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PubMed1999

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth risks for emotional, physical, and social problems: results from a community-based survey.

OBJECTIVE: Health problems of gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) youth are reported as differing from those of heterosexual youth. Increased depression, suicide, substance use, homelessness, and school dropout have been reported. Most studies of GLB youth use clinical or convenience samples. The authors conducted a community school-based health survey that included an opportunity to self-identify as GLB. METHOD: An anonymous self-report health care questionnaire was used during a community-based survey in 2 high schools in an upper middle class district. RESULTS: Significantly increased health risks for self-identified GLB youth were found in mental health, sexual risk-taking, and general health risks compared with self-identified heterosexuals, but not in health domains associated with substance abuse, homelessness, or truancy. CONCLUSIONS: Self-identified GLB youth in community settings are at greater risk for mental health, sexual risk-taking, and poorer general health maintenance than their heterosexual peers.

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PubMed1980

Psychological and social problems encountered in active treatment of chronic uraemia. III. Prediction of the living donor's psychological reaction.

Sixteen kidney donors were interviewed by a psychiatrist and given the Rorschach test before and one year after operation. We used our previous study as a basis in predicting the expectable level of psychic traumatization that the donation process would provoke. In 10 of the donors the prediction proved to be correct. A trend towards a better predictability was observed in cases of successful transplantation. An unsuccessful operation is always followed by psychological complications, reducing the possibilities of an accurate prediction and necessitating psychotherapeutic help. The present procedures are clinically simple and require relatively little time.

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PubMed1992

Clinical and social problems in young women with breast carcinoma.

Studies have noted that Asian women tend to have invasive breast cancer at a younger age compared with their Western counterparts. This is a rising trend among women in Singapore. This study compares 46 women less than or equal to 35 years with 313 women greater than 35 years who were treated in a teaching hospital between January 1983 and December 1989. Despite better education, the younger women (less than or equal to 35 years) were no different from their older counterparts in delaying medical consultation for more than 3 months after self-detection (39 vs 38.6%) though a higher percentage of older women procrastinated for over a year (16.6 vs 6.5%). As a result, 28% of younger women and 21.6% of older women presented with late disease (TNM Stage III and IV). Primary healthcare physicians contributed towards further delay among 65% of women less than or equal to 35 years. They were more suspicious when breast lumps were detected in women greater than 35 years and only 8% had delayed referrals. Failure in advising early biopsy added further delay (greater than 3 months) in 27.6% of younger patients whereas it was seldom delayed for the other older group (0.3%). Eight patients less than or equal to 35 years were initially reluctant to undergo definitive surgery. These cumulative delays resulted in progression of disease in seven patients of the 11 patients whose therapy was delayed more than 6 months.

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PubMed1986

The management of a sexually charged clinical problem: social structural and psychoanalytic functionalist approaches in a therapeutic community.

An event in a therapeutic community is examined from the perspectives of the structuralism of Durkheim and the functionalism of psychoanalysis. Although these two approaches might appear theoretically contradictory, analysis of the evidence shows them to be clinically complementary. The role of social structure in therapeutic communities requires deliberate conceptualization if such communities are to be demonstrably therapeutic.

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