Clinical determinants of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization: A clinical profile approach.

Objectives: The study examines the clinical determinants of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization. Specifically, it investigates whether distinct clinical profiles of hospitalized patients can be discerned, what other characteristics they are linked with, and which profiles predict involuntary admission.

Methods: In this cross-sectional multicentre population study, data were collected for 1067 consecutive admissions in all public psychiatric clinics of Thessaloniki, Greece, during 12 months.

Short-term reliability of retrospective childhood trauma reports in schizophrenia spectrum psychosis.

Childhood trauma (CT) refers to severe early life adversities, especially experiences of parental abuse and neglect. Patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis (SSP) report higher CT rates than the general population. As CT assessment in SSP samples has been mainly conducted retrospectively through adult recollections of childhood adverse events, reservations about the reliability and validity of these reports have arisen.