Satisfaction of Patients and Their Relatives Who Are Reminded of Their Appointments and Treatments with "".

Background: Community Mental Health Centers have been established in Turkey for patients with chronic psychiatric disorders actively engaged in treatment. The Treatment Collaboration Portal is a web-based voice response platform offered to Community Mental Health Centres to support the treatment compliance processes of patients. The Treatment Collaboration Portal automatically reminds patients or their families of injection treatments and psychiatry appointments at regular intervals.

Childhood Trauma as an Environmental Determinant of Risk of Violence in Bipolar Disorder.

Introduction: The complex interaction of violent behavior, childhood trauma and bipolar disorder (BD) is unclear. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the risk factors of violence in BD and studied the relationship between different types of childhood trauma and violence.

Methods: We assessed 105 remitted patients diagnosed with BD I (n=91) or BD II (n=14).

The effect of early or late initiation of long-acting antipsychotics on the caregiver burden in schizophrenia.

The effective treatment in the early stages of schizophrenia is of critical importance to improve the prognosis. Schizophrenia affects patients' relatives too. The effects of early or late initiation of long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAI-APs) on the patient have been shown, yet their effects on the caregiver are still unknown.

Prospective analysis of serum prolactin levels, clinical symptomatology and sexual functions in patients with schizophrenia switched to paliperidone palmitate 3-monthly from paliperidone palmitate 1-monthly: Preliminary findings of the first 3 months.

Objective: Long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics were developed to improve adherence to schizophrenia treatment. Paliperidone palmitate (PP) has two LAI forms: Monthly (PP1M) and three-monthly (PP3M). PP3M shows less difference in Peak-to-Trough drug concentration levels.

Hypersexuality associated with paliperidone.

We report a case of unusual sexual symptoms in a 43-year-old female patient with schizophrenia (according to , fifth edition), who was being treated with a depot formulation of paliperidone palmitate, an atypical antipsychotic medication. The symptoms included increased sexual desire, sexual preoccupation, constant drive for intercourse, and sexual arousal with unrelated stimuli such as urination. Potential neurochemical mechanisms have been elucidated for this symptomatology.

Explanatory Models of Illness, Help Seeking Behaviours and Related Factors in Patients with Schizophrenia: A Comparative Study from Two Different Provinces of Turkey.

This study aims to identify the help seeking behaviours of patients from two geographically distinct provinces of Turkey. A questionnaire about sociodemographic characteristics and help seeking ways was applied to 49 schizophrenia patients from Van, 99 from Ankara. The ratio of patients seeking psychiatric help at the beginning of their illness was 76% in Ankara, the capital city, in contrast to 54% in Van (p = 0.

Paliperidone Palmitate-induced Urinary Incontinence: A Case Report.

Urinary incontinence, although rarely reported, is one of the most important adverse effects of antipsychotic medication. It can be an embarrassing, distressing, and potentially treatment-limiting. Several antipsychotics, including both typical and atypical varieties, are known to induce urinary incontinence.

The factors contributing to death anxiety in cancer patients.

Suffering comes in many ways for patients confronting cancer. One of these is an unspecifiable fear about death, which is an existential issue. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between death anxiety and its correlates in cancer patients.

Perceptions of Turkish psychiatric inpatients about therapeutic factors of group psychotherapy.

Many studies on therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy were done during the 1970s and 1980s, primarily with Western samples, The present study was carried out in a psychiatric inpatient clinic in Turkey. Using Yalom's (1975) therapeutic factor questionnaire administered at discharge, patients rated existential factor, instillation of hope and self-understanding as the most helpful factors and identification as the least helpful. There were significant differences among patients with regard to gender, age, education, comorbid personality disorder, but not with Axis I diagnosis or number of attended sessions.

Topiramate-induced psychotic exacerbation: case report and review of literature.

Background. Topiramate (TPM) is a new antiepileptic drug that is used mainly in the treatment of refractory partial epileptic seizures. There are some studies reporting TPM's effectiveness in the treatment and maintenance of some psychiatric illnesses such as acute mania, some other affective disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and binge-eating disorder.