1.Academic Achievement and Result of California Psychological Inventory
Qiuping TANG ; Yunlong DENG ; Guang HU
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2001;15(3):205-207
Objective: To investigate the relationship between academic achievements of high school students and the results of California Psychological Inventory (CPI) of them. Method: Seventy-one higher school students were tested by CPI-RC (revised Chinese version). Their academic achievements were recorded. Results: Nine of the 23 CPI traits, such as Re (responsibility), So (socialize), Wb (comfortable), Ac (achievement), Py (psychologized), Cm (communality), To (tolerance), Sc (self-control), V3 (self accomplishment) had significant correlation with academic achievements (r=0.24~0.33, p<0.05). Students with different prefer (literal arts or science) showed different CPI traits. Students with better academic achievements had higher scores on So, Sc, Wb, To and V3. Conclusion: CPI traits have some relationship to academic achievements of high school students and to their academic preference.
2.Mental Health of Adolescents Suffered from Traumatic Asphyxia
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2001;15(3):196-198
Objective: To explore the effect of traumatic asphyxia on mental health of adolescents. Method: Forty-four adolescents were assessed with Styles Questionnaire (SCL-90), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) after one week, 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 16 weeks and 34 weeks of asphyxia. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was diagnosed according to CCMD-2-R. Results: All 44 adolescents suffered from traumatic asphyxia had some psychiatric symptoms. Nineteen of them fulfilled the symptomatic criterta of DTSD in the first week,10 of them were diagnosed as PTSD at the 6th week,8 of the them returned to normal after 34 weeks. Conclusion: Mental health of adolescents suffered from traumatic asphyxia need our attention.
3.Study on the View of Sex of Contemporary College Students
Lihong YE ; Yabing GAO ; Bowei LUO
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2001;15(3):188-189
Objective: To collect the view of sex of contemporary colleg e studen ts. Methods: To provide questionnaire made by Chen Jialin to 12 00 college studen ts from three universities in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. 1130 of them (94%) were compl e ted and fit for study standard. Results: College students' view of sex tends to be more open but still had some controversy. The difference of views on topics s uch as the purpose of sex, illegal sex and chastity between boy students and gir l students was quite significant, while the students from urban and those from c ountryside shared similar view of sex. Conclusion: Sex educatio n is still at its primary step in Chinese college students.
4.Psychosocial-family Factors and Marital Gratification of Pi lots
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2001;15(3):186-187
Objective: To study marital gratification (MG) of pilots and their w ives, as well as psychosocial factors in their family so as to provide a backgro und for counseling about pilots. Method: Two hundred and thirty -eight families o f pilots were collected. The pilots and their wives were tested respectively by SCL-90, EPQ, Olson Marital Quality Inventory, Stressful Life Events Scale and So cial Support Rating Scale. Results: There was significant relat ionship between M G and personality, mental health, stressful life events, social support of both pilots and their wives'. Marital gratification of pilots with illness was worse than that of their healthy colleagues. Multiple factor analysis showed that the main factors contributed to MG of pilots were wives' stressful life event. Concl usion: Marital gratification of pilots is a problem involves their famil y and social life.
5.Alexithymia of Patients with Essential Hypertension or Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Ning LU ; Zhenlei YUE ; Fang SHU
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2001;15(3):163-165
Objective: To investigate factors related to alexithymia of patients with essential hypertension or type 2 diabetes mellitus. Method: 42 patients wi th essential hypertension, 40 with diabetes mellitus and 45 healthy control were assessed by TAS (Toronto Alexithymia Scale), SCL-90 and EPQ (Eysenck Personalit y Questionnaire). Multiple correlation analysis and multiple stepwise regressio n were used in data analysis. Result: Compared with normal contr ol, patients with hypertension or diabetes showed alexithymia. They were deficient in the abilit y of describing emotion, recognizing and distinguishing between emotion and body feeling, and used to extroversion thought. Besides these, patients with diabete s showed fancy-lacking either. There was close relation between personality and a lexithymia. The more introversive of the hypertensives, the more deficient they were in describing emotion. The more introversive of the diabetics, the more de f icient they were in recognizing and making distinguish between emotion and body feeling. Hostility ideation and neuroticism of hypertension patients were major factors related to alexithymia. Paranoid ideation and psychoticism had similar e ffects in diabetics. Conclusion: Patients with essential hypert ension or diabete s have alexithymia relating to their personality traits and psychological state .
6.Coping Style and Personality of Patients with Graves Disease
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2001;15(3):156-157
Objective: To investigate the relation between coping style and personality of patients with Graves disease. Method: Eighty two patients with Graves disease were assessed by Coping Style Questionnaire (CSQ), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and Type A Behavior Questionnaire (TABQ). Results: The extroversive patients adopted more positive coping style than introversive patients did. Patients with higher EPQ-N score had higher score in negative coping. Those with Type A behavior had higher score in negative coping either. There were positive correlation between score of positive coping and that of EPQ-E, between score of negative coping and score of EPQ-N or score of Type A behavior. Conclusion: The coping style of patients with Graves disease is influenced by their personality.
7.A randomized controlled trial of sertraline combining with quetiapine in treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2010;24(3):198-201
Objective: To investigate the efficacy and safety of sertraline combining with quetiapine in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) .Methods: A total of 86 patients who met the criteria for OCD in International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) were randomly assigned to two groups. One group was treated with sertraline combining with quetiapine and die other with sertraline only for 8 weeks. The efficacy was measured wim the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and the Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD) . The side effects were assessed with the Treatment Emergent Symptoms Scale (TESS) . Results: One patient in sertraline group fell off and was out of statistical analysis. At endpoint the significant improvement rate in the combining group was higher than that in the sertraline group (72.1% vs. 47.6% , P = 0.021) . In combining group, the YBOCS score [(25.00 ± 5.19) vs. (11.74 ± 4.50), P < 0.01] and HAMD score [(14.47 ± 4.05) vs. (6. 86 ±2.61), P < 0.001] were decreased after treatment In sertraline group, the YBOCS score [(24.55 ± 3.60) vs. (14.38±4.18), P<0.001] and HAMA score [(14.79 ± 3.77) vs. (8.29 ±3.04), P <0.001] were also decreased after treatment There were significant differences between the two groups (Ps < 0.05) . There were no significant differences between the two groups in the TESS score at the end of 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks (Ps > 0.05) . The incidence of drowsiness and tachy-heart rate in the combining group was high than that in the control group (37.2% vs. 4.8% , P <0.001; 27.9% vs. 4. 8% , P=0.004) . But most patients with these two kinds of side effects were disappeared in 2 weeks. There were no significant differences between the two groups in other side effects such as nausea, anxiety, headache, and constipation (Ps > 0.05) .Conclusion: The addition of quetiap-ine to sertraline therapy has been found to be effective and well-tolerated approach in patients with OCD.
8.Characteristics of childhood traumatic experiences in borderline personality disorder in college students
Canze HUANG ; Dongfeng SONG ; Rongrong LUAN ; Ya WEN ; Wenqing FU
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2010;24(3):228-231
Objective: To examine the characteristics of childhood traumatic experiences in borderline personality disorder (BPD) in college students. Methods: The Personality Diagnosis Questionnaire-~(4+) (PDQ-~(4+)), Personality Disorder Interview- Ⅳ (PDI - Ⅳ) and Childhood Trauma Questionnaire -28 Short Form (CTQ-SF) were administered to 3227 college students of sophomore and junior. Results: (1) In the investigation of PDQ-~(4+), 31 subjects with childhood traumatic experiences (0.96%) were diagnosed as BPD, and the total score of BDL sub-scale was (2. 62 ± 1.70), including 18 females and 13 males. In CTQ test, the scores of bad environment in females were significantly higher than that in males [(13.63±4.54) vs. (9.83±1.95), P<0.01] . (2) Subjects with BPD got higher scores than normal controls in CTQ-SF, such as the emotional abuse [(2.11 ±0.77) vs. (1.66±0.49), P<0.01] .Conclusion: college students with borderline personality disorder mostly have d different childhood traumatic experiences, and there exists a sex difference.
9.Effects of sensory integration training on the behaviors, intelligence and executive function in children with ADHD
Ronghua HANG ; Xinming LIU ; Ruiquan WANG ; Yigao WU
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2010;24(3):219-223
Objective: To explore the effects of sensory integration training on the behaviors and cognition in children with attention deficit hyperactivity sorder (ADHD) . Methods: Fifty-two children with ADHD (experimental group) were undergone sensory integration training for 60 times and their behaviors were evaluated with the Corners Parents Symptom Questionnaire (PSQ), and the cognition function was determined with the Combined Raven's Test (CRT) and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) before and after the training. Another 52 healthy volunteers were recruited as controls and given the corresponding tests described above for comparison of the results. Results: The scores of conduct disorder, compulsion, hyperactivity and hyperactivity index in children with ADHD were decreased significantly than those of controls after training [(0.60 ± 0. 34) vs. (0.68 ± 0.35), (0.92±0.57) vs. (1.25±0.70), (0.82±0.29) vs. (1.08±0.44); P<0.05] .Inaddition, the improvement was found in IQ, categories control, and conceptive level as compared with that before the training [such as IQ, (105. 37 ±22.76) vs. (97. 37 ±24.15); P<0.001], whereas the scores of response error, response error percentage, first category and persistent errors were decreased after the training [such as response error, (39.40 ± 22.22) vs. (46.60 ±23.44), P<0.001] . For the experimental subjects, the scores in the first response number and the persistent errors percentage right after the training were higher compared with the controls [(12.03 ±5.08) vs. (10.65±0.84), (50.75 ±18.35) vs. (39.95 ± 15. 34); Ps<0.05] .Conclusion: The sensory integration training can improve the behaviors and cognition in children with ADHD, but it produces fewer effects on some of the executive functions despite clinical symptom relief to a certain extent.
10.Analysis of behavioral characteristics of children with autism aged 1.5~3 years old
Aiyue LI ; Xin ZHANG ; Congchao LV ; Yu ZHU ; Yiming LI ; Gongshu LIU
Chinese Mental Health Journal 2010;24(3):215-218
Objective:To investigate the early behavioral characteristics of children with autism within the age of 1.5 to 3 years in order to provide basis for early diagnosis and intervention. Methods: Using mass random sampling, 8006 children aged 1.5 to 3 years in nine districts in Tianjin were screened with a self-made questionnaire. Totally 432 children with suspected autism were diagnosed and rated according to the diagnosing criteria of DSM-Ⅳ and assessed with the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS). Their behavioral characteristics were assessed with the Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC) and the early behaviors were compared between the children with autism and the normal children. Results: Children with autism in infants and suspicious positive group were different from normal children in 9 items such as" Abnormal language skills", "No index points the light", "No acts of posing as the game", "Could not normally play with toys, "and others(P <0.05). Children with autism in infants were different from suspicious positive group in 5 items such as"Children have no eye contact with others". The items with positive rate higher than 95% were interpersonal communicate barriers, mimic the functional deficiencies, language communicate barriers, non-verbal communication barriers and mental deficiency in CARS. The results of ABC showed that severe autism had much higher scores than mild to moderate autism both in the sense (S) and body function(B) areas [(8.00 ±3.30) vs. (5.15 ±2.58), (12.00 ±6.12) vs. (6.15 ±3.26); Ps <0.05]. Conclusion: The develop mental and behavioral symptoms can exist in early period of life of children with alltism, to which highly attention should be paid.