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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 92 avhandlingar innehållade orden psykiatri uppsala.
1. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder – Assessment of current diagnostic definitions
Sammanfattning : Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that may arise after exposure to shocking, frightening, or dangerous events. Hallmark symptoms are re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal. Other common symptoms are more ancillary and overlap with other psychiatric disorders (e.g. LÄS MER
2. Suicide in schizophrenia and adverse events during antipsychotic medication
Sammanfattning : This thesis considers side effects and other adverse events during treatment with antipsychotic medication. All included studies use an epidemiological methodology with data from Swedish population-based health registers. The first two studies utilise a nested case-control design, whereas the third and fourth studies rely on cohort designs. LÄS MER
3. Studies on Quality of Life : A Methodological Perspective on the Definition and Measurement of the Good Life in Patients with Psychiatric Illness
Sammanfattning : Background: In social sciences the quality of life (QOL) concept is often connected with efforts to evaluate welfare and well being. In medicine QOL is frequently used as a complement to evaluations of cure. In psychiatry QOL is of special importance because many patients have to endure long periods of illness. LÄS MER
4. Psychopathy and biological markers in a forensic psychiatric population
Sammanfattning : The aim of this investigation was to determine the frequency of psychopathy and examine the co-morbidity pattern in a forensic psychiatric population in Sweden. In addition, possible biological markers were evaluated. The research subjects were 61 non-psychotic men, admitted for forensic psychiatric investigations in Uppsala during 1992 - 1994. LÄS MER
5. Coping, Personality and Cognitive Processes in Burn Injured Patients
Sammanfattning : Being severely burned is a traumatic life event that affects the victim both physically and psychologically. Recovery can be a long process that is dependent in part upon psychological factors, but research in this area is still quite limited. LÄS MER
