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H Lazaratou

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PubMed2000

Factors affecting compliance with treatment in an outpatient child psychiatric practice: A retrospective study in a community mental health centre in Athens.

BACKGROUND: The literature review shows that treatment compliance in child psychiatric practice is a multifactorial issue that includes parameters such as the type of problem presented by the child, the family's functioning and the therapeutic team's organization and functioning. METHODS: In order to examine these parameters and their inter-relationship, epidemiological data from the files of 455 cases, representing the total number of cases admitted to our Centre between 1990-1994, were collected. We noted that the majority of patients (58.6%) failed to comply with treatment. RESULTS: The statistical analysis shows that the sex and age of the child, the socio-economic status of the family, the family's size, the parents' educational background as well as the referral source are unrelated to compliance. On the contrary, the type of problem presented by the child, the type of recommended treatment, the number of sessions attended and the season of admission are correlated with treatment compliance. CONCLUSIONS: Certain aspects of our team's techniques concerning the admission procedure, therapeutic contract and parental counselling have been re-examined and improved.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1999

The Conners-28 teacher questionnaire in clinical and nonclinical samples of Greek children 6-12 years old.

It is accepted practice in child psychiatry to use more than one source of information in assessing behavioural problems in children and adolescents. Employing standardized tools for these assessments allows cross-cultural comparisons and better interchange of the findings. Achenbach's Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Teacher's Report Form (TRF) are two widely accepted instruments that were standardized in Greece within the framework of the European Network for the Study of Hyperkinetic Disorder. We studied the Conners-28 teacher questionnaire in a Greek community sample of primary schoolchildren aged 6-12 years. The factor structure showed to be similar to that originally reported from the USA. Discrimination between the referred and nonreferred sample was high, especially for the Inattentive-passive scale. Conners-28 scores were highly correlated with the TRF (scored by the same informant), much less so with the CBCL (scored by a different informant). Our study demonstrates the usefulness and applicability of the Conners-28 item questionnaire.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1999

Achenbach's Child Behavior Checklist and Teachers' Report Form in a normative sample of Greek children 6-12 years old.

Achenbach's Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Teachers' Report Form (TRF) were administered to 6-12 year old school children comprising a large random community sample (n = 1200) drawn from the whole of Greece. These are the first data on the TRF in Greece and the first nation-wide data on the CBCL. Appropriate cutoff points for the behavioral problems and competence scales of both questionnaires were obtained for boys and girls. These were considerably higher than USA cutoffs for the CBCL but not for the TRF. Analysis of scores in relation to degree of urbanization showed that it was not necessary to define different cutoffs in different strata. Parents' and teachers' ratings of the same child were most highly correlated for Externalizing and Aggressive behavior for boys and for Attention problems for both sexes.

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PubMed1991

Age and cohort effects in adult handedness.

A systematic increase with age of the strong right-handers/mixed right-handers ratio, in normal adults, was found in Algeria, Greece, Italy, France and Spain. This age effect on adult handedness is not easily explained by variations in the social pressure against left-hand use, differential mortality, or information bias. There was no systematic decrease in the frequency of left-handedness with age. Left-hand writing among left-handers was common in the youngest age group and rare after 40 years of age.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

The pharmacological effect of fractions obtained by smoking cannabis through a water-pipe. II. A second fractionation step.

The catatonic activity, prolongation of phenobarbital sleeping-time, convulsant action and disruption of nest-building activity was assessed in mice subjected to 4 cannabis pyrolysis products and their tobacco analogues. All but one of the cannabis fractions prolonged the pentobarbital sleeping-time and disrupted the nest-building activity of mice in a way not related to their content in the main cannabinoids. Nest-building activity seems to be the most valid assay we have used so far.

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