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Open AccessThe lived experience of French parents concerning the diagnosis of their children with borderline personality disorder
Psychiatrists often hesitate to diagnose borderline personality disorder (BPD). While individuals with BPD have reported both positive and negative experiences upon receiving their diagnosis, no study has spec...
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Early-treatment stage for adolescents with depression and their parents: An IPSE qualitative study
The period at the start of treatment of adolescents with depression is both crucial and complex. Adolescents’ and parents’ perspectives on that early-treatment stage are important but have not yet been explore...
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Open AccessPerspectives of French adolescents with ADHD and child and adolescent psychiatrists regarding methylphenidate use
Many studies have demonstrated the short-term efficacy and tolerability of methylphenidate treatment adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Qualitative literature on this matter focu...
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Open AccessClinical practice during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study among child and adolescent psychiatrists across the world
The COVID-19 pandemic has directly impacted the field of child and adolescent psychiatry, affecting all aspects of the lives of children and their families and increasing their risk of distress and mental heal...
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Open AccessWhen primary care providers and smokers meet: a systematic review and metasynthesis
Primary Care Providers (PCPs) often deal with patients on daily clinical practice without knowing anything about their smoking status and willingness to quit. The aim of this metasynthesis is to explore the PC...
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Nursing Care in Dermatologic Oncology: a Qualitative Study
Nurses in hospital dermatology departments must increasingly provide care for patients with skin cancer. Although the experience of oncology nurses in numerous specialties has been widely explored, no study ha...
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Open AccessA qualitative exploration of what works for migrant adolescents in transcultural psychotherapy: perceptions of adolescents, their parents, and their therapists
Migrant adolescents are at a higher risk than their native-born counterparts of psychiatric disorders, and their care is a public health issue. In France, transcultural psychotherapy is a treatment provided by...
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Open AccessA specific method for qualitative medical research: the IPSE (Inductive Process to analyze the Structure of lived Experience) approach
This paper reports the construction and use of a specific method for qualitative medical research: The Inductive Process to Analyze the Structure of lived Experience (IPSE), an inductive and phenomenological appr...
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Open AccessPatients’ quality of life during active cancer treatment: a qualitative study
Patients’ quality of life has become a major objective of care in oncology. At the same time, it has become the object of increasing interest by researchers, working with both quantitative and qualitative meth...
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Depressive symptoms among teenagers in the emergency department: prevalence estimate and concordance with parental perceptions
This study aims to estimate the prevalence of depressive symptoms among adolescents seen in hospital emergency departments and to investigate the concordance between self-reported adolescent depression and par...
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Open AccessSuicidal behaviors in depressed adolescents: role of perceived relationships in the family
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults in Europe. Reducing suicides is therefore a key public health target. Previous studies have shown associations between suicidal beha...
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Open AccessPhenomenologic analysis of healthcare worker perceptions of intensive care unit diaries
Studies have reported associations between diaries kept for intensive care unit (ICU) patients and long-term quality-of-life and psychological outcomes in patients and their relatives. Little was known about p...
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Open AccessA rapid screening tool for psychological distress in children 3–6years old: results of a validation study
The mental health needs of young children in humanitarian contexts often remain unaddressed. The lack of a validated, rapid and simple tool for screening combined with few mental health professionals able to a...
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Open AccessCase report of Ganser syndrome in a 14-year-old girl: another face of depressive disorder?
The Ganser syndrome is rare in children and in adolescents. A case of the Ganser syndrome in a 14-year-old girl, with three of the four essential features, is presented. After rapid resolution in two weeks, Ga...
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Open AccessADHD in adolescents with borderline personality disorder
The aims of this study were to assess the prevalence of a comorbid Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and its impact on the clinical presentatio...
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Open AccessAssociation between Body Mass Index and depression: the "fat and jolly" hypothesis for adolescents girls
Results concerning the association between Body Mass Index (BMI) and depression in adolescence are conflicting, some describing a linear association (increase in BMI with level of depression), some a U-shaped ...
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Open AccessThe Adolescent Depression Rating Scale (ADRS): a validation study
To examine the psychometric properties of the Adolescent Depression Rating Scale (ADRS), a new measure was specifically designed to evaluate adolescent depression.
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Posttraumatic stress symptoms after childhood cancer
The posttraumatic stress model has recently been applied to understand the impact of life-threatening illness in adults and in children. From 1991 to 2001, 20 studies have reported posttraumatic stress symptom...
