Abstract:Background: Research into youth suicide prevention rarely involves young people with lived and living experiences as collaborators. Key barriers include a lack of guidelines or frameworks to inform collaboration, appropriate ethical approval ...
Summary:Background: Ageing is a major cardiovascular risk factor with detrimental changes that culminate in a high atherosclerotic burden. Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a major manifestation of atherosclerosis with high mortality. Guideline-...
Ein grosser Teil der Patienten in der Allgemeinpraxis leidet an einer Generalisierten Angststörung. Die Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Generalisierte Angststörungen (SGGA) hat eine Literaturübersicht erarbeitet und hieraus entsprechende ...
Evaluation of Competing Interests in Guidelines for Treating Substance Use Disorders: Methods and OutcomeAbstract.Background: Since 2018/2019, three S3 treatment guidelines (GL) for alcohol-, pharmaceutical-, and ...
Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia in Nursing Home Residents: Evaluation of a Combined Nursing and Physician Guideline Implementation (VIDEANT)In advanced stages of dementia, behavioral disturbances, such as restlessness, aggressive behavior, and ...
Guideline “Medicolegal Evaluation After Closed Head Injury” of the German Neurological Society (DGN) and the Working Group on Neurological Medicolegal Evaluation (ANB)Abstract: Knowledge of the DGN/ANB guideline “General principles of medicolegal ...
Synopsis and Interdisciplinary Commentary on the International INCOG 2.0-Guidelines “Cognitive Communication Disorders After Traumatic Brain Injury”Abstract: Cognitive communication disorders (CCDs) mainly affect ...
Long-acting medications for the treatment of hyperkinetic disorders - A systematic review and European treatment guideline. Part 1: Overview and recommendationsSummary: A panel of experts from several European countries has accomplished a systematic ...
Long-acting medications for the treatment of hyperkinetic disorders - A systematic review and European treatment guidelines. Part 2: A quantitative evaluation of long-acting medicationsSummary: A panel of experts from several European countries has ...
The conceptualization of anorexia nervosa (AN) depends on the diagnostic criteria. Most patients with teenage onset AN seem to remit within 3–10 years depending on the definitions of recovery. The mortality of adolescent onset anorexia nervosa (AN) has ...
Assessment and therapy of suicidality in adolescence: the most important recommendations of the current guidelineAbstract. Due to the clinical relevance of suicidal risks, suicide attempts, and suicides in ...
Functional Constipation and Nonretentive Fecal Incontinence in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Guideline for Assessment and TreatmentAbstract.Objective: Constipation and fecal incontinence are common disorders ...
Guidelines for Diagnosis in Psychiatry and PsychotherapySummary: The guidelines, which have been published by different international as well as national psychiatric associations concern primarily to specific mental disorders and secondary to treatment ...
Guidelines for the Rehabilitative Care of Patients with Mental DisordersAbstract: Mental disorders are often characterized by a chronic course, with severe impairments, activity limitations or participation restrictions. Therefore rehabilitative elements ...
Die bipolare Depression ist lange Zeit übersehen worden bei der Betrachtung der bipolaren affektiven Störung, obgleich sie ungleich häufiger ist als die Hypomanie oder die Manie. Dieser Artikel soll einen spezifischen Blick auf die bipolare Depression ...
Pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder and acute maniaPharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder is challenging. Symptomatology over the course of the disease can manifest in different ways: as acute mania, hypomania, bipolar depression and mixed states. Adherence ...
Dyslipidemia is one of the most important cardiovascular risk factors. Accordingly preventive measures to normalize lipids are of great importance. The indication for a lipid lowering therapy according to current guidelines focuses on the identification ...
Most common heart valve diseases in western industrialized nations are the aortic valve stenosis and the mitral valve regurgitation. More seldom are a regurgitation of the aortic valve and mitral valve stenosis. Even more seldom are heart valve diseases ...
EchoscopyAbstract. The clinical use of pocket size ultrasound devices is still at an early stage. Its performance has been studied and proven in cardiology, gynecology, and gastroenterology. It is expected that the image quality will improve and that ...
Trends in Family Medicine – How to Sort the Wheat from the ChaffAbstract. Considering the trends in medicine, time just seems to move at a slower pace in general practice/family medicine than in the medical specialties. Novel medical drugs and ...
Recommendations for the Prevention, Diagnostic and Therapy of Delirium in the ElderlyAbstract. Delirium is a aetiologically unspecific confusional state mainly found in elderly persons and dementia. The acute beginning, fluctuations of the clinical ...
Therapy Recommendations for Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Old AgeAbstract. The main goal of these treatment recommendations is to provide experts with current evidence on diagnostic procedures and therapy of ...
Ultrasound in Student EducationAbstract. The subject ’Ultrasound in Medicine’, already introduced during the studies increases the motivation of students by its practical character and combines ...
Therapy of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: What’s New in the 2021 Guidelines?Abstract: The spectrum of treatment options for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) has substantially ...
Epidemiology and treatment options for chronic hepatitis C infection among patients with intravenous drug addiction<B>Aim:</B> To review recent data on epidemiology and treatment options for chronic hepatitis C (HCV)-infection in intravenous drug users (...
Comments on guideline development and its relevance for addiction services<span>Aim:</span> To estimate the significance of the AWMF Guidelines for the future of addiction services from the viewpoint of science, addiction-service associations, service ...
Test evaluation: Summary and restartAbstract. With rising acceptance and application of tests in the German-speaking countries there is also an increase in the need for information about these instruments. The range of available test information and ...
Zusammenfassung. Im Rahmen der Einführung des DRG-Fallpauschalensystems (diagnosis related groups) wurde zur Begründung der Aufnahme der Künstlerischen Therapien in das Klassifikationssystem der Prozeduren des OPS-301 (Operationsschlüssel) ...
Zusammenfassung. In dem Beitrag wird eine Übersicht über den Stand der Entwicklung von Leitlinien zur Diagnostik und Psychotherapie psychischer Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter gegeben. Die Funktionen, die Leitlinien übernehmen können, werden ...
Zusammenfassung. Ein Entwurf evidenzbasierter Leitlinien zur Diagnostik und Psychotherapie von depressiven Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter wird vorgestellt. Für die Diagnosestellung depressiver Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter müssen die gleichen ...
Zusammenfassung. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist, eine Diskussion über evidenzbasierte Leitlinien zur Diagnostik und Psychotherapie von Angst- und Phobischen Störungen des Kindes- und Jugendalters zu initiieren. In den letzten Jahren kam es zu ...
Zusammenfassung. Es wird ein Vorschlag zu evidenzbasierten Leitlinien zur Diagnostik und Psychotherapie aggressiv-dissozialer Störungen formuliert; die Ausführungen schließen Aussagen zur Behandlung oppositionellen Trotzverhaltens mit ein. Für eine ...
Summary: The paper describes why we need guidelines on test use and why, in particular, we need international agreement on what these guidelines should be. The work of the International Test Commission (ITC) is described and the ITC's International ...
Summary: Current existing or proposed standards and guidelines in the field of psychological assessment are confined to psychological tests and psychological testing. But tests constitute only one category of psychological assessment procedures, and ...
There is strong evidence for the existence of the Werther effect, or the phenomenon of an observer copying suicidal behavior he or she has seen modelled in the media. As a consequence, a number of countries have developed guidelines that promote ...
Background: The media have a powerful influence on those at risk of suicide. Evidence linking sensational media reporting with imitative suicidal behavior continues to grow, prompting the widespread development of guidelines for media professionals on the ...
Background: The Hong Kong news media report suicide-related events more frequently and sensationally than Western countries. Little is known about Hong Kong media professionals’ experiences and thoughts about such reporting. Aims: To understand Hong Kong ...
Abstract.Background: Media reporting may influence suicide clusters through imitation or contagion. In 2008 there was extensive national and international newspaper coverage of a cluster of suicides in young people in the Bridgend area ...
Abstract.Background: Media reporting of suicide events has thus far gone without sufficient scrutiny in Bangladesh. Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of newspaper reporting of suicides in ...
Abstract.Background: Media guidelines can influence suicide-related reporting quality and may impact suicide rates. Aim: Our study aimed to investigate the quality of suicide-related reporting after the release of ...
With the increasing interest in cross-cultural research, there is a growing need for standard and validated practices for translating psychological instruments. Developing a psychologically acceptable instrument for another cultural group almost always ...
The rigorous construction of items constitutes a field of great current interest for psychometric researchers and practitioners. In previous studies we have reviewed and analyzed the existing guidelines for the construction of multiple-choice items. From ...
Translated but unstandardised psychological instruments are widely used in non-English speaking countries. For many of these instruments meagre information is available on the method of translation, extent of adaptations, reliability, validity and other ...