SMJ articles in the category "psychiatry"

Original Article

Religious Characteristics of Physicians Who Care for Underserved Populations or Work in Religiously Oriented Practices

Objectives: This study examined the relation between physicians’ religious characteristics and working for medically underserved populations or in religiously oriented practices. Methods: Secondary data analysis of 2009–2010 national survey of 896 primary care physicians (PCPs) and 312 psychiatrists. Predictors included physicians’ religious characteristics. Results: Adjusted response rates among eligible physicians…

Posted in: medically underserved 4 primary care 64 psychiatry 6 religion 17

Review Article

Improving Mental Health Services Through Physician Assistants: Legislation in Several Southern States

A national effort to provide more expansive mental health care in the United States has been an increasing priority during the last decade. States have enacted laws that allow for the delegation of psychiatric services to physician assistants in an effort to address the shortage and geographic maldistribution of mental…

Posted in: liability 2 physician assistants 2 psychiatry 6

Original Article

Religion, Sense of Calling, and the Practice of Medicine: Findings from a National Survey of Primary Care Physicians and Psychiatrists

Objectives: A sense of calling is a concept with religious and theological roots; however, it is unclear whether contemporary physicians in the United States still embrace this concept in their practice of medicine. This study assesses the association between religious characteristics and endorsing a sense of calling among practicing primary…

Posted in: primary care 64 psychiatry 6 religion 17 spirituality 20

Original Article

Gender Differences With Respect to Psychiatric Comorbidity in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Objectives: Psychiatric disorders are common in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS); however, interrelating factors influencing psychiatric comorbidity (PC) in OSAS are unclear. The aim of this study is to investigate gender related differences with PC in OSAS. Methods: Data of patients diagnosed as OSAS in University of Gaziantep from January…

Posted in: gender 7 psychiatry 6

Original Article

The Health Care Matrix Formulation: A Tool for Competency Assessment in Psychiatry Residency Training

Objective:To assert the importance of the use of the healthcare matrix formulation for competency assessment in psychiatry residency training.Methods:We present a case from our inpatient psychiatric facility and format it in the form of the healthcare matrix, which was developed at Vanderbilt University incorporating the Institute of Medicine ‘aims' and…

Posted in: patient safety 24 psychiatry 6 Quality 5 residency training 10

Original Article

Absolute versus Relative Values: Effects on Family Practitioners and Psychiatrists

Background Research demonstrates that religious values clearly impact on the judgments made by physicians and their patients. One basic dichotomy—belief in ethical values that do not change (absolute values) versus belief in values that change depending on the situation (relative values)—has recently been experimentally associated with different ethical decision-making patterns….

Posted in: decision making 5 ethics 7 family practice 6 medical 2 psychiatry 6 religion and medicine 3
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