Background
Cognitive deficits are associated with poor quality of life and increased risk of development of dementia in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) psychosis. The trajectory of cognitive decline in PD psychosis remains however unclear.
ObjectiveWe examined this using data from...
Background
Cognitive deficits are associated with poor quality of life and increased risk of development of dementia in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) psychosis. The trajectory of cognitive decline in PD psychosis remains however unclear.
ObjectiveWe examined this using data from...
Background
In 2021, the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (SBU) published an inventory, which identified over 2000 evidence gaps in mental health1 from the two known international database of evidence gaps: the SBU...
Background
The fast-growing migrant population in Japan and globally poses challenges in mental healthcare, yet research addressing migrants' mental health treatment engagement remains limited.
ObjectiveThis study examined language proficiency, demographic and clinical characteristics as predictors of early treatment discontinuation among migrants.
MethodsElectronic...
Background
Circadian rhythms influence cognitive performance which peaks in the morning for early chronotypes and evening for late chronotypes. It is unknown whether cognitive interventions are susceptible to such synchrony effects and could be optimised at certain times-of-day.
ObjectiveA pilot study...
Background
Little is known about the social validity of self-harm prevention apps for young adolescents with severe mental health problems who repeatedly self-harm.
ObjectiveWe assessed the acceptability, use and safety of BlueIce, a self-harm prevention app for young adolescents who self-harm.
MethodsMixed...
Background
The Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CYBOCS) is a clinician rated instrument developed to quantify severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents.1 Although the CYBOCS is the gold standard for outcome in clinical research and practice, the...
Background
Individuals with psychiatric disorders have an increased risk of developing dementia. Most cross-sectional studies suffer from selection bias, underdiagnosis and poor population representation, while there is only limited evidence from longitudinal studies on the role of anxiety, bipolar and...
Aim
To describe the pattern of the prevalence of mental health problems during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and examine the impact of containment measures on these trends.
MethodsWe identified articles published until 30 August 2021 that reported the...
Background
The association between paediatric traumatic brain injury (pTBI) and post-traumatic attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication usage remains understudied subject.
ObjectiveWe aimed to evaluate the association between pTBI and subsequent ADHD medication.
MethodsA nationwide retrospective cohort study in Finland from 1998 to 2018...