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Suicide in Global Mental Health. [PDF]

Curr Psychiatry Rep, 2023
We review recent research on the epidemiology and etiology of suicide in the global context. We focus on data from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), with the goal of highlighting findings from these under-researched, over-burdened settings.Prevalence of suicide in LMIC adults varies across region and country income-level, but is, on average ...
Lovero KL, Dos Santos PF, Come AX, Wainberg ML, Oquendo MA.   +4 more
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Global Mental Health [PDF]

Academic Psychiatry, 2016
The emergence of the term “global mental health” has been driven by the multifactorial aetiology of the onset of mental disorders, the need for equal access to mental health services and the long-standing finding of inequalities in healthcare and mental healthcare which prevail not just at international level but also at national and local levels.
Milton L, Wainberg, Francis G, Lu, Michelle B, Riba   +2 more
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teen Mental Health First Aid: 12-month outcomes from a cluster crossover randomized controlled trial evaluation of a universal program to help adolescents better support peers with a mental health problem

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA) is a universal mental health literacy, stigma reduction, help-seeking, and suicide prevention program designed for adolescents in Years 10–12 of secondary school (16–18 years). tMHFA is delivered by trained
Laura M. Hart, Amy J. Morgan, Alyssia Rossetto, Claire M. Kelly, Karen Gregg, Maxine Gross, Catherine Johnson, Anthony F. Jorm   +7 more
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Adolescent peer support for mental health problems: evaluation of the validity and reliability of the Mental Health Support Scale for Adolescents

BMC Psychology, 2023
Background The Mental Health Support Scale for Adolescents (MHSSA) is a criterion-referenced measure of adolescents’ supportive intentions towards peers with mental health problems, which was developed for use in evaluations of adolescent mental health ...
Shurong Lu, Laura M. Hart, Anthony F. Jorm, Karen Gregg, Maxine Gross, Andrew J. Mackinnon, Amy J. Morgan   +6 more
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Effects of the Mental Health First Aid for the suicidal person course on beliefs about suicide, stigmatising attitudes, confidence to help, and intended and actual helping actions: an evaluation

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2021
Background Suicide is a significant concern in Australia and globally. There is a strong argument for training community gatekeepers in how to recognise and support suicidal people in their social network.
Kathy S. Bond, Fairlie A. Cottrill, Andrew Mackinnon, Amy J. Morgan, Claire M. Kelly, Greg Armstrong, Betty A. Kitchener, Nicola J. Reavley, Anthony F. Jorm   +8 more
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Long-term effects of Youth Mental Health First Aid training: randomized controlled trial with 3-year follow-up

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training teaches community members how to provide initial support to someone with a mental health problem.
Amy J. Morgan, Julie-Anne A. Fischer, Laura M. Hart, Claire M. Kelly, Betty A. Kitchener, Nicola J. Reavley, Marie B. H. Yap, Anthony F. Jorm   +7 more
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Development of Chinese mental health first aid guidelines for problem drinking: a Delphi expert consensus study

BMC Psychiatry, 2021
Background Alcohol use disorders have become the second leading cause of death for mental and substance use disorders in China. However, with early diagnosis and timely treatment, the burden can be mitigated.
Wenjing Li, Anthony F. Jorm, Yan Wang, Shurong Lu, Yanling He, Nicola J. Reavley   +5 more
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Global mental health and neuroethics [PDF]

BMC Medicine, 2015
Global mental health is a relatively new field that has focused on disparities in mental health services across different settings, and on innovative ways to provide feasible, acceptable, and effective services in poorly-resourced settings. Neuroethics, too, is a relatively new field, lying at the intersection of bioethics and neuroscience; it has ...
Stein, Dan J., Giordano, James
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Information for global mental health [PDF]

Global Mental Health, 2015
Background.Information is needed for development of mental health (MH) services; and particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs), where the MH systems are relatively weak. World Health Organization (WHO) has worked intensively during the last 15 years for developing a strategy in the field of MH information.Methods.The paper analyzes WHO ...
A. Lora, P. Sharan
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Globalization, culture and mental health [PDF]

International Review of Psychiatry, 2014
Globalization raises as many questions as it manages to answer. Although countries across the globe have been interconnected for centuries, the contact has often been loose and the linking rather f...
Rachel, Tribe, Steve, Melluish
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