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6. Screening Family Burden in Clinical Practice : The development of a new instrument and investigation of its correlates to psychotic disorders
Sammanfattning : The primary purpose of this thesis is to develop a short and user-friendly instrument for the assessment of family burden caused by psychotic disorders. A secondary purpose is to further investigate variables that might be linked to an increased burden. Of these variables, patients’ reduced functioning will be addressed in more detail. LÄS MER
7. Health among people with psychotic disorders and effects of an individualized lifestyle intervention to promote health
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the thesis was to increase knowledge of health among people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and other long-term psychotic conditions. The aim was also to investigate health effects, in terms of clinical health outcomes and self-reported questionnaires, of atwo-year individualized lifestyle intervention implemented in psychiatric outpatient services involving cooperation with the municipal social psychiatry services. LÄS MER
8. Psychotic disorders in the Lundby population 1947-1997: Incidence, life-time prevalence and predictors related to personality and behaviour
Sammanfattning : The aims were to analyze the first incidence, age-at-onset, prevalence and personality related predictors of psychotic disorders in the Lundby population (n=3563) – a community population followed through four waves of field study 1947-1997. Case ascertainment included interviews, registers, case notes and key informants. LÄS MER
9. Psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation in the non-demented elderly. A population study on prevalence, incidence, and associated factors, and their relationship to cognitive functioning and prognosis
Sammanfattning : Background: Psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation are not commonly reported in non-demented elderly, and may be underrated in traditional epidemiological studies.Aims: The aims of this study are to characterize the incidence and prevalence of psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation and associated factors; the relationship between neuropsychological performance and psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation and the prognosis of psychotic symptoms and paranoid ideation in non-demented elderly. LÄS MER
10. Treatment Response in Psychotic Patients in a Naturalistic Setting : Classification, Genes, Drugs, Insight and Social Networks
Sammanfattning : Many patients with psychotic symptoms respond poorly to treatment. Various approaches have been made to classify these patients according to treatment response. However, existing classifications have been criticized for various reasons and a new classification system is needed. LÄS MER