Treatment of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Trial to Evaluate a Learning Style Profile Intervention Program in China.

Objective: To investigate whether the provision of learning style profile (LSP) training improves development in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in China and to describe the characteristics of children who benefit from the intervention.

Methods: Eighty-one children aged 36 to 72 months who were diagnosed with ASD for the first time were recruited for the intervention group. All of them received 24 weeks of LSP training, consisting of hospital- and home-based training.

Outcome of a psychosocial health promotion intervention aimed at improving physical health and reducing alcohol use in patients with schizophrenia and psychotic disorders (MINT).

Background: Life expectancy is reduced by 19 years in men and 17 in women with psychosis in Sweden, largely due to cardiovascular disease.

Aim: Assess whether a psychosocial health promotion intervention improves cardiometabolic risk factors, quality of life, and severity of illness in patients with psychotic disorders more than treatment as usual.

Methods: A pragmatic intervention trial testing a manual-based multi-component health promotion intervention targeting patients with psychosis.

[Investigation and follow-up requires collaboration].

A thorough investigation is warranted when a person presents to health care services with signs and symptoms of schizophrenia. Positive (hallucinations and delusions) as well as negative symptoms (blunted affect, avolition, and loss of speech content) should be assessed in order to confirm the diagnosis. Further, psychosocial functioning must be evaluated.