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Staff on many psychiatric wards are ignoring hospital smoke-free policies, believing mental health service users will be more aggressive and violent if they are not allowed to smoke, a study from the University of Otago, Wellington, has found. The researchers interviewed staff andserviceusers at f...
They were located predominantly at the periphery of hospital campuses, but also at a distance from community facilities. Compared to acute medical units, mental health units were almost universally located further from shared hospital facilities - with distances approximately three times further to reach...
Children with genetic conditions are at increased risk for mental health and neurodevelopmental problems, often accompanied by significant parental distress. Genetic and family factors can impact children and parents’ mental health. Early parenting interventions, like the Incredible Years® programs, have...
The objective of this study was to explore the information and participation needs of Chinese psychiatric inpatients in the largest psychiatric hospital in Hong Kong. Methods: The study was divided into two parts. In the first part, eight focus groups with patients, patients' relatives and health...
DR Williams27 and RC Kessler3 1Health Services Research Unit, IMIM-Institut de Recerca Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; 2CIBER en Epidemiolog´ıa y Salud Pu´blica (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain; 3Department of Health Policy, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; 4World Health Organiz...
Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand Ivana Nakarada-Kordic, Jennifer M. Weller & Craig S. Webster Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand Jennifer M. Weller & Alan F. Merry Department ...
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 determine the effectiveness of an intervention in...
the Canadian Mental Health Association, Kenneth Samuel Cromie on behalf of the Queen Street Patients' Council and Kevin George Wainwright Interveners INDEXED AS: WINKO v. BRITISH COLUMBIA (FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE) File No.: 25856. 1998: June 15, 16; 1999: June 17. Present: Lamer C.J...
Janis Tondora Director, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, VA Desert Pacific MIRECC Health Services Unit, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Alexander S. Young Corresponding author Correspondence to Michael A. Hoge. Additional information This work was supported in part by Contract No. 03M00013801D from the ...