Psychiatric Services
- Volume 64
- Number 5
- May 2013
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Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages407–409The Practice Research Network (PRN) in Maryland, funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, extends the historically close collaborative relationship between the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland and the Maryland ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201300015Articles
Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages410–415When assessing an individual's risk of behaving violently, clinicians should consider asking the person who may know best. In this study, clinicians interviewed inpatients who had co-occurring disorders and who were considered to pose a high risk of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.001312012Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages416–422ObjectiveService users may express positive, ambivalent, or negative views of their hospital admission. The objective of this study was to determine whether the background of the interviewer—service user–researcher or clinician—influences the information ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.001912012Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages423–430ObjectiveAttainment of safe, calm inpatient psychiatric wards that are conducive to positive therapeutic care is crucial. On such wards, rates of coerced medication, seclusion, manual restraint and other types of containment are comparatively low, and, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200328Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages431–436Individuals with severe mental disorders who do not adhere to community-based treatments are often subject to pressures to leverage participation, including pressures related to the criminal justice system, housing, and money. In this study, researchers ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200368Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages437–444Assertive community treatment (ACT) is associated with an array of positive outcomes for people with serious mental illness, but reducing arrest and incarceration is not one of them. To gain a better understanding of the failure of traditional ACT models ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200170Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages445–451ObjectivesAssertive community treatment (ACT) programs may improve patients’ outcomes, in part by increasing adherence to antipsychotic medication. This study assessed the association between ACT enrollment and subsequent antipsychotic adherence.Methods...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100543Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages452–457ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to identify essential evidence-based components of first-episode psychosis services.MethodsThe study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage a systematic review of both peer-reviewed and gray literature (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200156Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages458–465ObjectiveThis study examined changes in the prevalence of daily tobacco use in the United States between 1991–1992 and 2004–2005 by sociodemographic characteristics and psychiatric disorders.MethodsSecondary analyses were performed using data from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.002852012Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages466–471ObjectiveNumerous articles have identified that medical technologies diffuse more rapidly among non-Latino whites compared with other racial-ethnic groups. However, whether health risk warnings also diffuse differentially across racial-ethnic minority ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200087Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages472–478ObjectiveFamily involvement and social support are associated with recovery from mental disorders. This project explored how family involvement in health care and social support among depressed veterans in primary care related to medication adherence and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201200160Open Forum
Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages479–482Mental disorders affect many young Canadians, and most do not access care, partly because of lack of health policy–driven programs and services. Recognizing this policy need, the Child and Youth Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201100269Brief Reports
Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages483–486ObjectiveSchool programs provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP) were reviewed to describe program characteristics, costs, and ratings of research and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.000502012Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages487–490ObjectiveThis study examined effectiveness of collaborative care for depression among Asians treated either at a community health center that focuses on Asians (culturally sensitive clinic) or at general community health centers and among a matched ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.001742012Publication date: 01 May 2013
Pages491–493ObjectiveThe authors describe outcomes of a targeted case and care management program for persons with addictions utilizing a high level of acute services in Connecticut’s system of care.MethodsAdministrative and cost data were analyzed from five ...
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