Nanette Allen is currently a mature age student, undertaking the honours program at the University of Adelaide as part of her BSc in Psychology. Previously, Nanette worked in the resources sector, coming up through the ranks from geologist to become managing director of ...
A dramatic decline in mental health of people worldwide in the early COVID-19 pandemic years has not recovered. In rural and remote Australia, access to appropriate and timely mental health services has been identified as a major barrier to people seekin
COVID-19 testing and patients in mental health facilities Lancet Psychiatry, 7 (2020), pp. 476-477, 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30198-X View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Bernardini et al., 2019 F. Bernardini, L. Attademo, R. Trezzi, C. Gobbicchi, P.M. Balducci, V. Del ...
This may be due, in part, to a higher proportion of staff working in mental health facilities being smokers compared to staff in other healthcare contexts. It is especially pertinent to psychiatric nurses because they have higher rates of smoking than other staff and they also provide the bulk...
31 Southern California,32 and New York10 in the US; Adelaide, Australia10; Paris, France33; Tel Aviv, Israel34; the Baix Camp and Tarragona region of Spain35; and Canada,36 have found an increasing number of ED visits for a variety of mental health conditions associated with increasing ...
healthcare services, lack of trained mental health professionals in rural areas or those who understand the unique needs of rural culture, stigma associated with help seeking, poor knowledge about treatment facilities, lack of accessibility to transport, and the high costs of mental health services....
Carers of people with dementia living in long-term care facilities may also experience increased uncertainty about the future as a result of visitation bans and disproportionately high rates of infection and death in long-term care residents worldwide25,42. Worsened carer mental health since the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted greatly the mental health of children. We performed a systematic review to better understand the impact of the pandemic on children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) across different SEND categories. Following PRISMA guidelines, of 1699 search ...
Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia Bernhard T Baune Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia Henry Brodaty Exercise Health and Performance Faculty Research Group, Sydney...
This project responded to the concerns of experienced community health workers who worked with people who had mental illness and resided in Supported Residential Facilities (SRFs) in South Australia. They had identified that urinary and faecal incontinence was common for this group of people and yet...