Children with new onset seizures: A prospective study of parent variables, child behavior problems, and seizure occurrence.

Objective: Parent variables (stigma, mood, unmet needs for information and support, and worry) are associated with behavioral difficulties in children with seizures; however, it is not known how this relationship is influenced by additional seizures. This study followed children (ages 4-14 years) and their parents over a 24-month period (with data collected at baseline and 6, 12, and 24 months) and investigated the effect of an additional seizure on the relationship between parenting variables and child behavior difficulties.

Methods: The sample was parents of 196 children (104 girls and 92 boys) with a first seizure within the past 6 weeks.

The impact of a recovery-based program on veterans with long inpatient psychiatric stays.

The study's purpose was to report outcomes for 47 veterans who participated in a recovery-based psychiatric rehabilitation program. On the whole, these veterans had a history of long continuous hospital stays, ranging from 6 months to less than 45 years. The discharged veterans (15, 32%) experienced statistically greater community tenure (paired t (28) = -4.

Patients' views of causes of aggression by patients and effective interventions.

Objective: The authors studied patients' perceptions of the causes of aggression by patients and their recommendations for interventions to prevent assaultive behavior.

Methods: A total of 92 inpatient and outpatient veterans, the majority of whom had a psychiatric diagnosis and some a medical diagnosis, answered questions in individual interviews about whether they had ever witnessed an assault.

Results: Fifty-two participants had witnessed aggression.