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Clinical and parenting outcomes of women admitted to a mother-baby unit

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'Walk this Way': improving physical activity in people with serious mental illness

A pilot study has shown that a health coaching intervention called 'Walk this Way' helps people with serious mental illness to reduce their sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity.

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Change in smoking cessation stage over 1 year in patients with schizophrenia: a follow up study in Japan

Authors: Yuji Higuchi, Masaki Fujiwara, Naoki Nakaya, Maiko Fujimori, Chinatsu Hayashibara, Ryuhei So, Ikuta Shinkawa, Kojiro Sato, Yuji Yada, Masafumi Kodama, Hiroshi Takenaka, Yoshiki Kishi, Kyoko Kakeda, Yosuke Uchitomi, Norihito Yamada and Masatoshi Inagaki

Content type: Research article

21 November 2019
Screening four broad categories of eating disorders: suitability of a clinical algorithm adapted from the SCOFF questionnaire

Authors: Marie-Pierre Tavolacci, André Gillibert, Aurélien Zhu Soubise, Sébastien Grigioni and Pierre Déchelotte

Content type: Research article

21 November 2019
Efficacy of path-oriented psychological self-help interventions to improve mental health of empty-nest older adults in the Community of China

Authors: Li-Na Wang, Hong Tao, Mi Wang, Hong-Wei Yu, Hong Su and Bei Wu

Content type: Research article

21 November 2019
A regional systems intervention for suicide prevention in the Netherlands (SUPREMOCOL): study protocol with a stepped wedge trial design

Authors: Emma Hofstra, Iman Elfeddali, Margot Metz, Marjan Bakker, Jacobus J. de Jong, Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen and Christina M. van der Feltz-Cornelis

Content type: Study protocol

19 November 2019
A review of autobiographical memory studies on patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Authors: Yujia Zhang, Sara K. Kuhn, Laura Jobson and Shamsul Haque

Content type: Research article

14 November 2019

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Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Authors: Martin A Katzman, Pierre Bleau, Pierre Blier, Pratap Chokka, Kevin Kjernisted and Michael Van Ameringen

Content type: Review

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Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review

Authors: Amelia Gulliver, Kathleen M Griffiths and Helen Christensen

Content type: Research article

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Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition

Authors: Helen Brooks, Kelly Rushton, Sandra Walker, Karina Lovell and Anne Rogers

Content type: Research article

9 December 2016
A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people

Authors: Michael King, Joanna Semlyen, Sharon See Tai, Helen Killaspy, David Osborn, Dmitri Popelyuk and Irwin Nazareth

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Crime and victimisation in people with intellectual disability: a case linkage study

Authors: Billy C. Fogden, Stuart D. M. Thomas, Michael Daffern and James R. P. Ogloff

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28 May 2016

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Change in smoking cessation stage over 1 year in patients with schizophrenia: a follow up study in Japan

Screening four broad categories of eating disorders: suitability of a clinical algorithm adapted from the SCOFF questionnaire

Efficacy of path-oriented psychological self-help interventions to improve mental health of empty-nest older adults in the Community of China

A regional systems intervention for suicide prevention in the Netherlands (SUPREMOCOL): study protocol with a stepped wedge trial design

A review of autobiographical memory studies on patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review

Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition

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