Exploring New Zealand orthopaedic nurses' knowledge of osteoporosis.

Background: Osteoporosis is a highly prevalent yet preventable disease. Nurses can play a major role in the prevention of osteoporosis and preventive treatment of patients who have had an osteoporotic fracture.

Purpose: This study explored whether New Zealand orthopaedic nurses have the knowledge to provide osteoporosis prevention education, and also examined these nurses' perceptions of their role in the diagnosis and prevention of osteoporosis.

Comorbid depression in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): symptomatic differences to major depressive disorder.

In this study, we compared the depressive symptom profile of a group of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) patients, with comorbid depression, to a group of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). The two groups (n=52 per group) were pair-wise matched on severity of depression as measured by the MADRS (mean 24.3 for each group) and we examined between-group differences on the individual MADRS item scores.