Mental illness - symptoms
Symptoms, the nature of fibromyalgia, and diagnostic and statistical manual 5 (DSM-5) defined mental illness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia.
... one’s symptoms; (2) Persistently high level of anxiety about health or symptoms; or (3) Excessive time and energy devoted to these symptoms or health ...a mental illness diagnosis on a ...
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Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement.
... possible symptoms of ...and mental health-related symptoms of concussion occur at dif- ferent rates and last for various periods of time and thus constitute an important diagnostic criterion of ...
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Beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness: an examination of the sex differences in mental health literacy in a community sample
... of mental illness ...to symptoms of a mental illness rather than the illness itself were not regarded as correct responses; (d) the term “stressed” was not accepted as a correct ...
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Investigating the relationship between neighborhood experiences and psychiatric distress for individuals with serious mental illness
... community mental health research agenda (Yanos 2007 ; Townley et ...whereas mental health related stigmatization ...depressive-anxiety symptoms and negatively influences social outcomes (Segal et ...
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Effect of marital status on duration of treatment for mental illness
... for mental illness, under the care of a health care professional, which represents a route toward a recuperated state, because in most (albeit not all) cases formal treatment continues until a substantial ...
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Epidemiology of Psychotropic Drug Use in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Gaps in Mental Illness Treatments
... The highest use of psychotropic drugs occurred among women and was associated with increased age and income, which agrees with other epidemiological surveys [3,5,7,21,22]. Women tend to present higher prevalence of ...
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Prevalence of Mental Illness among Homeless People in Hong Kong.
... In the current study, there was no significant difference between the groups with mood or anxiety disorders and without mental illness in terms of functional level, as reflected by the GAF score (Table 11). ...
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Mental Illness of the Oldest, Nutritional Status and Arterial Hypertension
... was primarily due to changes in behavior, depressive symptoms, anxiety and psychotic symptoms. Many disease processes in elderly course with confusional frames, which necessitates the distinction between ...
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The blueness of oranges: reoresentations of mental illness in theatre
... the illness in a superficial manner; nonetheless, that is all there is to ...the illness afflicting the character on ...are symptoms of schizophrenia to be ...
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Knowledge and Attitude of Mental Illness Among General Public of Southern India
... regarding mental illness and only few had average ...common mental disorders which reflect the increase prevalence of mental illness in community and influence of media and other ...of ...
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MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE VIEW OF PSYCHOTIC INDIVIDUALS: THEIR LINES AND GRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS
... of mental illness for individuals with psychotic disorders, hospitalized in a general ...to mental illness, as: a result of divine punishments and witchcraft; a reality charged with suffering ...
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Attitudes towards mental illness in the Commonwealth of Dominica
... The first vignette described an indi- vidual who had psychotic symptoms: “Now I want to describe a man called John, who is very suspicious. He doesn’t trust anybody, and he’s sure that every- body is against him. ...
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Caregiving in severe mental illness: the psychometric properties of the Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire in Portugal
... Regarding the FAPS baseline sample, patients’ symp- toms were assessed with the extended (24 item) Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) [24]. BPRS items are coded into seven categories (1 = no symptoms, to 7 = ...
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Functional status and all-cause mortality in serious mental illness.
... of symptoms [9,10,11] and risk behaviours [6,7] we know very little about the role of environmental factors and functional status such as difficulties with activities of daily living (ADLs), living conditions, ...
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Sexual risk behaviours and sexual abuse in persons with severe mental illness in Uganda: a qualitative study.
... Several of the women we interviewed described being sexually assaulted by strangers. Sexual violence against women is common in Uganda, but in general the perpetrator is known by the victim [29]. Studies in high-income ...
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Management of mental illness in medical doctors: attitudes and orientations based on the Centro Hospitalar do Porto population.
... poor mental health within doctors, however, although the sample size allowed us the obtain the necessary results, a larger sample size could allow for greater distinction between the several options within each ...
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Examining the psychological sense of community for individuals with serious mental illness residing in supported housing environments
... The Housing Environment Survey (HES) scales were developed to understand the physical and social environ- ments of supported housing for individuals with serious mental illness. Four self-report HES scales ...
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Stigma for mental illness among primary health care physicians and nurses in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
... if mental sickness was not stigmatized, the patients of the illness would be able to produce sickness reports just like the other people suffering from other diseases ...of mental disorder to hide ...
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Does Stigma predict mental illness? A study of HIV/AIDS and Cancer patients in Gauteng Province, South Africa
... Aim: This study is aimed at exploring whether HIV patients suffer more stigma than cancer patients and the consequences of this for mental health and to understand the influence of stigma on mental health. ...
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The role of primary care in service provision for people with severe mental illness in the United Kingdom.
... severe mental illness across ...fewer mental health needs (assessed by the proxy measures of medication use and dual diagnosis) and just under half of patients seen in secondary care were receiving ...
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