A survey of threats and violent acts by patients against training physicians.

Objectives: The primary purpose was to determine the prevalence of various types of threats or assaults by patients against training physicians and to determine the psychological impact of the most distressing incidents. Differences between specialty of training and gender were examined.

Design: An anonymous mailed questionnaire.

Sexual and physical abuse of chronically ill psychiatric outpatients compared with a matched sample of medical outpatients.

Because there are few controlled studies, we aimed to determine the prevalence of sexual and physical abuse reported by psychiatric outpatients compared with matched controls. The sample consisted of 158 outpatients with major mental disorders including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder who responded to a semi-structured interview (response rate = 64.8%) and who were individually matched for gender, age, and ethnicity with 158 outpatients who had never been treated for psychiatric illness.

Risk behaviors for sexually transmitted infections among men with mental disorders.

Objective: Risk behaviors for sexually transmitted infections among men with mental disorders who were using outpatient psychiatric services and among men who had never been treated for a mental disorder were compared.

Methods: Ninety-two men with major mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and mood disorders, were individually matched for age and ethnicity with 92 men who had never been treated for mental illness. All subjects completed a semistructured interview about specific risk behaviors for sexually transmitted infections that they may have engaged in during the preceding year.

Teaching medical students about the appropriateness of social and sexual contact between doctors and their patients: evaluation of a programme.

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of an educational intervention on medical students' attitudes toward social and sexual contact with patients by doctors from three medical specialties (general practice, obstetrics/gynaecology and psychiatry). Medical students from two consecutive fifth year classes at one medical school participated in one 3 hour session that included instruction on the standards of the profession that prohibit doctor-patient sexual contact. Students were assigned to either intervention groups or control groups and responded to an anonymous questionnaire (overall response rate 66.

Family planning outcomes of male chronically ill psychiatric outpatients.

To assess contraceptive use and child-rearing outcomes, a semistructured interview was given to 92 male psychiatric outpatients and to 92 matched control subjects without major mental illness. Compared with the control subjects, the patients were significantly more likely to have given up children less than 16 years of age for others to raise. Thirty-three percent of the patients who did not want to father children reported that contraception had not been used when they last had heterosexual intercourse.