Comprehensive psychiatry
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Comprehensive psychiatry · May 1996
ICD-10 checklists--a tool for clinicians' use of the ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioral disorders.
The Tenth Revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) checklists are a set of semistructured instruments designed for clinician assessment of mental and behavioral disorders according to ICD-10 criteria. The checklists have been produced as a package consisting of the ICD-10 Symptom Checklist and Glossary and the International Diagnostic Checklists (IDCL) for ICD-10 and Manual. This report describes the main features of the newly released World Health Organization (WHO) instruments and specifies areas of possible application by clinicians.
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Comprehensive psychiatry · Mar 1994
Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical TrialThe relationship between psychopathology, eating disorder diagnosis, and clinical outcome at 10-year follow-up in anorexia nervosa.
General psychopathology as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), eating disorder diagnostic status (DSM-III-R), and clinical outcome were compared in a sample of 59 women 10 years after their hospital treatment for anorexia nervosa. There was a substantial and orderly relationship between severity of eating disorder symptomatology and severity of comorbid general psychopathology at follow-up evaluation. Those who had no eating disorder at follow-up displayed essentially no general psychopathology on the MMPI. ⋯ Their mean MMPI profile was intermediate between those for the no diagnosis and severe eating disorder groups, but closer to that for the no diagnosis group. Rank order correlations were significant between levels of eating disorder symptom severity and all relevant MMPI clinical scales. Severity of psychopathology on the MMPI was also related to ratings of global outcome assessed by two approaches to categorizing outcome in anorexia nervosa.
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A study of the relationship between sociodemographic conditions and suicidal risk was conducted on 377 cases of suicide committed in Genoa between 1985 and 1988. We used random subjects among Genoa residents as a control group. Data obtained were analyzed by means of an unconditional logistic regression model. The most interesting result of the study is the considerable suicide risk found among unmarried people.
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Comprehensive psychiatry · Jan 1992
Comparative StudyConvergence of American and Scandinavian diagnoses of functional psychoses.
One hundred ninety-nine case summaries of a consecutive sample of functional psychoses, which had been classified by Odegård, were diagnosed independently using DSM-III-R criteria by four experienced psychiatrists. Odegård's classification and DSM-III-R showed high concordance for schizophrenia and affective psychoses. Odegård's concept of reactive psychoses had high concordance with atypical psychoses in DSM-III-R. These findings imply that the results of genetic and follow-up studies from Scandinavia might be relevant for these diagnostic categories in DSM-III-R.