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Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2016 16:2
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The effectiveness of interventions targeting the stigma of mental illness at the workplace: a systematic review
The majority of people experiencing mental-health problems do not seek help, and the stigma of mental illness is considered a major barrier to seeking appropriate treatment. More targeted interventions (e.g. a...
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‘You are Okay’: a support and educational program for children with mild intellectual disability and their parents with a mental illness: study protocol of a quasi-experimental design
Children of parents with a mental illness or substance use disorder (COPMI) have an increased risk of developing social-emotional problems themselves. Fear of stigmatisation or unawareness of problems prevents...
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Alleviating staff stress in care homes for people with dementia: protocol for stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial to evaluate a web-based Mindfulness- Stress Reduction course
There has been continuing change in the nature of care homes in the UK with 80 % of residents now living with some form of dementia or memory problem. Caring in this environment can be complex, challenging and...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of a communication-focused therapy for pre-school children with autism: results from a randomised controlled trial
Autism is associated with impairments that have life-time consequences for diagnosed individuals and a substantial impact on families. There is growing interest in early interventions for children with autism,...
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Antidepressant use and risk of epilepsy and seizures in people aged 20 to 64 years: cohort study using a primary care database
Epilepsy is a serious condition which can profoundly affect an individual’s life. While there is some evidence to suggest an association between antidepressant use and epilepsy and seizures it is conflicting a...
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“A constant struggle to receive mental health care”: health care professionals’ acquired experience of barriers to mental health care services in Rwanda
In Rwanda, many people are still mentally affected by the consequences of the genocide and yet mental health care facilities are scarce. While available literature explains the prevalence and consequences of m...
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Shared Decision Making in mental health care using Routine Outcome Monitoring as a source of information: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Shared Decision Making (SDM) is a way to empower patients when decisions are made about treatment. In order to be effective agents in this process, patients need access to information of good quality. Routine ...
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Homicide in Chile: Trends 2000 – 2012
Homicide, an external cause of morbidity and mortality, caused 473,000 deaths worldwide in 2012, a rate of 6.2 per 100,000 inhabitants. The aim of this study was to describe homicide mortality trends in Chile ...
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Cost-effectiveness of blended vs. face-to-face cognitive behavioural therapy for severe anxiety disorders: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychiatric conditions, and are associated with poor quality of life and substantial economic burden. Cognitive behavioural therapy is an effective treatment to r...
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Wellbeing and resilience: mechanisms of transmission of health and risk in parents with complex mental health problems and their offspring—The WARM Study
The WARM study is a longitudinal cohort study following infants of mothers with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and control from pregnancy to infant 1 year of age.
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Common mental disorder in Nyanza province, Kenya in 2013 and its associated risk factors –an assessment of change since 2004, using a repeat household survey in a demographic surveillance site
Repeat household surveys are useful to assess change in prevalence over time, but there have been no repeat surveys of common mental disorder (CMD) in Kenya, or indeed sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore a repeat ho...
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Visual mental imagery and symptoms of depression – results from a large-scale web-based study
Mental imagery may influence the onset and maintenance of depression, but specific mechanisms have not yet been determined.
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Enabling people, not completing tasks: patient perspectives on relationships and staff morale in mental health wards in England
Mental health inpatient wards are stressful places to work and concerns have been raised regarding quality of patient care and staff wellbeing on these wards. Recent research has suggested that robust support ...
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Neurometabolic characteristics in the anterior cingulate gyrus of Alzheimer’s disease patients with depression: a 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy study
Depression is a common comorbid psychiatric symptom in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and the prevalence of depression is higher among people with AD compared with healthy older adults. Comorbid depre...
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Acceptability and utility of an electronic psychosocial assessment (myAssessment) to increase self-disclosure in youth mental healthcare: a quasi-experimental study
Technology is increasingly being used in youth mental healthcare to support service delivery and improve health outcomes. The current study trialed a new electronic psychosocial application (myAssessment) that...
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Procedures for risk management and a review of crisis referrals from the MindSpot Clinic, a national service for the remote assessment and treatment of anxiety and depression
The MindSpot Clinic (MindSpot) provides remote screening assessments and therapist-guided treatment for anxiety and depression to adult Australians. Most patients are self-referred. The purpose of this study w...
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Pharmacological interventions for challenging behaviour in children with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Psychotropic medications are frequently used to treat challenging behaviour in children with intellectual disabilities, despite a lack of evidence for their efficacy. This systematic review and meta-analysis a...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:303 -
Enthusiasm for homework and improvement of psychological distress in subthreshold depression during behavior therapy: secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) usually involves homework, the completion of which is a known predictor of a positive outcome. The aim of the present study was to examine the session-by-session relationship...
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Factors affecting length of stay in forensic hospital setting: need for therapeutic security and course of admission
Patients admitted to a secure forensic hospital are at risk of a long hospital stay. Forensic hospital beds are a scarce and expensive resource and ability to identify the factors predicting length of stay at ...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:301 -
Protocol for a randomized controlled dismantling study of a brief telephonic psychological intervention applied to non-professional caregivers with symptoms of depression
Although depression is a common problem in caregivers and there are effective cognitive-behavioral interventions for its prevention, the ability of caregivers to attend these treatments is often limited by log...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:300 -
Psychiatric and neurological disorders in late adolescence and risk of convictions for violent crime in men
The relationship between mental illness and violent crime is complex because of the involvement of many other confounding risk factors. In the present study, we analysed psychiatric and neurological disorders ...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:299 -
Distinguishing bipolar and major depressive disorders by brain structural morphometry: a pilot study
The clinical presentation of common symptoms during depressive episodes in bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) poses challenges for accurate diagnosis. Disorder-specific neuroanatomical f...
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Can mental health interventions change social networks? A systematic review
Social networks of patients with psychosis can provide social support, and improve health and social outcomes, including quality of life. However, patients with psychosis often live rather isolated with very l...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:297 -
Type specific Real time PCR for detection of human herpes virus 6 in schizophrenia and bipolar patients: a case control study
Schizophrenia (SC) and bipolar disorder (BD) are among the most devastating diseases worldwide. There are several lines of evidence suggesting that viruses may play significant roles in the etiology of these m...
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Contribution of estradiol levels and hormonal contraceptives to sex differences within the fear network during fear conditioning and extinction
Findings about sex differences in the field of fear conditioning and fear extinction have been mixed. At the psychophysiological level, sex differences emerge only when taking estradiol levels of women into co...
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Effectiveness of the first French psychoeducational program on unipolar depression: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is highly prevalent and was associated with greater morbidity, mortality (including suicide), and healthcare costs. By 2030, MDD will become the leading cause of disability in h...
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Motivational processes in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: results from the Motivational Reserve in Alzheimer’s (MoReA) study
Brain reserve, i.e., the ability of the brain to tolerate age- and disease-related changes in a way that cognitive function is still maintained, is assumed to be based on the lifelong training of various abili...
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Anxiety and depression during pregnancy in Central America: a cross-sectional study among pregnant women in the developing country Nicaragua
Around the world, maternal psychopathology during pregnancy is associated with a range of negative consequences for mother and child. Nevertheless, in Central America the magnitude of this public health proble...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:292 -
Mental health literacy measures evaluating knowledge, attitudes and help-seeking: a scoping review
Mental health literacy has received increasing attention as a useful strategy to promote early identification of mental disorders, reduce stigma and enhance help-seeking behaviors. However, despite the abundan...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:291 -
A qualitative process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of a parenting intervention in community (school) settings for children at risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Interventions for parents of children experiencing emotional and/or behavioural difficulties can help to improve their children’s health, educational and social outcomes. However, the desirability and acceptab...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:290 -
Mental health service responses to human trafficking: a qualitative study of professionals’ experiences of providing care
Human trafficking is a global crime and human rights violation. Although research has demonstrated a high prevalence of mental disorder among trafficked people and that trafficked people are in contact with me...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:289 -
Parent–child inpatient treatment for children with behavioural and emotional disorders: a multilevel analysis of within-subjects effects
The importance of parental involvement in child treatment is well-established. Several child psychiatric clinics have, therefore, set up inpatient family units where children and parents are both actively invo...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:288 -
Ethnicity and pathways to care during first episode psychosis: the role of cultural illness attributions
Studies demonstrate ethnic variations in pathways to care during first episode psychosis (FEP). There are no extant studies, however, that have statistically examined the influence of culturally mediated illne...
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Is disability pension a risk indicator for future need of psychiatric healthcare or suicidal behavior among MS patients- a nationwide register study in Sweden?
Mental disorders and suicidal behavior are common in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), they also carry a higher risk of disability pension (DP). Our aim was to investigate if DP and other factors are asso...
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Empirical evidence about recovery and mental health
Two discourses exist in mental health research and practice. The first focuses on the limitations associated with disability arising from mental disorder. The second focuses on the possibilities for living wel...
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Suicidal behaviors among Moroccan school students: prevalence and association with socio-demographic characteristics and psychoactive substances use: a cross-sectional study
Suicidal behavior is a major cause of injury and death worldwide, especially among adolescents and young adults. Few studies have tackled this issue in the Arab world. The present study investigated the preval...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:284 -
Psycho-education for substance use and antisocial personality disorder: a randomized trial
Antisocial personality disorder often co-exists with drug and alcohol use disorders.
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A systematic review for the antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
Sleep deprivation (SD) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) have been commonly used to treat depression. Recent studies suggest that co-therapy with rTMS and SD may produce better therapeuti...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:282 -
PHEDRE trial protocol – observational study of the prevalence of problematic use of Equimolar Mixture of Oxygen and Nitrous Oxide (EMONO) and analgesics in the French sickle-cell disease population
The use of analgesics can lead to cases of drug abuse and dependence. It can also cause pseudo-addiction in patients suffering from pain. What is the actual situation in patients suffering from severe sickle-c...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:281 -
Outpatient treatment of alcohol use disorders among subjects 60+ years: design of a randomized clinical trial conducted in three countries (Elderly Study)
The proportion of 60+ years with excessive alcohol intake varies in western countries between 6–16 % among men and 2–7 % among women. Specific events related to aging (e.g. loss of job, physical and mental cap...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:280 -
A systematic review of mental health outcome measures for young people aged 12 to 25 years
Mental health outcome measures are used to monitor the quality and effectiveness of mental health services. There is also a growing expectation for implementation of routine measurement and measures being used...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:279 -
Baseline characteristics and hospitalizations in patients with schizophrenia receiving olanzapine long-acting injection: an interim analysis from a non-interventional, prospective observational safety study
Depot antipsychotics are a treatment option for medication nonadherence in patients with schizophrenia. Nonadherence can lead to increased relapse and hospitalization rates. This article reports hospitalizatio...
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Patients with carotid atherosclerosis who underwent or did not undergo carotid endarterectomy: outcome on mood, cognition and quality of life
To compare the six-month outcome on mood, cognition and quality of life (QoL) in patients with severe carotid atherosclerosis (CA) who underwent carotid endarterectomy (CEA) with subjects who refused treatment.
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:277 -
Evaluating the impact of cannabis use on thalamic connectivity in youth at clinical high risk of psychosis
Disruptions in thalamic functional connectivity have been observed in people with schizophrenia and in youth at clinical high risk (CHR) of psychosis. However, the impact of environmental risk factors for psyc...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:276 -
A randomized controlled trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) versus treatment-as-usual (TAU) for chronic, treatment-resistant depression: study protocol
Major depression is a common psychiatric disorder, frequently taking a chronic course. Despite provision of evidence-based treatments, including antidepressant medication and psychological treatments like cogn...
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A qualitative study examining the presence and consequences of moral framings in patients’ and mental health workers’ experiences of community treatment orders
Mental health recovery involves acknowledging the importance of building the person’s capacity for agency. This might be particularly important for patients on community treatment orders (CTOs - which involve ...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:274 -
Tecla: a telephone- and text-message based telemedical concept for patients with severe mental health disorders – study protocol for a controlled, randomized, study
Severe mental disorders like psychotic disorders including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders have a 12-month-prevalence of 2.6, bipolar disorders of 1.5 % in Germany. The relapse risk is high; so man...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:273 -
Changes in mental health in compliers and non-compliers with physical activity recommendations in patients with stress-related exhaustion
There is a lack of research regarding the long-lasting effects of a more physically active lifestyle in patients with mental disorders. In the present study, clinical data were analysed to examine if initially...
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Treatment of early non-response in patients with schizophrenia: assessing the efficacy of antipsychotic dose escalation
Early non-response to antipsychotic treatment in patients with schizophrenia has been shown in multiple studies to predict poor response at short-term trial endpoint. Therefore, strategies to address the chall...
Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2015 15:271
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