Biomedical subjects

C D Neal

Publications and source records attributed to C D Neal.

9 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1988

The Geriatric Mental State (GMS) used in the community: replication studies of the computerized diagnosis AGECAT.

Three studies are reported using the Geriatric Mental State in one of its community forms on a total of 647 subjects aged over 65 and living in their own homes. The concordance between the computer diagnosis AGECAT and psychiatrists' diagnosis is at least as good in these replication samples as in the original studies (Copeland et al. 1986). AGECAT has been shown to be useful for epidemiological surveys and as a diagnostic guide for non-medical interviewers.

Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted↗

PubMed1978

A survey of attempted suicide in Shropshire.

The number of patients who are referred for a psychiatric opinion as cases of attempted suicide seems to be increasing. One hundred and seven patients, 70 females and 37 males, were referred to the author during the period of the one year study, all but three were cases of deliberate self-poisoning. Only a minority of the group, three males and 11 females, regretted that the attempted had not been successful and all were admitted to the psychiatric hospital. A large majority of the patients were provisionally diagnosed as suffering from a reactive depression, consequent in many instances upon the breakdown of some aspect of interpersonal relationships.

Adjustment Disorders↗

PubMed1978

Suicide in psychiatric patients.

The study relates to suicides occurring in Shropshire during 1965 to 1973 inclusive. Psychiatric patients who had committed suicide were compared with others, matched by sex and age who had not done so. The suicide group included a higher proportion of members who had behaved violently, experienced a broken marriage (through death, separation or divorce) or earlier had deliberately harmed themselves, often by dangerous means. Of the psychiatric patients who committed suicide 63 per cent had seen a doctor within a month beforehand, yet very few were receiving adequate physical treatment for depressive illness at the time of their death. Immigrants from eastern Europe were found to be particularly prone to suicide.

Divorce↗

PubMed1974