{"title":"Brief intervention aimed at fetal alcohol syndrome prevention: effectiveness study","authors":"G. Isurina, E. Burina, I. Grandilevskaya","doi":"10.12740/app/126247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12740/app/126247","url":null,"abstract":"This article represents the results of the study aimed at the research of psychological effects of a dual-focused brief intervention for prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome and alcohol-exposed pregnancy among childbearing age women in Russia. 280 women took part in the research. The study used the following methods: screening, «Audit», Calendar method, baseline interview, follow-up interviews at 3, 6 and 12 months, the Big Five questionnaire, the method of motivational induction, the method of assessing the level of subjective control. The study measured women’s knowledge about FAS and FASD, their attitudes towards alcohol consumption and in particular alcohol use during pregnancy, their real alcohol consumption level, use of contraception, the risk of alcohol-exposed pregnancy and possibly FAS or FASD, the socio-demographical characteristics and psychological features of women. The results of the study showed the effectiveness of dual-focused brief intervention and passive informing that were designed and used for FAS prevention.","PeriodicalId":44856,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48215148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The powerlessness of a psychiatrist against the administrative system on the example of a patient with organic hallucinosis – a case report","authors":"K. Szczygieł, P. Podwalski, J. Samochowiec","doi":"10.12740/APP/126992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12740/APP/126992","url":null,"abstract":"Psychiatry is a unique area of medicine where the doctor, holistically caring for the patient, often comes across many administrative, juridical or social difficulties. They seem to be less common among other specializations of medicine, but still knowledge in the field of law is an indispensable part of the specialization training of young psychiatry entrants. The ability to apply it properly is particularly important and often necessary while dealing with a psychiatric patient.","PeriodicalId":44856,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy","volume":"23 1","pages":"52-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44954648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are you ok? I’am not: A call from Africa","authors":"P. Dash, Aswini Rath, Jayant Rath","doi":"10.12740/APP/132670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12740/APP/132670","url":null,"abstract":"The big surge in mental health issues such as depression, psychosis, psychotic disorders and other allied ailments in Africa call for immediate and serious attention of the global community. A deep insight into these reviews exposes a highly important point that limited studies have been done on psychotic disorders in the African subcontinent. It is evident from these reviews that psychological problems are varied in nature and occurred due to a number of causes. The letter is an effort to bring attention of the research community that Africa required the maximum number of psychotic studies due to its socio-economic, psychological, medical and educational situation.","PeriodicalId":44856,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy","volume":"23 1","pages":"57-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47197711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anxiety and its role for cognitive changes in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting","authors":"D. Eremina","doi":"10.12740/APP/126248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12740/APP/126248","url":null,"abstract":"Aim of the study: Several psychosocial characteristics are well known to be importantly related to coronary heart disease (CHD). However, psychological aspects of surgical treatment of CHD and its implications for rehabilitation perspectives and cognitive changes of cardiac patients remain poorly understood. The article presents the results of studying the dynamics of emotional state of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), measured before the surgery and at different stages of the rehabilitation process, and on a comparative analysis of trait and state anxiety and alexithymia of patients with CHD with different cognitive dynamics.","PeriodicalId":44856,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy","volume":"23 1","pages":"44-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48060729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"J. Samochowiec, K. Cyranka","doi":"10.12740/app/131281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12740/app/131281","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44856,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48414059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}