A5084060126- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Stress and Burnout Research
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Public Health and Environmental Issues
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Advertising and Communication Studies
- Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
- Psychological Treatments and Disorders
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- IgG4-Related and Inflammatory Diseases
Universidad del Rosario
2020-2024
Universitat de Barcelona
2021-2024
University of Auckland
2023
Secretaría de Salud de Bogotá
2023
Departament de Salut
2023
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
2022
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental
2022
Universidad de Zaragoza
1990-2016
University of Magdalena
2011-2012
Universidad de La Rioja
1990
Abstract Background and Hypothesis A pro-inflammatory phenotype has been related to psychotic disorders. The neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is an accessible biomarker that could be helpful characterize this systemic inflammation state. Study Design This study evaluated the NLR in a cohort of 310 subjects with first episode psychosis (FEP) matched group 215 healthy controls, recruited 16 Spanish centers participating PEPs Project. We investigated measures over 2 years prospective,...
Background: The rapid spread of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has forced most countries to take drastic public health measures, including closure mental outpatient services and some inpatient units. This suddenly created need adapt expand telepsychiatry care across world. However, not all might be ready cope with this demand. present study was set create a practical clinically useful protocol for telemental applied in context current COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A panel...
Rodrigo Ramalho1*Frances Adiukwu2Drita Gashi Bytyçi3Samer El Hayek4Jairo M. Gonzalez-Diaz5Amine Larnaout6Laura Orsolini7Victor Pereira-Sanchez8Mariana Pinto da Costa9,10,11Ramdas Ransing12Mohammadreza Shalbafan13Zulvia Syarif14Paolo Grandinetti15
Abstract To assess the role of age (early onset psychosis-EOP < 18 years vs. adult psychosis-AOP) and diagnosis (schizophrenia spectrum disorders-SSD bipolar disorders-BD) on duration untreated psychosis (DUP) prodromal symptoms in a sample patients with first episode psychosis. 331 (7–35 old) were recruited 174 (52.6%) diagnosed SSD or BD at one-year follow-up through multicenter longitudinal study. The Symptom Onset Schizophrenia (SOS) inventory, Positive Negative Syndrome Scale...
Abstract Background Several studies have suggested that the retina structure is affected in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). We aimed to investigate location and size of potential differences between patients healthy controls (HC) several thickness volume measures across Study Design included cross-sectional comparing peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) thickness, macular volume, (MT), foveal ganglion cell inner plexiform (GCL+IPL), cup cup/disc ratio (C/D) right and/or...
The collaborative effort of an international research team from the Early Career Psychiatrists section World Psychiatry Association has brought about easy-to-use, quick and stepwise mental health care toolkit for identification appropriate referral those in need during pandemic. This simple guide can be applied general outpatient setting is catered all healthcare professionals, regardless their expertise within field with minimal training. It our hope that by incorporating this into daily...
Two months after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Colombia has reported over 10,000 confirmed cases of disease and 400 deaths.On March 25, 2020, stayat-home (SAH) order was issued country-wide to prevent spread virus.After that, media channels suicide middle-aged man in Santa Marta, city located on Caribbean coast.At least three times, authorities had scold him for violating SAH order, he claimed at court working as street vendor, would not be able feed his...
Healthcare workers have faced an unprecedented workload in overstretched health facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we describe various initiatives to support them. Psychological, financial peer support, accommodation meal services, proper personal protective equipment, applause gratitude community, spiritual religious life, child care volunteering were identified. The potential effects of pandemic – permanent stress, burnout other mental problems among healthcare professionals can...
We studied herein the predictive value for panic severity of three well-based vulnerability factors: personality traits (neuroticism and extraversion; NEO-PI-R), anxiety sensitivity (ASI), perceived control (ACQ-R).The sample was composed 52 participants diagnosed with disorder, or without agoraphobia, according to DSM-IV-TR criteria.Our results revealed that facet is a better predictor than neuroticism. Anxiety increases and, finally, perception emotions only subscale more sensitivity.This...
The main objective of the present study was to investigate association between several epigenetic clocks, covering different aspects aging, with schizophrenia relapse evaluated over a 3-year follow-up period in cohort ninety-one first-episode patients. Genome-wide DNA methylation profiled and four including clocks chronological age, mortality telomere length were calculated. Patients that relapsed during showed acceleration clock (p = 0.030). Shorter associated cognitive performance (working...
Although commonly used in clinical practice, scientific literature about clozapine prescription patterns Colombia is scarce. A cross-sectional observational study was conducted an outpatient clinic Bogotá, Colombia. Between 2016 and 2018, prescribed to 2603 patients, mainly for Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Bipolar Depressive Disorders, at a median dose of 100mg/day. After controlling other variables, older age the only variable that explained use doses lower than Clozapine not...