Longitudinal follow-up of naturalistic treatment outcome in patients with trichotillomania.

Background: Little is known about the longitudinal course of treatment outcome in patients with trichotillomania. The authors conducted a second follow-up assessment on a cohort of hair pullers previously studied.

Method: Forty-four subjects completed a hair-pulling questionnaire and paper-and-pencil measures of hair-pulling severity and impact, psychosocial functioning, depression, anxiety, and self-esteem.

Repetitive skin-picking in a student population and comparison with a sample of self-injurious skin-pickers.

The prevalence of skin-picking and its associated characteristics were documented in a nonclinical sample of 105 college students. Subjects completed a self-report skin-picking inventory and several paper-and-pencil scales. Students who endorsed skin-picking were compared to a clinical sample of self-injurious skin-pickers (n = 31) reported on previously.

Comparison of 650 mg aspirin and 1,000 mg acetaminophen with each other, and with placebo in moderately severe headache.

Two-hundred-sixty-nine otherwise healthy persons experiencing periodic, moderately severe headache of a type that had previously responded to nonprescription medications completed this randomized, parallel, double-blind study. The three demographically similar subgroups took either 1,000 mg acetaminophen, 650 mg aspirin, or an identical placebo, for headache. Headache intensity and relief scores over the following six hours were obtained and assessed by sums of pain intensity difference and values of pain relief scores analyses.