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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"serious mental illness"”.
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Supported Housing Experiences of People with Serious Mental Illness
… and experiences of people living with serious mental illness (SMI) receiving housing assistance. A qualitative method was used to interview five adults with SMI living in a supported housing model. An Ecological Systems Theory (EST) was used as the theoretical orientation for the study. …
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Post-acute care transitions for adults with serious mental illness
… and complex patients, including those with serious mental illness (SMI), who represent a growing proportion of U.S. nursing facility residents. This dissertation seeks to enhance current understanding of care transitions across the post-acute continuum for adults with SMI, placing the SNF as …
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Decreasing Fall Risk in Older Adults with Serious Mental Illness
… adults who are living in the community with a serious mental illness. This project consisted of a 3-part multifactorial intervention plan that focused on increasing fall risk awareness and promoting participation in healthy lifestyles. Environmental modifications were made to the facility to …
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The Efficacy of Residential Care in the Management of Serious Mental Illness
… treatment care for individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness. This study is distinguished by its longitudinal collection of data at two-month intervals over an eight-month study duration. Nine individuals residing at a supportive residential care facility (Harvest Homes) were compared …
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Framing the mass shooter James Eagan Holmes: serious mental illness and gun violence
This study examined the framing of serious mental illness (SMI) and gun violence focused on the single case of the 2012 Aurora Theater Shooting perpetrated by James Eagan Holmes. At the time, it was the most devastating mass shooting in U.S. history with 58 injured and 12 killed. The overarching …
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Determinants of Perceived Social Support in Individuals with Serious mental Illness: A Secondary Analysis
… to provide protective effects for those with serious mental illness (SMI), but these effects may be attenuated by factors that hinder positive perceptions of support. Improved understanding of social support and its determinants may provide avenues to promote recovery and improve functioning. …
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PHYSICAL HEALTH CHECKS IN SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS: A PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH IN SECONDARY CARE
Background The physical health of people with serious mental illness [SMI] represents a significant public health challenge. It is estimated that they have a mortality rate two to three times greater than in the general population and the mortality gap is widening. Although suicide makes a …
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The Physical Health of People with Co-occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
People with serious mental illness (SMI; e.g., schizophrenia) die 10–25 years earlier than people in the general population largely due to chronic medical conditions (e.g., cardiovascular disease [CVD]), and having a co-occurring substance use disorder (SUD) increases this risk even further …
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The nature and functional significance of intra-individual neurocognitive ability across serious mental illness diagnoses
… about its significance among individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). Moreover, IIV’s relationships to clinical, cognitive, diagnostic, and demographic variables in this population are yet uncertain. The aims of this study were (1) to characterize intra-individual neurocognitive …
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Living with Serious Mental Illness, Police Encounters, and Relationships of Power: A Critical Phenomenological Study
The criminalization of mental illness has drawn and kept a disproportionate number of people living with mental illness in jails and prisons across the United States. The criminal legal system is ill-equipped or unequipped to provide meaningful mental health care. Police often serve as gatekeepers …
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Learning potential in persons with serious mental illness: investigating intra-individual differences in the learning process
Learning potential has been explored as a possible mechanism to predict positive rehabilitation outcomes in people with SMI (e.g., Green et al. 2000). More recent research has identified a strong relationship between attention and working memory tasks and improvement after training on dynamic …
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COVID-19 and serious mental illness: Experience from a psychiatric hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
… infrastructure and service design, patients' mental health profiles, and staff's medical skills. Aim: To describe the psychiatric and medical profile, and the risk factors associated with more severe disease and clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in patients with severe mental illness (SMI) …
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The influence of participation in the Healthy Choices program for community dwelling individuals with serious mental illness
<p>Due to the prevalence of serious mental illness, both nationally and statewide, creation of sufficient community-based services that focus on mental and physical health would help to meet a need for a comprehensive approach to mental health care treatment and quality of life (QoL). With the …
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Examining psychological recovery in persons with serious mental illness : the role of experienced stigma and the insight paradox
… was to investigate how insight (awareness of mental illness and its associated consequences) into having serious mental illness (SMI) and the experienced stigma associated with SMI may affect psychological recovery among people in this population. Examining the role of insight in the recovery …
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`Towards Local Care': Examing Intensive Case Management Services for Persons with Serious Mental Illness Living in South Carolina
… and client functioning outcomes for adults with serious mental illness living in South Carolina. These adults are receiving services from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health via a program called Towards Local Care (TLC), an adaptation of assertive community treatment (ACT). This …
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Epidemiology, diagnosis and aspects of treatment in persons with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders
… half to three quarters of patients with severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a phenomenon also described as dual diagnosis. Past research from high income countries have shown that the presence of co-occurring SUDs are associated with a number of demographic and …
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Homelessness as a Risk Factor in Persons with Serious Mental Illness A Study of How Previous Homelessness Affects Recovery
… has the potential to affect the manifestation of mental illness. The experience of becoming and remaining homeless is purported to act as a specific and unique source of vulnerability. This study included 424 persons with serious mental illness (SMI) living in supported housing programs in South …
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The views of community mental health nurses on their role in the physical healthcare of people with serious mental illness
People with serious mental illness (SMI) have higher morbidity and mortality rates than the general population, but often receive substandard physical healthcare. The literature suggests community mental health nurses (CMHNs) are in a prime position to address the physical healthcare needs of these …
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System interactions and mental health outcomes: rural African American men with serious mental illness, their social support networks, and community mental health agencies
African American men with serious mental illness experience disadvantages in mental health care resulting from both race and gender. The intent of this research is to better understand how rural African American men with serious mental illness and their social support networks interact with each …
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The prevalence of and factors associated with antipsychotic polypharmacy in patients with serious mental illness: Findings from a cross-sectional study in a low-middle income country
… and investigating a broad range of patient, illness and treatment characteristics that may be associated with the practice. In doing so, we aimed to provide an indication of possible areas to be addressed in order to improve local mental health care practice. Methods: We conducted a …
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