Showing papers in "Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria in 2001"

TL;DR: The present Portuguese version of the SCID-CV showed good inter-rater reliability, but the lack of specific questions in the interview and specific diagnostic criteria for some disorders, such as agoraphobia without history of panic attacks, resulted in poor reliability.

TL;DR: In this paper, a pre-teste for a group of 32 pacientes obesos com transtorno da compulsao alimentar periodica (TCAP) was conducted.

TL;DR: In the assessment of body weight perception, "to feel fat" reveals to play a more important role in the determination of abnormal eating behavior than the Body Mass Index.

TL;DR: The objectives of creating a consensus about nicotine dependence were to gather major epidemiological data about tobacco use worldwide and in Brazil, and to set guidelines for assessment, diagnosis and treatment to be applied in the different levels of public health services.

TL;DR: The transtorno de ansiedade generalizada (TAG) as mentioned in this paper is a generalization between ostranstornos da ansias, mais frequentemente encontrados in the clinica, associado with a morbidaderelativamente alta and a altos custos individuais e sociais.

TL;DR: For more than 4,500 years, South America natives have been using coca leaves. as mentioned in this paper provides a historical background to the subject and its abuse has become over the years a public health problem.

TL;DR: To understand patients' experience of the group process by assessing their perceptions reported after each session allows to a better understanding of some of the potentials and limitations of this modality of mental treatment, taking into account the institutional environment and the constitution of the patient population.

TL;DR: A Portuguese translation of the CALPAS-P (California Psychotherapy Alliance Scales - patient version) and reliability coefficients were created and were favorably comparable to those of the original studies using the English version.

TL;DR: In this article, an avaliacao dos eventos de vida estressantes (EVE) foi feita por meio de perguntas fechadas, com respostas dicotomicas, cobrindo os seguintes eventos anteriores: doenca seria; internacao hospitalar; morte de parente proximo; problemas financeiros severos; mudanca forcada de moradia; separacao/divorcio; agressao fisica;

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize and discuss the most important results in the literature about the treatment of depression in HIV-infected individuals, including epidemiology, clinical presentation, contribution of depression on HIV infection, pharmacological treatment with antidepressants, testosterone and psychostimulant drugs, and pharmacological interactions between antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and antiviral medications.

TL;DR: In this paper, a prevalencia de depressao maior in a population of sujeitos with an average age of 80 anos was found to be 7.5%.

TL;DR: Patients with affective disorders and non-psychotic symptoms generally do not need in-patient care in a psychiatric hospital, however, the studied patients had had many previous psychiatric admissions, probably because they needed a more intensive treatment than outpatient services can offer.

TL;DR: Data is summarized that support the existence of a subgroup of OCD related to tics, a group with an early age onset; a possible subgroup related to rheumatic fever; and a groupWith poor insight, which will contribute to the development of more specific treatments.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of 100 patients with transtornos afetivos (bipolar, unipolar, distimia, and depression) was conducted at the Ambulatorio de Psiquiatria da Faculdade de Medicina Unesp, Botucatu, Brazil.

TL;DR: A estruturacao diagnostica do TEPT, especialmente a validade do constructo, vem sendo confirmada por evidencias crescentes oriundas de estudos de natureza epidemiologica e neurobiologica.

TL;DR: In this paper, a neuro-imagem (NI) funcional na infância, and quale o seu padrao normal ao longo dodesenvolvimento.

TL;DR: In this paper, a modelo classico de Crencas em Saude and a base for desenvolvimento de programas preventivos associados a Aids is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the similarities of obsessive-compulsive features among different cultures and geographic regions (North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia) were analyzed and the importance of biologic evolutionary and ethological studies was emphasized.

TL;DR: A review of the concept, epidemiological findings, social and occupational functioning, and sequence of comorbid disorders in OCD is presented in this paper, where the authors focus on the co-occurrence of OCD with anxiety and mood disorders, substance abuse or dependence, somatoform, impulse control and tic disorders.

TL;DR: Randomized controlled trials of OCD pharmacotherapy, as well as positive results found in open trials and case reports are reviewed in this paper.

TL;DR: The most common symptoms are contamination, aggressive, somatic and sexual obsessions and washing, checking, repeating, counting and ordering compulsions as discussed by the authors, which are repetitive behaviors or mental acts voluntarily performed to counterbalance or minimize the discomfort or magically prevent any feared events.

TL;DR: In this article, a criancas and adolescentes adotivos atendidos in clinicas psiquiatricas were investigated, finding that a proporcao de meninos foi significantemente maior no G1 that no G2 (p<0,001).

TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of family accommodation is analyzed as reinforcement contingencies that act upon family members and patients, and it is suggested that, as a part of the routine, the clinician should evaluate systematically and carefully the family's interactions in order to plan and assess effectively his/her therapeutic interventions.

TL;DR: O estudo avaliou a eficacia e a seguranca terapeutica do agonista dopaminergico pergolida no tratamento ambulatorial da ''fissura" por cocaina, ganhando diferencas estatisticamente significativas entre os dois grupos.

TL;DR: The history, methodology, and the future of these minimally invasive brain stimulation techniques and their emerging research and therapeutic applications in psychiatry are reviewed.

TL;DR: The results suggest that clozapine, when used in public psychiatric hospitals' psychosocial rehabilitation programs, with adequate blood monitoring, is a safe and effective antipsychotic drug and should be part of the therapeutic armamentarium for chronic refractory patients.