Functionality During the First Five Years After the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia. A Cohort Study in a Colombian Population.

Objective: There is a lack of studies on the natural history of the initial stages of schizophrenia in Colombia. This study aims to assess functionality in the first five years after the diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Methods: Naturalistic longitudinal study of 50 patients with early schizophrenia evaluated between 2011 and 2014.

[The Role of Colombian Psychiatrists in the Midst of the COVID 19 Pandemic].

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on multiple levels, one being the way of providing mental health care services. A study was proposed in order to identify the standpoints regarding the role we must assume as psychiatrists in the setting of this pandemic in Colombia.

Methods: A study was developed employing a Delphi-type methodology.

The role of Colombian psychiatrists in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on multiple levels, one being the way of providing mental health care services. A study was proposed in order to identify the standpoints regarding the role we must assume as psychiatrists in the setting of this pandemic in Colombia.

Methods: A study was developed employing a Delphi-type methodology.

Functionality During the First Five Years After the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia. A Cohort Study in a Colombian Population.

Objective: There is a lack of studies on the natural history of the initial stages of schizophrenia in Colombia. This study aims to assess functionality in the first five years after the diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Methods: Naturalistic longitudinal study of 50 patients with early schizophrenia evaluated between 2011 and 2014.

Current clinical advances and future perspectives in the psychiatry/mental health field of Latin America.

The history of Mental Health in Latin America is relatively young. It dates back to the mid nineteenth century and widely developed during the twentieth century, with formidable scientific, social, political, and ethical challenges. Latin American psychiatry has contributed in the fields of epidemiology, phenomenology, social psychiatry, psychiatric and epistemological research, and clinical genetics as well.