Questionnaire for the Perception of Psychotherapy Process by the Psychotherapist (QPPP) - a preliminary presentation of a research tool.

Objectives: The emotional reactions of therapist in the treatment process constitute the core of therapeutic work, but they are poorly represented in research area. The article presents the results of work on the creation of a new tool the Questionnaire for the Perception of Psychotherapy Process by the Psychotherapist (QPPP).

Methods: The Questionnaire containing 267 statements assessing cognitive, affective and behavioural reactions of psychotherapists in interaction with a specific patient was uploaded on the website.

Relationship of metabolic parameters with the course of the first episode of psychosis - preliminary research.

Objectives: Cardiometabolic syndromes are the most common causes of complications shortening life expectancy in patients treated for mental disorders, especially schizophrenia. However, how much cardiometabolic risk is related to lifestyle, side-effects of treatment or psychosis is not clear. The aim of this study was a prospective assessment of metabolic changes in young, initially somatically healthy patients diagnosed with the first acute episode of psychosis with no prior pharmacological treatment.

Overweight and obesity risk factors in children aged 3-7 years: a prospective study in the city of Kraków.

Background: Early identified factors determining overweight and obesity in childhood may be important for preventive purposes.

Aim: To evaluate the influence of the commonly accepted and hypothetical risk factors for overweight/obesity and their mutual relations, using the method of classification trees.

Subjects And Methods: The data were collected during anthropometric surveys carried out in 2010 in Kraków, Poland.

Socio-cultural context of eating disorders in Poland.

Background: The goal of this study was to assess the relationship between sociocultural factors and clinical eating disorders during the intensive process of Westernisation in Poland that occurred after 1989. The study population included girls diagnosed with an eating disorder according to DSM-IV criteria (n = 47 anorexia nervosa restrictive type [ANR], n = 16 anorexia binge/purge type [ANBP], n = 34 bulimia nervosa [BN], n = 19 eating disorder not otherwise specified [EDNOS]) who received consultation for the first time between 2002 and 2004 in the Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital, Kraków, Poland. The study included an age-matched normal control group [NOR] of 85 schoolgirls from Kraków.

[Worrying behaviour in pre-school children aged three to seven years: a factor analysis of the results of a questionnaire].

Aim: The aims of the study were: 1) the assessment of the interaction between the factors specified for behavioural problems observed in pre-school children based on a factor analysis and 2) the assessment of the relationship the specified factors have with the age and gender of the study group.

Method: A factor analysis based on a Principal Component Analysis of the main results of a Disturbing Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) completed by pre-school teachers, which includes categories of behaviour observed among pre-school age children that provoke the greatest concern among parents, guardians and educators.

Material: Nine-hundred and sixty-one children aged from 2.

[The analysis of the bipolarity features in students of arts and the students of technology].

Background: The aim of the research was to assess the prevalence of the bipolar spectrum features among students of a variety of faculties, by dividing them arbitrarily into 'art' or 'technology' cohorts.

Material And Methods: 120 subjects were examined, including 57 students of arts, and 63 students of technology. The tools used included a basic socio-demographic questionnaire and the Hirschfeld Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ).

[The effect of two predictors' interaction on short- and long-term treatment outcomes of schizophrenia].

Objectives: To monitor the effect of interaction of duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and expressed emotion (EE) on treatment outcomes in schizophrenia.

Methods: 56 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia were assessed at 4 time points. The number of relapses, the number and duration of rehospitalizations and the severity of symptoms were assessed at index hospitalization and at 3, 7 and 12-year follow-ups.

Perception of transgenerational family relationships: comparison of eating-disordered patients and their parents.

Background: Disturbances in various elements of transgenerational family functioning patterns are not uncommon in studies of eating disorders. We examined the relationship between patients' perception of autonomy and intimacy in their families of origin and that of their parents in their own families of origin.

Material And Methods: The sample consisted of 112 girls who had a diagnosis of an eating disorder and their parents; 54 of the girls were diagnosed with anorexia nervosa restrictive subtype, 22 as anorexia nervosa binge/purge subtype, and 36 were diagnosed with bulimia nervosa.

[The relationship between assessment of family relationships and depression in girls with various types of eating disorders].

Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between depressive symptoms and girls' assessment of their family relations in a group of (female) patients with a diagnosis of various subtypes of eating disorders in comparison with (female) patients with a diagnosis of depressive disorders (episode of major depression, dysthymia, adjustment reaction with depressive mood) and female students in Krakow, Poland schools.

Method: Data from 54 (female) patients with a diagnosis of restrictive anorexia (ANR), 22 with a diagnosis of binge-purge anorexia (ANB), 36 with a diagnosis of bulimia (BUL), 36 with a diagnosis of depressive disorders (DEP) and a 85 (female) Krakow school students (CON) were used in the statistical analyses. There were no significant differences between age of the girls in studied groups.

[Worrying behaviours of children in the assessment of kindergarten teachers in Kraków].

Aim: To assess the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems among preschool children.

Method: The Disturbing Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ), which was drawn up on the basis of the opinions of parents and educators, was completed by kindergarten teachers in the following categories: Excessive crying (Cry), Motor awkwardness (Awk), Lagging (Lag), Excessive dependence (Excdep), Developmental delay (Del), Hyperactivity (Hyper), Hyperactivity with aggression (Hypag), Aggression (Ag), Auto-aggression (Aag), Strange Behaviour (Stran), Self-Isolation (Isol), Avoiding Eating (Aveat), Avoiding certain foods (Avfd), Overeat (Overeat), Compulsive eating (Compeat) using the following assessment scale: Absent; Very rare; Rare; Frequent; Very frequent; Always.

Subjects: 961 children aged 3 to 7 years from randomly selected kindergartens from all districts of Krak6w aged from 2.

[Predictors of symptomatic improvement in eating disorders. Preliminary analysis].

Aim: The article discusses the preliminary results of a follow-up study carried out in 2009-2010 on former patients with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, first seen in 2001-2004 at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow. At that time they had been taking part in a research project, whose aim was to define the relationships among the psychopathological picture of eating disorders, self-image and family relations and also the influence of socio-cultural factors. The aim of the current study is to attempt to define factors influencing the course and prognosis of eating disorders in the studied group.

Disordered eating among mothers of Polish patients with eating disorders.

Background: The aim of this study was to assess attitudes towards eating as measured by the Eating Attitude Test (EAT26) among mothers of girls diagnosed with various types of eating disorders, in comparison with mothers of depressive girls and their relationship with daughters' results 14 years after the beginning of the Polish political and cultural transformation of 1989.

Material/methods: The data of 68 mothers and their daughters were used in statistical analysis (anorexia nervosa restrictive type: 18, anorexia nervosa binge/purge type: 12, bulimia: 14, depression: 24). The mean age in the group of mothers was 43.

[Psychogenic determinants of bulimia nervosa].

Eating disorders, especially bulimia, are considered to be the most sensitive barometer of the process of Westernisation and (partly for this reason) cultural, family and psychological factors seem to play a key role in their aetiology. The increase in their frequency can be linked with the significance that is ascribed to the body and eating in Western culture. Viewed from the psychodynamic perspective, eating disorders are treated as a formed by a culture symptomatic manifestation of dysfunction of very varied personality, neurotic and prepsychotic mechanisms.