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International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Issue 1/2017

Content (71 Articles)

A web-based information system for a regional public mental healthcare service network in Brazil

  • Open Access
  • Case study

Vinicius Tohoru Yoshiura, João Mazzoncini de Azevedo-Marques, Magdalena Rzewuska, André Luiz Teixeira Vinci, Ariane Morassi Sasso, Newton Shydeo Brandão Miyoshi, Antonia Regina Ferreira Furegato, Rui Pedro Charters Lopes Rijo, Cristina Marta Del-Ben, Domingos Alves

Challenges for nurses who work in community mental health centres in the West Bank, Palestine

  • Open Access
  • Research

Mohammad Marie, Ben Hannigan, Aled Jones

Causes of and risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder: the beliefs of Iraqi and Afghan refugees resettled in Australia

  • Open Access
  • Research

Shameran Slewa-Younan, Maria Gabriela Uribe Guajardo, Anisa Yaser, Jonathan Mond, Mitchell Smith, Diana Milosevic, Caroline Smith, Sanja Lujic, Anthony Francis Jorm

Promoting wellbeing and improving access to mental health care through community champions in rural India: the Atmiyata intervention approach

  • Open Access
  • Case study

Laura Shields-Zeeman, Soumitra Pathare, Bethany Hipple Walters, Nandita Kapadia-Kundu, Kaustubh Joag

Health systems context(s) for integrating mental health into primary health care in six Emerald countries: a situation analysis

  • Open Access
  • Review

James Mugisha, Jibril Abdulmalik, Charlotte Hanlon, Inge Petersen, Crick Lund, Nawaraj Upadhaya, Shalini Ahuja, Rahul Shidhaye, Ntokozo Mntambo, Atalay Alem, Oye Gureje, Fred Kigozi

Evidence-based guideline implementation in low and middle income countries: lessons for mental health care

  • Open Access
  • Review

Mary Docherty, Kate Shaw, Lucy Goulding, Hannah Parke, Erica Eassom, Farnoosh Ali, Graham Thornicroft

Users’ involvement in mental health services: programme logic model of an innovative initiative in integrated care

  • Open Access
  • Research

Carolane Tremblay, Valérie Coulombe, Catherine Briand

The impact of organisational change and fiscal restraint on organisational culture

  • Open Access
  • Research

Frances Dark, Harvey Whiteford, Neal M. Ashkanasy, Carol Harvey, Meredith Harris, David Crompton, Ellie Newman

What are “good outcomes” in public mental health settings? A qualitative exploration of clients’ and therapists’ experiences

  • Open Access
  • Research

Christian Moltu, Jon Stefansen, Jan Christian Nøtnes, Åse Skjølberg, Marius Veseth

How to implement Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) in mental health service settings: evaluation of the implementation strategy

  • Open Access
  • Research

Karina Myhren Egeland, Torleif Ruud, Terje Ogden, Rickard Färdig, Jonas Christoffer Lindstrøm, Kristin Sverdvik Heiervang

Complementary primary mental health programs for young people in Australia: Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) and headspace

  • Open Access
  • Research

Bridget Bassilios, Nicolas Telford, Debra Rickwood, Matthew J. Spittal, Jane Pirkis

Worldwide research productivity in the field of psychiatry

  • Open Access
  • Research

Jinghua Zhang, Xiaoou Chen, Xin Gao, Huizeng Yang, Zhong Zhen, Qingwei Li, Yiqun Lin, Xiyan Zhao

Screening for substance use and mental health problems in a cross-sectoral sample of Canadian youth

  • Open Access
  • Research

Joanna L. Henderson, Gloria Chaim, Lisa D. Hawke

“Making the Mentally Ill Count”, lessons from a Health and Demographic Surveillance System for people with mental and neurological disorders in the Kintampo districts of Ghana

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kenneth A. Ae-Ngibise, Edward Adiibokah, Obed Ernest A. Nettey, Solomon Nyame, Victor Christian Korley Doku, Kwaku Poku Asante, Seth Owusu-Agyei

Sleep disturbances and mental strain in university students: results from an online survey in Luxembourg and Germany

  • Open Access
  • Research

Angelika A. Schlarb, Merle Claßen, Julia Grünwald, Claus Vögele

Family reintegration of homeless in Maputo and Matola: a descriptive study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Lídia Gouveia, Honório Massanganhe, Flávio Mandlate, Dirceu Mabunda, Wilza Fumo, Ana Olga Mocumbi, Jair de Jesus Mari

Predictors of depression among patients receiving treatment for snakebite in General Hospital, Kaltungo, Gombe State, Nigeria: August 2015

  • Open Access
  • Research

Abdulaziz Muhammed, Mahmood M. Dalhat, Babalola O. Joseph, Abubakar Ahmed, Patrick Nguku, Gabriele Poggensee, Mukthar Adeiza, Garba I. Yahya, Muhammad Hamza, Zaiyad G. Habib, Abisola M. Oladimeji, Abdulsalam Nasidi, Abubakar Balla, Ibrahim Nashabaru, Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, Ahmad M. Yakasai, Joshua A. Difa, Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, Abdulrazaq G. Habib

Perinatal depression in Nigeria: perspectives of women, family caregivers and health care providers

  • Open Access
  • Research

Ademola Adeponle, Danielle Groleau, Lola Kola, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Oye Gureje

Service user and care giver involvement in mental health system strengthening in Nepal: a qualitative study on barriers and facilitating factors

  • Open Access
  • Research

Dristy Gurung, Nawaraj Upadhyaya, Jananee Magar, Nir Prakash Giri, Charlotte Hanlon, Mark J. D. Jordans

Physical health policies and metabolic screening in mental health care systems of sub-Saharan African countries: a systematic review

  • Open Access
  • Review

James Mugisha, Marc De Hert, Brendon Stubbs, David Basangwa, Davy Vancampfort

Italian regional health service costs for diagnosis and 1-year treatment of ADHD in children and adolescents

  • Open Access
  • Research

Gianluigi Casadei, Massimo Cartabia, Laura Reale, Maria Antonella Costantino, Maurizio Bonati, Stefano Conte, Valeria Renzetti, Laura Salvoni, Massimo Molteni, Sara Trabattoni, Paola Effedri, Elena Filippini, Elisabetta Pedercini, Edda Zanetti, Nadia Fteita, Daniele Arisi, Roberta Mapelli, Simona Frassica, Simonetta Oriani, Christian Trevisan, Susanna Acquistapace, Ottaviano Martinelli, Davide Villani, Emanuela Binaghi, Andrea Deriu, Ernesta Ricotta, Arianna Borchia, Paola Morosini, Maddalena Breviglieri, Giuseppe Capovilla, Roberto Segala, Claudio Bissoli, Maria Paola Canevini, Antonella Costantino, Isabella Cropanese, Anna Didoni, Emiddio Fornaro, Silvia Merati, Alberto Ottolini, Monica Saccani, Roberto Vaccari, Vera Valenti, Alessandra Valentino, Umberto Balottin, Matteo Chiappedi, Elena Vlacos, Corrado Meraviglia, Maria Grazia Palmieri, Gianpaolo Ruffoni, Francesco Rinaldi, Federica Soardi, Chiara Luoni, Francesca Pavone, Giorgio Rossi, Maurizio Bonati, Massimo Cartabia, Laura Reale, Michele Zanetti

Common mental disorder and its association with academic performance among Debre Berhan University students, Ethiopia

  • Open Access
  • Research

Yohannes Gebreegziabhere Haile, Sisay Mulugeta Alemu, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold

What are effective strategies for implementing trauma-informed care in youth inpatient psychiatric and residential treatment settings? A realist systematic review

  • Open Access
  • Review

Stephanie A. Bryson, Emma Gauvin, Ally Jamieson, Melanie Rathgeber, Lorelei Faulkner-Gibson, Sarah Bell, Jana Davidson, Jennifer Russel, Sharlynne Burke

Current situations and future directions for mental health system governance in Nepal: findings from a qualitative study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Nawaraj Upadhaya, Mark J. D. Jordans, Ruja Pokhrel, Dristy Gurung, Ramesh P. Adhikari, Inge Petersen, Ivan H. Komproe

Health system governance to support scale up of mental health care in Ethiopia: a qualitative study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Charlotte Hanlon, Tigist Eshetu, Daniel Alemayehu, Abebaw Fekadu, Maya Semrau, Graham Thornicroft, Fred Kigozi, Debra Leigh Marais, Inge Petersen, Atalay Alem

Mental distress and associated factors among undergraduate students at the University of Hargeisa, Somaliland: a cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Liban Hersi, Kenfe Tesfay, Hailay Gesesew, Wolfgang Krahl, Deria Ereg, Markos Tesfaye

Problem Management Plus (PM+) in the management of common mental disorders in a specialized mental healthcare facility in Pakistan; study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

  • Open Access
  • Study Protocol

Syed Usman Hamdani, Zainab Ahmed, Marit Sijbrandij, Huma Nazir, Aqsa Masood, Parveen Akhtar, Hania Amin, Richard A. Bryant, Katie Dawson, Mark van Ommeren, Atif Rahman, Fareed Aslam Minhas

Patterns of psychiatric admissions and predictors of patient’s outcome in Jimma University Teaching and Referral Hospital: a retrospective study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Sinan Tadesse, Abraham Tamirat Gizaw, Getachew Kirose Abraha, Lakew Abebe Gebretsadik

Mental health services conceptualised as complex adaptive systems: what can be learned?

  • Open Access
  • Commentary

Louise A. Ellis, Kate Churruca, Jeffrey Braithwaite

Help seeking and suicidality among people with epilepsy in a rural low income country setting: cross-sectional survey

  • Open Access
  • Research

Ruth Tsigebrhan, Charlotte Hanlon, Girmay Medhin, Abebaw Fekadu

Mental health treatment in Kenya: task-sharing challenges and opportunities among informal health providers

  • Open Access
  • Research

Christine W. Musyimi, Victoria N. Mutiso, David M. Ndetei, Isabel Unanue, Dhru Desai, Sita G. Patel, Abednego M. Musau, David C. Henderson, Erick S. Nandoya, Joske Bunders

The mental health and help-seeking behaviour of resettled Afghan refugees in Australia

  • Open Access
  • Research

Shameran Slewa-Younan, Anisa Yaser, Maria Gabriela Uribe Guajardo, Haider Mannan, Caroline A. Smith, Jonathan M. Mond

Does child and adolescent mental health in-service training result in equivalent knowledge gain among cadres of non-specialist health workers in Uganda? A pre-test post-test study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Angela Akol, Joyce Nalugya, Sylvia Nshemereirwe, Juliet N. Babirye, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen

Common mental disorders in asylum seekers and refugees: umbrella review of prevalence and intervention studies

  • Open Access
  • Research

Giulia Turrini, Marianna Purgato, Francesca Ballette, Michela Nosè, Giovanni Ostuzzi, Corrado Barbui

Mental health leadership and patient access to care: a public–private initiative in South Africa

  • Open Access
  • Case Study

Christopher Paul Szabo, Jennifer Fine, Pat Mayers, Shan Naidoo, Tuviah Zabow, Jannes Bornman, Francois Petersen, Wendy Vogel, Zaida Damons, Charl Prinsloo, Emily Smith, Elmarie de Lange, Rene Nassen, Anbrenthia Moos, Bernard Janse van Rensburg, Craig Bracken, Salome Mashile, Florence Makobonyane, Zamo Mbele, Jacqui Naude

Retraction Note to: Correlates, comorbidities, and suicidal tendencies of problematic game use in a national wide sample of Korean adults

  • Open Access
  • Retraction Note

Subin Park, Hong Jin Jeon, Jung Woo Son, Haesoo Kim, Jin Pyo Hong

General practitioners’ experiences and perceptions of mild moderate depression management and factors influencing effective service delivery in rural Australian communities: a qualitative study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Tamishka De Silva, Anjali Prakash, Sandhya Yarlagadda, Marjia Daniella Johns, Kate Sandy, Vibeke Hansen, Sue Phelan, Sabrina Pit

Erratum to: The mental health and help-seeking behaviour of resettled Afghan refugees in Australia

  • Open Access
  • Erratum

Shameran Slewa-Younan, Anisa Yaser, Maria Gabriela Uribe Guajardo, Haider Mannan, Caroline A. Smith, Jonathan M. Mond

Somatization disorder among adolescents in southeast Nigeria: a neglected issue

  • Open Access
  • Research

A. R. C. Nwokocha, J. M. Chinawa, V. Onukwuli, A. Ubesie, Appolos Ndukuba, A. T. Chinawa, Elias Aniwada, Samuel Uwaezuoke

A review of web-based support systems for students in higher education

  • Open Access
  • Review

Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Rhianna Goozee, Erika Payne, Alexia Barrable, Patapia Tzotzoli

Evidence-based guideline implementation of quality assurance and quality control procedures in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey

  • Open Access
  • Case study

Sanaa Hyder, Lisa Bilal, Luma Akkad, Yu-chieh Lin, AbdulHameed Al-Habeeb, Abdullah Al-Subaie, Mona Shahab, Abdulrahman Binmuammar, Feda Al‐Tuwaijr, Noha Kattan, Yasmin Altwaijri

Priority setting for mental health research in Chile

  • Open Access
  • Research

Pedro Zitko, Francesca Borghero, Cynthia Zavala, Niina Markkula, Emilio Santelices, Nicolás Libuy, Alfredo Pemjean

Translating mental health diagnostic and symptom terminology to train health workers and engage patients in cross-cultural, non-English speaking populations

  • Open Access
  • Commentary

Bibhav Acharya, Madhur Basnet, Pragya Rimal, David Citrin, Soniya Hirachan, Sikhar Swar, Poshan Thapa, Jagadamba Pandit, Rajeev Pokharel, Brandon Kohrt

Mental health training for primary health care workers and implication for success of integration of mental health into primary care: evaluation of effect on knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP)

  • Open Access
  • Research

Getinet Ayano, Dawit Assefa, Kibrom Haile, Asrat Chaka, Kelemua Haile, Melat Solomon, Kalkidan Yohannis, Akilew Awoke Adane, Kemal Jemal

A qualitative analysis of psychosocial outcomes among women with sexual violence-related pregnancies in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Open Access
  • Research

Jennifer Scott, Colleen Mullen, Shada Rouhani, Philipp Kuwert, Ashley Greiner, Katherine Albutt, Gillian Burkhardt, Monica Onyango, Michael VanRooyen, Susan Bartels

Psychiatrists role in primary health care in Greece: findings from a quantitative study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kyriakos Souliotis, Eirini Agapidaki, Chara Tzavara, Marina Economou

Interventions to increase use of services; Mental Health Awareness in Nigeria

  • Open Access
  • Research

Julian Eaton, Emeka Nwefoh, Godwin Okafor, Ugochukwu Onyeonoro, Kenneth Nwaubani, Claire Henderson

Participation in mental healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis

  • Open Access
  • Review

Norman J. Stomski, Paul Morrison

Correction to: Mental health training for primary health care workers and implication for success of integration of mental health into primary care: evaluation of effect on knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP)

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Getinet Ayano, Dawit Assefa, Kibrom Haile, Asrat Chaka, Kelemua Haile, Melat Solomon, Kalkidan Yohannis, Akilew Awoke Adane, Kemal Jemal

Situational analysis to inform development of primary care and community-based mental health services for severe mental disorders in Nepal

  • Open Access
  • Research

Mangesh Angdembe, Brandon A. Kohrt, Mark Jordans, Damodar Rimal, Nagendra P. Luitel

Evaluation of outcomes for psychosis and epilepsy treatment delivered by primary health care workers in Nepal: a cohort study

  • Open Access
  • Research

M. J. D. Jordans, L. Aldridge, N. P. Luitel, F. Baingana, B. A. Kohrt

The property of the Japanese version of the Recovery Knowledge Inventory (RKI) among mental health service providers: a cross sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Rie Chiba, Maki Umeda, Kyohei Goto, Yuki Miyamoto, Sosei Yamaguchi, Norito Kawakami

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