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Research Articles (Psychiatry): Recent submissions
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(AOSIS, 2024-05-21)BACKGROUND : Inpatient suicide is a serious adverse event in psychiatric wards. Suicide can cause severe trauma to both patients and health professionals, who may develop maladaptation with poor coping skills. Healthcare ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-04-23)BACKGROUND : The average length of stay is often used to indicate health system efficiency; shorter stays are associated with reduced costs. In South Africa, mental healthcare expenditure is spent on inpatient care. AIM ...
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(AOSIS, 2024-04-15)BACKGROUND: Cannabis use is more prevalent among people with schizophrenia than in the general population. This usage detrimentally impacts disease prognosis, contributing to escalated admissions, heightened severity ...
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(Wiley, 2024-06)Agentive steadfastness is a hitherto unarticulated and unmeasured construct, although clinicians may have drawn intuitively on it in anticipating clients' prognosis and anticipated responsiveness to adverse events. Following ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2023-06-21)Ethical challenges of genetic counselling for schizophrenia include effective communication of critical scientific information in an easily understood manner by patients and relatives, and the ability to ensure communication ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2023-07-27)BACKGROUND : Readmission rates to child and adolescent psychiatric units among the youth have been reported to be increasing. AIM : The study aimed to determine the readmission rate and factors associated with readmission ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-11-15)BACKGROUND : Adolescent mental illness is increasing worldwide, leading to more admissions to psychiatric institutions. Many adolescents may require multiple readmissions, which is disruptive to their holistic well-being ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-11-07)BACKGROUND : Recreational and medicinal use of cannabis is topical in the light of more permissive legislation regarding the substance worldwide. AIM : The primary purpose of this study is to determine the attitudes that ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-02)Indoor mould growth presents a potential health risk. The aim of this writing is to provide an overview on the pathophysiological aspects of exposure to dampness-associated indoor mould and mycotoxins. The paper briefly ...
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(Wiley, 2024-01)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES : Avolition is associated with much morbidity and functional impairment in schizophrenia patients. Vigor may be taken as, in part, the inverse of avolition, but it has not been investigated as a ...
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(Springer, 2022-02)INTRODUCTION : Dietary omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may reduce the risk of dementia. Many studies have investigated PUFA supplementation in high-income countries, yet food-based randomized control trials using ...
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(South African Medical Association, 2023-04)This article provides ethical guidance on using race in health research as a variable or in defining the study population. To this end, a plain, non-exhaustive checklist is provided for researchers and research ethics ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-10-23)BACKGROUND : Major neurocognitive disorder presents many challenges to patients, families and healthcare systems, especially when a patient requires admission to a psychiatric hospital. AIM : To identify characteristics ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-03-28)BACKGROUND : Adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience aspects of their lives in diverse ways. They often have more energy and creativity which are positive traits of ADHD, while their ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-03-30)BACKGROUND : There is a deficit of psychiatrists in South Africa, and to our knowledge, there is no situational analysis of training posts for psychiatrists in the country. AIM : To compare the number of specialists and ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2022)INTRODUCTION : There has been a sharp increase in the use of digital health interventions in global health, particularly mobile health applications, in recent years. The extreme shortage of health care providers trained ...
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(Mattioli1885, 2022-12)By the mid-20th century, pellagra had virtually been eradicated from the USA and Europe. In contrast, outbreaks of pellagra, as diagnosed by skin lesions, today still occur in sub-Saharan Africa. We argue that outbreaks ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-04-03)BACKGROUND : In order to contain the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa during the national state of emergency, the Gauteng Department of Social Development established temporary shelters and activated existing facilities ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-01)BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE : The most recent versions of the two main mental disorders classifications-the World Health Organization's ICD-11 and the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5-differ substantially in their diagnostic ...
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(Sage, 2022-12)INTRODUCTION : Social factors are increasingly being used to determine health outcomes. The concept of social determinants of health has been used to shape policies that address disparities. There is a paucity of such ...
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