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Global mental health and the diada project
(2021)
The DIADA project, understood as a mental healthcare implementation experience in the context of a middle-income country like Colombia, promotes a necessary discussion about its role in the global mental health framework. ...
Therapeutic dilemma : alcohol withdrawal syndrome and concurrent hepatic encephalopathy. A case report
(2021)
Alcohol use disorder is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. Alcoholic liver disease is a common complication of this disorder, and hepatic encephalopathy is a serious complication of alcoholic ...
Survey of psychiatrists and psychiatry residents in Colombia about their preventive and therapeutic practices in delirium
(2021)
Objective: To describe pharmacological and non-pharmacological practices for delirium, carried out by psychiatry residents and psychiatrists in Colombia. Methods: An anonymous survey was conducted based on the consensus ...
Skin picking disorder in a woman with polyarteritis nodosa. Case report
(2019)
Introduction: Excoriation (skin picking) disorder is included in the DSM-5 in the obsessive compulsive and related disorders category. It is defined as the recurrent urge to touch, scratch, scrape, scrub, rub, squeeze, ...
Experiences and outcomes of group volunteer befriending with patients with severe mental illness : an exploratory mixed-methods study in Colombia
(2021)
Background: Improving care for patients with severe mental illness in Latin America requires effective strategies that are low-cost. One such strategy is a volunteering scheme, referred to as befriending, which seeks to ...
A characterisation of social media users within the primary care system in Colombia and predictors of their social media use to understand their health
(2021)
Introduction: Social media use is growing in Latin America and is increasingly being used in innovative ways. This study sought to characterise the profile of social media users, among primary care patients in Colombia, ...
Network of actors involved in the identification, care, and follow-up of unhealthy alcohol use in primary care in Colombia
(2020)
This article explores the structure of the network of actors involved in the care of individuals with unhealthy alcohol use (UAU) at the primary care level in five primary care centers in Colombia between 2017 and 2018. ...