Childhood trauma, resilience, psychopathology and social functioning in schizophrenia: A network analysis.

The affective pathway to psychosis implicates affective symptoms and neuroticism as mediating steps between childhood trauma and symptoms of schizophrenia. Prior research seldom examined the interplay between childhood trauma, resilience, personality, social functioning and symptoms in schizophrenia patients. This study recruited 290 schizophrenia patients, and constructed a regularized partial correlation network of childhood trauma, resilience, big-five personality traits, symptoms and social functioning.

Clinical risk model to predict 28-day unplanned readmission via the accident and emergency department after discharge from acute psychiatric units for patients with psychotic spectrum disorders.

Background: Unplanned readmissions rates are an important indicator of the quality of care provided in a psychiatric unit. However, there is no validated risk model to predict this outcome in patients with psychotic spectrum disorders.

Aims: This paper aims to establish a clinical risk prediction model to predict 28-day unplanned readmission via the accident and emergency department after discharge from acute psychiatric units for patients with psychotic spectrum disorders.

Cognitive performance is impaired in euthymic Chinese patients with Bipolar 1 Disorder.

Background: Data from euthymic patients with Bipolar Disorder (BD) has shown cognitive impairment and the notion that sufferers of BD achieve full recovery between illness episodes is questionable. These findings have not been replicated in a Chinese population. The present study examined the cognitive profile of euthymic Chinese patients with Bipolar 1 Disorder (BD-1) and matched healthy control participants.

Schizophrenia with prominent catatonic features ('catatonic schizophrenia') III. Latent class analysis of the catatonic syndrome.

No reports have yet been published on catatonia using latent class analysis (LCA). This study applied LCA to a large, diagnostically homogenous sample of patients with chronic schizophrenia who also presented with catatonic symptoms. A random sample of 225 Chinese inpatients with DSM-IV schizophrenia was selected from the long-stay wards of a psychiatric hospital.

Clinical correlates of the caregiving experience for Chinese caregivers of patients with schizophrenia.

Objective: To assess the correlation between clinical characteristics and the caregiving experience of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia.

Patients And Methods: Two hundred and one patients with schizophrenia and their caregivers were recruited from a psychiatric clinic. The involvement evaluation questionnaire (IEQ) and the general health questionnaire (GHQ) were administered to the caregivers.

Rating catatonia in patients with chronic schizophrenia: Rasch analysis of the Bush-Francis Catatonia Rating Scale.

Background: Catatonic signs and symptoms are frequently observed in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Clinical surveys have suggested that the composition of catatonic syndrome occurring in chronic schizophrenia may be different from what is found in acute psychiatric disorders or medical conditions. Consequently, this patient population may need tailor-made rating instruments for catatonia.

Schizophrenia with prominent catatonic features ('catatonic schizophrenia'). II. Factor analysis of the catatonic syndrome.

Previous factor analyses of catatonia have yielded conflicting results for several reasons including small and/or diagnostically heterogeneous samples and incomparability or lack of standardized assessment. This study examined the factor structure of catatonia in a large, diagnostically homogenous sample of patients with chronic schizophrenia using standardized rating instruments. A random sample of 225 Chinese inpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia according to DSM-IV criteria were selected from the long-stay wards of a psychiatric hospital.

Schizophrenia with prominent catatonic features ('catatonic schizophrenia'): I. Demographic and clinical correlates in the chronic phase.

This study set out to determine the frequency of catatonic syndrome in chronic schizophrenia and its association with sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment variables. A cross-sectional assessment of a randomly selected cohort of patients (n=225; mean age=42+/-7 years; mean length of illness=20.4+/-7.

Tardive dyskinesia in Chinese inpatients with chronic schizophrenia.

The objective of the study was to determine the point prevalence of tardive dyskinesia (TD) in Chinese inpatients with chronic schizophrenia and its association with sociodemographic, clinical and treatment variables and other movement disorders. A cross-sectional assessment of a randomly selected cohort of inpatients (n=225; mean age=42+/-7 years) with DSM-IV schizophrenia was employed using standard rating instruments for TD and other drug-induced movement disorders, in addition to catatonia, and psychotic, negative, depressive and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Using Schooler and Kane's criteria, 15 subjects (6.