Prevalence and course of subthreshold anxiety disorder in the general population: A three-year follow-up study.

Background: This study examined the prevalence, course and risk indicators of subthreshold anxiety disorder to determine the necessity and possible risk indicators for interventions.

Methods: Data were derived from the 'Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study-2' (NEMESIS-2), a psychiatric epidemiological cohort study among the general population (n = 4528). This study assessed prevalence, characteristics, and three-year course of subthreshold anxiety disorder (n = 521) in adults, and compared them to a no anxiety group (n = 3832) and an anxiety disorder group (n = 175).

Determinants of selective reporting: A taxonomy based on content analysis of a random selection of the literature.

Background: Selective reporting is wasteful, leads to bias in the published record and harms the credibility of science. Studies on potential determinants of selective reporting currently lack a shared taxonomy and a causal framework.

Objective: To develop a taxonomy of determinants of selective reporting in science.

(Cost)effectiveness of life review for older adults: design of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Depression in older adults is a serious health problem with a poor prognosis. There is a need for indicated preventive psychological interventions for older adults, that show to be promising in preventing depressive disorders.

Methods/design: This manuscript describes the design of a study evaluating 'Looking for Meaning', a newly developed prevention course for older adults with depressive symptoms, based on life-review.

Cost-utility of a visiting service for older widowed individuals: randomised trial.

Background: Despite a growing understanding of the effectiveness of bereavement interventions and the groups that benefit most from them, we know little about the cost-effectiveness of bereavement interventions.

Methods: We conducted a cost-utility analysis alongside a randomized clinical trial on a visiting service for older widowed individuals (n=110) versus care as usual (CAU; n=106). The visiting service is a selective bereavement intervention that offers social support to lonely widows and widowers by a trained volunteer.

The relationship between characteristics of supported housing and the quality of life of older adults with severe mental illness.

This study examined whether group living (as opposed to single living), staff availability and degree of personal freedom are associated with the quality of life of older adults with severe mental illness. A cross-sectional study was carried out in 18 supported living programmes in residential homes for the elderly that differed in terms of these three characteristics. The study included 35 patients with a psychotic disorder and 38 with an anxiety or mood disorder.

Supported living in residential homes for the elderly: impact on patients and elder care workers.

To enable older people with severe and persistent mental illness to live in the community, the Dutch mental health sector has developed a program for supported living in residential homes for the elderly. It provides for the permanent stationing of mental health workers (MHWs) in elder care facilities to support both the resident patients and the elder care staff. The authors examined associations between the number of MHW staff and the degree to which (1) patients were integrated into the community and (2) elder care workers had developed effective working alliances with their patients.

Reliability of the ICD-10 classification of adverse familial and environmental factors.

Background: The tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) contains a number of categories and guidelines for coding different types of adverse familial and environmental situations. These categories have been selected on the basis of empirical evidence that the adverse situations might represent important psychiatric risk factors. Prior studies, using written case vignettes or video- or audiotaped semi-structured interviews, showed that the interrater reliability of these classifications is satisfactory.

Psychiatric morbidity, service use, and need for care in the general population: results of The Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study.

Objectives: This study examined the use of primary health care, mental health care, and informal care services, as well as unmet care needs, by individuals with different psychiatric diagnoses.

Methods: Data were derived from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study and were based on a representative sample (n = 7147) of the general population (aged 18-64 years).

Results: In a 12-month period, 33.

Condom use by Dutch men with commercial heterosexual contacts: determinants and considerations.

We report responses from 559 clients of female prostitutes, with a view to determining to what extent previously identified factors play a part in condom use. To increase the response rate to advertisements in daily and weekly newspapers, interviews were held by phone. This procedure had the advantage of ensuring the anonymity many clients demanded.