Attitudes towards anorexia nervosa: Volitional stigma differences in a sample of pre-clinical medicine and psychology students [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a highly stigmatised condition, with treatment often involving multidisciplinary care. As such, understanding and comparing the attitudes of emerging mental health and medical professionals towards AN, within the ...
Bannatyne, Amy Jean +1 more
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The new Mental Health Act and the family doctor [PDF]
, 2014 The new Mental Health Act (2012), is expected to enter fully into force in October 2014. This Act will completely replace the Mental Health Act which we have known and worked with over the last 30 years.
Camilleri, Miriam
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Hypoproteinemia predicts disease severity and mortality in COVID-19: a call for action
Diagnostic Pathology, 2021 Proteins represent the major building blocks of body tissues, and they regulate signaling involved in most cellular activities. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection has been associated with high fatality, especially among older adults.
Amira Mohammed Ali, Hiroshi Kunugi
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Treating substance abuse is not enough: Comorbidities in consecutively admitted female prisoners [PDF]
, 2015 Publisher Copyright: © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.Introduction: Several studies have pointed to high rates of substance use disorders among female prisoners. The present study aimed to assess comorbidities of substance use disorders with other mental disorders in
Adrian P. Mundt +41 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014 Increasing evidence demonstrates a connection between growth factor function (including brain-derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF), glucocorticoid levels (one of the steroid hormones), and the pathophysiology of depressive disorders.
Tadahiro eNumakawa +6 more
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Mental disorder, sexual risk behaviour, sexual violence and HIV in Uganda [PDF]
, 2014 Aim The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the association between mental disorder and risk of sexual HIV transmission in a low-income country with a generalized HIV epidemic.
Lundberg, Patric
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Sartrean Account of Mental Health [PDF]
, 2017 The antipsychiatrists in the 1960's, specifically Thomas Szasz, have claimed that mental illness does not exist. This argument was based on a specific definition of physical disease that, Szasz argued, could not be applied to mental illness.
Krgovic, Jelena
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BOOK REVIEW OF GAYLE FORMAN’S I WAS HERE [PDF]
, 2016 It is often done as a result of, for examples, despair, depression, mental disorders, bipolar disorder, alcohol dependence or drug abuse. The factors that also causes suicide include financial difficulties or problems in interpersonal relationship ...
Roefmelinda, Aldeana
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Subjective and objective indicators of recovery in severe mental illness: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2010 Background: This study aimed to determine whether subjective dimensions of recovery such as empowerment are associated with self-report of more objective indicators such as level of participation in the community and income from employment.
King, Robert +2 more
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Self-reported Rates of Abuse, Neglect, and Bullying Experienced by Transgender and Gender-Nonbinary Adolescents in China [PDF]
, 2019 open access articleImportance This is the first comprehensive national study reporting the rates of abuse, neglect, and bullying from family and classmates or teachers among Chinese transgender and gender-nonbinary adolescents and identifying risk ...
Chen, Runsen +12 more
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