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Suicide in the Elderly: Crucial Not to Forget!
Sampaio, Daniel; Serviço de Psiquiatria. Hospital de Santa Maria/Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa. Lisboa. Portugal.. ; .
Effectivity of screening, concepts and attitudes towards metabolic síndrome: a ...
Guerreiro, Diogo Frasquilho; Navarro, Rita; Telles-Correia, Diogo; Martins, Paulo; Trigo, Elsa; Silva, Manuela; Neves, António; Góis, CarlosThe Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is constituted by a set of specific metabolic alterations being postulated that the main dysfunction is insulin resistance, associated with abdominal type obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia. Epidemiological data indicates prevalence of MS of about 25%. Estimates point to higher prevalence of MS in bipolar (BP) patients, between 30 to 35%. Cost-effective screening m...
Personality and transplantation.
Telles-Correia, Diogo; Barbosa, António; Mega, InêsThe association between personality and medical health has been subject of several studies. The most accepted theoretical models of personality, in this context, are of two kinds: Three factor model (neuroticism, extraversion epsicoticism) and five factor model (neuroticism, extraversion, consciousness, agreeableness, and openess to experience). There are three ways which can explain the interaction between per...
Quality of life and transplantation.
Telles-Correia, Diogo; Barbosa, António; Mega, InêsWith the recent development of surgical techniques and other treatments of transplanted patients the increase in survival is not anymore the unique objective of the intervention. Nowadays, increase in quality of life is a very important aim. The instruments that assess quality of life can be multi/unidimensional, specific/nonspecific. One of the most important instruments to evaluate quality of life in all kind...
Validation of multidimensional adherence questionnaire for liver transplantated...
Telles-Correia, Diogo; Barbosa, António; Mega, Inês; Monteiro, EstelaNonadherence is considered as determinant for the increase of morbility and mortality, reduction of quality of life, increase of medical costs and excess health services utilization in transplanted patients, and it can be direct cause of 21% of the fails of transplants and 26% of the mortality after transplantation. It was demonstrated that patient description obtained by means of an interview with a good quest...
Coping in transplantated patients.
Telles-Correia, Diogo; Mega, Inês; Barbosa, António; Barroso, Eduardo; Monteiro, EstelaThe theoretical model of coping mechanisms (CM), is based on a discussion between it's main determinant factors: individual and situational (related to the 2 approaches of coping: dispositional and constitutional). Actually the most used classification of CM is based on the division of CM in two main dimensions: coping focused on emotions and coping focused on problem resolution. It is essential that classifica...
Psychopharmacology and metabolic syndrome.
Telles-Correia, Diogo; Guerreiro, Diogo F; Coentre, Ricardo; Coentre, Rui; Góis, C; Figueira, LuísaMetabolic Syndrome consists in a group of metabolic changes, being the most important problem insulin resistence. Other important components of this syndrome are abdominal obesity, hypertension and hyperlipidemia /hypercholestrolemia. It was demonstrated that psychiatric patients have a greater risk to develop metabolic syndrome with a prevalence of 41%. Prevalence of this syndrome in psychiatric male patients ...
Adherence in transplantated patients.
Telles-Correia, Diogo; Barbosa, António; Mega, Inês; Barroso, Eduardo; Monteiro, EstelaThere is a lot evidence about the importance adherence in the transplantated patients. Many theoretical models that can me used to predict adherence, the more important are: the communication model of compliance (Ley), the health belief model (Rosenstock, Becker), and the autoregulation model (Leventhal). The authors explore these models and sugest the one wich is more useful in transplantated patients. It is n...
Differences between SSRI's pharmacokinetics and pharmacodinamics.
Telles-Correia, Diogo; Guerreiro, Diogo F; Oliveira, Sónia; Figueira, M LuísaSelective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) are nowadays the preferred treatment for patients with depression and anxiety disorders, when compared with traditional tricyclic antidepressants. All the SSRIs were designed to selectively potentiate serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)] activity through inhibition of the 5 -HT neuronal reuptake transporter. However, despite a common mode of proven antidepressant...
Psychiatric approach of liver transplant.
Telles-Correia, Diogo; Barbosa, António; Barroso, Eduardo; Monteiro, EstelaThere is enough evidence about the importance psychiatric disorders (in the pre or post-operative period) have on the transplanted patient's clinical evolution and quality of life. In this review we describe, the main psychiatric items involved in the selection of candidates and accompaniment of transplanted patients. We concluded that psychiatric disorders are common in candidates in the pre-operative period. ...
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