Alcohol use disorder and muscle weakness: Original study of the effect of vitamin D supplementation in ambulatory participants with alcohol use disorder.

Introduction: Chronic alcohol-related myopathy presents with proximal muscle weakness. We studied the effect of vitamin D supplementation on muscle weakness in adults with alcohol use disorder.

Method: The study was a randomized controlled trial.

Self-report versus performance based executive functioning in people with psychotic disorders.

Background: Although executive functioning is often measured using performance-based measures, these measures have their limits, and self-report measures may provide added value. Especially since these two types of measures often do not correlate with one another. It thus has been proposed they might measure different aspects of the same construct.

The Overlooked Part of Flexible Assertive Community Treatment-A Retrospective Study on Factors Related to Discharge from FACT for Clients with a Psychotic Disorder.

Flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) is a recovery-based treatment and its manual describes discharge criteria for clients who are recovered. Yet research on discharge is lacking. In this retrospective and observational study, between 2009 and 2019, we explored how sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment factors are associated with planned discharge or no discharge.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychiatric emergency consultations in adolescents.

Background: There is growing evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic, and its associated social distancing measures, affect adolescents' mental health. We wanted to examine whether and how the number and characteristics of adolescents' psychiatric emergency presentations have changed throughout the pandemic.

Methods: We extracted data from the records of 977 psychiatric emergency consultations of adolescents aged 12- 19 who had been referred to the mobile psychiatric emergency services in Rotterdam, the Netherlands between January 1 2018 and January1 2022.