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    Epidemiological Characteristics of Major Depression of Hospitalized Patients in Psychiatric Hospital “Demir Hisar” – Demir Hisar for a Five Year Period from 2013 to 2017
    (Scientific foundation Spiroski, 2020-05-10)
    Iliev, Biljana
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    <jats:p>BACKGROUND: Severe depression is a mental disorder with a wide range of changes in psychic functions, primarily of affectivity, and is manifested by dysphoric mood and reductive changes in cognitive, conative, and other psychic dynamics, with the presence of psychosomatic complaints and suicidal thoughts. There is always a triad of symptoms: Alteration of affectivity, anhedonia, and low energy with fatigue, but in her clinical picture, there are other symptoms, such as feeling guilty and helpless, obsessed with “black thoughts” with loss of confidence in themselves, with hopelessness, loss of appetite, and weight loss with present insomnia or hypersomnia, and more frequent thinking about death due to the feeling of worthlessness of life. This mental illness covers a vast area of the affective life of a human with a broad spectrum classified by ICD - 10- F 32, F 32.2, and F 32.3. AIM: The main goal is to determine the total number of patients with the major depression treated at “Demir Hisar” Psychiatric Hospital for a period of 5 years, retrospectively in 2013 until 2017 and to determine the impact of socio-demographic variables as risk factors and predictors. METHODS: The study is retrospective, and the necessary parameters for achieving the goals of the research are provided by analyzing the medical histories of all hospitalized patients treated in psychiatric hospitals Demir Hisar in the period from 2013 to 2017. Incidence rates and indexes of the dynamics of hospitalized patients with major depression were determined. RESULTS: About 61.8% of the patients are men and 38.2% women. Patients with no education and elementary school were 64.5% versus patients with high school and university 35.5% and are significantly underpowered. Regarding the employment status, 38.2% of patients are unemployed, and 61.8% of patients are employed. According to the cross-sectional study, 64.7% of men without education have severe depression and live in the city, and 53.3% of women with secondary education live in urban areas (city), meaning rural residence is associated with a reduced rate of severe depression. CONCLUSION: We can conclude that socio-demographic characteristics – age, gender, marital status, level of education, employment/unemployment status, and place of residence are related to the severity of depression.</jats:p>
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    Influence of Primary Packaging on Attitudes towards Smoking in RN Macedonia
    (BiomedGrid LLC, 2019-12-04)
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    Andrej Bonevski
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    Screening for hepatitis C among injecting drug users in Psychiatric Hospital Skopje
    (Medical Faculty, Ss Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, R. Macedonia, 2017)
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    Epidemiological Characteristics of Great Depression Diseases of Hospitalized Patients in Psychiatric Hospital “Negorci” for a Five-Year Period From 2013 to 2017
    (Scientific Foundation SPIROSKI, 2020-05-20)
    Biljana, Iliev
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    <jats:p>BACKGROUND: Severe depression beside the pathological mood also denotes the cognitive, perceptual, and motor activities that are psychopathologically related to the scope of all psychic dynamics, which means cognitive, conative, and emotional. This mental illness covers a large area of the affective life of a man with a wide range of severe depression classified by ICD-10 – F32, F32.2, and F32.3 . With retrospective approach to research from medical history collects data on biological and social factors that have a positive or negative effect on the onset and course of severe depression. AIM: The research aims to determine the total number of patients with severe depression treated in hospital conditions in the Psychiatric Hospital “Negorci” – Negorci for a period of 5 years from 2013 to 2017 to get a clear picture of the factors and specific predictors that lead to the development of severe depression. METHODS: Within the research methods, all the parameters contained are calculated so that it can be concluded that the predictors influence and differ from other stakeholders responsible for etiopathogenesis, although they have a mutual influence. RESULTS: According to the current study, patients with severe depression were found to have an increased frequency between 45 and 62 years. The mean age of the respondents was 52.14 years. According to the level of education, the majority (49%) of the patients have completed primary education and the least with higher education, i.e., only 2 (3.1%). CONCLUSION: From the obtained data, it was obtained the scope of the influence of sociodemographic data on the occurrence of severe depression and sequelae of the disease.</jats:p>
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    RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY-PROTECTIVE FACTOR IN SUICIDE ATTEMPTS IN PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION
    (Medicinska naklada, 2019)
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    Spirituality as a dimension of quality of life and well-being has recently begun to be more valued within the treatment approaches to mental health. A range of studies have also looked at spirituality or affiliation to spiritual or religious groups in relation to suicide and suicide attempts. Nisbet et al. (2000) reported that the suicide rate is four times lower in people who attend religious activities. In this study of 31 patients with depression, it is found that those who are attending religious activities, or those who have reported having a spiritual faith, were significantly less likely to have suicidal attempts. Results suggest that religious attendance and spiritual faith is associated with decreased suicide attempts. These findings that the depressive patients who have no religious affiliation, who are not attending religious activities or having spiritual faith, have higher rates of suicide attempts gives an association that religion and spirituality may act as a protective factor against suicide attempts, because of the religious social mores or ‘rules’ which prevent behaviors as suicide attempts.
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    Attachment style, self-esteem and manifest anxiety in patients undergoing treatment for opiate addiction
    (AU-CNS, 2016-02)
    Dimitar Bonevski
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    Background: Insecure attachment is usually connected with lower self-esteem or with higher manifest anxiety, and can be a risk factor in those facing a variety of emotional problems, including problems associated with substance abuse. Aim of the present study is to examine the most frequent attachment style, and the level of manifest anxiety and self-esteem in patients undergoing treatment for opiate addiction compared with individuals who have no form of addiction. Methods: The sample included 47 (61%) male and 30 (39%) female, opiate addicts; they were at least 18 years old, with a mean age of 22.82 years (min. 18; max. 27; SD = 2.25 yr) and 77 mentally healthy controls, who were examined with the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (CSEI), Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS). Comparison between the two groups focused on the percentages recorded for the various attachment styles found in each group, and the Chi-Square test was used to assess the significance of the divergences between those attachment styles in the two groups. The mean values recorded for self-esteem and manifest anxiety in the two groups were compared too, by applying the t-test. Results: The results indicate a more secure attachment style in the healthy individuals and a more fearful form of attachment in opiate-addicted individuals. The result of the present study indicated that opiate addicts are less confident and more anxious. Conclusion: Fearful attachment, low self-esteem and high manifest anxiety proved to be more frequent in opiate addicts.
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    Psychiatrists' treatment preferences for generalized anxiety disorder
    (Wiley, 2018)
    Latas, Milan
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    Trajković, Goran
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    Vučinić Latas, Dušanka
    The objective of this study is to ascertain psychiatrists' treatment preferences for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and compare them to the same psychiatrists' treatment preferences in the hypothetical scenario that treatment is to be administered to themselves as patients.
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    Epidemiological Characteristics of Great Depression diseases of hospitalized patients in psychiatric hospital Skopje for a five year period from 2013 to 2017
    (2021)
    Iliev, Biljana
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    Депресијата е честа и истоштувачка болест која ги погодува луѓето од адолесценцијата до староста и има изразено негативно влијание на менталното и физичкото здравје, како и врз социјалната и финансиската благосостојба на поединецот и општеството. Депресијата често е недоволно дијагностицирана, недоволно лечена и поврзана со негативен исход. Познавањето на епидемиолошките карактеристики на депресијата е од големо значење за планирањето на соодветниот третман на депресијата, нејзино навремено откривање и лекување со цел намалување на далекусежните последици на индивидуален и општествен план. Со оглед дека во нашата земја недостасуваат епидемиолошки податоци за депресијата истражувањето ја испитува болничката преваленца на депресијата во трите психијатриски болници во Македонија, социодемографските карактеристики во однос на половите специфики на заболените, како и должината и зачестеноста на хоспитализациите, суицидалноста и коморбидитетот во однос на половите специфики. Податоците се собрани од историите на болест на болнички лекуваните депресии во трите болници во периодот 2014-2017 год со дијагноза депресија (Ф32.0 - Ф32.3) исклучувајќи ги оние со биполарно нарушување. Резултатите упатуваат на ненавремност во дијагностицирањето, касен почеток на лекувањето кој доминантно се сведува на хоспитален третман без пред и постхоспитално следење на пациентите со депресија. Ваквите наоди ја нагласуваат потребата од неопходност од справување со стигмата која депресијата ја носи со себе и развивање на сеопфатен систем за рано дијагностицицирање, третман и следење на ова растројство особено во однос на половите специфики.
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