A Retrospective, Longitudinal, Claims-Based Comparison of Concomitant Diagnoses Between Individuals with and Without Down Syndrome.

Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience various comorbidities in excess of the prevalence seen among the non-DS population. However, the extent of the excess burden of comorbidities specifically within commercially and publicly insured DS populations aged < 21 years is not currently known.

Objectives: To (a) describe the most common diagnoses among individuals with DS who have either commercial or Medicaid insurance and (b) compare the prevalence of those diagnoses between DS cases and non-DS controls.

Examining the reliability and validity of the Clinical Assessment Interview for Negative Symptoms within the Management of Schizophrenia in Clinical Practice (MOSAIC) multisite national study.

The current study sought to expand on prior reports of the validity and reliability of the CAINS (CAINS) by examining its performance across diverse non-academic clinical settings as employed by raters not affiliated with the scale's developers and across a longer test-retest follow-up period. The properties of the CAINS were examined within the Management of Schizophrenia in Clinical Practice (MOSAIC) schizophrenia registry. A total of 501 participants with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis who were receiving usual care were recruited across 15 national Patient Assessment Centers and evaluated with the CAINS, other negative symptom measures, and assessments of functioning, quality of life and cognition.

The Management of Schizophrenia in Clinical Practice (MOSAIC) Registry: a focus on patients, caregivers, illness severity, functional status, disease burden and healthcare utilization.

Background: The Management of Schizophrenia in Clinical Practice (MOSAIC), a disease-based registry of schizophrenia, was initiated in December 2012 to address important gaps in our understanding of the impact and burden of schizophrenia and to provide insight into the current status of schizophrenia care in the US. Recruitment began in December 2012 with ongoing assessment continuing through May 2014.

Methods: Participants were recruited from a network of 15 centralized Patient Assessment Centers supporting proximal care sites.

The humanistic and economic burden of providing care for a patient with schizophrenia.

Background: Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder that often requires the affected individual to receive part- or full-time care from a caregiver.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to examine the humanistic and economic burden of caring for an individual with Schizophrenia with regard to the measures of quality of life (QoL), work productivity, healthcare resource use and estimated economic costs.

Methods: Data for this study came from the 2012 US National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS; n = 71,149).

[Sleep disorders and physical abuse: a nation-wide representative study in Hungary].

Objectives: Violence against women has been declared a major public health concern. The relationship between physical abuse and physical and psychological symptoms is well-known, however data regarding the association between physical abuse and sleep disorders are limited. Our aim is to document the prevalence of reported abuse and investigate the association between physical abuse and insomnia among females.

Work-related stress factors and menstrual pain: a nation-wide representative survey.

While imposing research has been conducted with respect to the biological determinants of painful menstruation, little is known about the psychosocial factors, including work-related stress that might influence menstrual pain. We conducted a study in which we aimed to determine besides the prevalence of dysmenorrhoea whether menstrual pain was associated with job control, co-worker social support, job security and dissatisfaction with the job. Data of 2772 working women aged 18-55 years, participants in the Hungarostudy 2002 nation-wide representative survey was analyzed.

Self-rated health and health damaging behaviour among young women in Hungary in connection with family background.

Objectives: To describe the relationship of subjective health and harmful lifestyle with familial risk factors, such as low parental educational level, parental psychiatric disorder reported by their offspring, alcohol use, and divorce.

Methods: 3615 hungarian women aged 15-24 in 1998. The questionnaire addressed socio-economic factors, physical and mental health, and health damaging behaviours.

The relationship of biological and psychological risk factors of cardiovascular disorders in a large-scale national representative community survey.

A large-scale national representative community survey of 11,122 persons aged more than 35 years included the investigation of the coincidence of depressive symptoms, vital exhaustion, cardiovascular disorders, stroke, and myocardial infarction. A total of 20.3% of the survey participants reported having experienced a cardiovascular disorder (CVD).

Living in fear of experiencing physical and sexual abuse is associated with severe depressive symptomatology among young women.

Purpose: To analyze the relationship among fear of being abused, direct experience of physical and sexual abuse, and severe depressive symptoms among young women.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in schools and households among 3615 young Hungarian women, ages 15-24 years, of whom 2016 were students. A multistage stratified sampling method was applied.

Comorbidity of pain problems and depressive symptoms in young women: results from a cross-sectional survey among women aged 15-24 in Hungary.

Frequent headaches and musculoskeletal pain problems were assessed as part of a cross-sectional health survey in a representative sample of 3615 young Hungarian women, aged 15-24 (mean age: 19.0 years). The representative sample was obtained by a multilevel stratified sampling procedure based on national statistical data, the refusal rate was 6%.

Psychosocial determinants of premature health deterioration in a changing society: the case of Hungary.

The drastic increase of morbidity and mortality rates in the transforming Central-Eastern European countries, characterizing the last decades, offers a unique opportunity to analyse the relationship of those social, psychological and biological processes that contribute to rapid health modifications. In 1988 and 1995, two national representative surveys of the Hungarian population aged 16 or older (N = 20,902 and 12,640 respectively) were conducted. The results show that depressive symptom severity mediates between relative socio-economic deprivation and higher self-rated morbidity rates.

Physical and sexual abuse: risk factors for substance use among young Hungarian women.

The authors used a multistage stratified sampling method to conduct a cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample of 3,615 Hungarian women aged 15 to 24 years to acquire epidemiologic data on physical and sexual abuse and analyze the relationship between abuse and health-risk behaviors. Just over 30% of the young women reported having experienced some type of abuse in their lifetimes. All maladaptive coping strategies, especially sedative use, were more prevalent among those who had experienced physical abuse.

[Attendance of screening by young Gypsy women].

In the study, the authors surveyed young Gipsy women's attendance of screening, as compared to non-Gipsy women of similar age groups. The survey was based on a national representative sample consisting of 1599 persons selected from women belonging to the age group between 18 and 24 years: out of them 4.3%, that is, 69 persons identified themselves as Gipsies.