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Objective To discuss the development and content of Chinese mental health assessment guideline.Methods Following literature review,initial assessment items were outlined by authors.A questionnaire survey concerniug assessment criteria was then conducted among the authorities in tbe field of psychology or psychiatry,A working group meeting was held to make the final decision.Results Ninety-five of 192 questionnaires were finally received,and those who knew much well about mental health accounted for 85.3％.Of 24 commonly used definition and criteria,5 assessment criteria and 15 essential items were agreed to use for mental health evaluation in Chinese populations.Conclusion The development of Chinese mental health assessment guideline is important to modify mental health evaluation and health care services in China.
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Objective To study the impacts of quality of life,stress response and sources of stress on mental health of community residents.Methods A total of 703 questionnaires completed by community residents living in Hangzhou and Cangzhou were prospectively collected.All the subjects were assigned o five age groups:18-25 years old group,26-35 years old group,36-50 years old group,51-64 years old group and ≥65 years old group.Psychological health status was compared between the groups by using analysis of variance.Results Significant difference in mental health was found among 5 age groups.Correlation analysis showed that quality of life,stress response and sources of stress had significant effects on mental health.Conclusion Our data suggest significant impacts of quality of life and stress on mental health of community residents.
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Objective: To examine the therapeutic effects of dual dorsolateral prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on auditory hallucinations experienced by schizophrenic patients. Methods: A double-blind randomized controlled study was conducted. Totally 25 schizophrenic patients met DSM-Ⅳ criteria for schizophrenia and had anditory hallucination with stable antipsychotic drugs treatment were recruited. Subjects were grouped into active treatment subgroup and sham subgroup randomly. Measurements including the Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS) for clinical symptom and the Treatment Emergent Symptom Scale (TESS) for side-effects were evaluated Results: Totally 25 subjects completed the trial. The treatment efficiency of active treatment group was higher than that of sham group (75% vs. 31%) .No overt side effects of rTMS were observed. Conclusion: It is effective for rTMS to treat schizophrenia with auditory hallucination at 1Hz. rTMS may be a new selection of schizophrenia treatment.
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An introduction to the laws applicable to mental disease patients,and the employment and marriage conditions of these patients,revealing the setbacks including low employment rate,low marriage rate and high divorce rate among these people.In this regard,the paper raised the points as follows:Speed up the legislation on mental health laws by the state,enhance mental health law enforcement to protect legitimate righta of mental disease patients; implement of the Law of the Peoples Republic if China on the Protection of Disabled Persons,Regulations on the Employment of the Disabled,to protect and promote equal rights of disabled persons in employment;enhance mental health communicatioas to awake the society in their care and love for mental health and mental disease patients.
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Objective To investigate the incidence and relative factors of post-stroke depression (PSD). Methods 520 patients with stroke were assessed by 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scales (HAMD). A self-designed register form was analysed in 520 stroke survivorsA multiple factor analysis with the logistic regression method was carried out on the basis of these data. Results Among them, 178 cases (34.2%) were identified as depression. The minor, moderate and major incedenses were 20.2%, 10.4% and 3.7% respectively. In addition, stepwise regression analysis shows that important risk factors involved in PSD contained depression history, sex, family harmony, accompanying disease, neurological deficit and stoke course. Conclusion The factors above were the major predictive factors and useful for PSD prevention
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0.05). Conclusions: There exists an abnormal reduction of neural viability and function on bilateral hippocampus of patients with first-episode MDD.