Women who experienced six or more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in life have a twofold risk of developing ovarian cancer compared with women who never had any PTSD symptoms. This is the result of a study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Moffitt…
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This is a report by the King’s Fund Centre for Mental Health from 2012.[1] Many people with long-term physical health conditions also have mental health problems. These lead to significantly poorer health outcomes and reduced quality of life. Costs to the health care system are significant – by interacting with and exacerbating physical illness, co-morbid…
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This is a Cochrane review of thirty-five studies with 10,703 participants (median follow-up was 12 months). [1] Psychological interventions led to a reduction in cardiovascular mortality (relative risk 0.79, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.63 to 0.98) and improved depressive symptoms (standardised mean difference [SMD] –0.27, 95% CI –0.39 to –0.15), anxiety (SMD –0.24, 95% CI…
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This study from Nottingham screened general medical and trauma orthopaedic admissions aged 70 or older for mental health problems.[1] Those screening positive were invited to undergo further assessment and were interviewed to complete further health status measurements. Of 1,004 patients screened, 36% had no mental health problems or had anxiety alone. Of those screening positive…
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This is an American study analysing admissions data of 160,169 patients admitted between 2009 and 2011 with a diagnosis of HF, AMI, or pneumonia. [1] Approximately 18% of all individuals with hospitalizations for HF, AMI, and pneumonia were readmitted within 30 days. The rate of readmission was 5% greater for individuals with psychiatric comorbidity compared…
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These data are excerpt from a 2018 Parliamentary Report. [1] 1 in 6 people aged over 16 experienced a common mental disorder (CMD) in the last week. Around 1 million people received psychological therapy for a common mental disorder through the IAPT (Adult Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) programme in 2016/17 and 1 million people…
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A retrospective cohort study involving elective overnight surgical patients aged 18 years and above who attended a large public tertiary referral hospital in Sydney, Australia, between 2010 and 2014 analysed the impact that severe mental illness (SMI) had on outcomes. [1] Of 23 343 surgical patient admissions, 451 (2%) patients had decompensated comorbid SMI with…
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A population-based cohort study of 991 445 Canadian adults, including 156 296 with a mental health diagnosis, 3-year adjusted mean costs were $38 250 for those with and $22 280 for those without a mental health disorder, a 71.7% increase. [1] Presence of psychiatric comorbidity was associated with higher rates of hospitalization and emergency department visits, including when considering…
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Approximately 40% of patients with breast cancer are estimated to have mental health problems. A recently published study in the Journal of Oncology Practice looked into the effect that psychiatric comorbidity has on the use of prescription opioids and survival in breast cancer patients. [1] This is a retrospective study that analysed a total of…
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A cohort study of Swedish register data of 86 670 individuals with ADHD found that the presence of psychiatric comorbidity was associated with an increased risk of premature death. [1] Early-onset psychiatric comorbidity was mainly associated with the risk of natural deaths whereas later-onset psychiatric comorbidity was mainly associated with death due to unnatural causes, including…
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