Prevalence and risk factors of depressive episodes among student population in Wroclaw - epidemiological study results.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify risk factors and estimate prevalence of depressive episodes among Wroclaw's universities students.

Methods: Polish adaptation of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was implemented to gather epidemiological data from 370 students of public universities in Wroclaw. Proportional stratified sampling was performed to obtain distinct, independent strata representing sex, year of study and educational profiles.

Childhood adversity as a moderator of the relationship between emotional reactivity and the occurrence of anxiety and depression in a non-clinical group.

Aim: The research is an attempt to confirm the role of emotional reactivity and childhood adversity in the development of anxiety and depression as well as to determine the scope of interaction between these two factors.

Material And Methods: 430 participants were included in the study. The intensity of emotional reactivity was determined using the FCZ-KT Questionnaire developed by Zawadzki and Strelau.

["Epidemiology of mental disorders and access to mental health care. EZOP - Poland" - research methodology].

Aim: Since the second half of the twentieth century, with the development of structured diagnostic tools, population based studies on epidemiology of mental disorders are carried out. A special role is played by World Mental Health Survey Initiative which brings together a group of countries from different continents in order to carry out research projects according to standard methodology using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Polish EZOP study, which was conducted in accordance with the guidelines of WMH joined that group.

Money matters: does the reimbursement policy for second generation antipsychotics influence the number of recorded schizophrenia patients and the burden of stigmatization?

Purpose: In Poland, non-compliance with the reimbursement policy for second-generation antipsychotics (SGA) manifested in prescribing SGA for patients with psychotic disorders other than schizophrenia may result in serious financial penalties. In this study, we aimed at investigating whether the implementation of the reimbursement policy for SGA contributed to increasing the number of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia relatively to the number of patients with a diagnosis of other psychotic disorders in outpatient clinics.

Methods: We analyzed data from Yearbooks of Mental Health that were published by the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland in the years 1989–2009 registering the number of patients treated for various mental disorders in public facilities in Poland.

[Psychiatric epidemiology--recent advances].

The aim of this article is to review recent advances and the latest research trends in psychiatric epidemiology. Examination of mental disorders prevalence delivers important information about the mental state of society and need for professional psychiatric care. The 12 months prevalence estimates are 30% for any mental disorders.

[Mothers' perception of their closeness-caregiving and intrusiveness toward adult sons with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or drug addiction].

Aim: The aim of this study is to compare different aspects of closeness in the relation of mothers towards their adult sons suffering from schizophrenia or drug addiction. Werner and Green (1996), in analyzing the concept of"enmeshment", distinguish between two independent dimensions of closeness: 1) pathological--intrusiveness and 2) positive--closeness-caregiving. Intrusiveness refers to a high level of separation anxiety, projective mystification, emotional inter-reactivity and possessiveness.