Organization of French outpatient psychiatric clinics and delay to appointment.

Objectives: The goals of the study were to obtain a glimpse of the several types of organization of outpatient psychiatric clinics, as well as an overview of delays between a request for and the first appointment. We also look at geographical variability of appointment scheduling delays and assess the impact of the number of new applications on delays.

Methods: We analyzed information collected from a phone survey conducted with the 103 adult outpatient psychiatric clinics of the French region Hauts-de-France.

OpenDataPsy: An Open-Data Repository with Standardized Storage and Description for Research in Psychiatry.

Sharing health data could avoid duplication of effort in data collection, reduce unnecessary costs in future studies, and encourage collaboration and data flow within the scientific community. Several repositories from national institutions or research teams have making their datasets available. These data are mainly aggregated at spatial or temporal level, or dedicated to a specific field.

Mental disorders on admission to jail: A study of prevalence and a comparison with a community sample in the north of France.

Background: The aim of the present study was to estimate prevalence rates of psychiatric and substance use disorders in male and female prisoners on admission to prison in the north of France and compare the frequency of these disorders to the general population.

Methods: This cross-sectional survey on Mental Health in the Prison Population (MHPP), conducted between March 2014 and April 2017, interviewed 653 randomly selected men and women who had recently been committed to the French general population prison system in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments. For each subject, the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), a standardized psychiatric interview, was used to screen for psychiatric and substance use disorders.

[Psychiatric readmissions: individual and organizational factors].

Background: Psychiatric readmission often constitutes a criterion to assess the effects of various therapies, as well as the impact of organizational changes in the healthcare system. It is used to characterize relapse or decompensation. The purpose of this study was to determine readmission rates and identify individual and organizational factors associated with significant variations in these rates.

[Continued use of hypnotic initiated as part of antidepressant treatment].

Introduction: Chronic hypnotic prescription is common, but not recommended. This study analysed whether hypnotic use at the beginning of antidepressant treatment could be the starting point for future hypnotic use.

Methods: Concomitant hypnotic and antidepressant prescriptions were retrieved from the National Health Insurance Fund for employees of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais database.

[Prescription of psychotropic medicines to pregnant women in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France].

Aim: Prescription of psychotropic medicines carries risks to pregnancy. It is therefore appropriate to measure the prescription rate of these compounds in pregnant women.

Method: We studied the prescription rate for psychotropic agents to pregnant women from the Cnamts medicines reimbursement data and we compared this to prescriptions in non-pregnant women in the same age group.

[Influential factors in regular and intensive use of psychoactive drugs].

The article attempts to construct a typology to the use of psychoactive drugs and the study of the various factors linked to their use, whether heavy or regular. The results draw on the exploitation of databases containing medicines presented for reimbursement by medical insurance in the Nord - Pas-de-Calais region. In 2007 and 2008, 20.

[Recourse to psychotropic medication in the Nord - Pas-de-Calais Region (France)].

The prescriptions for psychoactive drugs presented to the Health Insurance system for reimbursement of charges are a source of information about some psychological illnesses and disorders in the context of the overuse of these drugs in France. In Nord - Pas-de-Calais Region, out of a total of 5 070 160 prescriptions in 2007, 576 493 individuals benefited from at least one such drug. Over the period of the study, 15.