A literature review of outcome and treatment options after acquired brain injury: Suggestions for adult offenders using knowledge from the general population.

Background: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a major health problem, often with negative effects on behaviour and mental health as well as cognition. Prevalence of ABI is exceptionally high among offenders and increases their re-offending risk. Information on risk factors for ABI and its outcomes among offenders that could guide effective treatment for them is, nevertheless, scarce and dispersed.

Sub-calcaneal plantar fat pad assessment using dual-energy computed tomography: First experience in the diabetic foot.

Background: This study assessed the use of dual-energy computed tomography (CT) to evaluate sub-calcaneal plantar fat pad changes in people with diabetic neuropathy.

Methods: Dual-energy CT scans of people with diabetic neuropathy and non-diabetic controls were retrospectively included. Average CT values (in Hounsfield Units) and thickness (in centimeters) of the sub-calcaneal plantar fat pad were measured in mono-energetic images at two energy levels (40 keV and 70 keV).

[Functioning of the acute psychiatric emergency chain in Amsterdam-Amstelland during the COVID-19 pandemic].

Background: At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were fears that a higher proportion of patients with a psychiatric disorder would find themselves in crisis due to the threat of COVID-19 and the impact of the restrictions. If the emergency mental health department would become blocked this could work through to emergency rooms (ER). Acute psychiatry is also assessed at the ER due to lack of space in the emergency mental health department, this is called ‘overflow’.

Taking care of older caregivers who lose control: The association between mastery and psychopathology.

Objective: In Europe there is a growing number of informal caregivers above 55 years of age, some of whom experience high levels of psychological distress. Our aim is to investigate the prevalence of psychological distress and its association with perceived mastery among elderly informal caregivers.

Methods: In a large representative random sample of citizens from four cities in the Netherlands, we compared psychological distress among older and younger informal caregivers.

Occurrence of Psychiatric Disorders, Self-Sufficiency Problems and Adverse Childhood Experiences in a Population Suspected of Violent Extremism.

Background: Public health-inspired programs for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) have developed internationally in a relatively short period of time. Research into these programs is scarce. There is a need for information that helps drive public health interventions.

Acquired Brain Injury and Interventions in the Offender Population: A Systematic Review.

The prevalence of acquired brain injury (ABI) in offender populations appears much higher than in the general population, being estimated at 50% compared to 12%, respectively. Taking into account ABI-related cognitive and social impairments or behavioral changes in forensic treatments might be relevant and may improve treatment outcomes. The aim of the current review is to summarize and integrate the literature on psychological interventions or treatments for consequences of ABI in the forensic setting.

The relationship between adverse childhood experiences and self-sufficiency problems in early adulthood among violent offenders.

Background: Although adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are related to many single negative outcomes, its relation with multiproblem situations in early adulthood is largely unknown.

Objective: To examine ACE's relation with self-sufficiency problems (SSP) in important life-domains among a sample of young adult violent offenders.

Participants And Setting: Participants were drafted from a local diversion program for violent repeat offenders.

[Radicalization and psychiatry: a plea for a broad perspective].

The extent to which psychiatry can, and should, contribute to the prevention of terrorism and the countering of radicalization is under debate. The political dimension of the problem raises questions about the desirability of active psychiatric involvement.
AIM: To deepen the debate by discussing the role of psychiatric disorders in terrorist activities, as well as the role of societal determinants in radicalization processes.

[Health problems of migrants who don't have a valid residence permit: Somatic and psychiatric problems of migrants who are applying for shelter].

OBJECTIVE Many healthcare professionals are confronted in their practice with migrants who don't have a valid residence permit. With this study, we want to provide more insight in the health problems and healthcare consumption of this group. DESIGN Retrospective file study.

Exploring Differences in Criminogenic Risk Factors and Criminal Behavior Between Young Adult Violent Offenders With and Without Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disability.

The relation between mild to borderline intellectual disability (MBID) and violent offense behavior was studied among a group of former juvenile delinquents currently in a diversion program for persistent young adult violent offenders from Amsterdam ( N = 146). Offenders were considered MBID if they had received juvenile probation from the local youth care agency specialized in intellectual disability (21%). A file study was used to estimate prevalence rates of criminogenic risk factors.

The association between ethnic background and characteristics of first mental health treatment for psychotic disorders in the Netherlands between 2001 and 2005.

Purpose: To test the hypothesis that ethnic minority status of patients is associated with specific psychotic disorder treatment characteristics.

Methods: Longitudinal data (2001-2005) were extracted from a nationwide psychiatric case register in the Netherlands. The sample consisted of 30,655 episodes of mental health treatment for 23,122 patients with psychotic disorders.

Violent offenders as a target population for Public Mental Health Care.

The study sought to specify which part of a population of young adult violent offenders in Amsterdam (mean age 24.9 years, sd = 8.2) were eligible for Public Mental Health Care (PMHC).

The contribution of perceived ethnic discrimination to the prevalence of depression.

Background: European research on the association between perceived ethnic discrimination (PED) and health is importantly lacking. It is also unknown how much PED contributes to disease prevalence. In this study, we quantified the contribution of PED to depression in five ethnic groups in a middle-size European city.

The relationship between acculturation strategies and depressive and anxiety disorders in Turkish migrants in the Netherlands.

Background: Turkish migrants in the Netherlands have a high prevalence of depressive and/or anxiety disorders. Acculturation has been shown to be related to higher levels of psychological distress, although it is not clear whether this also holds for depressive and anxiety disorders in Turkish migrants. This study aims to clarify the relationship between acculturation strategies (integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization) and the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders as well as utilisation of GP care among Turkish migrants.

Equity of access to mental health care for anxiety and depression among different ethnic groups in four large cities in the Netherlands.

Purpose: This study explored (in)equities between ethnic groups in the Netherlands regarding their access to health care for symptoms of common mental disorders (CMD).

Methods: Data were used from a health survey conducted in four Dutch cities in 2008, including 11,678 Dutch, 700 Turkish, 571 Moroccans, 956 Surinamese and 226 Antilleans/Arubans. The prevalence of a medium to high risk of having CMD per ethnic group and of health care consumption by ethnic groups of people, likely having CMD, was calculated, using SPSS Complex Samples weighting for gender, age and district.

The use of the Dutch Self-Sufficiency Matrix (SSM-D) to inform allocation decisions to public mental health care for homeless people.

The current study set out to develop a decision support tool based on the Self-Sufficiency Matrix (Dutch version; SSM-D) for the clinical decision to allocate homeless people to the public mental health care system at the central access point of public mental health care in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic-curve analyses were used to model professional decisions and establish four decision categories based on SSM-D scores from half of the research population (Total n = 612). The model and decision categories were found to be accurate and reliable in predicting professional decisions in the second half of the population.

Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the self-sufficiency matrix (SSM-D).

Measuring treatment outcomes can be challenging in patients who experience multiple interlinked problems, as is the case in public mental health care (PMHC). This study describes the development and psychometric properties of a Dutch version of the self-sufficiency matrix (SSM-D), an instrument that measures outcomes and originates from the US. In two different settings, clients were rated using the SSM-D in combination with the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) and the Camberwell assessment of need short appraisal schedule (CANSAS).

Similar associations between personality dimensions and anxiety or depressive disorders in a population study of Turkish-Dutch, Moroccan-Dutch, and native Dutch subjects.

It is well established that personality traits are associated with anxiety and depressive disorders in Western populations, but it is not known whether this is true also for people from non-Western cultures. In this study, we examined whether ethnicity moderates the association between personality dimensions and anxiety or depressive disorders or symptoms. In a random urban population sample, stratified by ethnicity, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we interviewed 309 native Dutch subjects, 203 Turkish-Dutch subjects, and 170 Moroccan-Dutch subjects.

Comorbidity of anxiety and depressive disorders: a comparative population study in Western and non-Western inhabitants in the Netherlands.

Background: Overlap of depressive and anxiety symptoms is supposedly more common in non-Western populations. This can lead to diagnostic uncertainity and undertreatment.

Aims: The aim of this study was to assess cross-cultural differences regarding the comorbidity of anxiety and depressive disorders in a comparative population study.