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Filter by:This study aims to measure levels of mental illness stigma based on condition and gender of the participants and individual portrayed with mental illness.
The study will enroll 600 people with serious mental illness who receive services at Centerstone in KY or TN and will compare two different evidence-based self-management interventions: Integrated Illness Management and Recovery (I-IMR), a program developed by the study team at Dartmouth that trains people with serious mental illness on physical and mental health self-management, and the Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP), a program largely focused on physical health self-management that has been used widely in the general population. In addition, PCORI is funding an evaluation of a COVID-related intervention that will begin in the Fall 2020.
The purpose of the present study is to estimate the lifetime incidence of any mental disorder in a nationwide population-based register linkage study for the Danish population and to estimate the influence on socio-economic functioning.
The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of an intervention called Nutrition and Exercise for Wellness and Recovery (NEW-R) in promoting healthy eating and increased physical activity for better weight management among psychiatric outpatients.
Mood Lifters is a revolutionary mental wellness program that teaches scientifically validated strategies in a supportive group setting. This study will test two new versions of the program designed specifically for graduate students and young professionals. Participants will need to attend 12 hour long virtual weekly meetings on Zoom that focus on helpful mental health strategies and skills. Participants will be encourage to practice what the participants learn at home in order to improve their mood or mental wellness. Additionally, participants will complete a series of measures (approx. 1-1.5 hours) prior to, at the end of the program, 1 month after the program and 6 months after the program.
Tobacco use disorder is a chronic disease. This is particularly true for people living with mental illness, who are more likely to smoke and make more unsuccessful quit attempts than those without. The current study is designed to test a package of two chronic disease management strategies to treatment tobacco in community mental health centers: regular provider interventions during routine mental healthcare visits, and proactive outreach by community mental health center staff to offer connections to tobacco cessation treatment. 50 patients at a community mental health center will receive provider intervention at their regular visits as well as 3 outreach calls over 9 months from trained staff to offer to connect them with stop smoking treatment. The investigators will measure the effect of these interventions on tobacco use over the next year.
Background: Patient safety incidents are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. So far, existing safety improvement work has largely focused on physical healthcare. Only a small body of research has studied safety as it applies to mental healthcare, with these studies concentrating primarily on psychiatric inpatient units. However, mental healthcare is increasingly delivered in community settings, through primary care and secondary care mental health provision, rather than in hospitals. Less is known about the safety problems service users experience in community-based mental healthcare. It is important that safety problems in community-based mental health services are better understood, so that care can be improved. Objective: This research will aim to understand the nature of the safety problems experienced by adult users of community-based mental healthcare, from the perspective of service users, carers, and healthcare providers. The study will also aim to identify priority areas and effective practices to improve safety in these settings. Method: Individual in-depth interviews or focus groups will be held with service users, carers, and frontline healthcare providers employed within appropriate community-based mental healthcare settings. Interviews or focus groups will last for approximately one hour and will be carried out face-to-face or via secure videoconferencing technology (e.g. Microsoft Teams or Zoom), depending on up-to-date guidance relating to the Covid-19 pandemic. With participant consent, interviews and focus groups will be audio-recorded and transcribed. Transcripts will be analysed using thematic analysis, with themes developed, defined, and revised throughout the analysis process. Discussion: Study findings will help to fill key evidence gaps concerning safety in community-based mental healthcare. More broadly, the results may lead to the development of evidence-informed interventions to address the safety issues which are raised in participant discussions.
Background: Many people think that people with mental disorders might be dangerous or unpredictable. These patients face various sources of disadvantages and experience discrimination on job interviews, in education, and housing. Mental health-related stigma (MHS) occurs not only within the public community, it is a growing issue among professionals as well. Aim: The investigators designed a prospective, observational, multi-centre, international study of 35 European countries to investigate the MHS among medical specialists and trainees in the field of general adult and child and adolescent psychiatry. Methods: An internet-based, anonymous survey will measure the stigmatizing attitude by using the local version of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers. Presentation of the Results: The results of the research will be published in an international peer-reviewed journal. Furthermore, the research team will present the results at national and international conferences.
GET PrEPD-Psychiatry is a mixed-methods, developmental study to adapt a shared decision making (SDM) intervention to be specific for psychiatry decisions (Aim 1, previously completed), evaluate its feasibility and acceptability (Aim 2), and examine potential mechanisms of change and preliminary outcomes (Aim 3) of this innovative intervention to increase SDM and self-management for adults with serious mental illness (SMI). In line with National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) priorities, we are examining whether GET PrEPD-Psychiatry engages the target mechanisms that putatively underlie the intervention (i.e., patient activation and communication self-efficacy; Aim 3). Aim 1 used approximately 200 deidentified transcripts from our prior study of SDM in psychiatry to cull language used in decision-making. These conversations were then used to program the Virtual Provider to represent common interactions and decisions in psychiatric visits. Iterative testing of the use of the Virtual Provider has been completed and feedback was obtained from our psychiatry consultants to refine the program. For Aim 2, we will recruit up to 40 patients to participate in GET PrEPD-Psychiatry (4 weekly goal setting/coaching sessions, coupled with Virtual Provider training and practice). We will assess participant satisfaction and utility ratings, as well as track their use (frequency and time-on-task) of the Virtual Provider program. For Aim 3, we will follow enrolled patient participants, interviewing them at baseline and approximately 3 months later. We hypothesize that participants will have significantly 1) improved mechanisms of change, demonstrated by increases in self-reported activation and communication self-efficacy, 2) improved SDM, and 3) improved self-management and recovery attitudes. The Narrative Evaluation of Intervention Interview (NEII), completed at approximately 3 months, will be used as a qualitative interview guide to understand the acceptability and impact of the intervention.
Insomnia is common in patients with co-morbid mental illness and sleeping difficulties is a frequent complaint in most psychological disorders. Mental illness may cause sleep problems, however, sleep problems like insomnia, may also cause or exacerbate mental illness. Insomnia may aggravate symptoms of depression, anxiety and fatigue, and reduce daily functioning in patients with co-morbid insomnia and mental illness. This project aims to evaluate a course offered to patients with insomnia and mental illness at Diakonhjemmet Hospital. The course is based on cognitive behavioral therapy, a documented treatment for insomnia.