The Use of Biopsy and "No-Biopsy" Approach for Diagnosing Paediatric Coeliac Disease in the Central European Region.

Objectives: The current European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) guidelines introduced the option to diagnose coeliac disease (CD) in children and adolescents without upper endoscopy if the defined criteria are met. The aim of our study was to evaluate how frequently paediatric gastroenterologists in Central Europe used the "no-biopsy" approach and how often the duodenal biopsy could have been omitted.

Methods: Medical records of patients aged < 19 years diagnosed with CD in 2016 from five European countries were analysed, focusing on levels of transglutaminase antibodies (TGA) at the time of diagnosis and on whether the diagnosis was confirmed using duodenal biopsy or "no-biopsy" approach.

Social anxiety disorder and emotion regulation problems in adolescents.

Background: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents may be associated with the use of maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies. The present study examined the use of maladaptive and adaptive ER strategies in adolescents with SAD.

Methods: 30 adolescents with SAD (CLIN) and 36 healthy adolescents for the control group (CON) aged between 11 and 16 years were assessed with the standardized questionnaires PHOKI () for self-reported fears as well as FEEL-KJ () for different emotion regulation strategies.

Somatic complaints in children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder.

Background: Associations of social anxiety disorder (SAD) with various somatic symptoms have been already reported in the literature several times. The present study investigated somatic complaints in children and adolescents with SAD compared to controls and evaluated the relationship between social anxiety and somatic symptom severity.

Methods: Thirty children and adolescents with SAD were compared with 36 healthy age-matched controls.

[Transitional and Adolescent Psychiatry in Austria: A Pilot Study on the Attitudes of Experts].

Unlabelled: Transitional and Adolescent Psychiatry in Austria: A Pilot Study on the Attitudes of Experts Abstract.

Objective: This pilot study establishes baseline data on the current situation of transitional processes in Austrian psychiatry. We sought to gather information on the specific problems and needs occurring during the transition of mentally ill adolescents from child and adolescent to adult psychiatry.

[Significance of thiopurine s-methyltransferase gene test in a clinical case].

Thiopurine s-methyltransferase enzyme is responsible for the metabolism of immunosuppressant thiopurines, which are used in inflammatory bowel diseases, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and autoimmune diseases. Because of the relative narrow therapeutic index of thiopurines serious or life threatening side effects can occur. A total of 28 variant alleles of the gene coding for the thiopurine s-methyltransferase enzyme are responsible for altered catalytic activity of the enzyme.

The Bielefeld attachment questionnaires: overview and empirical results of an alternative approach to assess attachment.

The Bielefeld Client Expectations Questionnaire and the Bielefeld Partnership Expectations Questionnaire are two parallel German language self-report tools of adult attachment. The Bielefeld questionnaires are different from others in two important ways: (a) Attachment patterns are operationalized as configurations of scale scores, which allow qualitative distinctions in terms of functioning; and (b) five empirically identified attachment patterns are distinguished. A partially-secure pattern is described for the first time.

[How do mentally ill parents evaluate their children's quality of life? Associations with the parent's illness and family functioning].

To assess health-related quality of life (hrQoL) of children with a mentally ill parent, and its associations with the parent's illness (diagnoses, severity of disease, current symptoms) and family functioning, 51 mentally ill parents rated their children's hrQoL using the KINDL-R, a multidimensional hrQoL questionnaire for children. Parents rated their current psychiatric symptoms on the SCL-14 (Symptom Checklist-14) and family functioning on the FB-A ("Familienbögen"). The parents' therapists (psychologists or psychiatrists) provided psychiatric diagnoses as well as global ratings of disease severity (CGI) and patient's family functioning.