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IPDE - Extranet Systems - World Health Organization

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62 A. Janca and C. Pull<br />

Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), Schedule for<br />

Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN), and International<br />

Personality Disorder Examination (<strong>IPDE</strong>). In the <strong>IPDE</strong> field trial<br />

NIMHANS also served as a co-ordinating centre for several other institutions<br />

from which subjects were recruited. These were King George's<br />

Medical College, Lucknow: Institute of Psychiatry. Madurai; Madurai<br />

Medical College, Madurai; Jawaharial Institute of Postgraduate Medical<br />

Education and Research, Ponchidemy; K.E.M. Hospital, Bombay;<br />

Madras Medical College, Madras: and G. S. Medical College, Bombay.<br />

Geneva<br />

Geneva, the capital of the Canton of Geneva, is situated between the<br />

Alps and Jura mountains where the RhBne river emerges from Lake<br />

Geneva. Earlier in its history it was the centre of the Calvinist<br />

Reformation, and today it is a centre of commerce, trade, banking, and<br />

insurance. Geneva is the Eumpean headquarters of the United Nations<br />

and its related divisions, as well as the home of many other international<br />

organizations. It is an international city, two-thirds of whose inhabitants<br />

are recent immigrants about equally divided between those from other<br />

Swiss cantons and foreigners From all over the world.<br />

Three public health institutions affiliated with the Department of<br />

Psychiatry of Geneva University Medical School provide mental health<br />

care to the adult population. Care is also provided by the emergency<br />

room of Geneva General Hospital and by approximately 160 private<br />

practitioners.<br />

This study was conducted at the out-patient department of the Eaux-<br />

Vives Psychiatric Centre, which is responsible for a residential area with<br />

a population of about 115,000. There are specialized out-patient clinics<br />

for schizophrenia and mood and personality disorders, and a walk-in<br />

clinic for emergency psychiatric care. The out-patient department treats<br />

about 300 chronic and 500 new patients a year. Two-thirds of new<br />

admissions have severe anxiety, mood or stress-related disorders, and<br />

the remainder present with psychotic and depressive disorders.<br />

The Eaux-Vives Psychiatric Centre is also a teaching institution affiliated<br />

with the Department of Psychiatry of Geneva University and the<br />

Clinique de Psychiatrie Generale I. The Centre has developed a research<br />

program focused on crisis intervention in acute patients, personality disorders<br />

(PDs) as predictors of outcome, and the cognitive functioning of<br />

patients with borderline PD and major depression.

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