Psychiatric Services
- Volume 49
- Number 7
- July 1998
Taking Issue
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Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages907–909Introduction by the column editors: Efforts to identify variables that predict outcomes among clients with serious and persistent mental illness span a quarter of a century (,,). Within the realm of psychiatric rehabilitation, vocational performance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.907Article
Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages911–917OBJECTIVE: This study focused on inpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who were scheduled to begin outpatient care with clinicians who had not previously treated them. The authors evaluated the effects of communication between the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.911Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages918–924OBJECTIVE: Relationships were examined between patients' negative symptoms, family caregivers' knowledge of schizophrenia, caregivers' attributions about the cause of patients' symptoms, and caregivers' response to the symptoms. METHODS: A sample of 84 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.918Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages925–928People with schizophrenia smoke more than the general population and more than other psychiatric diagnostic groups. The rate of smoking in the general population is 30 percent, and reported rates for people with schizophrenia range between 62 percent and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.925Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages929–934OBJECTIVE: Relationships among different dimensions of patient satisfaction and selected demographic, clinical, and outcome variables were explored in a sample of severely ill people receiving inpatient psychiatric services. METHOD: The sample consisted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.929Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages935–940OBJECTIVE: The co-occurrence of substance dependence disorders was determined in a sample of 160 frequently hospitalized adults with severe mental illness, and the relationship between substance dependence and psychosocial functioning and well-being was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.935Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages941–945OBJECTIVE: Clinicians' decision making about involuntary commitment was examined, with a focus on the effects of patient and clinician characteristics and bed availability on decisions to detain patients, the first step in involuntary commitment. METHODS: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.941Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages946–950OBJECTIVE: This study examined the differential effectiveness and costs of three weeks of treatment for patients with moderately severe substance dependence assigned to inpatient treatment or to a supportive housing setting. Supportive housing is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.946Papers on Rural Psychiatry
Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages951–955OBJECTIVE: The study examined functional impairment associated with psychological distress and severity of medical illness in a rural primary care population and explored how functional impairment varied with psychological distress and chronic medical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.951Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages956–960Planning for development of a national or regional psychiatrist workforce that is the appropriate size must consider numerous issues. They include the dynamics of workforce distribution, effects of managed care, reduction in potential residency slots, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.956Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages961–963In March 1995 Iowa implemented a statewide mental health carve-out program under a Medicaid Section 1915b waiver. A goal was to provide equal access across counties for Medicaid recipients by introducing a statewide network of service providers. Problems ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.961Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages963–964Telepsychiatry is the use of telecommunications technology to connect patients and health care providers, permitting effective diagnosis, education, treatment, consultation, transfer of medical data, research, and other health care activities. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.963Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages965–967Linking primary care with psychiatric care has long been promoted as a way to improve access to rural mental health services. The authors describe a national survey that identified 53 successfully linked programs, ranging from small local efforts to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.965Publication date: 01 July 1998
Pages967–969During the last two decades several initiatives have been taken to improve psychiatric services in low-income rural areas in developing countries. They have included the formulation of national mental health programs and establishment of pilot programs ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.49.7.967Letter
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