressing, irregular menstrual cycles is the symptom of PCOS most strongly associated with psychiatric problems, the study found.

Those born to women with fertility problems were found to have a 33 % greater overall risk of any defined psychiatric disorders, which was statistically significant (HR 1.33, 95 % confidence interval 1.20 - 1.36).

But so far, it had never been found where it might cause psychiatric problems: in the brain.

His wife rushed him to the hospital, where doctors examined him carefully but could find no medical or psychiatric problem.

Dr Howes continues: «Our findings show that there was no change in the dopamine function in patients who experienced psychiatric problems but got better later on.

Again, the judge noted the claimant's reticence about her health problems and found that psychiatric injury was not therefore foreseeable and there was no breach of duty.

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.

Our findings are consistent with a growing body of literature indicating that adverse childhood events are potent risk factors for a number of adult health and psychiatric problems, including substance abuse.

Axis I psychiatric comorbidity is common in hypochondriasis.14 The prevalence of psychiatric disorder remained relatively stable over time in this sample, but methodological problems make these findings uncertain.

However, because other child psychiatric control groups (eg, children with learning problems or other disruptive behavior disorders) have not been included, the specificity of these findings to ADHD is not clear.

For example, a study of 297 Finnish families with children aged 5 - 6 years, researchers found that kids who slept less than 9 hours each day had 3 - 5 times the odds of developing attention problems, behavior problems, and other psychiatric symptoms (Paavonen et al 2009).

For example, we found a 40 to 68 % stability of any problems from 3 to 6 years which was comparable to a stability of 50 % of having any psychiatric disorder across this same age span reported by Bufferd et al. (2012) using a categorical approach.

Post-treatment measures found improved parent - reported psychiatric symptoms, levels of behavior problems, and observed family functioning for the MST group, while the IT group reported increased problems in these areas.

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.