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Nord J Psychiatry ; 77(5): 455-466, 2023 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36541920

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BACKGROUND: The push to systematically follow treatment outcomes in psychotherapies to improve health care is increasing worldwide. To manage psychotherapeutic services and facilitate tailoring of therapy according to feedback a comprehensive and feasible data system is needed. AIMS: To describe the Finnish Psychotherapy Quality Register (FPQR), a comprehensive database on availability, quality, and outcomes of psychotherapies. METHODS: We describe the development of the FPQR and outcome for outsourced psychotherapies for adults in Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district (HUS). Symptom severity and functioning are measured with validated measures (e.g. CORE-OM, PHQ-9, OASIS, AUDIT, and SOFAS). Questionnaires on therapeutic alliance, risks, methods, and goals are gathered from patients and psychotherapist. RESULTS: During 2018-2021, the FPQR included baseline data for 7274 unique patients and 336 psychotherapists. Response rate of measures was 85-98%. The use of the register was mandatory for the outsourced therapist of the hospital districts, and the patients were strongly recommended to fulfill the questionnaires. We report outcome for three groups of patients (n = 1844) with final/midterm data. The effect sizes for long psychotherapy (Hedge's g = 0.65 of SOFAS) were smaller than those for short psychotherapy (g = 0.75-0.91). Within three months of referral, 26-60% entered treatment depending on short- or long-term therapy. CONCLUSION: The FPQR forms a novel rich database with commensurate data on availability and outcomes of outsourced psychotherapies. It may serve as a basis for a national comprehensive follow-up system of psychosocial treatments. The Finnish system seems to refer patients with milder symptoms to more intensive treatments and achieve poorer results compared to the IAPT model in UK, Norway, or Australia.


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Psicoterapia Breve , Psicoterapia , Adulto , Humanos , Finlândia , Psicoterapia/métodos , Resultado do Tratamento , Noruega
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Int J Technol Assess Health Care ; 38(1): e82, 2022 Nov 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36373501

RESUMO

OBJECTIVES: Treatment seeking for gender dysphoria (GD) has increased manifold in western countries. This has led to increased interest on evidence-base of treatments, but also discussions related to human rights, identity politics, gender-related structures, and medicalization. Combining these discourses into coherent health policy is difficult. Health technology assessment (HTA) is the golden standard for assessing whether a medical intervention should be included in a health system. A comprehensive HTA should include medical, safety, and cost-utility perspectives, but often also ethical, societal, organizational, and legal concerns. Still, ethics is often omitted in practice. This paper aims to demonstrate how integrated ethical analysis influenced a HTA of complex and controversial topics like GD. METHODS: A HTA of medical treatments of GD was conducted using integrated ethical analysis based on the EUnetHTA-model. This integrates ethical thinking into the whole HTA, explicitly analyses ethical topics, and balances arguments using several ethical theories. RESULTS: Integrating ethics had a significant impact on the HTA process and recommendations. It influenced how the HTA was planned and executed, emphasized autonomy and justice when creating the recommendations, and helped the workgroup to understand the complexity of combining different stakeholders' discourses. Tensions between scientific evidence, expectations, and values became explicit. CONCLUSIONS: Comprehensive HTA provides an important, integrative approach to considering complex and controversial topics in health systems. HTA emphasizes multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder approach but simultaneously forces a pragmatic, results-oriented, and evidence-based approach on all argumentation. Ethical analysis can facilitate interactions between stakeholders, bridge different discourses, and help formulate widely acceptable guidelines and policy decisions.


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Disforia de Gênero , Avaliação da Tecnologia Biomédica , Humanos , Disforia de Gênero/tratamento farmacológico , Análise Ética , Política de Saúde , Princípios Morais
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Nord J Psychiatry ; 72(3): 205-213, 2018 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29276896

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PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: We investigated the outcomes and outcome predictors of depressive and anxiety disorders in a general population sample of young adults with a lifetime history of these disorders. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study sample was derived from a nationally representative two-stage cluster sample of Finns aged 19-34 years. The original study was carried out in 2003-2005, and the follow-up in 2011. We investigated participants diagnosed with a depressive or anxiety disorder based on a SCID interview (excluding those with only a single specific phobia) (DAX-group, N = 181). The control group included those with no DSM-IV- diagnosis (N = 290). They were followed up with the M-CIDI interview assessing 12-month depressive and anxiety disorders in 2011. RESULTS: In 2011, 22.8% of the DAX-group was diagnosed with a depressive or anxiety disorder compared to 9.8% of the control group. Education was lower and quality of life worse in the DAX-group than in the control group. Those participants of the DAX-group who received a diagnosis in 2011 had poorer quality of life than those in remission, which emphasizes the influence of a current disorder on the quality of life. Higher score in the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) at baseline predicted poorer quality of life in 2011. CONCLUSIONS: Thus, depressive and anxiety disorders were persistent/recurrent in one quarter of participants, significantly affecting education and quality of life. Young adults with these disorders need support to achieve their academic goals.


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Transtornos de Ansiedade/diagnóstico , Transtornos de Ansiedade/epidemiologia , Transtorno Depressivo/diagnóstico , Transtorno Depressivo/epidemiologia , Adulto , Transtornos de Ansiedade/psicologia , Transtorno Depressivo/psicologia , Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Seguimentos , Humanos , Estudos Longitudinais , Masculino , Qualidade de Vida/psicologia , Resultado do Tratamento , Adulto Jovem
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BMC Psychiatry ; 16: 63, 2016 Mar 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26993796

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BACKGROUND: Anxiety disorders are common in early adulthood, but general population studies concerning the treatment adequacy of anxiety disorders taking into account appropriate pharmacological and psychological treatment are scarce. The aims of this study were to examine treatments received for anxiety disorders in a Finnish general population sample of young adults, and to define factors associated with receiving minimally adequate treatment and with dropping out from treatment. METHODS: A questionnaire containing several mental health screens was sent to a nationally representative two-stage cluster sample of 1894 Finns aged 19 to 34 years. All screen positives and a random sample of screen negatives were invited to a mental health assessment including a SCID interview. For the final diagnostic assessment, case records from mental health treatments for the same sample were obtained. This article investigates treatment received, treatment adequacy and dropouts from treatment of 79 participants with a lifetime anxiety disorder (excluding those with a single specific phobia). Based on all available information, receiving antidepressant or buspirone medication for at least 2 months with at least four visits with any type of physician or at least eight sessions of psychotherapy within 12 months or at least 4 days of hospitalization were regarded as minimally adequate treatment for anxiety disorders. Treatment dropout was rated if the patient discontinued the visits by his own decision despite having an adequate treatment strategy according to the case records. RESULTS: Of participants with anxiety disorders (excluding those with a single specific phobia), 41.8 % had received minimally adequate treatment. In the multivariate analysis, comorbid substance use disorder was associated with antidepressant or buspirone medication lasting at least 2 months. Those who were currently married or cohabiting had lower odds of having at least four visits with a physician a year. None of these factors were associated with the final outcome of minimally adequate treatment or treatment dropout. Participants with comorbid personality disorders received and misused benzodiazepines more often than others. CONCLUSIONS: More efforts are needed to provide adequate treatment for young adults with anxiety disorders. Attention should be paid to benzodiazepine prescribing to individuals with personality disorders.


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Ansiolíticos/uso terapêutico , Antidepressivos/uso terapêutico , Transtornos de Ansiedade/terapia , Buspirona/uso terapêutico , Hospitalização/estatística & dados numéricos , Psicoterapia/métodos , Adulto , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pacientes Desistentes do Tratamento/psicologia , Pacientes Desistentes do Tratamento/estatística & dados numéricos , Psicoterapia/estatística & dados numéricos , Inquéritos e Questionários , Resultado do Tratamento , Adulto Jovem
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BMC Psychiatry ; 16: 289, 2016 08 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27520368

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The diversity of mental health and substance abuse services (MHS) available to service users is seen as an indicator of the quality of the service system. In most countries MHS are provided by a mix of public, private and third sector providers. In Finland, officially, the municipalities are responsible for organizing the services needed, but the real extent and roles of private and third sector service providers are not known. Our previous study showed that the catchment area population size was strongly associated with diversity of mental health services. It is not known whether this was due to some types of services or some provider types being more sensitive to the size effect than others. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between area population size and diversity of mental health services, i.e. which types of services and which service providers' contributions are sensitive to population size. METHODS: To map and classify services, we used the ESMS-R. The diversity of services was defined as the count of main types of care. Providers were classified as public, private or third sectors. RESULTS: The diversity of outpatient, residential and voluntary services correlated positively with catchment area population size. The strongest positive correlation between the size of population and services available was found in third sector activities followed by public providers, but no correlation was found for diversity of private services. The third sector and public corporations each provided 44 % of the service units. Third sector providers produced all self-help services and most of the day care services. Third sector and private companies provided a significant part (59 %) of the residential care service units. CONCLUSIONS: Significant positive correlations were found between size of catchment area population and diversity of residential, outpatient and voluntary services, indicating that these services concentrate on areas with larger population bases. The third sector seems to significantly complement the public sector in providing different services. Thus the third sector be needs to be functionally integrated with other MHS services to achieve a diversified and integrated service system.


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Área Programática de Saúde , Serviços de Saúde Mental/normas , Qualidade da Assistência à Saúde/normas , Finlândia , Humanos , Setor Público
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Br J Psychiatry ; 207(1): 37-45, 2015 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25858177

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BACKGROUND: There is little information on lung function and respiratory diseases in people with psychosis. AIMS: To compare the respiratory health of people with psychosis with that of the general population. METHOD: In a nationally representative sample of 8028 adult Finns, lung function was measured by spirometry. Information on respiratory diseases and symptoms was collected. Smoking was quantified with serum cotinine levels. Psychotic disorders were diagnosed utilising the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I) and medical records. RESULTS: Participants with schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses had significantly lower lung function values compared with the general population, and the association remained significant for schizophrenia after adjustment for smoking and other potential confounders. Schizophrenia was associated with increased odds of pneumonia (odds ratio (OR) = 4.9), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, OR = 4.2) and chronic bronchitis (OR = 3.8); and with high cotinine levels. CONCLUSIONS: Schizophrenia is associated with impaired lung function and increased risk for pneumonia, COPD and chronic bronchitis.


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Bronquite Crônica/epidemiologia , Pneumonia/epidemiologia , Esquizofrenia/complicações , Fumar/epidemiologia , Espirometria/estatística & dados numéricos , Adulto , Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais , Feminino , Finlândia , Humanos , Modelos Lineares , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Razão de Chances , Autorrelato
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BMC Psychiatry ; 15: 47, 2015 Mar 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25881327

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BACKGROUND: Under-treated depression may be especially harmful in early adulthood. The aims of this study are to describe treatments received for depressive disorders, to define factors associated with treatment adequacy and dropouts from treatment in a Finnish general population sample of young adults. METHODS: A nationally representative two-stage cluster sample of 1894 Finns aged 19 to 34 years was sent a questionnaire containing several mental health screens. All screen positives and a random sample of screen negatives were invited to participate in a mental health assessment including a SCID interview. Case records from mental health treatments for the same sample were obtained for the final diagnostic assessment. Based on all available information, receiving antidepressant pharmacotherapy for at least two months with at least four visits with any type of physician or at least eight sessions of psychotherapy within 12 months or at least four days of hospitalization were regarded as minimally adequate treatment. Treatment dropout was rated if the treatment strategy was assessed to be adequate according to the case records but the patient discontinued the visits. RESULTS: Of participants with depressive disorders (n = 142), 40.9% received minimally adequate treatment. In multiple logistic regression models, substance use disorder and female gender were associated with at least one visit with a physician, while having major depressive disorder was associated with visits with a physician at least 4 times a year. Women had higher odds of having received any psychotherapy and psychotherapy lasting for at least 8 sessions in a year. Low education and a history of suicide attempt were associated with increased odds of treatment dropout. None of the factors explained the final outcome of minimally adequate treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment adequacy in the present study was better than previously seen, but more efforts are needed to provide adequate treatment for young adults, especially those with low education and suicidality.


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Antidepressivos/uso terapêutico , Transtorno Depressivo/tratamento farmacológico , Transtorno Depressivo/terapia , Serviços de Saúde Mental/estatística & dados numéricos , Psicoterapia/estatística & dados numéricos , Adulto , Comorbidade , Transtorno Depressivo/epidemiologia , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Avaliação de Processos e Resultados em Cuidados de Saúde/estatística & dados numéricos , Pacientes Desistentes do Tratamento/psicologia , Pacientes Desistentes do Tratamento/estatística & dados numéricos , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias/epidemiologia , Suicídio/estatística & dados numéricos , Tentativa de Suicídio/estatística & dados numéricos , Inquéritos e Questionários , Adulto Jovem
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Duodecim ; 131(21): 2003-8, 2015.
Artigo em Fi | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26677551

RESUMO

While health information reaches an increasing proportion of the population through social media, there is no guarantee that the provided information is always either up-to-date or correct. Besides possessing know-how on the assessment of the quality of provided information, doctors are also obliged to offer health information wherever it is requested. It is important for doctors to be present in social media to evaluate and provide health information. This is associated with interesting ethical and judicial questions.


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Informação de Saúde ao Consumidor , Papel do Médico , Mídias Sociais , Humanos
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Compr Psychiatry ; 55(3): 727-35, 2014 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24290886

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: [corrected] Personal characteristics contribute to whether negative attitudes in society are internalized as deteriorating self-stigma. Studies in healthy subjects suggest that resilience is associated with the regulation of amygdala activation by the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), but little is known about the factors that contribute to individual stigma resistance in psychiatric patients. METHODS: We assessed stigma (by measuring association strengths between social inferiority and schizophrenia by an implicit association test) in 20 patients with schizophrenia and in 16 age- and sex-matched healthy control subjects. The brain activation strengths were measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging during evaluation of schizophrenia-related statements and of control statements. RESULTS: Association strengths between social inferiority and schizophrenia were inversely related to the strength of the activation of the rostro-ventral mPFC. This inverse correlation survived adjustment for global functioning, depression symptom scores, and insight. Activation of the rostro-ventral mPFC was negatively correlated with activation of the amygdala. The association strengths between social inferiority and schizophrenia correlated with the compromised performance in a Stroop task, which is a measure of cognitive regulation. DISCUSSION: Our findings suggest that individual stigma resistance is associated with emotion regulation. These findings may help to understand better stigma resistance and thereby aid the development of patient interventions that add to the public anti-stigma work in reducing devastating effects of stigma.


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Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Emoções/fisiologia , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia , Estigma Social , Adulto , Associação , Feminino , Humanos , Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Resiliência Psicológica , Psicologia do Esquizofrênico , Adulto Jovem
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Nord J Psychiatry ; 68(3): 196-203, 2014 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23750986

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: This study investigated the epidemiology of eating disorders in a population-based sample of young adults. METHOD: A mental health questionnaire was sent to a nationally representative two-stage cluster sample of 1863 Finns aged 20-35 years. All screen-positives and a random sample of screen-negatives were invited to participate in a Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I) interview. Case records from all lifetime mental health treatments were also obtained and were used to complement the diagnostic assessment. RESULTS: The lifetime prevalence of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, eating disorder not otherwise specified and any eating disorder among women were 2.1%, 2.3%, 2.0% and 6.0%, respectively, while there was only one man with an eating disorder. Unlike other mental disorders, they are associated with high education. Of women diagnosed with lifetime eating disorder, 67.9% had at least one comorbid Axis I psychiatric disorder, most commonly depressive disorder. While 79.3% of women with lifetime eating disorder had had a treatment contact, only one third of persons with current eating disorder had a current treatment contact. Women whose eating disorder had remitted still experienced more psychological distress and had lower psychosocial functioning that women without lifetime Axis I disorders. CONCLUSION: Eating disorders are the fourth largest group of mental disorders among young women. They tend to be comorbid, often remain untreated and are associated with residual symptoms after the remission of eating disorder symptoms.


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Transtorno Depressivo/epidemiologia , Transtornos da Alimentação e da Ingestão de Alimentos/epidemiologia , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias/epidemiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Anorexia Nervosa/complicações , Anorexia Nervosa/diagnóstico , Anorexia Nervosa/epidemiologia , Bulimia Nervosa/complicações , Bulimia Nervosa/diagnóstico , Bulimia Nervosa/epidemiologia , Análise por Conglomerados , Comorbidade , Transtorno Depressivo/complicações , Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais , Transtornos da Alimentação e da Ingestão de Alimentos/complicações , Transtornos da Alimentação e da Ingestão de Alimentos/diagnóstico , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Humanos , Entrevistas como Assunto , Masculino , Prevalência , Projetos de Pesquisa , Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias/complicações , Inquéritos e Questionários , Adulto Jovem
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Psychosom Med ; 75(1): 60-7, 2013 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23257931

RESUMO

OBJECTIVE: We investigated mortality and its determinants in people with psychotic disorder. METHODS: A nationally representative two-stage cluster sample of 8028 persons aged 30 years or older from Finland was selected for a comprehensive health survey conducted from 2000 to 2001. Participants were screened for psychotic disorder, and screen-positive persons were invited for a Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. The diagnostic assessment of DSM-IV psychotic disorders was based on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, case records from mental health treatments, or both. Mortality was followed up until September 2009 and analyzed using Cox proportional hazards model. RESULTS: People with schizophrenia (hazard ratio [HR] = 3.03; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.93-4.77) and other nonaffective psychoses (HR = 1.84; 95% CI = 1.17-2.91) had elevated mortality risk, whereas people with affective psychoses did not (HR = 0.61; 95% CI = 0.24-1.55). Antipsychotic medication use was associated with increased mortality (HR = 2.34; 95% CI = 1.86-2.96). There was an interaction between antipsychotic medication use and the presence of a psychotic disorder: antipsychotic medication use was only associated with elevated mortality in persons who were using antipsychotics and did not have primary psychotic disorder. In persons with psychotic disorder, mortality was predicted by smoking and Type 2 diabetes at baseline survey. CONCLUSIONS: Schizophrenia and nonaffective psychoses are associated with increased mortality risk, whereas affective psychoses are not. Antipsychotic medication use increases mortality risk in older people without primary psychotic disorder, but not in individuals with schizophrenia. Smoking and Type 2 diabetes are important predictors of elevated mortality risk in persons with psychotic disorder.


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Transtornos Psicóticos Afetivos/mortalidade , Transtornos Psicóticos/mortalidade , Esquizofrenia/mortalidade , Adulto , Transtornos Psicóticos Afetivos/tratamento farmacológico , Antipsicóticos/uso terapêutico , Estudos de Coortes , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/mortalidade , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Seguimentos , Inquéritos Epidemiológicos , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Modelos de Riscos Proporcionais , Estudos Prospectivos , Transtornos Psicóticos/tratamento farmacológico , Fatores de Risco , Esquizofrenia/tratamento farmacológico , Fumar/mortalidade
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Br J Psychiatry ; 200(2): 143-9, 2012 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22157799

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BACKGROUND: Mental disorders are associated with increased mortality, but population-based surveys with reliable diagnostic procedures controlling for somatic health status are scarce. AIMS: To assess excess mortality associated with depressive, anxiety and alcohol use disorders and the principal causes of death. METHOD: In a nationally representative sample of Finns aged 30-70 years, psychiatric disorders were diagnosed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. After an 8-year follow-up period, vital status and cause of death of each participant was obtained from national registers. RESULTS: After adjusting for sociodemographic factors, health status and smoking, depressive (hazard ratio (HR) = 1.97) and alcohol use disorders (HR = 1.72) were statistically significantly associated with mortality. Risk of unnatural death was increased among individuals diagnosed with anxiety disorders or alcohol dependence. CONCLUSIONS: Individuals with depressive and alcohol use disorders have an increased mortality risk comparable with many chronic somatic conditions, that is only partly attributable to differences in sociodemographic, somatic health status and hazardous health behaviour.


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Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Álcool/mortalidade , Transtornos de Ansiedade/mortalidade , Transtorno Depressivo/mortalidade , Vigilância da População , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Causas de Morte , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde , Nível de Saúde , Humanos , Entrevista Psicológica , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Modelos de Riscos Proporcionais , Fatores Socioeconômicos
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J Med Ethics ; 38(2): 83-6, 2012 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21715439

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To meet all physicians' needs for ethics consultation in Finland, a novel form of service, the Physicians' Ethics Forum, was founded in 2003. The Forum is a cost-efficient service based on electronic communication. In this paper, experiences throughout its first 6 years are described.


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Consultoria Ética/organização & administração , Sistemas On-Line , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Eticistas , Finlândia , Humanos , Internet , Médicos
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J Nerv Ment Dis ; 200(4): 316-22, 2012 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22456585

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The present study aimed to compare population-based familial samples of patients with schizophrenia (n = 218) and schizoaffective disorder (n = 62) and a healthy control group (n = 123). Patients with schizoaffective disorder outperformed patients with schizophrenia in verbal ability, processing speed, visual working memory, and verbal memory. When compared with controls, patients with schizoaffective disorder also had a generalized cognitive impairment. Adjusting for clinical characteristics removed significant differences between the patient groups. Irrespective of the diagnosis, patients with the most severe negative symptoms and highest dose of antipsychotics had the most severe cognitive impairments, whereas mood symptoms were not related to cognitive performance. In conclusion, people with schizoaffective disorder have severe cognitive impairments, but the impairments are milder than in schizophrenia. Mood symptoms may not explain the difference between the diagnostic groups in cognitive functions, but the difference may be related to differences in the severity of negative symptoms.


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Transtornos Cognitivos/fisiopatologia , Transtornos Psicóticos/fisiopatologia , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Idade de Início , Idoso , Antipsicóticos/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Finlândia , Inquéritos Epidemiológicos , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Escalas de Graduação Psiquiátrica , Sistema de Registros/estatística & dados numéricos , Escalas de Wechsler
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Psychiatry Res ; 188(1): 7-12, 2011 Jun 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21126773

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Previous research suggests differences between women and men in the clinical features of schizophrenia, but studies examining sex differences in neuropsychological functioning have reached inconsistent results. In the present study, sex differences in cognition and clinical features were investigated in population-based samples of participants with schizophrenia (n=218), their healthy first-degree relatives (n=438) and controls (n=123). Sex differences in illness features were small; nevertheless, women with schizophrenia had less negative symptoms and lived independently more often than men. The schizophrenia group had impairments in all studied neuropsychological domains, and the relatives were impaired in processing speed and set-shifting. In all groups, women performed better than men in processing speed, set-shifting and verbal episodic memory, whereas men outperformed women in visual working memory. The group-by-sex interaction was significant in two variables: women outperformed men in the relatives group in immediate verbal reproduction and in the use of semantic clustering as a learning strategy, while there was no sex difference in the schizophrenia group. In conclusion, sex differences in cognition are mostly similar in schizophrenia to those among controls, despite sex differences in illness features. The preservation of sex differences also in first-degree relatives supports the conclusion.


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Transtornos Cognitivos/etiologia , Saúde da Família , Esquizofrenia/complicações , Esquizofrenia/genética , Caracteres Sexuais , Adulto , Idoso , Atenção/fisiologia , Distribuição de Qui-Quadrado , Transtornos Cognitivos/genética , Família/psicologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Memória/fisiologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Escalas de Graduação Psiquiátrica , Aprendizagem Verbal/fisiologia
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Psychiatry Res ; 189(2): 305-11, 2011 Sep 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21798602

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We investigated inflammatory markers in psychotic disorders and their association with metabolic comorbidity, antipsychotic medication, smoking, alcohol use, physical condition, and mood. From the population-based Finnish Health 2000 study, we identified all persons with schizophrenia (n=45), other nonaffective psychosis (ONAP) (n=57), affective psychosis (n=37) and chose controls matched by age, sex, and region of residence. We found that persons with schizophrenia had significantly higher sIL-2Rα, IL-1RA and C-reactive protein (CRP), persons with ONAP significantly higher IL-1RA and CRP and persons with affective psychosis almost significantly higher TNF-α compared to their matched controls. Current antipsychotic use was associated with elevated IL-1RA and CRP. After taking metabolic and lifestyle-related variables that associated with inflammatory markers into account, only antipsychotic medication remained associated with elevated IL-1RA and TNF-α which are markers related to the activation of innate immune system. CRP was influenced by both antipsychotic medication and nonaffective psychosis. sIL-2Rα, a marker of T-cell activation, was associated with depressive symptoms, schizophrenia, and affective psychosis. We conclude that in persons with psychotic disorders, activation of mononuclear phagocyte system was mostly related to metabolic comorbidity and antipsychotic medication use, whereas T-cell activation had a more direct relationship with both psychotic disorders and depressive symptoms.


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Inflamação/epidemiologia , Transtornos Psicóticos/epidemiologia , Adulto , Idoso , Índice de Massa Corporal , Proteína C-Reativa/metabolismo , Planejamento em Saúde Comunitária , Comorbidade , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Feminino , Humanos , Inflamação/sangue , Inflamação/diagnóstico , Proteína Antagonista do Receptor de Interleucina 1/sangue , Modelos Lineares , Lipídeos/sangue , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Escalas de Graduação Psiquiátrica , Transtornos Psicóticos/sangue , Estudos Retrospectivos , Estatísticas não Paramétricas
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Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci ; 261(6): 447-56, 2011 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21207048

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In clinical samples, patients with severe psychiatric disorders are found to have cognitive impairments. Less is known whether this applies to samples derived from the general population. We aimed to study cognitive functioning in a population-based sample comprising individuals with schizophrenia, other non-affective psychoses, bipolar disorders, major depressive disorder, and controls derived from the same population. The current analysis was based on 148 persons with severe mental disorders and 66 control subjects, derived from the Psychoses in Finland study. All subjects were interviewed with SCID, and a neuropsychological test battery was administered. Subjects with schizophrenia had a generalized cognitive impairment (d = 0.43-1.07), while those with other non-affective psychoses were impaired in verbal memory and processing speed (d = 0.43-0.59). Subjects with bipolar disorders were not impaired. Unipolar major depressive disorder associated with slowed processing speed (d = 0.64). Our findings on cognitive impairments in subjects with schizophrenia and other non-affective psychoses derived from the general population support previous findings of a generalized cognitive dysfunction in these subjects. However, our results suggest that subjects with bipolar disorders from non-clinical populations may not have significant cognitive impairments. Our results emphasize the importance of using control samples derived from the same population and studied similarly as those with disorders in evaluating cognitive functioning of subjects with severe mental disorders.


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Cognição/fisiologia , Transtornos Mentais/psicologia , Adulto , Idoso , Transtorno Bipolar/psicologia , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/psicologia , Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais , Função Executiva/fisiologia , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Humanos , Testes de Inteligência , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Transtornos do Humor/psicologia , Testes Neuropsicológicos , População , Escalas de Graduação Psiquiátrica , Desempenho Psicomotor/fisiologia , Transtornos Psicóticos/psicologia , Psicologia do Esquizofrênico , Teste de Sequência Alfanumérica , Aprendizagem Verbal
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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol ; 46(10): 965-74, 2011 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20658122

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BACKGROUND: Nationwide general population study establishes the prevalence of suicide attempts in different mental disorders among young adults and their sociodemographic correlates. Current psychiatric symptoms are also examined. METHODS: A random sample of 1,894 young Finnish adults aged 20-34 years were approached to participate in a questionnaire containing several screens for mental health interviews. All screen positives and random sample of screen negatives were invited to an SCID interview. Altogether 546 subjects participated in the interview. Diagnostic assessment and lifetime history of suicide attempts were based on all available systematically evaluated information from the questionnaire, the interview and/or case records. RESULTS: The lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts was 5.6% in men and 6.9% in women. Both mental disorders and poor educational and occupational functioning were associated with lifetime suicide attempts. Lifetime history of suicide attempts was associated with current psychological distress, problems related to substance use and other psychiatric symptoms, even after taking current Axis I disorder into account. Suicide attempts were most common in persons with psychotic disorders (41%). CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that continued efforts are needed to outreach and treat effectively young adults with serious mental disorders. Young people who make a suicide attempt should be offered treatment. It seems also important to prevent psychosocial alienation of young people by providing them with adequate education and work possibilities.


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Transtornos Mentais/epidemiologia , Tentativa de Suicídio/tendências , Adulto , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Inquéritos e Questionários , Adulto Jovem
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Int J Technol Assess Health Care ; 27(4): 305-12, 2011 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22004770

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OBJECTIVES: Ethical analysis can highlight important ethical issues related to implementing a technology, values inherent in the technology itself, and value-decisions underlying the health technology assessment (HTA) process. Ethical analysis is a well-acknowledged part of HTA, yet seldom included in practice. One reason for this is lack of knowledge about the properties and differences between the methods available. This study compares different methods for ethical analysis within HTA. METHODS: Ethical issues related to bariatric (obesity) surgery were independently evaluated using axiological, casuist, principlist, and EUnetHTA models for ethical analysis within HTA. The methods and results are presented and compared. RESULTS: Despite varying theoretical underpinnings and practical approaches, the four methods identified similar themes: personal responsibility, self-infliction, discrimination, justice, public funding, and stakeholder involvement. The axiological and EUnetHTA models identified a wider range of arguments, whereas casuistry and principlism concentrated more on analyzing a narrower set of arguments deemed more important. CONCLUSIONS: Different methods can be successfully used for conducting ethical analysis within HTA. Although our study does not show that different methods in ethics always produce similar results, it supports the view that different methods of ethics can yield relevantly similar results. This suggests that the key conclusions of ethical analyses within HTA can be transferable between methods and countries. The systematic and transparent use of some method of ethics appears more important than the choice of the exact method.


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Cirurgia Bariátrica/economia , Cirurgia Bariátrica/ética , Análise Ética , Financiamento Governamental , Avaliação da Tecnologia Biomédica/organização & administração , Casuísmo , Humanos , Princípios Morais
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Nord J Psychiatry ; 65(1): 32-9, 2011 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20500121

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BACKGROUND: There may be an association between cognitive functioning and burnout, but this has previously been investigated in only few studies, all using clinical samples. AIMS: This study aimed at examining the relationship of cognitive functioning with burnout symptoms and social and occupational functioning in a population-based sample of young adults. METHODS: Neuropsychological tests assessing verbal and visual short-term memory, verbal long-term memory, general intelligence, attention, psychomotor processing speed and executive functioning were administered to a population-based sample of working young adults aged 22-35 years (n=225). Burnout was measured with the Maslach Burnout Survey-General Survey (MBI-GS) and social and occupational functioning with examiner-rated Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS). RESULTS: Higher scores in the MBI-GS related to better performance in tests of verbal working memory and general intelligence. Lower SOFAS associated with poorer performance in tests assessing verbal attention, memory and learning. CONCLUSIONS: In a representative population sample of young adults, self-reported symptoms of burnout are not associated with difficulties in cognitive functioning. However, examiner-rated lower social and occupational functioning is related to problems in verbal attention, memory and learning, suggesting the importance of evaluating and enhancing cognitive functioning among those with difficulties in social and occupational functioning.


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Esgotamento Profissional , Inteligência Emocional , Função Executiva , Competência Mental/psicologia , Fadiga Mental/complicações , Competência Profissional , Adulto , Esgotamento Profissional/diagnóstico , Esgotamento Profissional/epidemiologia , Esgotamento Profissional/etiologia , Feminino , Finlândia/epidemiologia , Inquéritos Epidemiológicos , Humanos , Masculino , Memória de Curto Prazo , Fadiga Mental/psicologia , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Desempenho Psicomotor , Autorrelato
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