Publications by authors named "Qin-ting Zhang"
Objectives: To provide a longitudinal evaluation tool based on the frequency of aggressive behavior for the aggression assessment of schizophrenia patients.
Methods: The Life History of Aggression was translated and revised to form the Life History of Aggression-Chinese Version (LHA-CV) based on 369 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia in the Chengdu community and compulsory medical institution. The reliability of LHA-CV was analyzed by means of split-half reliability, test-retest reliability and inter-evaluator consistency.
Background: Although only a few patients with severe mental disorders (SMD) can commit violent behaviour in the community, violent behaviour aggravates the stigma towards patients with SMD. Understanding the subtypes of violent behaviour may be beneficial for preventing violent behaviour among patients with SMD, but it has rarely been studied.
Methods: This longitudinal study investigated 1914 patients with SMD in the community at baseline, and the follow-up period ranged from February 2021 to August 2021.
Objectives: To understand the current status of appraisal of post-concussion syndrome disability and the reasons for the changes in re-appraisal opinions.
Methods: The cases that were judged as "post-concussion syndrome and ten-level disability" in the first appraisal and re-appraised for psychiatric impairment by the Academy of Forensic Science in 2019 were analyzed retrospectively.
Results: There were 75 cases, including 58 cases with pre-hospital emergency medical records, among which 39 cases were clearly recorded to be without a history of coma; 74 cases had emergency medical records, among which 44 cases were recorded of having a history of coma; 43 cases had follow-up medical records, among which 24 cases had a history of psychiatric follow-up.
Objective: To explore the main performance of personality change in people with mild psychiatric impairments which due to the brain trauma caused by traffic accidents and its value in assessment of psychiatric impairment.
Methods: The condition of personality change of patients with traumatic brain injury caused by traffic accident was evaluated by the Scale of Personality Change Post-traumatic Brain Injury (SPCPTBI). Furthermore, the correlation between the personality change and the degrees of traumatic brain injury and psychiatric impairment were explored.
The prevalence of violence behavior in patients with schizophrenia is higher than that in common population. Data suggest that genetic factors may play a substantial role for the etiology of the behavior. Among the particular gene polymorphisms that have been considered to be involved in violence behavior, the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene had been the focus of recent research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore the methods to assess the function disorder of patients with mild psychiatric impairment due to road traffic accidents.
Methods: In contrast to that of the patient with physical impairment, the function disorder of the patient with mild psychiatric impairment was assessed by the standard assessment instruments, such as the Barthel index of ADL (BI), Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ), Social Disability Screening Schedule (SDSS), Activity of Daily Living Scale (ADL), Physical Self-maintenance Scale (PSMS), and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale (IADL).
Results: Except BI, the each total score of FAQ, SDSS, ADL, PSMS, and IADL correlated well with the rank of psychiatric impairment.
Objective: To create civil capacity rating scale for mentally disabled patients, and explore its feasibility during the forensic psychiatric expertise.
Methods: The civil capacity-related items were determined after discussion and consultation. The civil capacity rating scale for mentally disabled patients was established and the manual was created according to the logistic sequence of the assessment.
Testamentary capacity is one of the civil competences, it means that a natural person enjoys the capacity or qualification to establish testament and deal with his property. Recently, the cases of testamentary capacity assessment of the mentally disordered are increasing. This article firstly introduces the concepts of the testament as well as the testamentary capacity, and then summarizes the assessment standard of the testamentary capacity, by using the Banks v.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To search the criteria for evaluating the civil competence of the mental disorders involved in contract dispute.
Methods: Data on the interviewee's mental status and the forensic expertise were collected retrospectively. And 6 indexes were selected and graded: awareness of situation, factual understanding of issues, appreciation of likely consequences, rational manipulation of information, functioning in one's own environment and communication of choice.
Objective: To determine the best time for assessing mental disability due to brain damage.
Methods: Ninety-three mental disabilities due to brain damage in traffic accidents were assessed and their follow-up studies were taken in different period after the brain injury: 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 12 months. The patients' brain imaging, electroencephalogram (EEG) and detailed medical history were collected.
Objective: To seek and ascertain indicators that can be used in the civil competence assessment of the mental disorders involved in compensation of personal injury.
Methods: A retrospective study was made on the data related to the interviewee's mental status assessed by forensic experts during the period from 2003 to 2005 in Institute of Forensic Science, Ministry of Justice, P.R.
Objective: To explore the influencing factors of schizophrenic patient's capability in civil litigation, and to establish the base of quantitative study about execution of civil litigation.
Methods: To study questionnaires completed from patients with and without civil litigation capabilities and to determine the influencing factors from medical and forensic aspects.
Results: One hundred patients were admitted to the study and were divided into two groups based on capability in civil litigation.
Objective: To explore potential application of Diminished Criminal Responsibility Rating Scale (DCRRS) on rape offenders.
Methods: The DCRRS was used retrospectively to study 77 cases of rape offenders. They were divided into three groups according to the degree of diminished criminal responsibility.
Objective: To explore the feasibility of Diminished Criminal Responsibility Rating Scale(DCRRS) to schizophrenia offenders.
Methods: The DCRRS were used respectively to 325 cases of schizophrenia offender which were divided into three groups according to the degree of criminal responsibility.
Results: There were significant differences in rating score among three groups (mild group 21.
[Association between depression and G72 gene polymorphism].
Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi
October 2006
Objective: To investigate the association between G72 gene polymorphisms and depression,and to probe the difference of G72 gene polymorphisms between depression with and without mixed family history.
Methods: The polymorphisms of G72 gene (rs947267 and rs2181953) were detected by PCR technique in 100 depressive patients without mixed family history, 50 depressive patients with mixed family history and 86 normal controls.
Results: (1) The frequencies of rs947267 genotypes and alleles in female depressive patients without mixed family history were significant different to the controls (P=0.
[Study of rating scale of mentally prisoner's competency to serve a sentence].
Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi
August 2005
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to develop a tool called the Competency to Serve a Sentence Rating Scale to assess the mental competency of prisoners in accordance with Chinese law.
- - The researchers combined knowledge from Chinese criminal law and forensic psychiatry to create and validate this instrument, which showed high reliability and good correlation with expert assessments.
- - Ultimately, the study concluded that this rating scale is a feasible instrument for determining whether prisoners can serve their sentences based on their mental competence.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the factors affecting the competency of mentally ill prisoners to serve their sentences, aiming to establish a quantitative basis for assessing this competency.
- Researchers developed a questionnaire to evaluate the legal and psychological capacity of prisoners, testing the hypothesis that those in a treatment ward are incompetent, while those in a rehabilitation unit are competent to serve their sentences.
- Findings highlight significant differences between the psychiatric and legal aspects of mentally ill prisoners, concluding that psychiatric symptoms impair their competency and suggest they should be moved from prison to a hospital for appropriate care.
Objective: To investigate the personality and mental health of the objects of substance (caffeine, cocaine, hallucinogens and so on) abstinence who got labor education and rehabilitation.
Methods: 258 male objects and 250 female objects of substance abstinence selected randomly from institutions of labor education and rehabilitation were assessed with MMPI and SCL-90.
Results: MMPI tests indicated the personality abnormality in the objects.
[The creation of an instrument to determine competency to stand trial].
Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi
December 2005
Objective: To create an instrument to determine the mental disorder offenders' competency to stand trial, which is according with the Chinese legal system.
Methods: Integrating the foreign instruments and the Chinese criminal jurisprudence, and combing the authors' forensic psychiatric experience, the research team created an instrument which was called Competency to stand trial Determining Instrument firstly, then used the instrument in practice, in the end the validity and reliability of the instrument were inspected, and through an diagnostic test, the feasibility of the instrument was evaluated.
Results: Split-half and homogeneity reliability of the instrument is 0.