Only 30.3% of mental health service users participated in breast screening, compared with 52.7% of other NSW women (crude incidence rate ratio 0.57, 95% CI 0.56–0.59). Standardisation for age, socioeconomic disadvantage or rural residence did not alter this screening gap. Around 7000 fewer wome...
Schizophrenia affects approximately 24 million people worldwide. That’s 24 million individual stories and 24 million lives impacted – and that still doesn’t include the countless experiences of the families and carers of those living with this serious mental illness. ...
Health care systems are not prepared to cope with the diversity and uniqueness of these complex combinations of diseases in the elderly and their care needs in an effective way, where the role of families and carers cannot be ignored when finding the solution to these problems. Families and ...
People with lived experience of mental ill-health will be included both as stakeholders in the research and as members of the research team. Supporting an inclusive culture may involve allowing additional time for consumers and carers with the research team to clarify concepts and explain the ...
Those who provide support for people with mental health often feel reluctant to ask for help. In fact, our experience shows that many individuals who provide mental health support do not identify as carers and so they do not recognise that they might need support until their situation becomes ...
that is reframed as a three-way interaction of democratizing research across researchers, clinicians, and youth with lived experience, including patients and carers [132], targeting the discovery of risk factors, mechanisms, and clinical responses to existing interventions in youth mental health [133...
Knightingles Health Care Agency Stevenage, Hertfordshire - Domiciliary Care, Respite Care, Live-in Care, Mental Health Care - Recruiting nursing, carers
Racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity in Australia is rapidly increasing. Although Indigenous Australians account for only approximately 3.5% of the country’s population, over 50% of Australians were born overseas or have at least one migran
Limited empirical evidence is available regarding the uptake and effectiveness of school-based mental health and wellbeing programs implemented in Australi
A project designed to enhance carer participation in a mental health service is described. Carers of people with a mental illness were involved in reviewing and developing policies, and developing a carer rights and responsibilities booklet. Policies relevant to carers of people with a mental illness...