Optimization strategies for the organization of mental healthcare.

Aim: The aim of this paper is to analyse the main issues and obstacles to optimizing the organization of mental healthcare and the strategies that should be applied by presenting the examples from practice.

Results: Outcomes of mental healthcare are in relation with 'improved legislation' and the introduction of up-to-date management and economic concepts including continuous treatment model, in addition to the advantages and disadvantages in the provision of mental healthcare within primary and secondary inpatient and outpatient healthcare. Some of these lessons are learned from reforms implemented in Serbia.

[Chlorpromazine-induced status epilepticus: a case report].

Introduction: It is largely known that some antipsychotic agents could have proconvulsive and proepileptogenic effects in some patients and could induce EEG abnormalities as well. However, the association of status epilepticus with certain antipsychotic drugs has been very rarely reported.

Case Report: A case of an 18-year-old adolescent girl, with chlorpromazine therapy started for anxiety-phobic disorder was reported.

Analysis of quality of life and anxiety in patients with different forms of epilepsy.

Background: Anxiety symptoms may have significant implications on the quality of life of patients with epilepsy. The aim of our research is a comparative analysis of the quality of life, i.e.

Most common diagnoses requiring physical restriction of psychiatric patients: humanity at the test.

Introduction: Attitude about physical restriction has been changing through history. It has always been multidimensional approach, including ethic, medical and judicial aspect.

Objective: The main aim was establishing distribution of physical restrictions of patients for the following years: 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11.

Reasons and conditions for involuntary hospitalization with special emphasis on detention without consent of mentally disordered person who voluntarily started hospital treatment.

The nature of some mental illness is such that persons affected by their conduct endangering life, health and safety, as well as life, health and safety of others from their surroundings. These persons, because of their mental condition, are often unable to properly assess their own interest. Because of the above it is permitted for these persons, under certain circumstances, to be forcibly hospitalized against their will.

Anxiety in epileptic patients.

Background: Anxiety may occur as ictal, postictal or interictal symptom in patients with epilepsy. The main aim of this research was to explore the intensity and frequency of anxiety in patients with generalized, temporal and extratemporal epilepsy.

Subjects And Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of three groups of patients with epilepsy (30 patients per group) - recently diagnosed with generalized epilepsy, temporal epilepsy and extratemporal epilepsy, and a healthy control group (N=30).

Psychometric evaluation of the Serbian version of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory-31 (QOLIE-31).

Purpose: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Serbian-language version of the Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory-31 (QOLIE-31).

Methods: After undergoing a translation and cultural adaptation of its items in order to create a Serbian-language version of QOLIE-31, we assessed its psychometric properties-reliability, construct validity and criterion validity. The sample consisted of 203 adults with epilepsy.

Preventing depression in adolescents with epilepsy.

Purpose: The goal of the work described in this article was to test the possibility of preventing depression among adolescents with epilepsy.

Methods: Adolescents with newly diagnosed epilepsy (104 patients) were screened for depression. The risk for depression was increased in 30 (28.