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Table of contents

November 2011 - Volume 14 - 4

Evidence Based Mental Health: 14 (4)

Prevalence

Just under 1% of adults living in the community in England are estimated to have autism spectrum disorders (18 October, 2011) Free
Siblings of adolescents with ADHD who themselves have ADHD are more likely to have psychiatric comorbidities than are unaffected siblings or controls without ADHD (18 October, 2011)
Antidepressant non-adherence is common among veterans, with ineffectiveness and side effects as commonly reported reasons (18 October, 2011)
Lifetime nicotine dependence shows a cross-sectional association with lifetime incomplete suicide attempts (18 October, 2011)
Self-reported poor physical health is more common in older people with trauma exposure (18 October, 2011)

Prognosis

Severe conduct disorder and hyperkinetic conduct disorder in childhood is associated with criminality in later life (18 October, 2011)
Review: people with schizophrenia or other mental illnesses have a lower rate of invasive coronary interventions after acute coronary syndrome (18 October, 2011)
Many people show poor adherence to their initial antipsychotic after first hospitalisation with schizophrenia (18 October, 2011)
Jari Tiihonen
Childhood psychopathology at age 8 predicts antidepressant use by age 24 (18 October, 2011) Free
In people taking antidepressants, suicidal behaviour is less common when they are taking them than in unexposed periods (18 October, 2011)
Smoking is associated with an increased risk of death in people aged 35–54 with schizophrenia (18 October, 2011)

Therapeutics

Review: antidepressants do not reduce symptoms or failure to respond compared with placebo in minor depression (18 October, 2011)
Review: Specialist programmes and second-generation antipsychotics reduce relapse after first-episode psychosis (18 October, 2011)
Review: possible benefits from early intensive behavioural and developmental interventions in children with autism spectrum disorders, but more research needed (18 October, 2011) Free
Annual high-dose vitamin D supplementation does not affect mental well-being in older women (18 October, 2011)
Review: secretin is not effective for the treatment of children with autism spectrum disorders (18 October, 2011)
Review: little evidence of clear benefit for most medical treatments for children with autism spectrum disorders (18 October, 2011)
Once-monthly extended-release naltrexone injections improve opioid abstinence over 24 weeks compared with placebo (18 October, 2011)
Review: group cognitive behavioural therapy reduces depression symptoms in older adults with depression compared with waiting list control (18 October, 2011)
Review: interpersonal psychotherapy is effective as an acute or maintenance treatment for unipolar depression (18 October, 2011)
Review: quetiapine monotherapy improves response and remission compared with placebo in generalised anxiety disorder (18 October, 2011)
Review: response to antipsychotics in schizophrenia in published trials of limited clinical significance (18 October, 2011)
Review: in people with dementia, cholinesterase inhibitors may increase syncope and memantine may reduce fractures (18 October, 2011)
Review: depot antipsychotics may reduce risk of relapse compared with oral antipsychotics in people with schizophrenia (18 October, 2011)
Provision of brief paediatrician training and computer-assisted medication management does not improve symptoms in children with ADHD (18 October, 2011)
The Meds-Help pharmacy-based intervention increases antipsychotic drug adherence, but not symptoms (18 October, 2011)

Treatments

Review: family interventions reduce relapse or hospitalisation in people with schizophrenia (18 October, 2011)
Review: motivational interviewing reduces substance use compared with no treatment in substance-dependent individuals (18 October, 2011)

Glossary

Glossary (18 October, 2011) Free

Electronic page

Purpose and procedure (18 October, 2011)

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