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Coercion in psychiatry: psychometric validation of the Portuguese Staff Attitudes to Coercion Scale (SACS)

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Background There is a growing recognition that staff attitudes toward coercion in mental health care may influence its application. This study presents the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Staff Attitudes towards Coercion Scale ...
Deborah Oyine Aluh, Diego Diaz-Milanes, Barbara Pedrosa, Manuela Silva, Ugnė Grigaitė, Carolina Rocha Almeida, Maria Ferreira de Almeida Mousinho, Margarida Vieira, Graça Cardoso, José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida   +9 more
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Supported Accommodations for People with Serious Mental Disorders: Staff’s Assessment of Work Challenges and Their Impact during COVID-19

Portuguese Journal of Public Health
Introduction: Few studies analysed the impact of COVID-19 on supported accommodations (SAs) for people with serious mental disorders. This study aimed to analyse staff’s assessments of work challenges in SAs during COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic on
Bárbara Pedrosa, Graça Cardoso, Sofia Azeredo-Lopes, Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira, Deborah Oyine Aluh, Ugnė Grigaitė, Margarida Santos-Dias, Manuela Silva, José Caldas-de-Almeida   +8 more
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Pathways and pitfalls: a qualitative study of student experiences in biomedical science education

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Biomedical science students from underrepresented backgrounds face barriers including financial strain, disrupted laboratory access and cultural exclusion. Peer networks provide vital support when institutional systems are difficult to navigate. To create inclusive learning environments and achieve academic success, educators should blend active, hands‐
Olivia J. Russell, Cassy Ross, Panagiota S. Filippou, Bruno Silvester Lopes, Dominic Gilchrist, Paul Dean, Kamar Ameen‐Ali, Tora K. Smulders‐Srinivasan, Ahmad A. Khundakar   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positive mental health and wellbeing [PDF]

, 2017
The past 20 years have seen an explosion of interest in positive approaches to mental health, happiness, and wellbeing. While these concepts vary considerably from one another, they act as bridges between Global Mental Health and the broader arena of ...
White, Sarah C., Sarah C. White, Carola Eyber, Eyber, Carola   +3 more
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Development of a knowledge broker group to support evidence-informed policy: lessons learned from Myanmar

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021
Background Globally, policy-makers face challenges to using evidence in health decision-making, particularly lack of interaction between research and policy.
Pyone Yadanar Paing, Zarni Lynn Kyaw, Matthew Schojan, Tom Traill, Si Thura, Nilar Tin, Than-Tun Sein, Hnin Hnin Tha Myint, Paul Bolton, Catherine Lee   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence and Mental Well‐Being in Adult Education: Implications for Practice and Professional Responsibility

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mental well‐being is central to adult learner success, yet many adult education institutions lack capacity to provide timely and accessible support. This article examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can strengthen mental health–adjacent supports in adult and continuing higher education, with attention to professional practice and ...
Adam L. McClain, Thomas Wade
wiley   +1 more source

Genealogies and anthropologies of global mental health [PDF]

, 2019
Within the proliferation of studies identified with global mental health, anthropologists rarely take global mental health itself as their object of inquiry. The papers in this special issue were selected specifically to problematize global mental health.
Read, U., Read, Ursula M., Anne M. Lovell, Read, Ursula M.; id_orcid, Lang, C., Lang, Claudia, Lovell, A., Lovell, Anne M., Claudia Lang, Ursula M. Read   +9 more
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Review of Australian initiatives to reduce stigma towards people with complex mental illness: what exists and what works?

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2021
Background Australian national mental health policy outlines the need for a nationally coordinated strategy to address stigma and discrimination, particularly towards people with complex mental illness that is poorly understood in the community.
Amy J. Morgan, Judith Wright, Nicola J. Reavley   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) in a Patient With Compound Heterozygous OPA1 Variants: Case Report and Literature Review

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) is a rare, life‐threatening neurological emergency with unclear etiology in many cases. Mitochondrial dysfunction, often due to disease‐causing genetic variants, is increasingly recognized as a cause, with each gene producing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms.
Pouria Mohammadi, Lara Basovic, Christopher Michael McGraw   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic Medical Appraisal, Referral and Treatment (SMART) Mental Health Programme for providing innovative mental health care in rural communities in India [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: India has few mental health professionals to treat the large number of people suffering from mental disorders. Rural areas are particularly disadvantaged due to lack of trained health workers. Ways to improve care could be by training village
Praveen, D, Jha, V, Devarapalli, S, Maulik, PK, Kallakuri, S, Patel, A   +5 more
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