Creating a Multisite Perinatal Psychiatry Databank: Purpose and Development.

Mental health issues during the perinatal period are common; up to 29% of pregnant and 15% of postpartum women meet psychiatric diagnostic criteria. Despite its ubiquity, little is known about the longitudinal trajectories of perinatal psychiatric illness. This paper describes a collaboration among six perinatal mental health services in Quebec, Canada, to create an electronic databank that captures longitudinal patient data over the course of the perinatal period.

Child attachment and sensory regulation in psychiatric clinic-referred preschoolers.

Background: Individuals with sensory regulation disorders present with many difficulties in terms of managing emotions, behavior, and motor control. Children with such difficulties are often referred to psychiatric clinics for assessment of their behavioral and emotional problems. Few studies have investigated the role of environmental factors on sensory dysfunctions, and none have specifically studied its association with child attachment in a clinical sample.

Affect Expression and Self-Regulation Capacities of Infants Exposed in utero to Psychotropics.

This study explored the affect expression and self-regulation capacities of 8-month-old infants exposed in utero to psychotropic medications. This was a continuation of our previous study conducted on the same cohort when the infants were 3 months old. Psychotropics implicated included selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and a benzodiazepine derivative anxiolytic (clonazepam).

Clinical Case Rounds in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: De Novo Self-Mutilation and Depressive Symptoms in a 17-year-old Adolescent Girl Receiving Depot-Medroxyprogesterone Acetate.

Introduction: Contraception-induced mood changes have been identified since the 1960s. To our knowledge, there has been no reported case about self-mutilation associated to any form of contraception. We report the case of a 17-year-old adolescent girl who presented with de novo self-mutilation and depressive symptoms three and a half weeks after the administration of 150 mg of Depot-Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (DMPA).

Ziprasidone for psychotic disorders: a meta-analysis and systematic review of the relationship between pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and clinical profile.

Background: Among atypical antipsychotics, ziprasidone exhibits a unique clinical profile. However, prescription rates for this medication remain among the lowest of all atypical antipsychotics.

Objective: The present meta-analysis examined premature study discontinuation (PSD) and dose-response associated with ziprasidone.

Staff perceptions and organizational factors as predictors of seclusion and restraint on psychiatric wards.

Objective: Several factors have been shown to be involved in decisions to use seclusion and restraint in psychiatric inpatient settings. This study examined whether staff perceptions of factors related to the care team and violence on the ward predicted use of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric wards.

Methods: A total of 309 staff members (nurses, rehabilitation instructors, and nurse's aides) providing care to patients with serious mental disorders were recruited from eight university psychiatric hospitals and general-hospital psychiatric units in the province of Quebec.