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International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Issue 1/2018

Content (77 Articles)

Implementing guidelines on physical health in the acute mental health setting: a quality improvement approach

  • Open Access
  • Case study

Stuart Green, Ed Beveridge, Liz Evans, Jenny Trite, Sandra Jayacodi, Rachel Evered, Caroline Parker, Luca Polledri, Emily Tabb, John Green, Anton Manickam, Joanna Williams, Rebecca Deere, Bill Tiplady

Improving the capacity of community-based workers in Australia to provide initial assistance to Iraqi refugees with mental health problems: an uncontrolled evaluation of a Mental Health Literacy Course

  • Open Access
  • Research

Maria Gabriela Uribe Guajardo, Shameran Slewa-Younan, Betty Ann Kitchener, Haider Mannan, Yaser Mohammad, Anthony Francis Jorm

What are “good outcomes” for adolescents in public mental health settings?

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kristina O. Lavik, Marius Veseth, Helga Frøysa, Per-Einar Binder, Christian Moltu

Global trends in research related to social media in psychology: mapping and bibliometric analysis

  • Open Access
  • Research

Sa’ed H. Zyoud, Waleed M. Sweileh, Rahmat Awang, Samah W. Al-Jabi

Mental health literacy of school nurses in the United Arab Emirates

  • Open Access
  • Research

Nabeel Al-Yateem, Rachel Cathrine Rossiter, Walter Frederick Robb, Shameran Slewa-Younan

Mental health in primary health care in a rural district of Cambodia: a situational analysis

  • Open Access
  • Research

Sofia Olofsson, Miguel San Sebastian, Bhoomikumar Jegannathan

Mental health literacy: what do Nigerian adolescents know about depression?

  • Open Access
  • Research

Deborah O. Aluh, Obinna C. Anyachebelu, Chibueze Anosike, Ezinne L. Anizoba

Risk factors for relapse in patients with first-episode schizophrenia: Analysis of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service data from 2011 to 2015

  • Open Access
  • Research

Sang-Uk Lee, Minah Soh, Vin Ryu, Chul-Eung Kim, Subin Park, Sungwon Roh, In-Hwan Oh, Hye-Young Lee, SungKu Choi

A structured approach to integrating mental health services into primary care: development of the Mental Health Scale Up Nigeria intervention (mhSUN)

  • Open Access
  • Research

Julian Eaton, Oye Gureje, Mary De Silva, Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, Ekpe Esien Ekpe, Mohammed Abdulaziz, Asiya Muhammad, Yusuf Akande, Uchechi Onukogu, Theo Onyuku, Jibril Abdulmalik, Woye Fadahunsi, Emeka Nwefoh, Alex Cohen

Alcohol use in a rural district in Uganda: findings from community-based and facility-based cross-sectional studies

  • Open Access
  • Research

Oliva Nalwadda, Sujit D. Rathod, Juliet Nakku, Crick Lund, Martin Prince, Fred Kigozi

Caregiver experiences of public services following child trauma exposure: a qualitative study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Victoria Williamson, Sarah L. Halligan, Bronwyne Coetzee, Ian Butler, Mark Tomlinson, Sarah Skeen, Jackie Stewart

Utilization of psychiatric rehabilitation services and influencing factors among people with psychotic disorders in rural communities of Guangxi, China

  • Open Access
  • Research

Hongye Luo, Edward B. McNeil, Qiming Feng, Hongheng Li, Qiang Chen, Xianjing Qin, Jun Feng, Sawitri Assanangkornchai

Mental health literacy: knowledge of depression among undergraduate students in Hanoi, Vietnam

  • Open Access
  • Research

Quynh Chi Nguyen Thai, Thanh Huong Nguyen

Delayed anxiety and depressive morbidity among dengue patients in a multi-ethnic urban setting: first report from Sri Lanka

  • Open Access
  • Research

Nayana Gunathilaka, Miyuru Chandradasa, Layani Champika, Shirom Siriwardana, Lakmini Wijesooriya

Gender differences and risk factors for smoking among patients with various psychiatric disorders in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Fahad D. Alosaimi, Mohammed Abalhassan, Bandar Alhaddad, Ebtihaj O. Fallata, Abdulhadi Alhabbad, Rabab Alshenqiti, Mohammed Z. Alassiry

Systematic review: cultural adaptation and feasibility of screening for autism in non-English speaking countries

  • Open Access
  • Review

Turkiya S. Al Maskari, Craig A. Melville, Diane S. Willis

Crafting safe and effective suicide prevention media messages: outcomes from a workshop in Australia

  • Open Access
  • Research

Maria Ftanou, Jaelea Skehan, Karolina Krysinska, Marc Bryant, Matthew J. Spittal, Jane Pirkis

Reforming the Portuguese mental health system: an incentive-based approach

  • Open Access
  • Research

Julian Perelman, Pedro Chaves, José Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Maria Ana Matias

Climate change and mental health: risks, impacts and priority actions

  • Open Access
  • Debate

Katie Hayes, G. Blashki, J. Wiseman, S. Burke, L. Reifels

Chronic mass psychogenic illness among women in Derashe Woreda, Segen Area People Zone, southern Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Moges Ayehu, Misganu Endriyas, Emebet Mekonnen, Mekonen Shiferaw, Tebeje Misganaw

Correction to: Risk factors for relapse in patients with first-episode schizophrenia: analysis of the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service data from 2011 to 2015

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Sang‑Uk Lee, Minah Soh, Vin Ryu, Chul‑Eung Kim, Subin Park, Sungwon Roh, In‑Hwan Oh, Hye‑Young Lee, SungKu Choi

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

  • Open Access
  • Correction

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

Knowledge of mental health legislation in Ghana: a case of the use of certificate of urgency in mental health care

  • Open Access
  • Short report

Reindolf Anokye, Enoch Acheampong, Naomi Gyamfi, Amy Budu-Ainooson, Ernest Appiah Kyei

Pathways to care of patients with mental health problems in Bangladesh

  • Open Access
  • Research

Nazmun Nahar Nuri, Malabika Sarker, Helal Uddin Ahmed, Mohammad Didar Hossain, Claudia Beiersmann, Albrecht Jahn

Forty years without mental hospitals in Italy

  • Open Access
  • Debate

Corrado Barbui, Davide Papola, Benedetto Saraceno

Building back better? Taking stock of the post-earthquake mental health and psychosocial response in Nepal

  • Open Access
  • Research

Liana E. Chase, Kedar Marahatta, Kripa Sidgel, Sujan Shrestha, Kamal Gautam, Nagendra P. Luitel, Bhogendra Raj Dotel, Reuben Samuel

Exploring the potential of civic engagement to strengthen mental health systems in Indonesia (IGNITE): a study protocol

  • Open Access
  • Study protocol

Helen Brooks, Karen James, I Irmansyah, Budi-Anna Keliat, Bagus Utomo, Diana Rose, Erminia Colucci, Karina Lovell

Prevalence and correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder among survivors of road traffic accidents in Ethiopia

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kalkidan Yohannes, Abebaw Gebeyehu, Tewodros Adera, Getinet Ayano, Wubalem Fekadu

How clinicians make decisions about CTOs in ACT: a qualitative study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Hanne Kilen Stuen, Anne Landheim, Jorun Rugkåsa, Rolf Wynn

Epistemological and methodological paradoxes: secondary care specialists and their challenges working with adolescents with medically unexplained symptoms

  • Open Access
  • Research

Silje Vagli Østbye, Catharina Elisabeth Arfwedson Wang, Ida Pauline Høilo Granheim, Kjersti Elisabeth Kristensen, Mette Bech Risør

Correction to: 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
  • Correction

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

Supporting mental health, wellbeing and study skills in Higher Education: an online intervention system

  • Open Access
  • Case study

Alexia Barrable, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Patapia Tzotzoli

Correction to: Problem Management Plus (PM+) in the treatment of common mental disorders in women affected by gender-based violence and urban adversity in Kenya; study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Marit Sijbrandij, Richard A. Bryant, Alison Schafer, Katie S. Dawson, Dorothy Anjuri, Lincoln Ndogoni, Jeannette Ulate, Syed Usman Hamdani, Mark van Ommeren

Health system changes needed to support people consulting general practice out of hours services in Ireland

  • Open Access
  • Research

C. Collins, M. T. O’Shea, J. Cunniffe, P. Finegan

A step-wise community engagement and capacity building model prior to implementation of mhGAP-IG in a low- and middle-income country: a case study of Makueni County, Kenya

  • Open Access
  • Research

Victoria N. Mutiso, Isaiah Gitonga, Abednego Musau, Christine W. Musyimi, Eric Nandoya, Tahilia J. Rebello, Kathleen M. Pike, David M. Ndetei

Modern forensic psychiatric hospital design: clinical, legal and structural aspects

  • Open Access
  • Review

Allan Seppänen, Iida Törmänen, Christopher Shaw, Harry Kennedy

Relationship of peer specialists to mental health outcomes in South Florida

  • Open Access
  • Research

Daniel Castellanos, Mayte Capo, Diana Valderrama, Melissa Jean-Francois, Aniuska Luna

Consumer and staff perspectives of the implementation frequency and value of recovery and wellbeing oriented practices

  • Open Access
  • Research

Keren E. Wolstencroft, Frank P. Deane, Cara L. Jones, Adam Zimmermann, Merrilee Cox

Validation of the WHO self-reporting questionnaire-20 (SRQ-20) item in primary health care settings in Eritrea

  • Open Access
  • Research

Tesfit Brhane Netsereab, Meron Mehari Kifle, Robel Berhane Tesfagiorgis, Sara Ghebremichael Habteab, Yosan Kahsay Weldeabzgi, Okbazghi Zaid Tesfamariam

Socio-economic, trafficking exposures and mental health symptoms of human trafficking returnees in Ethiopia: using a generalized structural equation modelling

  • Open Access
  • Research

Lemma Derseh Gezie, Alemayehu Worku Yalew, Yigzaw Kebede Gete, Telake Azale, Tilman Brand, Hajo Zeeb

Mental health knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy among primary care physicians working in the Greater Tunis area of Tunisia

  • Open Access
  • Research

Jessica Spagnolo, François Champagne, Nicole Leduc, Michèle Rivard, Myra Piat, Marc Laporta, Wahid Melki, Fatma Charfi

Construct validity and reliability of the Test Your Memory Chinese version in older neurology outpatient attendees

  • Open Access
  • Research

Xuemei Li, Shengfa Zhang, Jinsui Zhang, Jingru Zhu, Huan He, Yurong Zhang, Weijun Zhang, Donghua Tian

Systematic review of pathways to mental health care in Brazil: narrative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative studies

  • Open Access
  • Review

Carlos Eduardo Amaral, Rosana Onocko-Campos, Pedro Renan Santos de Oliveira, Mariana Barbosa Pereira, Éllen Cristina Ricci, Mayrá Lobato Pequeno, Bruno Emerich, Roseléia Carneiro dos Santos, Graham Thornicroft

Feasibility and acceptability of strategies to address mental health and mental ill-health in the Australian coal mining industry

  • Open Access
  • Research

Ross J. Tynan, Carole James, Robyn Considine, Jaelea Skehan, Jorgen Gullestrup, Terry J. Lewin, John Wiggers, Brian J. Kelly

Characteristics of perinatal depression in rural central, India: a cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Sujit D. Rathod, Simone Honikman, Charlotte Hanlon, Rahul Shidhaye

Accessibility and factors associated with utilization of mental health services in youth health centers. A qualitative comparative analysis in northern Sweden

  • Open Access
  • Research

Isabel Goicolea, Cecilia Hultstrand Ahlin, Anna-Karin Waenerlund, Bruno Marchal, Monica Christianson, Maria Wiklund, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Miguel San Sebastian

Treatment recommendation differences for schizophrenia and major depression: a population-based study in a Vietnamese cohort

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kerem Böge, Eric Hahn, Tien Duc Cao, Lukas Marian Fuchs, Lara Kim Martensen, Georg Schomerus, Michael Dettling, Matthias Angermeyer, Van Tuan Nguyen, Thi Minh Tam Ta

Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): a South African narrative

  • Open Access
  • Research

Kirsten Celeste Kohler, Bronwynè Jo’sean Coetzee, Christine Lochner

Potential strategies for sustainably financing mental health care in Uganda

  • Open Access
  • Research

J. Ssebunnya, S. Kangere, J. Mugisha, S. Docrat, D. Chisholm, C. Lund, F. Kigozi

Factors that influence access to mental health services in South-Eastern Europe

  • Open Access
  • Research

Andreea Raluca Tirintica, Ivana Andjelkovic, Orela Sota, Mihail Cristian Pirlog, Maria Stoyanova, Adriana Mihai, Neal Wallace

Improving psychotherapies offered in public hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya: extending practice-based research model for LMICs

  • Open Access
  • Research

Manasi Kumar, Mary Wangari Kuria, Caleb Joseph Othieno, Fredrik Falkenström

Differences in implementation of family focused practice in hospitals: a cross-sectional study

  • Open Access
  • Research

Bjørg Eva Skogøy, Darryl Maybery, Torleif Ruud, Knut Sørgaard, Gro Christensen Peck, Elin Kufås, Kristin Stavnes, Eivind Thorsen, Terje Ogden

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