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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Global Mental Health"”.
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Transforming subjectivities: global mental health, biopolitics, & depression in Chile
… (WHO 2012), depression has become a major public health concern. The global mental health movement has organized to increase access to mental health care within primary care and to protect the human rights of those who experience mental illnesses. Within this movement, the World Health …
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Randomized Controlled Trial of Pacifica, a CBT and Mindfulness-based App for Stress, Depression, and Anxiety Management with Health Monitoring
mHealth smartphone apps have inundated the market. The promise of mHealth apps is that they increase access to psychotherapeutic content while also expanding options beyond face-to-face care. However, information on the quality and efficacy of commercial mHealth apps is sparse. Pacifica, a …
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Multi-stakeholder study of the Malaysian mental health policy implementation within urban populations
Global studies investigating scaling-up of mental health services have highlighted mental health policy development and implementation as a priority area, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This research aimed to investigate Malaysia’s National Mental Health Policy (NMHP) development …
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The Problem of Life: Governing Bodies Before and Beyond Biopolitics
… apparatus’s own epistemic resources, including a global mental health crisis, the digital mediation of social existence, and an infodemic that fractured biological authority. Together, these phenomena mark a threshold at which the problem of life may be shifting from biology to cognition. The …
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Mindfulness and Job Performance: How is mindfulness perceived to affect job performance, employee wellbeing, and organisational performance in the engineering sector in South Africa?
… from around the world suggest that there is a global mental health crisis and that many engineers struggle with their well-being, productivity, and job performance, which has the potential to undermine the productivity of engineering organisations. It is important to ensure that engineering …
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A Comparative Analysis Of Mental Health Reform: Canada, The United Kingdom, And Australia
This dissertation explores the trajectories of mental health reform in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, examining how each state’s political and institutional contexts within universal healthcare systems have influenced these trajectories. Despite being parliamentary democracies, these …
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The Experiences Of Black American Older Adults Managing Pain: A Nursing Ethnography
… comprised of a demographic tool, the PROMIS Global Health Scale (PROMIS), the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), and the Psychological Stress Measure (PSM-9). Additionally, participant observation, informal interviews, and 20 formal recorded interviews with individuals identified as having pain were …
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Putting culture to work in counseling practice: Intersections of mental health and representations of Arab and Muslim women in Egypt
… sociopolitical events in Egypt have alarmed the global mental health community and led to warnings about the lasting psychological effects of political turmoil for Egyptian women, who are often characterized by Western-trained psychologists as likely to suffer from mental illness due to ‘Arab …
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An Exploration Of The Relationships Among Demographics, Risk Factors, Perceived Self-Efficacy, And Fall Prevention Behaviors In Community-Dwelling Thai Older Adults
… (BCFs) of age, gender, falls, comorbidity, mental and physical health status, self-care agency (i.e., self-efficacy), and fall prevention self-care behaviors and 2) to determine the predictors of self-efficacy and fall prevention behaviors.</p> <p>Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, a …
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Just Add Monsters: Stressful Biofeedback Games for Improved Physiological Control
… as the mechanism of action for improving mental health. During the current global mental health crisis, many people face a lack of immediate access to appropriate care, meaning that more readily and rapidly available therapeutic methods are required. Here, physiological regulation training …
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Mental health service delivery in Sierra Leone: Reducing stigma and exploring opportunities for expansion in primary care
Globally, untreated mental illness is a public health crisis that confers preventable suffering. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in particular, the vast majority of individuals with serious mental illness receive no formal treatment. In response to the challenge of a vast treatment gap …
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Uncovering Determinants of Perceived Feasibility of TF-CBT through Coincidence Analysis
A mental health provider’s perception of how well an intervention can be carried out in their context (i.e., feasibility) is an important implementation outcome. This study aims to identify determinants of feasibility of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) through a case-based …
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Assessing Associations of Suicide with Socioeconomic Status and Social Isolation
… Europe, suicide constitutes a substantial public health problem. Because of that, prevention has become a major concern for German mental health institutions. A requirement for successful prevention strategies is to address all key factors that contribute to suicidality. It is highly relevant in …
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Stress, Coping, Mental Health, and Reproductive Health among Adolescent Girls Transitioning through Puberty in Tanzania
… risk for reproductive tract infections and mental illness. At the same time, girls experience menstrual stigma and a lack of resources to manage menstruation. Although menstruation and other puberty-specific stressors may negatively impact girls’ well-being, little is known about the …
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The experiences of facility-based counsellors who provide a psychosocial intervention for mental illness in primary healthcare facilities in the Western Cape
Background: Despite the movement in global mental health that advocates for task-sharing, few studies have investigated the experiences of facility-based counsellors (FBCs) who provide a psychosocial intervention for mental illness in primary healthcare. Project MIND, a cluster-randomized …
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A Checklist to Design and Evaluate Systems-Informed Wellbeing Initiatives: A Mixed Methods Validation Study
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on global mental health struggles, underscoring the need to prioritize wellbeing. Many disciplines currently research aspects of wellbeing, ranging from psychology, behavioral economics, public health, and public policy, to prevention, evaluation, and education. …
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Filling the gap: development and qualitative process evaluation of a task sharing psycho-social counselling intervention for perinatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Perinatal depression is a major public health issue which contributes significantly to the global burden of disease, especially in low resource settings in South Africa, where there is a shortage of mental health professionals. New psychological interventions delivered by non-specialists are needed …