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[Diagnosis related groups (DRG) in child and adolescent psychiatry: results of a prospective pilot study].

Germany faces one of the biggest 'revolutions' in the health care system. As decided by the government in cooperation with medical boards and insurances, beginning with January 1st, 2003 all inpatient treatments will be paid on the basis of adapted Australian-Refined Diagnosis Related Groups. To date, hospitals are requested to obtain prospective databases in order to cluster homogeneous diagnostic groups and calculate realistic treatment-costs. Both psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry are so far excluded from the introduction of DRGs. However, most experts predict extensive shifts of patients into psychiatry (i.e. with comorbid internal diseases) under the pressure of short treatments in all non-psychiatric disciplines. Therefore, changes in the payment of psychiatric treatments are inevitably. As part of the DRG pilot-study, we created a catalogue adapted to child and adolescent psychiatry, which was used for 102 consecutively treated inpatients of a child and adolescent hospital. A total of 17.019 prospectively assessed procedures were obtained. Under clinical aspects, 11 categories of 'typical' disorders were analysed. Worst predictability of treatment costs was found for obsessive-compulsive disorders, personality disorders, and eating disorders. Comorbidity and complexity of the disorder was not related to the length of hospital treatment. Implications on future payment systems in child and adolescent psychiatry are discussed.

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Diagnostic consideration of Morita shinkeishitsu and DSM-III-R.

The purpose of the present study was to empirically and objectively clarify the diagnostic standing of Morita shinkeishitsu, the subject of Morita therapy, by comparing and contrasting it with the operational diagnosis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd edition, revised; DSM-III-R). Morita therapists' clinical diagnoses of 88 outpatients who requested Morita therapy were compared with the results of the independently conducted operational diagnoses (structured clinical interview for DSM (SCID) for DSM-III-R, the Japanese version). In view of the result of axis I diagnoses, Morita shinkeishitsu corresponds to anxiety disorders, although it is a complex that also embodies mood disorders, which were found in one-quarter of the cases, as well as personality disorders, which were found in half of the cases, especially cluster C (avoidant, obsessive-compulsive, and dependent personality disorders). Morita shinkeishitsu is almost equivalent to anxiety disorders (DSM-III-R, axis I), and is a complex, a part of which includes mood disorders and cluster C personality disorders.

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Associations in the course of personality disorders and Axis I disorders over time.

In this study, the authors examined time-varying associations between schizotypal (STPD), borderline (BPD), avoidant (AVPD), or obsessive-compulsive (OCPD) personality disorders and co-occurring Axis I disorders in 544 adult participants from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study. The authors tested predictions of specific longitudinal associations derived from a model of crosscutting psychobiological dimensions (L. J. Siever & K. L. Davis, 1991) with participants with the relevant Axis I disorders. The authors assessed participants at baseline and at 6-, 12-, and 24-month follow-up evaluations. BPD showed significant longitudinal associations with major depressive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. AVPD was significantly associated with anxiety disorders (specifically social phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder). Two of the four personality disorders under examination (STPD and OCPD) showed little or no association with Axis I disorders.

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Obsessive compulsive patients with comorbid personality disorder: associated problems and response to a comprehensive behavior therapy.

BACKGROUND: The present study examined a group of patients who have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and certain comorbid personality disorders to provide data on types of clinical problems that complicate treatment. Data are presented on patient response to a comprehensive behavior therapy. METHOD: Forty-one consecutively referred, adult, nonpsychotic patients with OCD were evaluated independently by their attending psychiatrist and a consulting psychologist for presence of DSM-III-R personality disorder. Thirty-one of these patients, for whom there was 100% agreement on presence or absence of a comorbid personality disorder, participated in a course of comprehensive behavior therapy. OCD patients with comorbid personality disorder (OCD+PD) were compared with a group of OCD patients without comorbid personality disorder (nonPD OCD) on pretreatment and treatment-related variables. RESULTS: There was significantly high interrater reliability between psychiatrist and psychologist on diagnosis of personality disorder (p < .001). OCD+PD patients demonstrated poorer response to prior psychiatric treatments and greater psychosocial and psychiatric impairment at pretreatment than did nonPD OCD patients. The OCD+PD patients demonstrated a moderate response to comprehensive behavior therapy, but below that of nonPD OCD patients. OCD+PD patients were also rated as more difficult to treat, required more psychiatric hospitalizations during treatment, and were more likely to terminate behavior therapy prematurely than were nonPD OCD patients. CONCLUSION: In modest samples of OCD+PD patients (N = 26), and nonPD OCD patients (N = 5), this study found that OCD patients with personality disorder had greater psychopathology, fewer coping and living skills, and were more resistant to psychiatric treatment than the nonPD OCD patients. In addition, when treated with a comprehensive behavior therapy that focuses on other clinical problems in addition to the OCD symptoms, the OCD+PD patients had an enhanced response to treatment.

Activities of Daily Living↗

Sex distribution of DSM-III personality disorders in psychiatric outpatients.

The author determined the sex distribution of 170 outpatients with a DSM-III diagnosis of personality disorder measured by standardized instruments and compared his findings with DSM-III predictions. They confirmed the prediction of more women diagnosed as having histrionic personality disorder and more men diagnosed as having paranoid, compulsive, and antisocial personality disorders. The predicted excess of women diagnosed as having borderline and dependent personality disorders was not confirmed.

Ambulatory Care↗

Compulsion hysteria.

Compulsion is the most important symptom not only of compulsion diseases but acts as a dynamic element in relatively exceptional form of hysteria, called in this article "compulsion hysteria". Out of three patients observed by the author, one is extensively described. The fundamental structure of these patients is not that of the compulsive personality or of any other form of personality put forward by Rümke in his masterly survey of compulsive syndromes, the classic study called "Clinic and psychopathology of compulsion phenomenons". The basic personality disorder of compulsion hysteria is the hysterical personality. In the frame of this syndrome compulsion as an expedient to tyrannize other people in their surroundings. Analytically viewed, the libidinal fixation seems to be rooted between the anal phase and the oedipal phase.

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Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study.

Hoarding behavior occurs frequently in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Results from previous studies suggest that individuals with OCD who have hoarding symptoms are clinically different than non-hoarders and may represent a distinct clinical group. In the present study, we compared 235 hoarding to 389 non-hoarding participants, all of whom had OCD, collected in the course of the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study. We found that, compared to non-hoarding individuals, hoarders were more likely to have symmetry obsessions and repeating, counting, and ordering compulsions; poorer insight; more severe illness; difficulty initiating or completing tasks; and indecision. Hoarders had a greater prevalence of social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder. Hoarders also had a greater prevalence of obsessive-compulsive and dependent personality disorders. Five personality traits were independently associated with hoarding: miserliness, preoccupation with details, difficulty making decisions, odd behavior or appearance, and magical thinking. Hoarding and indecision were more prevalent in the relatives of hoarding than of non-hoarding probands. Hoarding in relatives was associated with indecision in probands, independently of proband hoarding status. The findings suggest that hoarding behavior may help differentiate a distinct clinical subgroup of people with OCD and may aggregate in some OCD families. Indecision may be a risk factor for hoarding in these families.

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Self-induced abortion in a bulimic woman.

We report the case of a woman with bulimia nervosa, several personality disorders, and a past history of anorexia nervosa who deliberately induced an abortion via self-imposed starvation and vigorous exercise. Her history reveals severe obsessive-compulsive and narcissistic personality disorders as well as a lifelong pattern of denial of affect and illness.

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbid with borderline personality disorder: a long-term case study.

Three case reports of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for more than 10 years are used to illustrate the relationship between OCD and borderline pathology. The recognizable features of the obsessive-compulsive symptoms in these reports are: (i) pervasiveness, the symptomatic overlap of obsessive-compulsive symptoms; (ii) poor insight and resistance; and (iii) obsessive control evident in personal relationships. These features are manifestations of OCD psychopathology as well as of a personality disorder. The symptoms with these features are located hypothetically towards the severe end of the symptomatic spectrum of OCD. The comorbidity is not a simple relationship, and the symptomatology of the comorbid patient is derived from OCD pathology linked with the personality disorder rather than from independent BPD pathology.

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Conditioned blocking in patients with paranoid, non-paranoid psychosis or obsessive compulsive disorder: associations with symptoms, personality and monoamine metabolism.

Conditioned blocking (CB) refers to a delay in learning that a new stimulus, added during learning, has the same consequences as the conditioned stimulus already present. In animals such "learned inattention" depends on monoaminergic and limbic function and, thus, CB performance should be informative on selective information processing impairments found in subgroups of psychotic patients. Attenuated CB in acute schizophrenia has been reported to normalize rapidly. This study examines in young patients the specificity of CB performance to illness, and its associations with symptoms, personality traits and monoaminergic metabolic status. CB was attenuated in psychotic patients with non-paranoid symptoms (NP: n = 12, mean age 17 years) with respect to obsessive-compulsive (OCD: n = 13, mean age 16 years) and healthy subjects (CON, n = 29, mean age 18 years), but only a transient attenuation was observed in paranoid hallucinatory patients (PH: n = 14, mean age 19 years). Outgoing personality traits in CON and OCD subjects correlated with CB. In NP patients attenuated CB was associated with increasing neurotic lability. In PH patients CB correlated positively with "manic" but negatively with psychotic or neurotic scores. The severity of negative symptoms in psychosis and specific negative/positive symptoms in the NP/PH groups was associated with reduced CB. Increased dopamine activity (24-h urine samples) correlated positively with CB, but relative increases of noradrenaline metabolism in NP and serotonin metabolism in OCD patients interfered. In summary, marked psychotic or neurotic traits and some symptom-states were associated with reduced CB. The particular selective processing problems of NP patients may reflect inappropriate NA activity.

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Classification and treatment of obsessional slowness.

Obsessional slowness is regarded as an uncommon but severely disabling variant of obsessive-compulsive disorder. This paper examines the psychopathology, classification, pathophysiology and treatment of obsessional slowness. It argues that primary obsessional slowness does not require classification as a separate syndrome because it can be found to be secondary to recognised phenomena of obsessive-compulsive disorder or anankastic personality disorder. The treatment described in the literature is not thought to be successful in the long term, and controlled trials are required to evaluate new strategies and antidepressant medication.

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Obsessions and compulsions in the community.

A total of 810 adults were examined by psychiatrists in the second stage of the Eastern Baltimore Mental Health Survey. A semistructured examination, the Standard Psychiatric Examination, was used. The relationships between obsessions and compulsions and personal characteristics, childhood behaviors, family history, and other psychopathology were evaluated. The estimated prevalence of obsessions and compulsions in this population was 1.5%. Cases were significantly more likely to report having had childhood fears, learning disabilities and a family history of alcoholism and suicidal behavior. There were significant positive relationships between scores on compulsive, borderline and histrionic personality disorder scales and the probability of obsessions and compulsions. These exploratory analyses in an epidemiologic sample may identify factors of etiologic importance in this condition.

Adolescent↗

Comorbidity of DSM-IV Personality Disorders in unipolar and bipolar affective disorders: a comparative study.

The aim of this study was to compare the prevalence of Personality Disorders assessed by Structured Clinical Interview for Axis-II in 155 inpatients diagnosed with Unipolar Disorder vs inpatients with Bipolar Disorder (39). The most frequent Axis II diagnoses among Unipolar inpatients were Borderline (31.6%), Dependent (25.2%), and Obsessive-Compulsive (14.2%) Personality Disorders. Among Bipolar inpatients, the most prevalent personality disorders were Borderline (41%), Narcissistic (20.5%), Dependent (12.8%), and Histrionic disorders (10.3%). Using chi squared analysis, few differences in distribution emerged between the two groups: Unipolar patients had more recurrent Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder than Bipolar patients (chi(1)2=6.24, p<.005). Comorbid Narcissistic Personality Disorder was significantly more frequent in the Bipolar than in the Unipolar group (chi(1)2=6.34, P<.01). Considering the three clusters (DSM-IV classification), there was a significant difference between the groups, Cluster C (fearful, avoidant) diagnoses being more frequent in the Unipolar than in the Bipolar group (48.4% vs 20.5%, respectively). Cluster B (dramatic, emotionally erratic) diagnoses were found more frequently in patients with Bipolar Disorders (71.8% vs 45.2% in Unipolar patients, chi(2)2=10.1, p<.006). The differences in the distribution and prevalence of Personality Disorders between the two patient groups are discussed.

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Murder and the death penalty: a case report.

Psychiatrists frequently maintain that the death penalty may encourage rather than deter, the commission of homicide and other violent crimes. However, there is a dearth of case reports in the literature to substantiate this belief. One such history is offered, of a man who committed three murders and attempted a fourth, hoping thereby to be executed by the state. His death wish was fulfilled.

Antisocial Personality Disorder↗

Differentiation of obsessive-compulsive-, panic-, obsessive-compulsive personality-, and non-disordered individuals by variation in the promoter region of the serotonin transporter gene.

Past research investigating the role of the serotonin transporter gene in OCD has produced mixed findings. One possible reason for the mixed findings is comorbidity. In this study, non-comorbid OCD individuals were compared to non-disordered controls. A sample of panic disordered individuals was also compared to a non-disordered group. Finally, as an exploratory analysis, individuals were assessed for OCPD and their allelic frequencies were also compared to non-disordered individuals. Analyses revealed that there were higher frequencies of the s/s genotype among the OCD group when compared to non-disordered controls. There were no differences in allelic frequencies on the serotonin transporter gene between the panic disordered group, the OCPD group, and the non-disordered control group. This study found that non-comorbid OCD individuals tended to have a higher percentage of the homozygous short genotype than non-disordered individuals. The s/s genotype might serve as a contributory risk factor for OCD.

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