[Slow processing in borderline personality disorder: the emotional Stroop paradigm].

Background: Emotional instability has been extensively considered the main core of the borderline personality disorder (BPD) that is characterised by an important bias towards emotional information. The aim of this study was to determine the emotional bias in patients with BPD by means of an emotional Stroop paradigm.

Sampling And Methods: Sixty-one women (38 Borderline Personality Disorder outpatients and 23 healthy matched control subjects) were included.

Advances and current state of the security and privacy in electronic health records: survey from a social perspective.

E-Health systems are experiencing an impulse in these last years, when many medical agencies began to include digital solutions into their platforms. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are one of the most important improvements, being in its most part a patient-oriented tool. To achieve a completely operational EHR platform, security and privacy problems have to be resolved, due to the importance of the data included within these records.

Development of the brief Spanish Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-General.

Combining two different samples of cocaine users (N = 183), we tested the factor structure of a brief (12-item), Spanish version of the Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-General using confirmatory factor analysis. The four-factor model provided excellent fit to the measure. Moreover, the measure significantly differentiated between recent cocaine users and abstainers, as well as between participants with different levels of severity of drug-use history.

Multi-episode survival analysis: an application modelling readmission rates of heroin dependents at an inpatient detoxification unit.

The purpose of this study is to describe the characteristics of a statistical technique appropriate for analysing multi-episode data (multi-episode survival analysis), and to show its application in modelling the flow of readmissions at an inpatient detoxification unit. Data are from 784 opioid-dependent patients admitted at an inpatient detoxification unit, who totalled 1,255 admission episodes. Information stored prospectively at the unit database was reviewed for the following variables at the time of each patient discharge: episode serial number, sex, route of heroin administration, reason for discharge, time of discharge, and transition time (re-entry into the inpatient detoxification unit).