The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a widely used screening instrument for harmful alcohol use. Comorbidity between alcohol use disorders and other mental disorders is common, but there is a shortage of studies investigating AUDIT's diagnostic accuracy in young adult psychiatric patients. The aim of this study was to examine AUDIT's diagnostic accuracy and psychometric properties in young adult psychiatric outpatients.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in adolescence resulting in functional impairment that often persist to adulthood. Girls seem to be diagnosed with ADHD later in life than boys and more often have a comorbid major depressive disorder (MDD). It has been suggested that comorbidity with MDD can interfere with early identification of ADHD.

Psychosocial support plays a crucial role in gender-affirming treatments. This pilot randomized controlled trial, conducted in Finland, aimed to determine whether early-onset psychotherapy affects the mental distress and well-being of individuals seeking gender-affirming treatment.

Many reports associate particular phases of the human reproductive cycle with psychiatric symptoms including depression, although details of associations of morbidity of depressive, bipolar, and anxiety disorders with pre-, peri-, and post-menopausal phases require further clarification. This naturalistic study evaluated the timing of onset and morbidity of mood and anxiety disorders in women during these menopausal phases.

To investigate somatic health burden and self-rated health (SRH) among forensic psychiatric (FP) patients and the concordance between these two health measurements. Additionally, the study evaluates how different binary groupings of SRH responses impact concordance.

While previous research has linked heightened sensitivity to sensory input to individual diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), no large-scale, population-based studies have examined its transdiagnostic associations across a broad spectrum of neurodevelopmental difficulties.

Alcohol use and daily smoking are common among individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorder but less is known about their relationship to psychotic symptom profile and severity, and how clozapine use may affect this relationship.

To investigate the connections between young people's criminal behavior and involuntary psychiatric treatment.

Limited knowledge exists regarding the prevalence of mental illnesses in physicians and psychologists working in mental health services. In addition, knowledge of the positive or negative impact of lived experience in mental health care professionals is scarce. The study aimed to describe the self-reported prevalence of mental illness amongst psychologists and physicians working in mental health services in Denmark, their perception of impact on their work within mental health services, and their extent of disclosure and treatment-seeking.

To study the lifetime and point prevalence of eating disorders (ED) among mental health care providers and compare those working with patients with ED to those who work in other fields of psychiatry to examine whether the overrepresentation of ED among professionals seen in ED clinics are also true for professionals in other psychiatric outpatient clinics.

Mental health problems are increasing among children and adolescents. Parents play a pivotal role in care, and intervention programmes have been introduced directed towards children with mild to moderate mental health problems. Due to long waiting times for specialised psychiatric care, such programmes could serve as means to ease the burden on mental health clinics for children 6-14 years. The aim of this study was to evaluate parents' assessments of the quality of care of an intervention programme and associations with the children's physical and mental health after treatment.

Personality disorder (PD) diagnoses, especially borderline PD, are overrepresented among individuals seeking medical gender reassignment (GR), but their impact on progression to or discontinuation of GR is unclear. This may differ between adults and adolescents due to ongoing personality development in youth.

Health inequities have drawn increasing attention, yet evidence on the moderating role of socioeconomic status (SES) in the relationship between mental disorders and multiple behavioural risks is inconsistent. This study examines the role of SES in the relationship between prior mental disorder diagnoses and later multiple behavioural risks.

This study is based on a development project among selected child and adult mental health services in Sweden. Its goal was quality enhancement by using a family approach. The Family Model (TFM) is a family-focused practice developed in Australia and implemented for several years. In accordance with trust-based research, experiences voiced by the family are investigated.

The identification of patients in forensic psychiatric care within national health registries has historically posed significant challenges, limiting research to small-scale studies and restricting its scope. This study aims to evaluate the utility of the Danish National Patient Register (DNPR) for research purposes by assessing the criterion concurrent validity of administrative trajectory markers for identifying incident patients receiving forensic psychiatric care.

Insomnia is common in psychiatric populations. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia. However, patients with mental disorders often experience a variety of sleep problems, including delayed sleep phase beyond insomnia. To address this, a Danish sleep and circadian intervention with six individual sessions combining CBT-I with chronotherapeutic methods was initiated in 2019.

Negative attitudes among mental health professionals toward individuals who self-harm can impact the quality of care and contribute to antipathy and stigma. This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of a Danish version of the Self-Harm Antipathy Scale (SHAS-DR), designed to measure mental health professions attitudes toward patients who self-harm.

Cognitive impairments, including difficulties with learning and memory, are common in mood disorders (MD) and schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), yet cognitive remediation interventions often show limited transfer of improvements to functioning. Fully immersive virtual reality (VR) offers an engaging and ecologically valid cognitive training platform. This study explored the efficacy and feasibility of a one-hour VR-based memory training session utilising the Method of Loci (MoL) for improving memory and self-efficacy in patients with MD or SSD and healthy controls (HC).

Social capital theory is predominantly built around social networks, relationships, and functions of society. Social capital dimensions have been found to be inversely associated with depressive symptoms. This study aimed to investigate the association between cognitive and structural dimensions of social capital and depressive symptoms (outcome variable) at an epidemiological level.

Suicide rates vary regionally in Finland, with Western Lapland (WL) being a high-risk area. WL is also known for developing the Open Dialogue (OD)-based psychiatric services. This study aimed to compare the characteristics of suicide cases in WL to the rest of Finland to better understand the elevated suicide rate.