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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"public mental health"”.
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Changes in the pattern of public mental health service provision since 1950 and their causes
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Examining Mass Media, Depression Literacy, and Public Mental Health Stigma Among the Latinx Population Residing in Nontraditional Receiving Communities
… in the access to, utilization, and quality of mental health care for depression, even after adjusting for health insurance status and socioeconomic factors. Access and utilization are critical, as depression is one of the most disabling mental health conditions among Latinx adults, reporting …
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State Level Mental Health Policy Making Under Managed Care
The adoption of managed care in public mental health care programs at the state level was a relatively new development in state mental health policy during the 1990s. The introduction of managed care for public mental health occurred primarily through the use of Medicaid managed care waivers, but …
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Focus groups as a method for accessing stakeholder voice in public sector community mental health
… of thirty focus groups addressing the topic of public sector community mental health services. These groups were conducted with four designated constituency groups (Consumers and Advocates, Children's Service Providers, Health and Social Service Providers, and Justice Service Providers) in three …
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An Examination of Psychiatric Nurses' Attitudes Towards the Suicide Attempter
… explored attitudes of psychiatric nurses in two public mental health facilities towards the suicide attempter. The study utilized a descriptive, relation-searching survey design. A convenience sample (N = 44) of psychiatric nurses completed a questionnaire designed to explore relationships among …
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Die Dauer der unbehandelten Psychose bei erstbehandelten Patienten mit Schizophrenie : eine prospektive Kohortenstudie in Bielefeld
Public Mental Health Background: Due to its early manifestation and prevalent chronic course, schizophrenia has a major impact on patients and health policy. Early detection and intervention is expected to have a positive effect on the outcome. Since the nineties, especially the concept of the …
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Implications of a Family Systems Orientation for Preventing Psychiatric Hospitalization
… of 31 clinicians who worked at five Virginia public mental health centers as they prescreened (i.e., evaluated need for inpatient treatment) 171 candidates for hospitalization. Q-technique was employed to determine theoretical orientation.</p> <p>It was hypothesized that clinicians who held a …
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Proposta de psicoterapia breve a partir de um estudo sobre crianças e adolescentes vítimas de violência
… against children and teenagers is considered a public health problem, affecting families and communities. There are several implications that may occur in the context of the social, cognitive and psychological development of these subjects, in the short and long term. With the intention of …
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Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijra Suicides in India
… although in the recent past there have been many public and legal discussions considering decriminalizing suicide attempts. How is suicide conceptualized within criminal law? What are the knowledges that inform the complex and shifting views, claims, and legal decisions that constitute the legal …
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Coloniality, Violence, and Intergenerational Trauma among Displaced Syrians
… models that allow for a conception of current mental health issues within the context of community and history. It adopted a scoping review approach and screened 1,024 unique results from a systematic search of twelve psychological, sociological, and medical databases, and additional results …
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Exploring perceptions of help-seeking for mental health care among young adults in Maputo, Mozambique
… barriers, and facilitators to seeking mental health care among young adults in Maputo, Mozambique. In the context of the pandemic, semi-structured interviews were conducted using the voice note feature on the mobile application WhatsApp. Participants were recruited using purposive and …
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Perspectives of male mental health service users on their community integration following participation in a residential-based rehabilitation programme
Current re-engineering of primary mental health care in South Africa is directed towards providing a continuum of care for people with serious mental disorders in order to relieve the cost and resource burden of longterm hospitalisation. In the Western Cape, Healthcare 2030 has been adopted as the …
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Mental health and antiretroviral therapy adherence among people living with HIV attending an HIV clinic in Blantyre, Malawi
… of HIV, resulting in increased mortality. Common mental disorders have been found to be strongly associated with non-adherence. In Malawi, where HIV is prevalent, there is a paucity of studies on how common mental disorders are associated with non-adherence. The present study aimed at examining …
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Prevalence and factors associated with mental illness among prison inmates: case of Thyolo Prison in Malawi
… with the prison services, and self-reported mental health problems. Validated screening instruments were used, including the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (CES-D) to measure depression; while the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was used to measure symptoms of anxiety. …
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Intimate Partner Violence among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and perceived barriers and facilitators to the provision of psychosocial interventions in salons
… also discussed the negative physical and mental health impact of the psychological and sexual abuses they had encountered. Both salon workers and the AGYW interviewed identified peer support facilitated by the positive social capital created in salons, as well as the female-centeredness of …
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Barriers and facilitators of retention to a psychosocial intervention among adolescents with common mental disorders in Harare: a qualitative study
Background: Common mental disorders, which account for a major proportion of disease burden globally, can have an onset in childhood and adolescence. The Friendship Bench is a psychosocial intervention aimed at reducing and treating common mental disorders and is provided at 42 City health …
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Treatment coverage, barriers to care and factors associated with help-seeking behaviour of adults with depression and alcohol use disorder in Chitwan district, Nepal
… gap between the number of individuals in need of mental health care and those who receive treatment. It is reported that 86.3% people with anxiety, mood, or substance disorders in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) received no treatment in the 12 months preceding the survey. The Programme for …
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Common Mental Disorders Among Adolescents Accessing HIV Treatment In Cape Town, South Africa
… present time, data on the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD) among adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) in South Africa (SA) is limited. Studies that exist focus mainly on HIV-infected adults with mental health problems besides a few studies investigating depression and anxiety in …
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Associations between HIV, TB and psychological distress among a sub-sample of a nationally representative study of South African adults: a secondary data analysis
… HIV and TB pandemics. Moreover, the burden of mental ill-health is a growing concern due to its prominent association with infectious diseases. While global research evidence hasshed some light on the effects of psychological distress on communicable diseases such as HIV and TB and vice versa, …
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Prevalence of substance use and its associated risk factors amongst secondary school students aged 12 to 17 years in Mzuzu, Malawi
… among adolescents has emerged as an increasing public health concern globally and requires an urgent response in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where AOD use is on the rise. Recent systematic reviews of regional evidence have estimated that …
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