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P01-311 - Alexithymia, Hypochondriasis and Obsessive-compulsive Symptoms in Patients with Chronic Prostatitis
Authors: Tournikioti K. , Moussas G. , Korkoliakou P. , Christodoulou C. , Gourgoulis G.M. , Tsiodras S. , Nika S. , Panagopoulos P. , Giamarellou H. , Lykouras L. 
Published: June 2010

ObjectiveChronic prostatitis has been long considered a psychosomatic illness, however the psychological profile of patients suffering from it, has not been fully elucidated yet. The present study aims to assess alexithymia, hypochondriasis and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with chronic prostatitis.MethodsPatients diagnosed with chronic prostatitis at a tertiary care ID clinic were evaluated for the presence of alexithymia, hypochondriasis and obsessive compulsive symptoms using respectively the following psychometric tools: Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS), Whiteley Index (WI) and Leyton Obsessional Inventory (LOI). Patients were categorized according to the NIH Consensus Classification System for Prostatitis Category and the NIH Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (CPSI) was calculated.Results57 patients (median age 40 yrs old; IQR 32-51.5 yrs) have been evaluated so far. Median CPSI score was 18 (IQR: 13-24). Median TAS score was 44 (39-57), median LOI score was 13 (10-15) and median WI score was 28 (22-38). An abnormal LOI score indicative of obsessive-compulsive features was noted in 58% of patients and an abnormal WI score indicative of hypochondriacal beliefs in 45%. CPSI strongly correlated with TAS score (r=0.57, p=0.007).ConclusionHigh rates of alexithymia, obsessive compulsive symptoms and hypochondriasis are present in chronic prostatitis patients. Alexithymic features were strongly correlated with quality of life measures such as the CPSI. These findings necessitate further elucidation and suggest that patients with chronic prostatitis may need psychiatric counseling and therapy.
P01-312 - Quality of Life and Inflammation in Patients with Kidney Transplant
Authors: Turányi C.Z. , Molnár M.Z. , Szeifert L. , Adorjáni G. , Czira M.E. , Ujszászi A. , Háromszéki B. , Fornádi K. , Mucsi I. , Novák M. ,   Psychonephrology Study Group
Published: June 2010

ObjectivesChronic kidney disease (CKD) has profound effects on the quality of life (QoL) of patients with serious mental health, physiological, and socio-economic implications. The co-occurrence of inflammation and protein-energy wasting in patients with CKD (called the Malnutrition-Inflammation Complex Syndrome (MICS)) is known to be associated with adverse medical outcomes and increased mortality. We designed this study to examine the relationship between nutritional and inflammational status and QoL in patients with kidney transplant.MethodsData from 100 randomly selected patients were analyzed in a cross-sectional survey. Socio-demographic parameters, laboratory results, transplantation related anamnestic data, co-morbidities and medication were tabulated at baseline. MICS was assessed with a recently developed scoring system (Malnutrition Inflammation Score - MIS). Health related quality of life (HRQOL) was assessed with the KDQOL-SFTM questionnaire.ResultsMean age was 51±13 years, median (Interquartile range, IQR) time since transplantation 65 (83) months, 57% were males and 19% had diabetes. The median (IQR) MIS was 3 (3). The MIS significantly and negatively correlated with almost all HRQOL domains analyzed, and this association remained significant or near significant in multivariate linear regression analysis for the log-transformed scores on Energy/fatigue (beta=-0.059 p< 0.001), Bodily pain (beta=-0.056 p=0.004), Physical functioning (beta=-0.029, p=0.072), Emotional well-being (beta=-0.024 p=0.077), Symptoms/problems (beta=-0.023 p=0.005) and Sleep domains (beta=-0.027, p=0.056) after statistical correction for age, gender, renal function, dialysis time, comorbidity and occupational status.ConclusionMalnutrition Inflammation Score is independently associated with different dimensions of health related quality of life in kidney transplanted patients.
P01-314 - Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety Disorders Among Thyroid Disorder Patients in a Teaching Hospital in Malaysia
Authors: Zainal N. , Yaacob S. , Kaur A. , Pendek R. 
Published: June 2010

IntroductionDepression and anxiety are the commonest psychiatric disorder in patient with thyroid disorders but continues to be significantly under-recognized and under treated. As a result, it may affect quality of life.ObjectiveThe objective was to determine the prevalence of depression and anxiety among thyroid patients and their associates.MethodsThis is a cross-sectional study conducted in the Endocrinology Clinic in University Malaya Medical Centre. The patients were interviewed by using MINI International Neuropsychiatry Inventory (MINI) for diagnostic assessment. Socio-demographic and the clinical data were obtained by interviewing the patients and also from the case notes. Quality of life was assessed by using Short Form Health Questionnaires (SF-36).ResultsA total of 160 subjects were recruited. Current prevalence of 9.4% for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and 22.5% for Anxiety Disorder (AD) were found using MINI. Lifetime prevalence was 17.5% for MDD and 27.5% for AD. Panic disorder was the commonest type of anxiety disorder (16.9%) followed by generalized anxiety disorder (11.3%), social phobia (4.4%), agoraphobia (2.5%) and obsessive compulsive disorder (1.9%). Having past history of depression or anxiety was highly significantly associated with MDD (p< 0.001, OR 276.6, 95% CI= 33.2-2306.9) and AD (p< 0.001, OR=16, 95% CI=4.9-51.6). The score for quality of life was lower in those with MDD and AD. It was more pronounced among MDD patients.ConclusionThe prevalence of MDD and AD among patients with thyroid disorders should be recognised. In addition, patients with MDD and AD had poorer quality of life.
P01-315 - Dissociative Memory Impairments and Immigration
Authors: Staniloiu A. , Borsutzky S. , Markowitsch H.J. 
Published: June 2010

Dissociative memory disturbances characterize dissociative disorders (such as dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, Ganser syndrome) and certain anxiety disorders (post-traumatic stress disorder). Across various cultures, they are recognized to be precipitated by psychological stress. In immigrant populations, stressful experiences arising during migration and acculturation could lead to somatic and psychiatric symptoms (including dissociative ones). A delayed onset of these symptoms - that at times occurs - may reflect a kindling sensitization or an incubation effect.ObjectivesWe review four patients who developed Dissociative Disorders (Dissociative Amnesia and Ganser Syndrome) on a background of stresses related to immigration.MethodsPatients were investigated medically, psychiatrically and neuropsychologically and in part neuroradiologically.ResultsPatients were adult males with Eastern or Central European background and no known previous psychiatric or medical illnesses. They immigrated to Germany or Canada and encountered several difficulties in the process of migration or adaptation to the new country. All developed severe psychiatric dissociative symptoms after objectively minor stresses, which occurred several years after their immigration to the new country of residence. Despite adequate treatment, their symptoms followed a chronic course. The patients’ neuropsychological profiles shared similarities, such as executive functioning deficits (e.g. limited cognitive flexibility) and impairments of emotional processing in addition to severe autobiographical amnesia.ConclusionsWe propose that stresses related to immigration and acculturation could trigger dissociative memory disorders in immigrants via a dysregulation of the hormonal stress responses, which is mediated by individual characteristics (cognitive flexibility, emotional processing abilities, language competence and cultural affiliations).
P01-319 - Traumatic Experience and Cultural Perception of Time - a Clinical Approach
Authors: Bastos C. , Coelho C. 
Published: June 2010

Two fundamental aspects of cultural intuitive conceptions of time's passage - cyclic and continuous temporality - are here related to clinical psychopathology of post-traumatic stress in Brazil. People with predominantly cyclical cultural perceptions of time tend to see life and death as part of an eternal movement. Severity and persistence of mental trauma are not directly related to the magnitude of the catastrophe or even of the traumatic experience, but rather to the way they pervade the mind and to the roles they represent on it. Modern culture tends to produce individuals prepared to a highly complex world, running in a frantic rhythm and under constant pressure. Nearly all events must be anticipated, planned or controlled, and obsessive traits tend to be facilitated. However, in catastrophic, unpredictable events, when nothing can be done, these full-schedule people may show frailty and despair.In our clinical experience, traditional communities seem capable to bear extremely high levels of aggression or suffering - in traumatic and catastrophic situations - without showing proportional signs of mental stress. While in the high social layers of modern communities an act of violence as an assault or rape may have serious and long lasting consequences, in everyday public hospital practice we come across victims of potentially traumatic events without any of the expected devastating effects on their mental life. Periodic dissociative rituals may have a role in their resilience.
P01-325 - Science and Religion Two Obligatory Poles in the Formation of the Normal Personality
Authors: Enatescu V. 
Published: June 2010

The Informational models of the levels of the psychic constitute a methodology of access to the scientific research and understanding. In this system are accepted two types of thinking: mystical-religious and pragmatic-scientific. This two models of thinking are totally different as mechanism but them presence is strict necessary for the reliability of the behavior. It doesn’t exist any scientific argument that can modify the religious beliefs determined by revelation, education, and formation. The scientific knowledge cannot be religious motivated. Both systems are necessary for the normality and unfortunately them mixture in some kinds of hybrids of knowledge do not add a value of efficiency or utility.Correctly, we can talk about a typology of personality culturally determined. Or, every culture is based on some religious myth and beliefs.Extraordinary is the observation that the real men of science and of culture are religious, belong to a religion and the atheism is specific to the educational and formational lack.It is interesting how some deviations that lead to fanatics and are in contradiction with the religious principles specific to the populations lead to disharmonic structures and aberrant behavior (see terrorism, see the roots of xenophobia)The paperwork is a debate on large of the forming of the personality from the cultural anthropological point of view with an informational approach of the game of significations.
P01-330 - Dreaming Brain and Acculturative Mind
Authors: Lee S.B. 
Published: June 2010

Author intends to explicate dreaming brain and mind interactions by interpreting the neurophenomenology of dreaming brain as well as by analyzing the narratives of collected dream data. The author articulates acculturative dreaming mind by demonstrating two empirical research outcomes and suggests some analogical connections between dreaming brain and acculturative dreaming mind.The author explored an acculturative dreaming model by analyzing dream data that show an unconscious self-adaptation or acculturative self-process. The author designed “Lee Acculturation Dream Scale” (Lee, Sang Bok, 2005: Psychological Reports, 96, 454-456) to analyze the location of each dream by evaluating the dream content. A two-sample t test on the mean score of the “Lee Acculturation Dream Scale” indicated significant difference between men and women (Lee, 2005).In terms of domain-specific dreaming mind the author analyzed the dreamers’ anxiety level by evaluating the dream content. A sample t test on the “Lee Cross-cultural Anxiety Dream Scale”(Lee, Sang Bok, 2008) means showed significant difference between the two groups(p< 0.001): Korean college students group (N=93, M=1.7, SD=1.2) and Korean-American college student group (N=165, M=2.3, SD=1.5). In this study, Korean American college students, who were experiencing cross-cultural life situation and under acculturation process in the USA, showed more anxiety in their dream contents than Korean college students.Dreaming brain and mind need to be recapitulated as having inherently acculturative function regardless of cultural origins, value or life-style difference.
P01-334 - Alcohol use and Related Problems: a Cross-cultural Analysis
Authors: Osain Welcome M. , Alekseevic Pereverzev V. 
Published: June 2010

BackgroundThe pattern of alcohol use might differ among people of different ethnic groups. Differences in alcohol use and related problems among undergraduates of various ethnic groups - Belarusians, Arabians and Nigerians in Belarus were examined.MethodsAltogether, 1345 Belarusian, 120 Arabian and 84 Nigerian undergraduates participated in a randomized anonymous study using the AUDIT questionnaire, including other alcohol related questions.ResultsOverall, 91.1% Belarusian, 63.3% Arabian and 56.9% Nigerian alcohol users were identified. A total of 16.3% Belarusians, 32.5% Arabians and 22.7% Nigerians were problem drinkers. Beer was the most preferred alcoholic beverage among the general undergraduates’ population of all ethnicities.ConclusionDifferences in the pattern of alcohol use and related problems exist among the undergraduate population of various ethnicities in Minsk, Belarus. The Belarusians had higher percentages of alcohol users, but relatively lower proportion of problem drinkers, compared to the Arabs and Nigerians. No significant differences were noted in the preference for alcoholic beverages among all ethnicities.
P01-335 - Interconfessional Analysis of Alcohol use and Related Problems: the Christians and Muslims
Authors: Osain Welcome M. , Alekseevic Pereverzev V. 
Published: June 2010

ObjectivesThe influence of religion on the rate of alcohol use can not be overemphasized. In recent times, some studies have suggested that the inter-religion differences in alcohol use might be fading away. And that closer relationship might exist between the Christian and Muslim societies, especially in a population where alcohol use has become part of the life of people. We analyzed the prevalence of alcohol use and related problems among Muslims and Christians in Minsk, Belarus.MethodsAfter the aims and objectives had been explained, 65 Christians and 70 Muslims agreed to participate in the anonymous and randomized study which was conducted among students at major four universities in Minsk, Belarus. All respondents were administered the AUDIT, CAGE and MAST questionnaire. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 16.0 version for Windows and the Pearson χ2.ResultsThe present study revealed that no differences in both the number of alcohol users and problem drinkers exist (according to the results of all three screening instruments) among the Christians and Muslims. Alcohol users were 67.7% Christians and 57.1% Muslims. Problem drinkers were 27.7 Christians and 34.3% Muslims.ConclusionThis study is an exceptional one where for both Christians and Muslims, the percentages (as well as the average scores) of alcohol users and problem drinkers were the same on the AUDIT, CAGE and MAST.
P01-337 - The Slavs and Arabs: Verifying the Ledermann Pyramidal Hypothesis of Alcohol use Distribution in Belarus
Authors: Osain Welcome M. , Alekseevic Pereverzev V. 
Published: June 2010

IntroductionIn 1956 Ledermann Sully suggested a hypothesis of alcohol use - the pyramidal hypothesis of alcohol use distribution. According to this hypothesis, the increase in social alcohol users in a given society leads to a disproportional increase in percentages of heavy users. In the same way, decrease in the number of social drinkers will have the greatest effect on heavy drinkers. In most western countries, where there are high percentages of heavy drinkers, the pyramid is broad. While in Asian countries where there are fewer heavy drinkers the pyramid is a narrow one. The pattern of alcohol use according to the Ledermann hypothesis among various ethnicities - Slavs, Arabians and Nigerians in Minsk, Belarus were examined.Materials and methods1345 Slavs, 120 Arabians and 44 Nigerians in Minsk were administered questionnaire containing the AUDIT and other alcohol related questions. On the AUDIT, a score of 1-7 defines social drinkers; 8-19 - heavy drinkers; 20-40 - alcohol dependence.Results and discussionSocial drinkers, alcohol abusers and people with alcohol dependence in the general Belarusian population were Slavs - 74.8%, 13.8%, 2.5% respectively; Arabians - 29.2%, 20.8%, 10.8% respectively; Nigerians - 30.8%, 11.5%, 3.8% respectively. According to the Ledermann hypothesis, this study shows that the pattern of alcohol use by Arabs could be denoted with a narrow pyramid (pattern of alcohol use in most Asian countries) and a broad pyramid (pattern of alcohol use in most western countries) for both Slavs and Nigerians.
P01-343 - Cultural Variations in the Idioms of Distress in Migrants in the Netherlands
Authors: van Loon P. 
Published: June 2010

The Department of Transcultural Psychiatry & Psychotherapy has built up expertise in the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders since its inception 25 years ago. More than 50% of the population of Rotterdam was born outside The Netherlands or has one or both parents from outside The Netherlands. Some examples of idioms of distress based upon practice in the Department will be described.The effect of globalization on the idiom of distress will also be reviewed. Careful and culturally sensitive diagnostic classification is essential in providing optimal care for this large group.
P01-344 - Help Seeking Behaviour of Chinese Living in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Authors: Yeung E.Y.-W. 
Published: June 2010

BackgroundThe Chinese community is the largest ethnic minority community in Northern Ireland. Previous research findings showed that they had a low uptake of mental health services.AimThis study aims to examine the help seeking behaviours of Chinese people when they experience mental illness.MethodsAbout 96% of Chinese in Northern Ireland worked in catering business. Questionnaires (both in Chinese and English) were sent to ninety-one addresses occupied by catering businesses in Belfast. Focus group meetings were held with mental health workers and community leaders.FindingsTwenty-four questionnaires were returned. 66.6% reported that they visited their GPs the previous year. Only one person visited the GP for a mental / psychological problem. Poor recognition of mental illness (41.7%) and mental illness stigma (25%) were the main reasons for not seeking professional advice.Focus group meetings revealed that most Chinese people who came into contact with mental health professionals had severe mental health problems. 40% of their Chinese patients were referred by hospitals, 30% by GPs and another 30% by mental health workers.The community generally had little knowledge about mental illness, which often resulted in delay in seeking appropriate professional help.Conclusion: Findings revealed that the Chinese do seek help from their GPs but may not see their doctors when they or someone they know actually become mentally unwell. Further investigation is needed to explore different ways to provide information about mental illness symptoms and mental health services for the community.
P01-349 - Apathy in the Spectrum Dementia-Depression
Authors: Da Ponte G. , Paiva A. , Lobo M. , Mendes S. , Fernandes S. 
Published: June 2010

ObjectivesTo alert to apathy as a sub-syndrome in the spectrum dementia-depression.MethodsReview of literature relevant in medline database.ResultsThe modern concept of apathy implies a reduced volition. Apathy may occur in depression and dementia and the differential diagnosis is difficult. Symptoms of apathy may constitute a sub-syndrome in the spectrum depression-dementia, that are characterized by lack of interest, psychomotor retardation, loss of energy and loss of appetite. Apathy may occur in dementia without depression and is significantly associated with more severe cognitive deficits. In dementia, depression may primarily result from a combination of symptoms of anxiety and apathy. Most patients with dementia and apathy had concomitant depression, but less depressed patients had concomitant apathy. The key to diagnosis may be the mood symptoms: dysthymia could be a negative emotional reaction to the progressive cognitive decline in dementia, whereas major depression could more strongly related to biological factors.ConclusionsThe nosological position of apathy remains obscure, with some studies suggesting that apathy and depression are independent constructs, and other studies showing a significant overlap between apathy and depression. The major interest to the type of syndrome has therapeutics implications.
P01-350 - Mania Like Symptoms in Frontotemporal Dementia
Authors: Da Ponte G. , Paiva A. , Lobo M. , Mendes S. , Fernandes S. 
Published: June 2010

ObjectivesTo alert to manic like symptoms in frontotemporal dementia (FTD).MethodsReview of literature relevant in medline database.ResultsFrontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a behavioural syndrome caused by generation of the frontal and anterior temporal lobes.Bipolar disorder in dementia and the temporal relation between the two conditions have rarely been studied. There is a increased probability of developing a manic episode in patients with dementia.Those with temporal FTD have impairments in emotional processing and hypomania like behavior. Moria (childish excitement or tendency to joke) or frivolous excitement are common presenting symptoms, and is difficult to distinguish to features in bipolar disease.The correlation between mania like symptoms and FTD can be make with the help of informations of the family and computed tomography imaging. Those with temporal involvement are particularly at risk of developing deficits in emotional processing secondary to atrophy in the amygdale, anterior temporal cortex, and adjacent orbitofrontal cortex.ConclusionsEarly temporal involvement in FTD is associated with frivolous behavior and right temporal involvement is associated with emotional disturbances.Moria or frivolous behavior are common presenting symptoms of FTD and the differential diagnosis is made with the help of informant's reports and computed tomography imaging.