Physical activity of elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy individuals: an actigraphy study
Conclusion:
Investigation of the proportion of low activity count using an actigraph may be useful to identify characteristics of the physical function in RA patients. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - October 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Toshihide HashimotoKazuhiro YoshiuchiShyuji InadaKenji ShirakuraNaoki WadaKimihiko TakeuchiMasatoshi Matsushita Source Type: research
Epidemiology of anorexia nervosa in Japanese adolescents
Conclusions:
Although the prevalence of anorexia nervosa had regional differences in Japan, it has reached levels comparable to those in Western societies. Because no eating disorder center exists and the treatment environment is poor, national action to address this disease is a pressing need in Japan. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - August 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Mari HottaReiko HorikawaHiroyo MabeShin YokoyamaEiko SugiyamaTadato YonekawaMasamitsu NakazatoYuri OkamotoChisato OharaYoshihiro Ogawa Source Type: research
Associations of physical activity with depressiveness and coping in subjects with high-grade obesity aiming at bariatric surgery: a cross-sectional study
Background:
Reduced physical activity is supposed to be associated with depressiveness and more passive coping patterns. For further evaluation of this assumed relation we studied energy expenditure due to physical activity - usually referred to as activity thermogenesis (AT) - together with depressiveness (clinical diagnosis, depression module of the Patient Health Questionnaire), and coping behaviours (Brief COPE Inventory) in 50 patients with high-grade obesity (42 ± 12 years; 9 with II° and 41 with III° obesity) aiming at bariatric surgery.
Methods:
AT was assessed with a portable armband device (SenseWear™ a...
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - June 25, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ulf ElbeltAnne AhnisAndrea RiedlSilke BurkertTatjana SchuetzJuergen OrdemannChristian StrasburgerBurghard Klapp Source Type: research
Life events, emotional responsiveness, and the functional prognosis of patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Conclusions:
Major life events, whether positive or negative in nature, may have an impact on the disease course of patients with RA when the patient has poor emotional responsiveness to the event(s). (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - June 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jun NaganoNobuyuki SudoShohei NagaokaMasao YukiokaMasakazu Kondo Source Type: research
Treatment for female patients with eating disorders in the largest medical prison in Japan
The number of offenders with eating disorders in women’s prisons in Japan has grown annually over the last 15 years. Women’s prisons have experienced significant difficulties in the management of patients with eating disorders who have body-critical complications arising from low body weight, in addition to behavioral problems. Patients in Japan’s 185 correctional facilities who display high refractoriness or who present a physical risk are transferred to the Hachioji medical prison, a national specialty hospital operated by the Ministry of Justice. The medical prison must manage any psychosomatic problems necessary...
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - May 13, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tomokuni AsamiMaya YanaseToshiaki NomuraYoshiro Okubo Source Type: research
Relationship between duration of illness and cardiac autonomic nervous activity in anorexia nervosa
Conclusions:
These results suggest that, given that the LF/HF ratio is an estimate of cardiac sympathovagal balance, anorectic patients with a long illness duration display lower vagal tone (parasympathetic withdrawal) and high sympathetic tone. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - April 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yoshikatsu NakaiMasatoshi FujitaKazuko NinShun¿ichi NomaSatoshi Teramukai Source Type: research
Research prospects in BioPsychoSocial medicine: new year reflections on the “Cross-Boarder Dialogue” paradigm
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Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - March 26, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Florian JunneStephan Zipfel Source Type: research
Parental stress and the onset and course of childhood asthma
The influence of a caregiver’s stress on the development of childhood asthma is an important aspect of the treatment and prevention of illness. Many cross-sectional studies have investigated the association between parenting attitude and/or caregiver’s stress and childhood asthma morbidity, but prospective studies are more advantageous than cross-sectional studies in interpreting a causal relationship from the results. We here present an overview of prospective studies that have reported a relationship between parental stress and the morbidity or course of childhood asthma and discuss the role of parental mental health...
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - March 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Noriko YamamotoJun Nagano Source Type: research
Reviewer acknowledgement 2014
Contributing reviewersThe BioPsychoSocial Medicine editorial team would like to thank the following colleagues who contributed to peer review for the journal in Volume 8 (2014). (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - February 12, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Koji Tsuboi Source Type: research
The effect of cognitive appraisal for stressors on the oral health-related QOL of dry mouth patients
Conclusion:
Although the group of patients with positive cognitive style complained of more severe oral dryness than the group with negative cognitive style, no significant difference was observed between these two groups in OHIP-14. These results indicate that cognitive factors would be a useful therapeutic target for the improvement of the oral-related QOL of patients with oral dryness. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - October 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hirofumi MatsuokaItsuo ChibaYuji SakanoIchiro SaitoYoshihiro Abiko Source Type: research
Social and psychological factors of the suicidal tendencies of Chinese medical students
Conclusion:
Suicide is affected by demographic risk factors as well as psychological factors. Our results lend support to a multi-factorial approach to the understanding and prevention of suicide by college students. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - October 18, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Aiming ZhengZhilin Wang Source Type: research
Depressive symptoms of female nursing staff working in stressful environments and their association with serum creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase - a preliminary study
Conclusions:
Total CK and LDH activities and serum CK-MM level appear to be associated with the depressive symptoms of healthy nurses working in stressful environments, although the significance level was relatively low. The simultaneous detection of serum CK and LDH activities or serum CK-MM level and LDH activity may be useful as an indicator of depressive symptoms, at least for female nursing staff with work-related stress. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - September 9, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ayako KatoHiroyuki SakakibaraHirohito TsuboiAsami TatsumiMasanobu AkimotoKayoko ShimoiTakeshi IshiiHiroshi KanekoTsutomu NakayamaNorio Ohashi Source Type: research
Development of a novel, short, self-completed questionnaire on empowerment for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and an analysis of factors affecting patient empowerment
Conclusions:
The results suggest that the concise self-completed empowerment questionnaire developed here is useful for measuring the empowerment of individual patients and evaluating the impact of symptoms and therapies on empowerment. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - August 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yoriko HaraSanae IwashitaAkira OkadaYuji TajiriHitomi NakayamaTomoko KatoMotoyuki NakaoKoji TsuboiRaoul BreugelmansYoko Ishihara Source Type: research
Why do general practitioners prescribe antidepressants to their patients? A pilot study
Conclusion:
AD prescription is related to complex contextual situations and multi-morbid patients. GPs use a bio psycho social approach, rather than a purely biological assessment. Awareness of these influences could improve prescription by GPs. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - July 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Alain MercierIsabelle Auger-AubinJean-Pierre LebeauMatthieu SchuersPascal BouletPaul Van RoyenLieve Peremans Source Type: research
Psychosocial perception of adults with onychomycosis: a blinded, controlled comparison of 1,017 adult Hong Kong residents with or without onychomycosis
Conclusions:
Onychomycosis may lead to stigmatization and social exclusion. Misconceptions of onychomycosis are high and education about the disease needs to be improved. Early recognition and treatment of the disease is essential to avoid complications and improve treatment outcomes, which would lead to reduced psychosocial impact on those with fungal nail infections. (Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine)
Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - July 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Henry ChanEmma WongChi Yeung Source Type: research
