Risk of contralateral second primary breast cancer according to hormone receptor status in Germany.

Introduction: Hormone receptor (HR) status has become an established target in treatment strategies of breast cancer. Population-based estimates of contralateral breast cancer (CBC) incidence by HR subtype in particular are limited. The aim of this study was to provide detailed data on CBC incidence for Germany.

Population-based hormone receptor-specific incidence trends of breast cancer in Germany.

Objectives: Several countries reported a drop in prescription of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the 2000s, followed by decreases in breast cancer incidence among postmenopausal women aged 50-69 years. The aim of this study was to provide hormone receptor specific incidence rates of breast cancer in Germany.

Methods: Breast cancer data were extracted from the cancer registries of the Federal States of Brandenburg and Saarland and the area of Munich for the period from 1998 to 2007.

[Efficacy of psychological interventions on pain coping strategies in orthopedic rehabilitation of chronic low back pain].

Background: Within an intervention study in chronic low back pain patients treated in medical inpatient rehabilitation, a multimodal intervention program was implemented at a rehabilitation clinic (sponsored by VDR, 02508). The aim of the treatment was to reduce dysfunctional, particularly suppressive pain coping patterns.

Methods: The study was aimed as a controlled study.

[Psychological comorbidity in subacute and chronic tinnitus outpatients].

Objectives: The aim of the study is to assess psychosomatic symptoms and comorbidity in a group of tinnitus out-patients and their correlation with tinnitus distress.

Methods: 32 subacute (duration 3-12 months) and 71 chronic tinnitus patients participated in the study. Questionnaires were used to assess tinnitus distress (German version of the TQ, VAS), psychosomatic symptoms (SCL-90-R, BDI, BAI) coping strategies (KKG, FKV), social support (F-SOZU) and interpersonal problems (IIP-D).

[Psychotherapeutic relationship and outcome in psychotherapy of personality disorders].

Objectives: The study examines the predictive significance we of the quality of the individual therapeutic relationship for outcome in patients with personality disorders who underwent inpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Methods: In a prospective study 254 patients with DSM IV Cluster B and C personality disorders were examined at several intervals in the course of inpatient psychotherapy with the Helping Alliance Questionnaire, the Symptom Check List SCL-90-R, the score for severity of impairment and with questionnaires on the form of therapy for patients and therapists.

Results: Independent of the outcome, patients classified individual psychotherapy as the most effective form of therapy.

[The incidence of pathological eating behaviour among schoolchildren in a large urban area].

Clinical experience and international epidemiological studies indicate an increase in pathological eating behaviour as well as a shift towards increasingly younger children. In order to study its frequency in Germany a large random sample, 2,844 pupils of the 10 th class level were contacted as part of a school medical examination to take part in a questionnaire study using the Eating Disorder Inventory. Age, gender, BMI and the type of school were also recorded.

[Symptomatics and life events by German eastern and western psychotherapy patients].

The results of parallel comparative studies carried out on patients in psychotherapy in the University Clinics for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics of Halle and Düsseldorf are presented in this paper. The investigation setting operationalized the constructs of symptomatics, cause attribution, treatment expectationns, events in life and assessment of emotional support. There are no differences between the two groups of people as far as symptomatics and image of oneself is concerned.