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Exploring domestic violence and social distress in Australian-Indian migrants through community theater.
(2016-02)
In many parts of the world, young adult women have higher levels of common mental disorders than men. The exacerbation of domestic violence (DV) by migration is a salient social determinant of poor mental health. Ecological ...
Negative Symptoms and Avoidance of Social Interaction: A Study of Non-Verbal Behaviour.
(2018)
BACKGROUND: Non-verbal behaviour is fundamental to social interaction. Patients with schizophrenia display an expressivity deficit of non-verbal behaviour, exhibiting behaviour that differs from both healthy subjects and ...
Tobacco smoking and its association with cognition in first episode psychosis patients.
(2018-02)
Available evidence suggests that nicotine may enhance cognitive functioning. Moreover, it has been suggested that the high prevalence of smoking in people with schizophrenia is in part due to self-medication behaviour to ...
Cumulative trauma, gender discrimination and mental health in women: mediating role of self-esteem.
(2018-10)
BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that women show symptoms of trauma-related symptoms more often than men. Gender discrimination is also associated with the severity of symptoms in women. AIMS: This study explored the relations ...
Correspondence between negative symptoms and potential sources of secondary negative symptoms over time.
(2018-09)
There has been a debate in the literature about the distinction between primary and secondary negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Our aim was to study the associations between negative symptoms and potential sources of ...
Accuracy of prescribing documentation by UK junior doctors undertaking psychiatry placements: a multi-centre observational study.
(2019-09-04)
OBJECTIVES: Medical records are critical to patient care, but often contain incomplete information. In UK hospitals, record-keeping is traditionally undertaken by junior doctors, who are increasingly completing early-career ...
The emergence of Exercise Addiction, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and other image-related psychopathological correlates in fitness settings: A cross sectional study.
(2019)
INTRODUCTION: In a society that perpetuates the strive for a perfect appearance, a fit body has become synonymous with success, but simultaneously hard to achieve. This represents a fertile ground for the development of ...
Compulsory psychiatric treatment checklist: Instrument development and clinical application.
(2017-09)
Instruments designed to evaluate the necessity of compulsory psychiatric treatment (CPT) are scarce to non-existent. We developed a 25-item Checklist (scoring 0 to 50) with four clusters (Legal, Danger, Historic and ...
What might affect acceptability of online positive psychology interventions for depression: a qualitative study on patient expectations'.
(2018-07-27)
BACKGROUND: Positive psychology interventions are brief self-adminstered exercises designed to promote positive emotions, behaviours, or thoughts. They are potentially effective for reducing depression and are considered ...