Mental illness and ethnicity - being a stateless person (apatride).

The main aim of this study has been to perceive the state of mentally ill stateless person hospitalized in Psychiatric Hospital Rab, Croatia with forensic status. This is a case report of such a person, F.V.

The role and importance of consulting psychiatry in paediatric surgery.

The main aim of this study was to point on role and importance of consulting psychiatry in paediatric population of patients particularly in branch of paediatric surgery. This study is a view to a few years research on biopsychosocial aspect of treatment of long bones fractures in children and adolescents realized in Departments for paediatric surgery of three hospitals, in Zagreb and Rijeka, Croatia, as well as in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in period 2003.-2007.

Rates of depression and anxiety among female medical students in Pakistan.

This study in 2002 determined the rate of anxiety and depression, and the associated social and environmental factors, among 87 randomly selected female medical students at a medical college in Lahore, Pakistan. Students completed the hospital anxiety and depression scale and a questionnaire about life events, social behaviour and past medical history. Overall, 43.

Some aspects of self-destructive behavior in forensic psychiatric inpatients.

In this study authors have analysed a group of patients (N=65) that were treated at the Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital Rab, during the period of 1998-2000. Detailed analysis of all anamnestic and hetero-anamnestic data as well as the observations during the treatment separated few significant patterns of self-destructive behaviour of various intensity and different possible consequences. The results showed out that within the first group of patients with self-destructive behaviour was noticed a significant increased number of younger age patients who were diagnosed with personality disorder especially borderline and antisocial type.