[Usefulness of SCL-90-R and SIMS inventories for the detection of mental health malingering at workplace].

Mental illness is a common cause of work leave. This situation has a negative impact on labor productivity and costs, and may contribute to con?icts affecting workplace environment. The purpose of this investigation is to describe the evaluation results of a total of 89 cases on sick leave for psychological and psychiatric reasons, and to test the convergent validity of scales in the "Positive Symptom Total" (PST) and "Positive Symptom Distress" (PSDI) of the Symptom Checklist Revised (SCL-90-R) by means of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS).

Differences in social cognition between male prisoners with antisocial personality or psychotic disorder.

The objective of this work is to discriminate between different neurocognitive circuits involved in empathy, one of them linked to emotional processing and the other associated with cognitive function. This is evaluated through the use of neuropsychological tools (Hinting Task, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test and Cambridge Mind Reading Test) empathic cognition and empathic emotion. In this study, 57 male prisoners were divided into three groups: psychotic patients (20), antisocial patients (17), and a control group (20).

Adverse Childhood Experiences among Men with Schizophrenia.

Individuals who suffered traumatic events or adverse experiences during their childhood have an increased risk of developing during adulthood physical problems, aggressive behavior, and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia have higher rates of traumatic experiences during childhood than the general population, and those who suffered multiple traumatic events have an increased risk of disease relapse. The current study aims to determine the prevalence of different types of adverse experiences during childhood among a male patient sample with schizophrenia.

[Traumatic childhood in a private male population of liberty events: prevalence study].

Objective: We have observed, in several studies, high rates of psychiatric disorders and traumatic childhood experiences in people who are deprived of their freedom in prison institutions. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of different types of adverse childhood experiences and the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in patient-internal male in a prison psychiatric institution.

Materials And Methods: An epidemiological study was conducted between March and July 2011 in which 59 inmates-patients were evaluated in the observation room and Psychiatric Evaluation (SOEP) of the unit 20 in the Central Psychiatric Service Men, which was located on the campus of J.