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An evaluation of the teen and Youth Mental Health First Aid training with a CALD focus: an uncontrolled pilot study with adolescents and adults in Australia

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2019
Background Australia is an ethnically diverse nation with one of the largest refugee resettlement programs worldwide. Evidence suggests that although the risk of developing mental disorders in culturally linguistically diverse (CALD) adolescents may be ...
Maria Gabriela Uribe Guajardo, Claire Kelly, Kathy Bond, Russell Thomson, Shameran Slewa-Younan   +4 more
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Does Mental Health First Aid training improve the mental health of aid recipients? The training for parents of teenagers randomised controlled trial

BMC Psychiatry, 2019
Background There is well-established evidence that Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training improves knowledge about how to support someone developing a mental health problem, but less evidence that this support improves the mental health of the recipient
Amy J. Morgan, Julie-Anne A. Fischer, Laura M. Hart, Claire M. Kelly, Betty A. Kitchener, Nicola J. Reavley, Marie B. H. Yap, Stefan Cvetkovski, Anthony F. Jorm   +8 more
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Evaluation of mental health first aid training for family members of military veterans with a mental health condition

BMC Psychiatry, 2021
Background A concerning proportion of former Australian Defence Force (ADF) members meet criteria for a mental health condition. Mental health difficulties not only affect the individual veteran.
Justine Evans, Madeline Romaniuk, Rebecca Theal   +2 more
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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
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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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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
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnostic Challenge in Frontal Variant Alzheimer's Disease With Low Amyloid‐β PET Retention

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diagnosing frontal variant Alzheimer's disease (fvAD) is difficult and could be even more difficult when amyloid‐beta (Aβ) PET retention is low. A 63‐year‐old woman presenting with a 3‐year history of apathy and memory impairment showed executive dysfunction, memory impairment, and severe bilateral frontotemporal atrophy on MRI.
Ryosuke Shimasaki, Masanori Kurihara, Kenji Ishibashi, Aya Midori Tokumaru, Kenji Ishii, Atsushi Iwata   +5 more
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Myostatin Levels in SMA Following Disease‐Modifying Treatments: A Multi‐Center Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study investigated myostatin levels in SMA patients receiving disease‐modifying therapies (DMTs) to understand their relationship with treatment duration and functional status. Methods Our study includes both cross‐sectional and longitudinal analyses of myostatin levels in treated SMA patients.
Fiorella Piemonte, Sara Petrillo, Anna Capasso, Giorgia Coratti, Adele D'Amico, Michela Catteruccia, Maria Carmela Pera, Concetta Palermo, Marika Pane, Emanuela Abiusi, Gianpaolo Cicala, Marianna Villa, Chiara Bravetti, Chiara Arpaia, Agnese Novelli, Salvatore Falqui, Stefania Fiori, Giulia Napoli, Silvia Baroni, Francesco Danilo Tiziano, Enrico Bertini, Giacomo Comi, Stefania Corti, Eugenio Mercuri   +23 more
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Nuclei‐Specific Amygdala Enlargement Is Linked to Psychiatric Comorbidities in Drug‐Resistant Focal Epilepsy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Amygdala enlargement has been the subject of controversial studies regarding its significance in terms of pathogenicity both in epilepsy and in psychiatric comorbidities such as anxiety, depression, and post‐traumatic stress disorder.
Hélène Mourre, Julia Makhalova, Lisa Soncin, Elodie Garnier, Hugo Dary, Arnaud Le Troter, Roy A. M. Haast, Benoit Testud, Marie Arthuis, Samuel Medina Villalon, Stanislas Lagarde, Francesca Pizzo, Christian Bénar, Jean‐Philippe Ranjeva, Maxime Guye, Fabrice Bartolomei   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source