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Is it time to use checklists in mental health care auditing?

open access: yesMental Illness, 2011
A key strategy for improving the quality of mental health care is the design and implementation of a mechanism for on-site inspection and clinical auditing.
Jacob Polackiewicz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Onset of depressive symptomatology in a sample of university students

open access: yesMental Illness, 2018
The aim of the study was to evaluate depressive symptomatology within the student population of the University of Palermo (Italy). An anonymous online questionnaire was provided to the students of the University of Palermo. The first section investigated
Omar Enzo Santangelo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treatment of a woman with emetophobia: a trauma focused approach

open access: yesMental Illness, 2012
A disproportionate fear of vomiting, or emetophobia, is a chronic and disabling condition which is characterized by a tendency to avoid a wide array of situations or activities that might increase the risk of vomiting.
Ad de Jongh
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Mental Illness Stigma Toward Persons With Multiple Stigmatized Conditions: Implications of Intersectionality Theory.

open access: yesPsychiatric Services, 2018
People with mental illness are often members of multiple stigmatized social groups. Therefore, experienced disadvantage might not be determined solely by mental illness stigma.
N. Oexle, P. Corrigan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Study habits among Nigerian secondary school students with brain fag syndrome

open access: yesMental Illness, 2010
Brain Fag Syndrome (BFS) is a psychiatric disorder associated with study affecting two to four out of every ten African students. One of the consequences of this illness is early foreclosure of education in affected students.
Olufemi Morakinyo, Bolanle Adeyemi Ola
doaj   +1 more source

Leadership by fragmented destruction after a merger: an example from a facility of acute psychiatry

open access: yesMental Illness, 2013
Hospitals are labor intensive facilities based on highly skilled employees. A merger of hospitals is an effort to increase and rationalize this production. Decisions behind a merger are made at the top leadership level.
Jorid Grimeland, John E. Berg
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualizing and Measuring Mental Illness Stigma: The Mental Illness Stigma Framework and Critical Review of Measures

open access: yesStigma and Health, 2017
Although the last decade has seen a proliferation of research on mental illness stigma, lack of consistency and clarity in both the conceptualization and measurement of mental illness stigma has limited the accumulation of scientific knowledge about ...
A. Fox   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Successful treatment of anorexia nervosa and alleviation of chronic Guillain Barré syndrome

open access: yesMental Illness, 2011
Eating disorders do not typically occur in conjunction with specific neurological disorders. Only very few cases of Guillain-Barré-Syndrome (GBS) associated with eating disorders have been reported.
Andreas Richterich   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From gut dysbiosis to altered brain function and mental illness: mechanisms and pathways

open access: yesMolecular Psychiatry, 2016
The human body hosts an enormous abundance and diversity of microbes, which perform a range of essential and beneficial functions. Our appreciation of the importance of these microbial communities to many aspects of human physiology has grown ...
G. Rogers   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sex differences in slow-wave electroencephalographic activity (SWA) in adolescent depression

open access: yesMental Illness, 2012
Sleep disturbance, present in more than 90% of major depressive disorder (MDD) patients, are moderated by sex in adult MDD. In particular, slow-wave electroencephalographic activity (SWA; 0.5-4 Hz) accumulation is low and dissipation impaired.
Robert Hoffmann   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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