The rates of mental illness are significantly higher in prison populations compared to the general community; however, little research has examined the rates of mental illness for crossヽultural groups of prisoners in Australia. This omission is concerning given the increasingly diverse nature of the...
Associate Professor Jo Robinson, who leads Orygen's suicide prevention research, said despite significant investment in prevention, the number of youth suicides had not substantially decreased and there were fears rates would increase as Australia heads into recession. "We clearly need to address the ...
severe mental illness; cardiovascular disease; comorbidity; chronic condition self-management; recovery; caregiver; self-care; integrated care1. Introduction In Australia and internationally, adults with SMI such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder are at increased risk of ...
Ed-LinQ is a mental health policy initiative to enhance the early detection and treatment of children with mental illness by improving the liaison between schools and health services in Queensland, Australia. We measured its impact from policy to practice to inform further program developments and pu...
The burden ofdiseasestudy estimates the millions of years of healthy life Australians lose because of injury, illness o,r premature death. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY) are used to calculate the impact of living withpoor health(the non-fatal burden of disease) and dying prematurely (the...
Evolution of public attitudes about mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis: Evolution of public attitudes Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 125 (2012), pp. 440-452 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Scott, 2006 S. Scott The medicalisation of shyness: From social misfits to social ...
The latter often aims to bridge the nonspecific, pluripotent nature of early-stage phenomena with more delineated presentations, extension to other dimensions of illness, and added layers of comorbidity seen in later stages. In integrating severity, multidimensionality, and pluripotentiality into a ...
Perinatal women are highly vulnerable to developing mental health issues and particularly susceptible to a recurrence of psychiatric illness. Poor mental health during the perinatal period can have long-term impacts on the physical and psychiatric health of both mother and child. A potentially useful ...
Australia is a multicultural nation with a humanitarian program that welcomes a large number of Iraqi refugees. Despite the high prevalence of trauma related disorders, professional help-seeking in this group is very low. This study sought to evaluate a face-to-face mental health literacy (MHL) ...
Mental illness can be devastating — but there are ways to fight it, say four researchers who have known those bleak times. Emily Sohn Career Feature8 May 2018Nature Time to talk about why so many postgrads have poor mental health