Smmary This study examines the prognostic value of clinical assessments, including a 3-fold classification of cancer patients by treatment intention. It is based upon a sample of 253 patients with different cancer diagnoses who filled out a 108-item questionnaire. Cox regression analysis (the proportional hazards model) was used to analyse the relationship of the three groups of covariates (clinical, demographic and psychosocial) with survival. The univariate analysis showed that several clinical, demographic and psychosocial covariates are significantly related to survival. The study located two main prognostic factors: the 3-fold classification by treatment intention being the most important one, followed by physical functioning which may be seen as a proxy for performance status. Several additional covariates including psychosocial ones were related to survival when considered separately. However, their effects disappeared when controlling for treatment intention and physical functioning. Thus, the additional psychosocial covariates did not add to the prognostic value of the model.
Objective:The aim was to establish the prevalence of eating disorders in psychiatric patients. Method: The total inpatient (n = 8,942) and outpatient (n = 10,125) Norwegian psychiatric population was investigated with a staff-report questionnaire. Results: The prevalence of eating disorders in the inpatient population was 3.8% for women and 1.6% for men. In the outpatient population, the differentiated diagnoses anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and the comorbidity of AN + BN was 5.7%, 7.3%, and 1.6% for women, and 0.8%, 0.7%, and 0.3% for men (this could be reduced to AN and BN prevalences of 7.3% and 8.9% for women and 1.0% and 1.0% for men). Discussion: The level of the prevalence figures is in the expected area, thus the present study confirms earlier studies with smaller psychiatric populations. 0
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