Body therapy versus treatment as usual among Danish veterans with PTSD: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial combined with a qualitative study.

Background: Many veterans suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after returning from military missions. This implies complex physical and psychosocial problems for veterans and their families. Treatment options today are primarily medically and psychologically founded but treatment response is incomplete.

[Diagnosing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder].

The post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis has undergone large developments. With the changes in DSM-5 and the proposed changes in ICD-11, the two systems move in different directions. Treatment for PTSD is developing, but the evidence for the effect is lacking behind.

Reduced sexual dysfunction with aripiprazole once-monthly versus paliperidone palmitate: results from QUALIFY.

Sexual dysfunction, a common side effect of antipsychotic medications, may be partly caused by dopamine antagonism and elevation of prolactin. In QUALIFY, a randomized study, aripiprazole once-monthly 400 mg (AOM 400), a dopamine D2 receptor partial agonist, showed noninferiority and subsequent superiority versus paliperidone palmitate (PP), a dopamine D2 receptor antagonist, on the Heinrichs-Carpenter Quality-of-Life Scale (QLS) in patients with schizophrenia aged 18-60 years. Sexual dysfunction (Arizona Sexual Experience Scale) and serum prolactin levels were also assessed.

Qualify: a randomized head-to-head study of aripiprazole once-monthly and paliperidone palmitate in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Objective: To directly compare aripiprazole once-monthly 400mg (AOM 400) and paliperidone palmitate once-monthly (PP) on the Heinrichs-Carpenter Quality-of-Life Scale (QLS), a validated health-related quality of life and functioning measure in schizophrenia.

Method: This 28-week, randomized, non-inferiority, open-label, rater-blinded, head-to-head study (QUALIFY) of AOM 400 and PP in adult patients (18-60 years) comprised oral conversion, initiation of AOM 400 or PP treatment, and continuation with intramuscular injections every 4weeks. The primary endpoint assessed non-inferiority and superiority on QLS total score analyzed using a mixed model for repeated measurements.

Use of health care services before and after a natural disaster among survivors with and without PTSD.

Objective: This study used a questionnaire to identify individuals who met criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ten months after surviving a disaster and compared their use of health care services before and after the disaster with that of survivors who did not meet criteria for PTSD.

Methods: Ten months after the December 26, 2004, Southeast Asian tsunami, Danish tourists who had been in areas exposed to the disaster were mailed a questionnaire asking about demographic characteristics and exposure to the tsunami. The questionnaire included the PTSD Checklist, which measures symptoms of posttraumatic stress.

Exposure characteristics and peri-trauma emotional reactions during the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia--what predicts posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms?

This study examined the impact of disaster-related stressors and peri-trauma emotional reactions on mental health 10 months after the 2004 Southeast Asian tsunami disaster in a sample of 660 Danish tourists evacuated from the disaster area. The estimated rates of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression were 10.2% and 6.

The course of adjustment disorder in Danish male conscripts.

Conscription has been employed for more than a century. To evaluate the course and fate of conscripts deemed mentally unfit for immediate continued service, a prospective questionnaire study of conscripts referred for mental evaluation was conducted. Questionnaires were completed at the time of enrollment, time of admittance for evaluation, time of discharge from their evaluation and at 1-year follow-up.