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RFs for late and very late schizophrenia

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Psychosocial isolation
Female gender
Bereavement
Sensory deficits
Immigration

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Risk factors for OSAH

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Male sex
Obesity
Family history
Craniofacial abnormalities
Smoking
Alcohol

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Risk factors for higher opioid poisonings

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Addiction
Patient confusion and medication instructions
Prescriber error (too high doses)
Dosing errors due to cognitive impairment

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RFs for opioid use disorder

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Male
Exposure to illicit opioids early in life
Social isolation/loneliness
Having a psychiatric disorder prior to OUD
Pain

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RFs for benzo use disorder

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-older age
-female gender
-dependant personality
-concurrent or previous substance use disorder

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RF for AD variants

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Male
Higher education
Younger

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RF for AD
Non mod
Mod

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Age
Female
Mci
Genetics (first relative,downs, app, psen1,apoe)

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Low educ
Physical inact
Smoking
Depression

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RF for anxiety disorders

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Advanced age
Female gender
Physical illness
Psychosocial stress
Depression
Cognitive impairment
Lower education
Family hx
Alcohol or drug use

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Risk factors for for relapse for dep and anx

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Older age at index
Poor self rated health
Medical Illness
Social isolation
Baseline anxiety
Personality pathology

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RF for late and very late onset schizophrenia

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  • isolation
    Female
    Bereavement
    Sensory deficits
    Immigration
    -abnormal premorbid personality (cluster A)
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Post stroke depression risk factors

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-severity of functional dependence
-previous depression
-social isolation
Major events pre stroke
Female gender
Previous stroke

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RF for depression after TBI

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-left frontal and left basal ganglia lesions
-dysphoria at 1 week
Past depression

NOT RELATED WITH SEVERITY

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RF for depression in PD

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Female
Past or family psych hx
Early onset
Cognitive impairment

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RF for worse cognitive outcome in TBI

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SEVERITY OF TBI (unlike in depression)
Advanced age
Hx of cognitive impairment
Hx of functional impairment
Social isolation
Polypharm

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Suicide RFs

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-male, older, low SES, widowed/divorced
suicidal ideation and behaviour
-family hx
-Mental health problems: any axis 1, personality disorders or rigid personality
-substance
-medical Illness
-negative life events

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Risk factors of relapse in someone doing ECT

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-female
-residual depressive symptoms
-untreated PD
-substance use disorder
-severe chronic pain
-medication resistance

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RFs for complicated grief

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-childhood separation anxiety
-insecure attachment
-dependant relationship with the deceased
-traumatic loss
-close kinship relationship to the deceased

As per nul, circumstances of death, circumstances of the announcement (not expected)

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RFs for depression after bereavement

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-past hx of mood disorders/depression
-losing someone who they had a positive connection with
-inability to cope (complex medical history, poor social support,many life stressors)
-multiple losses close together

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RF for benzo use disorder

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Older age
Female
Dependant personality
Concurrent or previous substance use

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RF for SUD

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Female with prescription drug misuse
Comorbid psychiatric illness
Sleep disorder
Chronic pain/medical illness
Avoidance coping style
Being divorced, isolation, bereavement

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RF for mania in old age

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-CNS disorder (esp stroke affecting right orbital frontal cortex)
-significant vascular factors
-other brain lesions
-hx substance
-family history in first degree relatives
-previous affective disorders

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RF for negative effects of caregiving

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Female
Low SES
Coping style
Social isolation
Number of hours caregiving
Duration of caregiving
Poor physical and mental health
Lack of sleep

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RF for abuse
In older adult

In perpetrator

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Cognitive impairment
Aggressive behaviours/psychological distres
Poor social network and support
Low income
Need for ADL assistance
Premorbid relationship with abuser
Shared living arangements

Family relation, substance abuse, mental illness, dependency, unemployment

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3 components of informed consent

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-information (dx, proposed tx etc)
-voluntary
-capacity to consent

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Categories of caregiver needs ( general)

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Information and education
Psychological support
Assistance mobilizing social support (informal and formal)

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