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Background Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of developing non-communicable diseases that could cause significantly lower life expectancy when compared to the general population.
Agete Tadewos Hirigo, Tesfaye Teshome
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Day centres for severe mental illness
The number of people with severe mental illness who receive treatment whilst living at home has increased greatly over the last 30 years. Day centres and day hospitals frequently supplement this treatment.To determine the effects of non-medical day centre care for people with severe mental illness.We updated our search in September 2005.
Catty, J +3 more
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Volunteering in the care of people with severe mental illness: a systematic review [PDF]
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
A Copello +42 more
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Interaction Between Race, Ethnicity, Severe Mental Illness, and Cardiovascular Disease
Severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, affect ≈1% of the population who, as a group, experience significant disadvantage in terms of physical health and reduced life expectancy.
Kevin O'Gallagher +3 more
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Recovery as a Process in Severe Mental Illnesses [PDF]
Approaches to the treatment of severe mental illnesses (SMIs), such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and substance use disorder, have moved beyond the mere control of symptoms and prevention of relapse to include functional recovery, social and vocational reintegration, and enhancement of the ...
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Mental health nurses’ support to caregivers of older adults with severe mental illness : a qualitative study [PDF]
Background: Literature has shown the serious impact of severe mental illness on the daily life of caregivers. We studied reported caregiver support practices by mental health nurses for use in the development of a nursing intervention.
Aartsen, Marja J +3 more
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Background The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic not only threatens physical health, but also affects the mental health of people. Yet, health consequences of the pandemic do not affect all members of society equally.
Daniel Deimel +4 more
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Intensive case management for severe mental illness [PDF]
Intensive Case Management (ICM) is a community-based package of care aiming to provide long-term care for severely mentally ill people who do not require immediate admission. Intensive Case Management evolved from two original community models of care, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and Case Management (CM), where ICM emphasises the importance of ...
Dieterich, Marina +5 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright +13 more
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BackgroundSevere mental illness results in an enormous social and economic burden on affected individuals, their families, and communities, especially in developing countries, such as Ethiopia.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to assess the level of ...
Birhanu Mengist Munie +10 more
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