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K J Rix

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PubMed1983

Food hypersensitivity in irritable bowel syndrome.

Food hypersensitivity as a cause of abdominal symptoms was investigated by means of exclusion diets and double-blind food provocation in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Twenty-seven patients entered the study; nineteen complied with dietary manipulation. Food hypersensitivity as a cause of their presenting symptoms was confirmed by double-blind food provocation in only three patients, who also had evidence of associated atopic disease and positive skin tests to common inhalant allergens. Evidence of minor psychiatric disorder was found in twelve of fourteen patients examined by an independent psychiatrist.

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PubMed1983

Food allergy.

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PubMed1983

Food allergy: how much in the mind? A clinical and psychiatric study of suspected food hypersensitivity.

Objective evidence of food hypersensitivity was sought by the use of exclusion diets and provocation tests in 23 patients who attributed a wide variety of symptoms to food allergy. Hypersensitivity to ingested substances was confirmed in 4, each of whom presented with typical atopic symptoms. None of these had psychological symptoms, but a high incidence of psychiatric disorder was found in patients whose belief that they had a food allergy could not be confirmed.

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PubMed1982

Incidence of treated alcoholism in north-east Scotland, Orkney, and Shetland fishermen, 1966-70.

The psychiatric case register for the north-east of Scotland has been used to calculate the rates for first contact with a diagnosis of alcoholism by fishermen and non-fishermen in the years 1966-70. In each of these years the fishermen had higher rates than non-fishermen as a whole and also higher rates than the non-fishermen from social class IV, which is the social class to which most fishermen belong. The smaller differences between the rates of fishermen and non-fishermen in 1969 and 1970 relative to 1966, 1967, and 1968 may reflect a preferential "shedding" of older alcoholic fishermen at a time when there was a greater than usual contraction in the size of the work force. Differences between the rates for fishermen and non-fishermen were also evident in the age groups 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, and 50-59, being most pronounced in the 20-29 group. The findings are consistent with fishing being an occupation with a high risk for alcoholism.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1982

Elderly alcoholics in the Edinburgh psychiatric services.

Thirty-one elderly alcoholics diagnosed in the Edinburgh psychiatric service during a 5-month period were interviewed and compared with 30, sex-matched young alcoholics. The two groups were very similar, except in terms of diagnoses of chronic organic brain disease, and the few differences found may reflect age or generational differences. It is suggested that elderly alcoholics, with the exception of those with chronic organic brain disease, may be treated with young alcoholics in general psychiatry and specialist alcoholism services, while those who have chronic organic brain disease may be better treated in a psychogeriatric service.

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The Manchester Nurse Rating Scales for the daily simultaneous assessment of depressive and manic ward behaviours.

Two nurses' rating scales, the Manchester Nurse Rating Scale for Depression (MNRS-D) and the Manchester Nurse Rating Scale for Mania (MNRS-M) are described. The scales were designed for the daily rating of depressive and manic ward behaviours. The inter-rater reliability coefficients (r) for pairs of qualified nurses were found to be 0.790 (MNRS-D) and 0.949 (MNRS-M). All but one of the individual items yielded significant reliability coefficients. The validity coefficients, using psychiatrists' global ratings as the criterion, were 0.533 (MNRS-D) and 0.650 (MNRS-M); somewhat higher correlations were obtained between the MNRS-D and the Montgomery-Asberg Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory, and between the MNRS-M and the Young Mania Scale. The MNRS-D was shown to be sensitive to clinical change following treatment with antidepressant drugs.

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