D B Larson’s research while affiliated with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other places

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Publications (24)


Religious content in the DSM-III-R Glossary of Technical terms
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January 1994

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American Journal of Psychiatry

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The authors reviewed Appendix C of DSM-III-R, Glossary of Technical Terms, for its references to religion. Religion was referred to more frequently in this glossary than it is in psychiatric research. The authors conclude that although the Glossary uses religion in constructive or cautionary reminders, the high rate of illustrative case examples of psychopathology that involve religion in the Glossary indicates cultural insensitivity in interpreting religion.





Prayer and Health During Pregnancy: Findings From the Galveston Low Birthweight Survey

October 1993

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Southern Medical Journal

In this study we examined the relationship between praying for one's baby during pregnancy and self-ratings of health. Data were collected from a biethnic (black and Hispanic) sample of postpartum mothers in Galveston, Tex, from 1986 to 1987. This sample is representative of the annual biethnic population of live births in Galveston. Subjective health was assessed for the periods both before and during pregnancy with self-ratings of global or overall health, worry over health, and functional health or lack of disability. Analyses controlled for the effects of the mother's age, marital status, gravidity, education, and self-rated religiosity. Findings revealed that all three prepregnancy health measures were associated with prayer. Subjectively unhealthier mothers prayed more for their baby during pregnancy regardless of their perceived health during pregnancy, and subjectively healthier mothers prayed less for their baby regardless of their self-reported religiosity. Additional analyses revealed that the effect of poor health on the frequency of prayer was not simply an outcome of the mother's worry over her own health.




Associations between dimensions of religious commitment and mental health reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry: 1978-1989
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May 1992

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American Journal of Psychiatry

The authors assessed all measures of religious commitment (N = 139) reported in research studies published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry in 1978 through 1989 (N less than 35). For nearly two-thirds of the measures, the studies either made no hypotheses or reported no results concerning the relationship of religious commitment to mental health status. For the great majority of the measures assessed, the studies reported a positive relationship between religious commitment and mental health.

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Tricyclic antidepressant prescribing for nonpsychiatric disorders. An analysis based on data from the 1985 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

August 1991

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The Journal of family practice

Primary care physicians often do not document a psychiatric diagnosis when prescribing psychotropic medications. Recent literature suggests the potential benefit of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) in a number of nonpsychiatric conditions (low back pain, peptic disease, fibrositis, headache, peripheral neuropathy, rheumatoid disease, and irritable colon). Data from the 1985 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) were used to categorize the primary diagnoses given during office visits in which tricyclic antidepressants were prescribed. Comparisons were made across specialties. Primary care physicians prescribed tricyclic antidepressants in 1% of all visits (an estimated 2,892,000 visits per year). Whereas 50% of these visits at which TCAs were prescribed were for documented psychiatric illnesses or conditions, 15% were for nonpsychiatric TCA-responsive conditions. The majority of visits by patients with these disorders were to primary care physicians. The pattern of TCA prescribing for these disorders by primary care physicians parallels that of other medical specialties except that primary care physicians prescribed TCAs for nonpsychiatric TCA-responsive disorders less frequently than did other medical specialists. When nonpsychiatric TCA-responsive disorders are included, primary care physicians document with appropriate diagnoses 15% more of their TCA prescriptions than previous studies have indicated. An understanding of the 35% of TCA prescriptions that do not show proper documentation will require further study and information not available from the NAMCS:


Citations (19)


... Ĉlanovi porodica patoloških kockara imaju ĉetiri puta veći rizik da postanu patološki kockari nego ĉlanovi porodica koji nemaju ocapatološkog kockara. Sliĉne tendencije se javljaju i kod zloupotrebe psihoaktivnih supstanci i antisocijalnog ponašanja (Black & Moyer, 1998 Seksualno uzbuĊenje je moćan pokretaĉ stvaranja kompulzije za gledanje pornografskih sadrţaja, iako postoji nedostatak jedinstvenih stavova o broju i dejstvu fizioloških i psiholoških mehanizama koji potkrepljuju kompulzivno ponašanje (Lyons, 1994). Rid istiĉe da neurotransmiteri koji se aktiviraju korišćenjem pornografije imaju sliĉne neuronske puteve kao kokain ili heroin (Reed, 1994). ...

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PORODIČNI FAKTORI RIZIKA ZA ZAVISNOSTI OD PSIHOAKTIVNIH SUPSTANCI I BIHEVIORALNE ZAVISNOSTI
A systematic review of the effects of aggressive and nonaggressive pornography
  • Citing Article
  • January 1994

... Behavioral health disorders in primary care are prevalent and potentially costly to patients and the health care system (Goldman, Wise, & Brody,1998;Greenberg, Fournier, Sisitsky, Pike, & Kessler, 2015;Kaufman, Beals, Croy, Jiang, & Novins, 2013;Kurian, Grannemann, & Trivedi, 2012;Miranda, Hohmann, Attkisson, & Larson, 1994;Ormel et al., 1994), yet these disorders are often under-recognized and, accordingly, untreated Swartz & Rollman, 2003;Williams, Kerber, Mulrow, Medina, & Aguilar, 1995). Limited evidence indicates that depression is at least as common (if not more common) among AN/AI people than the general US population . ...

Mental Disorders in Primary Care
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  • January 1994

... A forma com que a espiritualidade e religiosidade das pessoas se relaciona com os temas das ciências da saúde cada vez mais vem despertando o interesse dos pesquisadores. São inúmeras as investigações que demostram a interação entre a participação em crenças religiosas com os fatores biológicos, psicológicos e sociais das dimensões da saúde, qualidade de vida e longevidade (Koening, 2012;Larson, 1992;Pargament et al., 1998). ...

Associations between dimensions of religious commitment and mental health reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry: 1978-1989

American Journal of Psychiatry

... Since their introduction in the 1960s, benzodiazepines have remained among the most commonly prescribed psychotropic medications in the USA and are used for a wide spectrum of disorders, including generalized anxiety, panic and sleep disorders, catatonia, and muscle spasms [1][2][3]. Diazepam was the top-selling pharmaceutical in the USA from 1969 to 1982 [4]. In the 1980s, prescribing rates dropped as medical and public concerns arose over benzodiazepines' long-term side effects and abuse potential. ...

Psychotropic medication prescription in U.S. ambulatory medical care
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  • February 1991

DICP

... Haloperidol, a typical antipsychotic agent that is one of the most frequently prescribed neuroleptics, is clinically used for the treatment of psychiatric patients with psychoses and schizophrenia. [1] These psychotic diseases require a long treatment period. Over such a long term, it is known that neuroleptics may lead to side effects in both the target and peripheral organs. ...

Expenditures for psychotropic medications in the United States in 1985
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  • June 1991

American Journal of Psychiatry

... A systematic review and meta-analysis, spread over a period of 33 years (1980-2013), found that almost one third of the respondents i.e., 29.2% (25.9-32.6%) have had an experience of a common mental disorder during their lifetime 5 suffering from depression with almost one-fourth having a dual diagnosis of anxiety disorders 6 . Globally the findings of epidemiological studies show that anxiety and depressive disorders are highly prevalent, common in all regions of the world and are a significant cause of functional impairment 7,12 . ...

Tricyclic antidepressant prescribing for nonpsychiatric disorders. An analysis based on data from the 1985 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
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  • August 1991

The Journal of family practice

... Research also suggests that computer searches may not be as effective in locating relevant articles as manual searches of individual journals (Bareta, Larson, Lyons, & Zorc, 1990). The breadth of the literature reviewed in this search, however, precluded a manual examination of the literature. ...

A comparison of manual and MEDLARS reviews of the literature on consultation-liaison psychiatry
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  • September 1990

American Journal of Psychiatry

... The suspicion that the virus was contaminated with sterilizing substances was also another concern for Religion and Health Research Religion and health have had a long-standing relationship and the range of topics and issues that fall under the rubric of this relationship is extensive given how broad the two concepts are (Chatters, 2000;Koenig, 2012;Koenig et al., 2012). However, the general point of inquiry for many studies has been how religion influences the different aspects of health-mental health and wellbeing (Bonelli et al., 2012;Cochran et al., 1992;Qureshi et al., 2020), physical health (Colantonio et al., 1992;Craigie et al., 1990;Rippentrop et al., 2005), religious coping (Chatters, 2000;Koenig et al., 1992;Oxman et al., 1995;Taheri-Kharameh et al., 2016) and lifestyle behaviours and health care utilization (Chatters, 2000;Koenig, 2012). These influences could be either positive or negative. ...

References to religion in The Journal of Family Practice. Dimensions and valence of spirituality
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  • May 1990

The Journal of family practice

... Fractures, as a commonplace occurrence in trauma medicine, present a significant challenge not only to the physical fortitude of affected individuals but also to their psychological resilience [1]. While the orthopedic community has long concentrated on the physical healing of such injuries, meticulously attending to bone realignment and restoration of function, the psychological aftermath of fractures, particularly the emergence of depressive disorders, has not received commensurate scrutiny [2][3][4]. ...

Religious Belief, Depression, and Ambulation Status in Elderly Women with Broken Hips

American Journal of Psychiatry

... Psychological tests were carried out the day before MRI acquisition. These psychological tests included the Mini-Mental State Examination Scale (MMSE) (36), the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale (MoCA, Beijing version) (37), assessment on the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) (38), global deterioration scale (GDS) (39), the Auditory Verbal Learning Test [AVLT, Chinese Huashan version, including three subtests: AVLT-immediate recall scores, AVLTdelayed recall scores, and AVLT-recognition scores] (40), an activities of daily living assessment (ADL) (41), the Hachinski Ischemic Scale (HIS) (42), and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD) (43). ...

The construct validity of the ischemic score of Hachinski for the detection of dementias
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  • February 1989

The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences