Risk Factors Flashcards
RFs for late and very late schizophrenia
Psychosocial isolation
Female gender
Bereavement
Sensory deficits
Immigration
Risk factors for OSAH
Male sex
Obesity
Family history
Craniofacial abnormalities
Smoking
Alcohol
Risk factors for higher opioid poisonings
Addiction
Patient confusion and medication instructions
Prescriber error (too high doses)
Dosing errors due to cognitive impairment
RFs for opioid use disorder
Male
Exposure to illicit opioids early in life
Social isolation/loneliness
Having a psychiatric disorder prior to OUD
Pain
RFs for benzo use disorder
-older age
-female gender
-dependant personality
-concurrent or previous substance use disorder
RF for AD variants
Male
Higher education
Younger
RF for AD
Non mod
Mod
Age
Female
Mci
Genetics (first relative,downs, app, psen1,apoe)
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Low educ
Physical inact
Smoking
Depression
RF for anxiety disorders
Advanced age
Female gender
Physical illness
Psychosocial stress
Depression
Cognitive impairment
Lower education
Family hx
Alcohol or drug use
Risk factors for for relapse for dep and anx
Older age at index
Poor self rated health
Medical Illness
Social isolation
Baseline anxiety
Personality pathology
RF for late and very late onset schizophrenia
- isolation
Female
Bereavement
Sensory deficits
Immigration
-abnormal premorbid personality (cluster A)
Post stroke depression risk factors
-severity of functional dependence
-previous depression
-social isolation
Major events pre stroke
Female gender
Previous stroke
RF for depression after TBI
-left frontal and left basal ganglia lesions
-dysphoria at 1 week
Past depression
NOT RELATED WITH SEVERITY
RF for depression in PD
Female
Past or family psych hx
Early onset
Cognitive impairment
RF for worse cognitive outcome in TBI
SEVERITY OF TBI (unlike in depression)
Advanced age
Hx of cognitive impairment
Hx of functional impairment
Social isolation
Polypharm
Suicide RFs
-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
Risk factors of relapse in someone doing ECT
-female
-residual depressive symptoms
-untreated PD
-substance use disorder
-severe chronic pain
-medication resistance
RFs for complicated grief
-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)
RFs for depression after bereavement
-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
RF for benzo use disorder
Older age
Female
Dependant personality
Concurrent or previous substance use
RF for SUD
Female with prescription drug misuse
Comorbid psychiatric illness
Sleep disorder
Chronic pain/medical illness
Avoidance coping style
Being divorced, isolation, bereavement
RF for mania in old age
-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
RF for negative effects of caregiving
Female
Low SES
Coping style
Social isolation
Number of hours caregiving
Duration of caregiving
Poor physical and mental health
Lack of sleep
RF for abuse
In older adult
In perpetrator
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
3 components of informed consent
-information (dx, proposed tx etc)
-voluntary
-capacity to consent
Categories of caregiver needs ( general)
Information and education
Psychological support
Assistance mobilizing social support (informal and formal)
