caa a22 4500 386334692 CHVBK 20180307111729.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0790966700015408 doi S0790966700015408 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0790966700015408 Caffeine use by psychiatric patients [Elektronische Daten] [J. Thomas Dalby, Richard Williams] Caffeine remains the most widely used psychoactive drug and psychiatric populations tend to ingest more caffeine than the general community. It is important to assess caffeine intake in psychiatric patients as it may distort diagnostic signs and is known to interact with psychotropic medications. A blanket condemnation of caffeine use by psychiatric patients is, however, unwarrranted for while it may exacerbate some conditions (eg. anxiety disorders) it may prove beneficial to others (eg. schizophrenics) when used in moderate quantities. A scale for the estimation of caffeine intake is provided. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Caffeine nationallicence psychiatric patients nationallicence stimulants nationallicence anxiety nationallicence self-treatment nationallicence rating scale nationallicence withdrawal symptoms nationallicence Dalby J. Thomas Calgary General Hospital, 841 Centre Avenue East, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2E 0A1 and Adjunct Associate Professor (Psychology) Adjunct Assistant Professor (Psychiatry), University of Calgary aut Williams Richard Psychiatric Day Hospital, Calgary General Hospital and Associate Professor (Psychiatry), University of Calgary aut Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 6/2(1989-09), 103-105 0790-9667 6:2<103 1989 6 IPM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700015408 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0790966700015408 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dalby J. Thomas Calgary General Hospital, 841 Centre Avenue East, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2E 0A1 and Adjunct Associate Professor (Psychology) Adjunct Assistant Professor (Psychiatry), University of Calgary aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Williams Richard Psychiatric Day Hospital, Calgary General Hospital and Associate Professor (Psychiatry), University of Calgary aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 6/2(1989-09), 103-105 0790-9667 6:2<103 1989 6 IPM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge