Severe mental illness
Defining quality of life in the children of parents with severe mental illness: a preliminary stakeholder-led model.
... with severe mental ...national mental health user and carer organisation (ReTHINK Mental ...a severe, enduring mental illness: personality disorder (n = 1), bipolar ...
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Sexual risk behaviours and sexual abuse in persons with severe mental illness in Uganda: a qualitative study.
... with severe mental illness (SMI) engage in risky sexual behaviours and have high prevalence of HIV in high-income ...during illness episodes, (2) rape by non- partners, (3) exploitation by ...
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The role of primary care in service provision for people with severe mental illness in the United Kingdom.
... with severe mental illness value continuity of care but this study suggests that for a substantial minority this is not currently being achieved in primary ...
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The paths to negative and positive experiences of informal caregiving in severe mental illness: a study of explanatory models
... public mental health policy was to transfer the care of patients from state mental hospitals to settings in the community, with deinstitutionalization policies and the community mental health ...
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Exploring the experience of stigma in severe mental illness : a Portuguese contribution to the validation of a psychometric instrument
... of illness followed a Normal distribution on the three subsamples (Shapiro- Wilk tests with ...the illness durations could also be considered equal (Levene test, ...the illness duration on the three ...
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Caregiving in severe mental illness: the psychometric properties of the Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire in Portugal
... We studied a non-randomized sample of primary care- givers of outpatients with chronic psychosis, who were in contact with mental health services in Lisbon (n = 194). These services were Hospital S. Francisco ...
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Recognizing the Symptoms of Mental Illness following Concussions in the Sports Community: A Need for Improvement.
... and mental health-related symptoms of concussion occur at dif- ferent rates and last for various periods of time and thus constitute an important diagnostic criterion of postconcusion syndrome for both ICD10 and ...
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Investigating the relationship between neighborhood experiences and psychiatric distress for individuals with serious mental illness
... community mental health research agenda (Yanos 2007 ; Townley et ...whereas mental health related stigmatization ...many mental health con- sumers, especially since mental health agencies were ...
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Attitudes of professionals of the Network of Psychosocial Attention to mental illness art amgonçalves
... Doença Mental, respondidos por 80 trabalhadores da Rede de Atenção ...saúde mental e renda familiar mensal apresentaram correlações significativas em relação aos tipos de ...
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Stigma for mental illness among primary health care physicians and nurses in Dammam, Saudi Arabia
... hold mental illness make it very difficult for patients to seek medical help in the healthcare ...from mental disorders although the outcomes depend on the perception of the doctors and care ...of ...
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Mental illness and the economy
... Studies on various aspects of mental health and the economy have established links between mental health and economic well-being, have suggested that hospital outp[r] ...
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Beliefs and attitudes towards mental illness: an examination of the sex differences in mental health literacy in a community sample
... of mental illness ...a mental illness rather than the illness itself were not regarded as correct responses; (d) the term “stressed” was not accepted as a correct identification of ...
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MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE VIEW OF PSYCHOTIC INDIVIDUALS: THEIR LINES AND GRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS
... of mental illness for individuals with psychotic disorders, hospitalized in a general ...to mental illness, as: a result of divine punishments and witchcraft; a reality charged with suffering ...
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Epidemiology of Psychotropic Drug Use in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Gaps in Mental Illness Treatments
... We found that only 16% of the individuals with a one-month diagnosis were using psychotropic medication, a situation which is also described by other authors. In Canada, this rate is reported as 19.3% [3], 15.9% in the ...
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Crime, re-offence, and substance abuse of patients with severe mental disorder
... serious mental illness (SMI) [21] The authors studied a group of 3,769 adult individuals with SMI (41% women), under 65 years of age, who were detained in the Pinellas County prison, in Florida, for at ...
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Maternal Grand Multiparity and the Risk of Severe Mental Disorders in Adult Offspring.
... Then, we examined the effects of maternal grand multiparity on mental disorders with Cox Proportional Hazards models. The participants were followed up either until their first hospitalization for mental ...
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Life expectancy at birth for people with serious mental illness and other major disorders from a secondary mental health care case register in London.
... more severe) subset of community ...these mental disorders who had made contact with secondary mental health services within the given time period and are not necessarily applicable to all cases in a ...
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Prevalence of Mental Illness, Cognitive Disability, and Their Overlap among the Homeless in Nagoya, Japan.
... Over the past 20 years (1994–2013), only four previous studies have reported IQ scores obtained from adult homeless samples within Western countries. One was performed with a very young homeless sample between the ages ...
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Excess Mortality in Patients with Severe Mental Disorders in 1996-2010 in Finland.
... Despite reforms in mental health services, the mortality gap has remained in many Western countries, which generally have well-functioning health systems [11–13]. An important factor contributing to this gap is ...
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An activity based approach to education of students with severe and profound mental disabilities
... move around, explore and realize movements that an activity requires. Students who do not move independently should be supported by significant adults who help them move and act in the[r] ...
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