Delusional infestation and patient adherence to treatment: an observational study

Ahmed, Alia; Bewley, Anthony

doi:10.1111/bjd.12392

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“…Observational data suggest that specialised outpatient clinics where a psychiatrist and a dermatologist or tropical disease physician see the patient together can achieve good adherence. 13 However, this would require further investment, as few such services exist worldwide. 1 12 13 Because of patients' reluctance to see psychiatrists, it will mostly fall to general practitioners or dermatologists to have the discussion about the nature of the symptoms with a patient and cautiously discuss effective treatment options.…”

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How to approach delusional infestation

Lepping

Huber

Freudenmann

2015

BMJ

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How to approach delusional infestation

Lepping

Huber

Freudenmann

2015

BMJ

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“…Sometimes intense behaviours are pursued to target the putative infestation, including excessive bathing and cleaning of self and family (see (Freudenmann and Lepping, 2009) for examples). This constellation of symptoms and reactions are difficult to manage therapeutically although, for some, neuroleptic pharmacotherapy can be anecdotally useful (Huber et al, 2011, Bostwick, 2011, Ahmed and Bewley, 2013.…”

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Sensations of skin infestation linked to abnormal frontolimbic brain reactivity and differences in self-representation

et al. 2015

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(2015) Sensations of skin infestation linked to abnormal frontolimbic brain reactivity and differences in self-representation. Neuropsychologia,[77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96] This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/56107/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. S0028-3932 (15) This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

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“…The European Society for Dermatology and Psychiatry (ESDaP) has recently developed a classification for patients with self‐inflicted skin lesions . Patients with primary psychiatric diseases such as delusional infestation and body dysmorphic disease find it difficult to engage with psychiatric services, and hence, are suited to a psychocutaneous medicine unit …”

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