Reliability and Validity of the List of Mental Health Items (LISMEN).

Background: The detection of risk factors is a key element in the prevention of mental health disorders. It is widely known that in the formation of personality and its disorders, relational experiences (vital events) in childhood condition both neurological and emotional development. The accumulation of these circumstances brings about altered life trajectories, which make people more vulnerable to mental health disorders.

[Review of risks factors in childhood for schizophrenia and severe mental disorders in adulthood].

Aim: To provide scientific evidence, using a literature review on psychosocial risk factors in mental health, that a high exposure to psychosocial stress situations in childhood increases the risk of mental disorders in adulthood,.

Design: A literature review up to December 2011 in the electronic databases from Medline, Universitat de Barcelona, and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. The keywords used were: childhood, prenatal, vulnerability, risk, abuse, neglect, child mental disorder, schizophrenia, and prevention.

Attachment style predicts 6-month improvement in psychoticism in persons with at-risk mental states for psychosis.

Aim: Insecure attachment may influence vulnerability to and outcome of psychotic symptomatology. The present study examined whether attachment style predicted symptoms and functioning of at-risk mental state (ARMS) patients after 6 months of psychosocial intervention, over and above the effects of initial clinical severity and premorbid social adjustment (PSA).

Methods: Symptoms and functioning were assessed at baseline and 6 months later in 31 ARMS patients (mean age = 15.

At-risk mental state (ARMS) detection in a community service center for early attention to psychosis in Barcelona.

Aim: To describe the strategy and some results in at-risk mental state (ARMS) patient detection as well as some of the ARMS clinical and socio-demographical characteristics. The subjects were selected among the patients visited by an Early Care Equipment for patients at high risk of psychoses, in Barcelona (Spain) during its first year in operation.

Methods: Descriptive study of the community-team relations, selection criteria and intervention procedure.

Neighborhood differences in psychoses: prevalence of psychotic disorders in two socially-differentiated metropolitan areas of Barcelona.

Introduction: The prevalence of schizophrenia and other psychoses can vary between close geographic locations and can be biased by the use of epidemiological designs. With data derived from a public mental health centre with close relations to primary care teams we have compared the distribution of psychotic disorders in two neighborhoods in Barcelona with marked psycho-social differences.

Methods: Using a computerized database from Barcelona's National Health Service covering 5 basic health-care areas with a total population of 103,615 inhabitants, we have accessed case records showing any psycho-pathology between the years of 1982 and 2000.

[Schizophrenic disorders in primary care mental health].

Objectives: To determine the prevalence and incidence of schizophrenia and other psychoses in a mental health unit (MHU) closely connected to primary health care.

Design: Retrospective longitudinal study of the register of all patients with psychiatric illnesses detected in a specific geo-demographic and health care area.

Setting: Five basic health care areas of Barcelona (103 615 inhabitants).