Behavioural factors in genesis of suicidal behaviour of high school and university students

The suicidal behaviour is a widespread phenomenon among high school and university youth. The motives of suicidal behaviour among high school and university students are mamly connected with everyday life, and difficulties m solving microsocial conflicts depend on disharmonious of mentality, that is typical for a given age category. It is more reasonable to create Helpline and specialized Internet for preventing suicidal behaviourye

Stigmatisation and self-stigmatisation of patients with mental disorders committed suicide attempts

This study aims to determine clinical characteristics of stigmatisation and self-stigmatisation of patients who committed suicide attempts on the basis of "mental illness" and "suicide

Physical restraint in the provision of medical care in somatic hospital: ethics and law

The ethics and legality of the use of physical restraint (PR) in the case of patients with acute mental disorders in general practice are discusse

Academic stress and its effect on medical students’ mental health status

This review aimed to analyze the data on features of a medical students’ mental status and its dynamics in the course of study. The analysis was applied to the scientific publications (mainly over the past 5 years) on the issue of academic stress and medical students’ mental status in different countries from computer databases: PubMed, Medical-Science, eLibrary, Web of Science, and Scopu

Academical stress for the first and second year medical students and possible risks to mental health

Medical student’s activity is one of the strained types of labor in emotional aspects. This affects the level of their mental and physical health. In this study, we conducted a comparative analysis of the educational stress of first and second year medical students. The sample included all russian-speaking students. The academic stress, stressresistance, level of anxiety and depression were studie

Associations of cytokines genetic polymorphisms with hypertension progress

The article presents results of comparative analysis of cytokines genes polymorphous variants occurrence among hypertension patients with burdened familial history regarding this disease and in a control grou

Coercion, Violation of Privacy and Everyday Difficulties as the Cause of Patient Refusal Treatment in Psychiatric Hospitals in Russia

Treatment in a psychiatric hospital is accompanied by a restriction of independence, violation of privacy, coercion, which causes displeasure of patients. The aim of the study was to verify the scale of everyday problems, violations of privacy and coercion in a psychiatric hospital to develop recommendations for the organization of a therapeutic environment. The study included 191 patients in a psychiatric hospital. Anonymous questionnaire was used. Statistical processing of the database was carried out by nonparametric methods. The majority of patients (67%) estimated the conditions of stay in a psychiatric hospital at 7-10 points (10-point scale), but half of them complained about the need for self-purchase of drugs. A full night's sleep was disturbed by the snoring of others (56.5%), an uncomfortable bed (36.6%), bright light (26.2%). The poor diet was indicated by 45.5% of patients. Patients indicated coercion by medical staff: retention (11.5%), forced administration of drugs (12%), coercion to consent to treatment (22%), refusal to discharge from hospital (35.1%). It was reported that there was a violation of privacy in the toilet (36.6%), difficulties to observe the intimate hygiene (16.8%). These problems caused patients to refuse inpatient treatment if there was the possibility of outpatient treatment (65.2% of men and 52.6% of women). Despite the low level of claims of patients to living conditions, it is important to respect their rights in psychiatric hospitals to privacy, creating a comfortable living space, the organization of differentiated methods of observation by medical staff

Medical students’ attitude to persons with mental disorders and psychiatrists after the study of psychiatry

This study aimed to verify and compare the degree of stigmatization of persons with mental disorders by future doctors, depending on the knowledge in the field of psychiatry, to develop recommendations for destigmatization. It was found that the study of psychiatry made softer the medical students’ attitude toward people with mental disorder

Sociophobia in Medical Students (Prevalence and Comorbidity)

Social phobias are one of the most common anxiety-phobic disorders. This study aimed to verify the prevalence of social phobias and comorbid disorders among medical students to develop recommendations for the prevention. A sample of 724 Russian students of 1-6 years of education in the medical institute was examined using the psychometric, clinical, psychopathological and nonparametric statistics method

Sociophobia in medical students (Prevalence and Comorbidity)

This study aimed to verify the prevalence of social phobias and comorbid disorders among medical students to develop recommendations for the prevention. A sample of 724 Russian students of 1-6 years of education in the medical institute was examined using the psychometric, clinical, psychopathological and nonparametric statistics method