Information needs and sources of information among people with depression and anxiety: a scoping review.

Background: Previous studies have identified substantial unmet information needs in people with depression and anxiety. Sufficient information about the disorder, treatment, available services, and strategies for self-management is essential as it may influence quality of care and patients' quality of life. This scoping review aimed to provide a broad overview of information needs of people with depression and anxiety as well as the sources that they use to seek this information.

Resolving Issues About Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Codeine in Combination Analgesic Drugs: A Systematic Review.

Introduction: The objective of this systematic review is to reflect on assumptions in relation to codeine use in combination with other analgesics.

Methods: MEDLINE was searched according to the predetermined keywords and criteria. Only English language studies were taken into consideration and the outcome data of the final studies were extracted by two reviewers independently from each other and were checked by the third reviewer.

Occurrence of post-injection delirium/sedation syndrome after application of olanzapine long-acting injection during one year period.

Introduction: The aim was to report the occurrence of after application of olanzapine long-acting injection (OLAI) in patients with schizophrenia during one year period.

Subjects And Methods: During one year period, OLAI was applied to 30 patients with schizophrenia (18 men, 12 women) who were non-adherent to previous treatment with oral olanzapine. Patients were 20-58 years of age (39 years old on average), diagnosed with SCID based on DSM-IV-TR criteria.

Ethical Overview of Placebo Control in Psychiatric Research - Concepts and Challenges.

Permissibility of placebo controls in psychiatric research is raising everlasting controversies. The main ethical issue remains: whether, when, under what conditions, and to what extent is it justifiable to disregard subject's present (best) interest for the presumably "greater" ones. In relation to this main ethical concern, two distinct arguments arose: proponents of placebo controls trials (placebo ortxodoxy) and proponents of active controls trials (active-control orthodoxy).

Predictors of the desire/decision to quit smoking in a cohort of Croatian adult smokers followed for five years: the crohort study.

This study provides an overview of the incidence of smoking, the socio-demographic characteristics of Croatian smokers during a five-year period and an assessment of predictors of the desire/decision to quit smoking. Analyses were performed separately for 2003 and 2008. A total of 3,229 subjects were included in the survey.

[Neuroradiologic diagnostics in patients hospitalized in Vrapce Psychiatric Hospital].

The authors discuss the frequency of indication for and the results of CT and MRI brain scans in patients hospitalized in Vrapce Psychiatric Hospital. They wanted to contribute to the solving of the dilemma whether neuroradiologic tests should be a part of a routine diagnostic procedure in all psychiatric patients. Retrospectively, on the basis of case histories, the patients were analyzed in the first nine months of 2006.

Psychiatric diagnosis as an independent risk factor for metabolic disturbances: results from a comprehensive, naturalistic screening program.

Objective: Unconfounded differences in inherent vulnerability to metabolic disturbance may be hypothesized for different diagnostic groups with severe mental illness.

Method: A naturalistic cohort of patients diagnosed with DSM-IV bipolar disorder (N = 112), schizophrenia (N = 503), and schizoaffective disorder (N = 92) were assessed for metabolic disturbances. The prospective inclusions started in November 2003 and were concluded in July 2007.

Two-year rehospitalization rates of patients with newly diagnosed or chronic schizophrenia on atypical or typical antipsychotic drugs: retrospective cohort study.

Aim: To determine if atypical antipsychotic agents reduce the rehospitalization rates of patients with newly diagnosed or chronic schizophrenia in comparison with typical antipsychotic drugs.

Methods: From January 1, 2003, to December 31, 2004, we retrospectively compared two-year rehospitalization rates of 135 patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia and 398 patients with chronic schizophrenia (62% and 65% men, respectively), who were initially discharged from Vrapce Psychiatric Hospital, Zagreb, with the prescription of atypical (olanzapine, risperidone or clozapine) or typical (haloperidol or fluphenazine) antipsychotic treatment between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2002. Time-to-readmission was determined with Kaplan-Meier formula for survival analysis.

Glossolalia.

In this article the authors present through theory and case reports on the phenomenon of glossolalia, the unusual vocal utterances that sound language-like. Sense, meaning and function of glossolalia are closely connected with social and cultural context, and therefore glossolalia is experienced as a normal and expected behavior in religious prayer groups, while in mental disorders it is considered a psychopathological symptom. Historic theological debates explain the pure spiritual etiology of glossolalia, while the current studies present the phenomenon of glossolalia as a result of learned behavior and training.