It is crucial to address mental health routinely when evaluating patients receiving supportive care, as lack of diagnosis and treatment can lead to suffering, nonadherence to treatment, and morbidity. It has been suggested that underlying depression may actually affect survival in patients with cancer,...
Payers, who have traditionally accepted mental health treatment as advertised, are increasingly demanding empirical evidence of mental health treatment effectiveness, requiring examination of a widening range of outcome measures. Full-course evaluation that once involved single measures of effectiveness (i.e...
Heart Disease Outcomes Improve After Mental Health Treatments Emily Harris JAMA. 2024;331(18):1526. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.5927 Full Text Patients with heart disease as well as anxiety or depression who received mental health treatments tended to have a substantially lower risk of mortality as well...
This study examined the long-term outcomes of mental health treatment, specifically individual therapy, group therapy, and pharmacotherapy, in a population-based study. Using a prospective cohort design, the effectiveness of mental health treatment was analyzed on the basis of data from an epidemiologi...
Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care Diana M. Tordoff, MPH1;Jonathon W. Wanta, MD2;Arin Collin, BA3;et alCesalie Stepney, PhD4;David J. Inwards-Breland, MD, MPH5;Kym Ahrens, MD, MPH6 ...
Assessing performance of mental health services (MHS) providers merely by their outcomes is insufficient. Process factors, such as treatment cost or duration, should also be considered in a meaningful and thorough analysis of quality of care. The present study aims to examine various performance indi...
a half times the rate of theworkforcein child and adolescentpsychiatry. A 22% increase in the overall mental-health workforce in the five years to 2021-22 could never have matched a 44 % increase inreferrals for all patients. ...
Depression and other mental health outcomes are similar for men choosing different options for initial treatment of localized prostate cancer, reports a study in the Journal of Urology.
Conclusion: In order to improve outcomes, a better understanding of the mechanisms linking visual impairment and poor mental health is needed. It will also be essential to develop more effective interventions and expand access to services to improve the detection and treatment of...
International Journal of Mental Health NursingCoombs, T., & Meehan, T. (2003). Mental health outcomes in Australia: Issues for mental health nurses. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 12(3), 163-164.Mental health outcomes in Australia: Issues for mental health nurses (Editorial -...