The article discusses the changes on the roles of chartered psychologists concerning the amendment of Mental Health Act 1983 to Mental Health Act 2007 in Great Britain. The published Code of Practice entitles the chartered psychologist to carry out functions of psychiatrists. Guidance is also provided...
Health extension workers expressed doubts about the children’s ability to make their parents proud, attend school, get married in the future, and play normally with other children [33]. The other study highlighted that health extension workers’ negative attitudes and stigma act as barriers to ...
Although the 2008 federal Mental Health Parity andAddictionEquity Act supposedly mandated that health insurers make mental health care as accessible as other medical services, the law is often flouted. In September, President Biden announced anew rule aimed atstrengthening the mental health parity...
The Health4Life CRCT follows the CONSORT guidelines, and was prospectively registered with the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12619000431123). The study protocol has been published elsewhere25. This work follows the CONSORT reporting checklist (Supplementary Table 6). The tria...
The mental health of healthcare professionals is reaching a breaking point, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated current mental health issues to unprecedented levels. Whilst some research has been carried out on the barriers that doctors face when s
Relative to the general population, people with a mental illness are more likely to have modifiable chronic disease health risk behaviours. Care to reduce such risks is not routinely provided by community mental health clinicians. This study aimed to det
I would just sit there without doing anything. I would hear some voices in my head directing me what to do. Some big man would also come to me almost every night in a dream, and he would threaten to kill me. My husband tried his best to take me to several health centres. They gav...
(Congolese Interview, Health Care Worker Male 44) However, symptoms of mental illness, thought to be observable and usually not concealable to others were frequently described. "They [people with mental illness] act different from normal people" (Congolese FGD1, Female, 19). Overall this ...
In South Africa, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are at risk of poor mental health, HIV infection and early pregnancy. Poor mental health in AGYW i
The mental health of healthcare professionals is reaching a breaking point, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated current mental health issues to unprecedented levels. Whilst some research has been carried out on the barriers that doctors face when s