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Effects of Disasters on Mental Health

Doğal Afetler ve Çevre Dergisi, 2021
As a natural or human-induced event that occur unexpectedly, disasters affect society and people profoundly, cause loss of life and property, and lead to economic losses.
Deniz S. Yorulmaz, Havva Karadeniz
doaj   +1 more source

Privacy Aware Question-Answering System for Online Mental Health Risk Assessment [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Social media platforms have enabled individuals suffering from mental illnesses to share their lived experiences and find the online support necessary to cope. However, many users fail to receive genuine clinical support, thus exacerbating their symptoms.
arxiv  

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

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2018
Background Australia is a multicultural nation with a humanitarian program that welcomes a large number of Iraqi refugees. Despite the high prevalence of trauma related disorders, professional help-seeking in this group is very low.
Maria Gabriela Uribe Guajardo, Shameran Slewa-Younan, Betty Ann Kitchener, Haider Mannan, Yaser Mohammad, Anthony Francis Jorm   +5 more
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A Snapshot of the Mental Health of Software Professionals [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Mental health disorders affect a large number of people, leading to many lives being lost every year. These disorders affect struggling individuals and businesses whose productivity decreases due to days of lost work or lower employee performance.
arxiv  

Quality of assistance provided by members of the Australian public to a person at risk of suicide: associations with training experiences and sociodemographic factors in a national survey

BMC Psychiatry, 2019
Background Members of the public can potentially take action to assist someone in their social network who is distressed and at risk of suicide. The present study used data from a community survey to examine training experiences and sociodemographic ...
Anthony F. Jorm, Angela Nicholas, Jane Pirkis, Alyssia Rossetto, Julie-Anne Fischer, Nicola J. Reavley   +5 more
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Effectiveness of psychological first aid in infectious disease pandemics: An overview of systematic reviews

PCN Reports, 2023
There is insufficient research on the usefulness of psychological interventions, such as psychological first aid (PFA), during outbreaks. We searched for and critically appraised systematic reviews that examined the effectiveness of PFA during infectious
Masahide Koda, Toru Horinouchi, Nozomu Oya, Morio Aki, Akihisa Iriki, Kazufumi Yoshida, Yusuke Ogawa, Hironori Kuga, Tomohiro Nakao   +8 more
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Mental Health First Aid Training: Evaluating a Brief Training Intervention for College Students [PDF]

, 2019
Background Mental health literacy, or the public’s knowledge and beliefs about mental health, has been shown to be lacking; therefore, the proper first aid actions are not always taken to recognize and encourage treatment for psychological disorders ...
Sandtorv, Erica D.
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Associations of training to assist a suicidal person with subsequent quality of support: results from a national survey of the Australian public

BMC Psychiatry, 2018
Background When a person is in severe distress, people in their social network can potentially take action to reduce the person’s suicide risk. The present study used data from a community survey to examine whether people who had received training in how
Anthony F. Jorm, Angela Nicholas, Jane Pirkis, Alyssia Rossetto, Nicola J. Reavley   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Feasibility Trial of Mental Health First Aid First Nations: Acceptability, Cultural Adaptation, and Preliminary Outcomes [PDF]

, 2018
The Mental Health First Aid First Nations course was adapted from Mental Health First Aid Basic to create a community-based, culturally safe and relevant approach to promoting mental health literacy in First Nations contexts.
Adelson, Allen, Andrew, Bhanji, Bowen, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Castleden, Drawson, First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC), Hackett, Hadlaczky, Hart, Henderson, Hill, Iwama, Jorm, Kirmayer, Kitchener, Kovach, Kutcher, Mental Health Commission of Canada (Comp.), Nimon, Riddell, Roy, Saldaña, Sareen, Tebes, Tebes, Walter, Wilk   +29 more
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Methods for working with problem residents in medical physics residency education

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Medical physics residency training programs may occasionally encounter residents requiring additional intervention beyond normal training efforts. In the literature, these residents are referred to as “problem” residents. While the physician literature on the subject is valuable, this paper specifically focuses on dealing with a problem ...
Christopher J. Watchman, Dandan Zheng
wiley   +1 more source