{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Zingela Z"],"funding":["HWSETA","South African Medical Research Council"],"pagination":["e0264944"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8903294"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["17(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Catatonia is a psychomotor abnormality caused by neurological, medical or severe psychiatric disorders and substances. Its prevalence ranges from less than 10% to just above 60%. Diagnosis may be influenced by the screening tools used. Screening of new admissions to a mental health unit for catatonia was undertaken using three instruments to determine prevalence of catatonia. Participants ranged from age 16 years and over. Recruitment took place from September 2020 to August 2021. The setting was a mental health unit within a general hospital in Nelson Mandela Metro, South Africa. Five assessors were trained by the principal investigator to apply the Bush Francis Screening Instrument (BFCSI), the Bush Francis Catatonia Rating Scale (BFCRS), and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pubmed_title":["A prospective descriptive study on prevalence of catatonia and correlates in an acute mental health unit in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa."],"pmcid":["PMC8903294"],"funding_grant_id":["2017SAMRC0SIR0000157977","2018/2019HWSETA219986789"],"pubmed_authors":["Zingela Z","Fink M","Van Wyk S","Stroud L","Cronje J"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A prospective descriptive study on prevalence of catatonia and correlates in an acute mental health unit in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.","description":"Catatonia is a psychomotor abnormality caused by neurological, medical or severe psychiatric disorders and substances. Its prevalence ranges from less than 10% to just above 60%. Diagnosis may be influenced by the screening tools used. Screening of new admissions to a mental health unit for catatonia was undertaken using three instruments to determine prevalence of catatonia. Participants ranged from age 16 years and over. Recruitment took place from September 2020 to August 2021. The setting was a mental health unit within a general hospital in Nelson Mandela Metro, South Africa. Five assessors were trained by the principal investigator to apply the Bush Francis Screening Instrument (BFCSI), the Bush Francis Catatonia Rating Scale (BFCRS), and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2025-04-04T14:49:41.443Z","creation":"2025-04-04T14:49:41.443Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8903294","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35259194"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0264944"]}}