Adolescents and young adults with social withdrawal in France: Sociodemographic characteristics and validation of the French version of the Hikikomori Questionnaire-25 (HQ-25).

Background: Clinical situations marked by severe social withdrawal in youths are increasingly recognized as an important public health issue in European countries, while the relation with the hikikomori syndrome initially described in Japan remains poorly investigated.

Aims: This study aims to describe the sociodemographic features of adolescents and young adults with social withdrawal in French and to validate a French version of the Hikikomori Questiuonnaire-25 (HQ-25).

Method: An online questionnaire was completed by 450 participants aged 13 to 25 years.

Examining the hikikomori syndrome in a French sample of hospitalized adolescents with severe social withdrawal and school refusal behavior.

While the term hikikomori (HKM) has spread internationally to describe a chronic and severe form of social withdrawal, its place in current nosography and its transposition into non-Asian cultures are still debated. A retrospective chart review was conducted to determine the rate and the clinical profiles of HKM among a French sample of adolescent inpatients. Data were obtained from 191 adolescents aged 12-18 years ( = 15.

Mental Healthcare Utilization among Homeless People in the Greater Paris Area.

The healthcare utilization of homeless people is generally considered insufficient, and studies often suffer from methodological bias (institutionalized vs. street samples). To adapt public health policies in France, epidemiological data on this population are scarce.

Clinical and nonclinical predictors of test ordering in psychiatric emergency.

Objective: This naturalistic prospective study explored the predictors of laboratory test ordering in a psychiatric emergency department.

Methods: We used a standardized questionnaire to collect clinical and nonclinical features in 527 consecutive patients.

Results: Test ordering was independently predicted by age, spoken language, referral by relatives, eating disorders, and somatic complaints.

[Emergency situations in psychiatry].

Emergencies in psychiatry depend both on the diagnosis of the pathology (past diagnosis or that revealed by the emergency), and on the situations that caused the crisis, of which their reactional nature demands specific treatment. There is an emergency when this is felt by any of the protagonists: the patient, the doctor or the entourage. The response in the environment can be indifferent, aggravating or pacifying.

[Psychiatric presentation of disseminated lupus erythematosus. When "calling wolf"].

Introduction: Neurological or psychiatric manifestations are frequent during systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). When faced with acute psychiatric symptoms, it is important to envisage the possibility of an organic origin.

Observation: A 36 year-old woman consulted for motor deficiency of the right lower body and paresthesia of the left arm.