Vitamin D deficiency in a psychiatric population and correlation between vitamin D and CRP.

Objectives: The main objective of the study was to assess 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) status in a psychiatric population in France according to psychiatric diagnoses. The secondary objective was to investigate a correlation between 25(OH)D and CRP.

Methods: A retrospective study from February 1st, 2014 to January 31, 2016, was carried out in a French psychiatric hospital.

[The primary function of words in action].

The task of characterising functions in relation to the informal aspects of psychiatric care constitutes the heart of research results. An illustration based on the function of words in action. Words in action are full, they respond to a demand for reliability.

[The invisible reality of informal nursing].

Informal care was the subject of nursing research carried out by two psychiatric nurses. The investigation showed the importance within nursing of informal care, often confined to qualities associated with gender and the maternal function. A review of the pathway of the researchers, with a presentation of the choice of this research theme, a methodological resume and an overview of the results.

[Sensitive paranoia, concepts and a clinical case study].

Sensitive paranoia, classified by Ernst Kretschmer, is a combination of a paranoid disorder with solitude and mental distress. Sensitive paranoiacs, often depressive and anxious, perceive themselves as being excluded from society while at the same time cultivating a resentment towards it. They also constantly put themselves down.