RAPID progression: tool for screening aggressive course of disease (ACD) in Alzheimer dementia.

Objective: There is a need for a tool in clinical practice to assess the rate of progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. The present study purpose was to develop a tool for screening and progression assessing of AD patients with Aggressive Course of Disease (ACD).

Material And Method: The Thai Realtime Assessment of Progression In Dementia (RAPID) was developed for screening AD patients with ACD through a caregiver questionnaire.

Posttraumatic mental health establishment of the Tsunami survivors in Thailand.

The natural disaster known as "the Tsunami" occurred in Andaman coast of Thailand in December 2004, and there had been questions whether it could cause PTSD amongst the population who lives in the affected area and how to avoid PTSD condition to occur.The purpose of this study is to establish statistical results of psychosocial factors, and their correlation to PTSD and other mental disorders in order to generate the PTSD database. Cross sectional community surveys had been conducted in two phases from the same sampling group, the first phase is concerned with prevalence of PTSD, depression and related factors.

Posttraumatic stress disorder of the Tsunami survivors in Thailand.

Background: The natural disaster known as "the Tsunami" occurred in the Andaman sea coast of Thailand in December 2004, and there had been questions whether it could cause PTSD amongst the population who lives in the affected area and how to avoid PTSD condition to occur.

Objective: Establish statistical results of psychosocial factors, and their correlation to PTSD and other mental disorders to generate the PTSD database.

Material And Method: A cross-sectional community surveys from 3,133 samples had been conducted in two phases from the same sampling group.