Eating and nutritional habits in patients with schizophrenia.

Background: There are few studies that relate eating and nutritional habits to the severity of the disease and demographic profile in patients with schizophrenia.

Objective: To describe eating and nutritional habits and their relationship with the severity of the disease in patients with schizophrenia.

Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study.

Eating and nutritional habits in patients with schizophrenia.

Background: There are few studies that relate eating and nutritional habits to the severity of the disease and demographic profile in patients with schizophrenia.

Objective: To describe eating and nutritional habits and their relationship with the severity of the disease in patients with schizophrenia.

Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study.

Changes in administrative prevalence of mental disorders over a 13-year period in Asturias (northern Spain).

Introduction: The study of administrative prevalence from cumulative psychiatric case registers allows the mental health state of the studied region and the functioning of its Health Services to be estimated.

Methods: Data were extracted from the Asturias Cumulative Psychiatric Case Register (RACPAS) between January 1st 1998 and December 3 th 2010. Characteristics of the population of the catchment area were studied, and their relationship with the administrative prevalence was analyzed.

Borderline personality traits in nonclinical young adults.

The main purpose of this study was to explore the dimensionality of the borderline personality disorder in nonclinical young adults by means of the Borderline Personality Questionnaire (BPQ; Poreh et al., 2006). We also studied the phenotypic expression of the borderline personality traits as a function of participants' gender and age, and the relationship between BPQ subscales and measures of depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress, hallucinatory predisposition, and paranoid ideation.