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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Psychiatric patients"”.
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Fall Prevention in Acute Psychiatric Patients
… hospital, but affects the safety and care for patients. Many studies have assessed potential, contributable factors leading to falls, fall risk assessment tools, and fall prevention interventions in different settings. However, there are limited studies done in inpatient psychiatric settings. …
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Preventing relapse amongst South African psychiatric patients
The present investigation is a descriptive experimental study with two conditions (experimental and control conditions). The main aim was to develop, implement and evaluate a program directed at educating health professionals and families to accept and manage people presenting with mental health …
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Problem-solving skills in suicidal psychiatric patients
… sought to evaluate this model with hospitalized psychiatric patients placed on suicidal precautions status by hospital staff. Suicidal and non-suicidal control subjects completed measures of life stress, depression, cognitive rigidity, hopelessness, and suicidal intent. In addition, these subject …
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Justifying Coercion: Nurses' Experiences Medicating Involuntary Psychiatric Patients
… theory study delineates the process inpatient psychiatric nurses use to respond to the challenging nursing problem of medicating resistant involuntary patients. Since approximately one third of all admissions to psychiatric units in the United States are involuntary (Durham, 1996), caring for …
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Automated Assessment of Psychiatric Patients Using Medical Notes
Psychiatric patients require continuous monitoring on par with their severity status. Unfortunately, current assessment instruments are often time-consuming. The present thesis introduces several passive digital markers (PDMs) that can help reduce this burden by automating the assessment using …
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Psychiatric Patients' Participation in a 3-Month Jogging Program
Fifteen psychiatric inpatients participated in, and nine completed, a 3-month jogging program designed to improve cardiovascular fitness. Subjects ranged in age from 21 to 38 and were medically approved prior to entering the program. Different races and sexes were represented. All of the subjects …
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Psychiatric Patients’ Perception of Involvement in the Plan of Care
… an increased need to actively engage and involve patients in their care planning in healthcare facilities including psychiatric facilities (Wills, Riefer, Schauer, & del Vecchio, 2011). There has been a growing interest in patient-centered care and patients’ involvement in their plan of care as it …
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Psychiatric patients' perceptions of personal roles in the treatment process
… this study was to investigate the perceptions of psychiatric patients on an inpatient unit concerning their roles in the treatment process. Areas of interest included participation in healthcare decisions, degree of autonomy, and the nature of communication between the subjects and their …
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Evidence-Based Interventions to Increase Cardiometabolic Screening Rates in Psychiatric Patients
… to increase cardiometabolic screening rates for patients being prescribed psychotropic medication in an outpatient behavioral health setting.Background: Psychiatric patients face high rates of comorbid medical conditions that can decrease their life expectancy by 10 to 20 years when compared to …
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Desensitization and Relaxation in the Modification of Psychiatric Patients' Interview Behavior
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:01:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6612464.pdf: 3135237 bytes, checksum: 5844f719286a702c9b02745396de2647 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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Relapses in psychiatric patients in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa
… aimed at deteimining the extent of relapses in psychiatric patients in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa; determining the factors that contribute to such relapses, and determining possible solutions to the problem. Admission records of the three psychiatric institutions in this province …
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Psychiatric Patients In the Emergency Department: An Evidence-Based Assessment tool For Inpatient Referral
<p>Psychiatric patients who present to Emergency Departments (ED) are a growing population. These patients are challenging cases for ED healthcare providers who do not feel comfortable or adequately prepared to assess their psychiatric needs. Despite the increasing frequency of psychiatric patients …
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I'm Not That Person: A Qualitative Study of Moral Injury in Forensic Psychiatric Patients
… their implications for understanding forensic inpatients who may be attempting to come to terms with offences they committed and for informing moral injury intervention strategies which might be adapted for the forensic mental health hospital service and recidivism prevention programs.
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Self perceptions and perceptions of selected Bible characters : a study of depressed psychiatric patients
Thesis ()--Michigan State University,
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Illness models of relatives of African psychiatric patients : implications for a family-based service
… and service requests of relatives of 30 African psychiatric patients. Relatives' perceptions of illness and expressed needs were elicited with a view to developing a more contextual understanding of disorder, and to obtaining an indication of interest in family-based services. The sample was …
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Role-Playing and Incentives in the Modification of the Social Interaction of Chronic Psychiatric Patients
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317186.pdf: 6560224 bytes, checksum: 0d42a012ebf7f177f848db5659e02439 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The relative efficacy of coping skills training and group discussion as stress management techniques for forensic psychiatric patients
… of anxiety, 21 involuntarily confined forensic psychiatric patients were assigned to one of three experimental conditions: stress management training, stress discussion, or no treatment control. Measures of anxiety, physical health, mood, adherence to "irrational beliefs" hypothesized by Ellis …
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Effects of the Presence of Another Person in Evaluative and Nonevaluativeroles on the Performance of Psychiatric Patients and Nonpatients
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114849.pdf: 3264947 bytes, checksum: b92972c9a92e2a7087318023f4d8f0dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Nurses' experiences of psychiatric patients with HIV/AIDS: A study conducted in a psychiatric hospital in the Western Cape
… nursing staff who provide treatment and care for psychiatric patients with HIV/AIDS. The study was conducted with a view to understanding the psychological impact of caring for such patients, the additional stressors which may arise as a result of this and how these are dealt with. It was also …
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