Maria Caredda

TL;DR: There are considerable barriers on the part of many patients to the implementation of depression screening programs in primary care, and while such programs can be effective, they should be designed based on the understanding of patients' perspectives.

TL;DR: Patients in the TAU group participated to 21 weekly group meetings in which no special instruction was delivered, and mental status was evaluated with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and with the Young Mania Rating Scale, while treatment compliance used the ARMS.

TL;DR: The case of M. is a 28-year-old man, who has lived the last 10 years in a state of almost complete isolation and maintained contacts with the outside world almost exclusively via internet, and represents, to the authors' knowledge, the first case of hikikomori described in Italy.

TL;DR: It is suggested that Aripiprazole is effective and well-tolerated as an augmenting agent in patients with treatment resistant OCD.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effectiveness of a program involving substantial commitment from local mental health services was evaluated in a large urban primary care setting, where participants completed the PC-SAD screener and WHOQOL-Bref.