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Clozapine treatment continues to be recognized as the gold standard for managing treatment-resistant schizophrenia. Combining clozapine with other antipsychotics (i.e.

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  • The study investigates the relationship between alexithymia (difficulty in identifying and expressing emotions) and substance use, focusing on the roles of emotional symptoms, family support, and self-efficacy.
  • A sample of 117 participants with substance use disorder was analyzed, revealing that emotional symptoms mediate the association between alexithymia and substance dependence, influenced by family support and self-efficacy.
  • The findings suggest that enhancing family support and self-efficacy can protect against the negative effects of alexithymia on substance dependence, highlighting the need for early interventions targeting these factors.
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  • HPV infection in mothers may increase the risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in their children, according to a study analyzing data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database.
  • The study compared 7,762 children of mothers with HPV infection to 31,048 children of mothers without it and found a significant higher likelihood of ADHD in the HPV group.
  • No increased risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was noted, emphasizing the need for awareness and preventive measures regarding HPV during pregnancy.
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Background: Older-age bipolar disorder (OABD) is commonly defined as bipolar disorder in individuals aged 60 or more. There have been no studies to examine temporal trends in the pharmacological treatment of OABD. We aimed to investigate prescription changes among OABD patients discharged from two public mental hospitals in Taiwan from 2006 to 2019.

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Characteristics of sleep disturbance across two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic among nursing staffs.

Sleep Med X

December 2024

Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Kai-Syuan Psychiatric Hospital, Kaohsiung, No.130, Kaisyuan 2nd Rd., Lingya Dist., Kaohsiung City, 802211, Taiwan.

Objectives: COVID-19 has impacted human lifestyles, including sleep quality. For nursing staff, sleep disorders not only impact their health and daily lives but also have implications for patient safety. The objective of this study is to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological and social aspects of nursing staff and the factors influencing their sleep quality through a two-wave survey.

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Development of the assessment for emotional and behavioral problems in school-aged children.

Asian J Psychiatr

November 2024

School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan. Electronic address:

Background: Several assessments have been developed to assess school-aged children's emotional and behavioral problems (EBPs), but none based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition, Text Revision. This study aimed to develop the Assessment for Emotional and Behavioral Problems in School-aged children (AEBPS) fitting current knowledge of mental health disorders.

Materials And Methods: This study included 2 phases.

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The efficacy and acceptability of anti-inflammatory omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements in sepsis management: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids

March 2024

Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK; Mind-Body Interface Research Center (MBI-Lab), China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; An-Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address:

Sepsis is a critical medical condition associated with high mortality for patients. Current pharmacological strategies for sepsis management or prevention had not achieved satisfactory results. The omega-3 fatty acids, with anti-inflammatory benefits, are considered to be promising agents for sepsis management/prevention.

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Objective: Healthcare workers (HCWs) suffered from a heavy mental health burden during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We aimed to explore the differences in sleep disturbance in three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan among HCWs. Moreover, factors associated with sleep disturbances in the third wave were investigated.

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Background: Migraine has been associated with mental disorders, however whether parental migraine is associated with an increased risk of major mental disorders (MMDs) in offspring has not been investigated. We aimed to examine the risk of the development of MMDs in the offspring of parents with migraine compared with those of parents without migraine.

Methods: This study used data derived from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database.

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  • The study explores the impact of time spent on war-related news on psychological distress, such as depression and PTSD, among people in Poland and Ukraine, with a focus on how rumination influences these effects.
  • It involved 1438 internet users and utilized structural equation modeling and regression analysis to assess the relationships between news consumption, rumination, and mental health outcomes.
  • Key findings indicate that rumination mediates the relationship between news consumption and psychological distress, with different sources of news (TV and internet) influencing rumination and PTSD symptoms differently in Poland.
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This study investigated the healthcare utilization and medical expenditure of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and identified the associated factors. The healthcare utilization and expenditure of T2DM patients with (case group) and without (control group) GAD between 2002 and 2013 were examined using the population-based Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. Healthcare utilization included outpatient visits and hospitalization; health expenditure included outpatient, inpatient, and total medical expenditure.

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Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Schizophrenic Patients Treated with Paliperidone Palmitate Once-Monthly Injection (PP1M): A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study in Taiwan.

Clin Drug Investig

May 2024

School of Health Care Administration, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, 11F, Biomedical Technology Building, No.301, Yuantong Rd., Zhonghe Dist., New Taipei City, 235, Taiwan.

Background: Schizophrenia is one of the leading causes of disability. Paliperidone palmitate once-monthly injection (PP1M) was developed to provide consistent drug delivery and improve medication adherence for maintenance treatment. It is well known that patients with schizophrenia have higher cardiovascular risks, however little is known about the cardiovascular risks of patients with schizophrenia treated with PP1M in Asia.

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Introduction: Despite its high lifetime prevalence rate and the elevated disability caused by posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), treatments exhibit modest efficacy. In consideration of the abnormal connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and amygdala in PTSD, several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) addressing the efficacy of different noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) modalities for PTSD management have been undertaken. However, previous RCTs have reported inconsistent results.

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Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent and serious types of cancer globally. Previous literature has shown that women with mental illness may have an increased risk of breast cancer, however whether this risk is associated with the use of psychotropic drugs has yet to be elucidated. This study aimed to assess such risk among women with major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD).

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Introduction: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an impact on patients with substance use disorder (SUD). We aimed to investigate factors associated with confidence and adherence to governmental policies against COVID-19 (social desirability) among patients with SUD.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted during 2020 to 2021.

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It may be possible to enhance adults' cognitive health and promote healthy aging through processing speed training using the Useful Field of View (UFOV) related activities and software. This study investigated the impact of utilizing UFOV on processing speed improvement in older adults in response to the growing global attention on cognitive health and aging issues. In this quasi-experimental study, 22 individuals (mean age ± SD = 71.

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Bipolar disorder is a complex mental illness. Pharmacological therapy, including antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, is the primary treatment approach for manic episode. The study aimed to analyze prescribing patterns over a 14-year period for patients with bipolar mania discharged from a psychiatric hospital in Taiwan.

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Aim: Large language models (LLMs) have been suggested to play a role in medical education and medical practice. However, the potential of their application in the psychiatric domain has not been well-studied.

Method: In the first step, we compared the performance of ChatGPT GPT-4, Bard, and Llama-2 in the 2022 Taiwan Psychiatric Licensing Examination conducted in traditional Mandarin.

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Background And Objectives: Probability discounting (PD), which refers to the process of adjusting the value of future probabilities when making decisions, is a method of measuring impulsive decision-making; however, the relationship between PD and nicotine remains unclear. The current study aimed at investigating the significance of PD in individuals who smoke.

Methods: According to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we searched the PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, and Web of Science databases for articles comparing individuals who smoke and their tobacco-naïve controls using PD task as outcome measure from inception to May 2023.

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Patients with schizophrenia tend to have deficits in emotion recognition (ER) that affect their social function. However, the commonly-used ER measures appear incomprehensive, unreliable and invalid, making it difficult to comprehensively evaluate ER. The purposes of this study were to develop the Computerized Emotion Recognition Video Test (CERVT) evaluating ER ability in patients with schizophrenia.

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Data discretization aims to transform a set of continuous features into discrete features, thus simplifying the representation of information and making it easier to understand, use, and explain. In practice, users can take advantage of the discretization process to improve knowledge discovery and data analysis on medical domain problem datasets containing continuous features. However, certain feature values were frequently missing.

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Objectives: The aim of this network meta-analysis (NMA) was to assess whether participants assigned to a placebo and standard of care (SoC) group had different major coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related outcomes than those assigned to SoC alone.

Design: Frequentist model-based NMA.

Setting: We searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of Janus kinase/Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors for the management of COVID-19.

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