Background Severe mental illness is strongly associated with an impaired quality of life. This intern can affect the treatment adherence and outcomes of the illness.
Seid Shumye +5 more
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Why Don’t Young People Seek Help for Mental Illness? A Cross-Sectional Study in Greece
Young adults are less likely to seek professional help even though they are most likely to experience mental health problems. The aim of the present study was to investigate young adults’ attitudes towards mental illness and self-stigma of help-seeking ...
Katerina Koutra +2 more
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Physical health in severe mental illness [PDF]
The indivisible self has become divided. Divided by the structures of medical specialism, which themselves reflect the understanding of a wider society. Divided too by a mind and body philosophy that prefers reductionism to holism. More recently, divided by healthcare management struggling to address the issues of integrated care for patients who place
Ashworth, Mark +2 more
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Objectives To examine differences in hospital admissions for people with severe mental illness (SMI), physical health multimorbidity and mortality compared to the general hospital population without SMI.
Rachel McCarter +2 more
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Body mass index dependent metabolic syndrome in severe mental illness patients [PDF]
The aim of this study was to evaluate the body mass index dependent metabolic syndrome in severe mental illness patients in Gorgan. A total of 267 severe mental illness patients took part in this study.
Aliakbari Zaman Kamkar, F.M. +1 more
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Naturally occurring peer support through social media: the experiences of individuals with severe mental illness using YouTube. [PDF]
Increasingly, people with diverse health conditions turn to social media to share their illness experiences or seek advice from others with similar health concerns. This unstructured medium may represent a platform on which individuals with severe mental
John A Naslund +3 more
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Prevalence and risk factors for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C in people with severe mental illness: a total population study of Sweden [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Severe mental illness is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The elevated risk of blood-borne viruses (BBVs) in people with severe mental illness is of concern, but the full extent of this problem is unclear.
Bauer-Staeb, C +5 more
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Development of an e-supported illness management and recovery programme for consumers with severe mental illness using intervention mapping, and design of an early cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Background: E-mental health is a promising medium to keep mental health affordable and accessible. For consumers with severe mental illness the evidence of the effectiveness of e-health is limited.
Beentjes, Titus AA +3 more
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Underinsurance for Severe Mental Illness [PDF]
Mental health care for the severely mentally ill in the United States is financed by a combination of public and private funds. Both public and private health insurance programs handle mental illness differently than they do other illnesses. This article documents uninsurance and underinsurance for severe mental illness in the United States based on ...
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Introduction A standardized approach to reduce or decrease the tobacco consumption is not performed. It is being used as a medium to socialize having an educational character on nursing and medical relationship.
D. Gurrea Salas
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