Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
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Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. · Feb 2010
Relationship of psychopathological symptoms and cognitive function to subjective quality of life in patients with chronic schizophrenia.
The purpose of the present study was to examine the extent of the effects of psychopathological symptoms and cognitive function on quality of life (QOL) in patients with chronic schizophrenia. ⋯ Psychopathological symptoms and cognitive function affect subjective QOL in patients with schizophrenia. If the final goal is treatment that improves QOL in a manner that patients themselves are aware of, clinicians probably need to consider a treatment strategy that improves depression/anxiety symptom.
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Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. · Feb 2010
Open wards versus locked wards of general hospitals in the treatment of psychiatric patients with medical comorbidities: a cross-sectional study in Tokyo.
Treatment of medical comorbidities among psychiatric patients is an expected role of general hospital psychiatric wards. The purpose of this study was to clarify whether locked wards of general hospitals are necessary in the treatment of psychiatric patients with severe medical comorbidities. ⋯ Locked wards may be necessary to treat severe psychiatric patients with severe medical comorbidities.