Showing 281-300 of 644 for: Cochrane Systematic Reviews > Psychiatric and substance abuse 
- Interventions for helping people recognise early signs of recurrence in bipolar disorder
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 1-Nov-2008
Recurrence rates for bipolar disorder are high despite effective treatments with mood stabiliser drugs. Self-help treatments and psychological treatments that teach patients to recognise and manage early warning symptoms and signs (EWS) of impending manic
- Interventions for improving the psychosocial well‐being of children affected by HIV and AIDS.
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Apr-2009
As a result of HIV-related mortalities more than 13 million children under the age of 15 have lost a parent due to HIV and AIDS. There are also many children who have HIV-positive parents or primary caregivers; these children are affected by HIV and AIDS
- Interventions for learning disabled sex offenders
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-Jan-2008
The management of sex offenders is a major public concern. Behavioural and pharmacological interventions have been used for many years and more recently cognitive behavioural based interventions have become popular around the world. Programmes designed fo
- Interventions for preoperative smoking cessation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 27-Mar-2014
Smokers have a substantially increased risk of postoperative complications. Preoperative smoking intervention may be effective in decreasing this incidence, and surgery may constitute a unique opportunity for smoking cessation interventions.
- Interventions for preventing delirium in hospitalised non‐ICU patients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-Mar-2016
Delirium is a common mental disorder, which is distressing and has serious adverse outcomes in hospitalised patients. Prevention of delirium is desirable from the perspective of patients and carers, and healthcare providers. It is currently unclear, howev
- Interventions for preventing eating disorders in children and adolescents
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Apr-2002
Eating disorders represent an extremely difficult, time-consuming and costly condition to treat. Being young, female, and dieting are some of the few identified risk factors that have been reliably linked to the development of eating disorders. There is c
- Interventions for preventing injuries in problem drinkers
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Jul-2004
Alcohol consumption has been linked with injuries through motor vehicle crashes, falls, drowning, fires and burns, and violence. In the US, half of the estimated 100,000 deaths attributed to alcohol each year are due to intentional and unintentional injur
- Interventions for preventing tobacco sales to minors
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-Jul-2008
Laws restricting sales of tobacco products to minors exist in many countries, but young people may still purchase cigarettes easily.
- Interventions for preventing tobacco smoking in public places
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Jan-2010
Environmental tobacco smoke is a health hazard. Reducing exposure to tobacco smoke in public places is a widespread public health goal. There is, however, considerable variation in the extent to which this goal has been achieved in different settings and
- Interventions for prevention of drug use by young people delivered in non-school settings
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Oct-2008
Interventions intended to prevent or reduce use of drugs by young people may be delivered in schools or in other settings. This review aims to summarise the current literature about the effectiveness of interventions delivered in non schools settings.
- Interventions for psychosexual dysfunction in women treated for gynaecological malignancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Apr-2009
Psychosexual dysfunction (sexual difficulties not directly due to physical factors) is known to be a common complication of treatment for gynaecological cancer. It has a considerable impact on quality of life (QoL) for the increasing number of women who a
- Interventions for reducing anxiety in women undergoing colposcopy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 7-Dec-2011
Prior to the development of cervical cancer abnormal cervical cells can be detected on a cervical smear. The usual practice following an abnormal cervical smear is to perform colposcopy. Colposcopy is the visualisation of the cervix using a binocular micr
- Interventions for sexual dysfunction following treatments for cancer in women
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 25-Jan-2016
The proportion of people living with and surviving cancer is growing. This has led to increased awareness of the importance of quality of life, including sexual function, in those affected by cancer. Sexual dysfunction is a potential long-term complicatio
- Interventions for smokeless tobacco use cessation
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Oct-2015
Use of smokeless tobacco (ST) can lead to tobacco dependence and long-term use can lead to health problems including periodontal disease, cancer, and cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease.
- Interventions for smoking cessation and reduction in individuals with schizophrenia
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 28-Feb-2013
Individuals with schizophrenia smoke more heavily than the general population and this contributes to their higher morbidity and mortality from smoking-related illnesses. It remains unclear what interventions can help them to quit or to reduce smoking.
- Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 16-May-2012
Smoking contributes to reasons for hospitalisation, and the period of hospitalisation may be a good time to provide help with quitting.
- Interventions for supporting informal caregivers of patients in the terminal phase of a disease
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 9-Aug-2011
Patients in the terminal phase of a disease may have complex needs. It is often family and friends who play a central role in providing support, despite health professional input and regardless of whether the patient is at home or elsewhere. Such informal
- Interventions for the physical aspects of sexual dysfunction in women following pelvic radiotherapy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 20-Jan-2003
Following pelvic radiotherapy (RT), a proportion of women experience problems related to sexual function, which are multifactorial in origin. The physical components relate to distortion of the perineum and vagina, which may occur as a result of surgery a
- Interventions for tobacco cessation delivered by dental professionals
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 19-Feb-2021
Dental professionals are well placed to help their patients stop using tobacco products. Large proportions of the population visit the dentist regularly. In addition, the adverse effects of tobacco use on oral health provide a context that dental professi
- Interventions for treating anxiety after stroke
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 23-May-2017
Approximately 20% of stroke patients experience clinically significant levels of anxiety at some point after stroke. Physicians can treat these patients with antidepressants or other anxiety-reducing drugs, or both, or they can provide psychological thera
