Psychiatric Services

Publication date: 01 May 2018

Publication date: 16 January 2018

To provide evidence for wider use of peer workers and other nonprofessionals, the authors examined three approaches to mental health service provision—peer support worker (PSW) programs, task shifting, and mental health first-aid and community advocacy ...

Publication date: 01 February 2018

Objective: This study compared health care access and utilization among adults with serious psychological distress by race-ethnicity and gender in years surrounding implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Methods: Data for adults ages 18 to 64 with ...

Publication date: 01 February 2018

Objective: A broad range of estimates of recovery among previously institutionalized persons has been reported, but no current, community-based national estimate of recovery from serious mental illness exists. This study reports recovery rate results, ...

Publication date: 01 February 2018

Objective: Individuals with serious mental illnesses have high rates of general medical comorbidity and challenges in managing these conditions. A growing workforce of certified peer specialists is available to help these individuals more effectively ...

Publication date: 15 February 2018

Objective: Depression is common among adolescents, but many lack ready access to mental health services. Integrated models of care for depression are needed, along with evidence to support their use in regular practice. The authors examined the ...

Publication date: 01 February 2018

Objective: Despite the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), limited epidemiologic research has been conducted to identify rates of ECT use and characteristics of patients who receive ECT. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics ...

Publication date: 01 February 2018

Objective: This study examined whether psychiatric case review was associated with depression medication modification in a large implementation program of collaborative care for depression in safety-net primary care clinics. Methods: Registry data were ...

Publication date: 16 January 2018

Objective: The study assessed the longitudinal clinical and functional outcomes of young people receiving early intervention services for subthreshold manifestations of severe mental disorders at a youth mental health service in Sydney, Australia. Methods: ...

Publication date: 15 February 2018

Objective: In a pilot feasibility and effectiveness study, illness management and recovery (IMR), a curriculum-based program to help people with serious mental illness pursue personal recovery goals, was integrated into assertive community treatment (ACT) ...

Publication date: 01 February 2018

Objective: This study examined specialty behavioral health treatment patterns among employer-insured adults in same- and different-gender domestic partnerships and marriages. Methods: The study used behavioral health service claims (2008–2013) from Optum to ...

Publication date: 16 January 2018

Objective: This study examined changes in utilization of mental health services after Hurricane Katrina among children with preexisting conditions who were displaced from their homes in Louisiana disaster counties and resettled in Texas. Methods: A ...

Publication date: 01 February 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. Nevertheless, most available research does not consider the effects and ...

Publication date: 16 January 2018

Technology provides an unparalleled opportunity to remove barriers to earlier identification and engagement in services for mental and addictive disorders by reaching people earlier in the course of illness and providing links to just-in-time, cost-...

Publication date: 15 February 2018

With thousands of smartphone apps targeting mental health, it is difficult to ignore the rapidly expanding use of apps in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Patients with psychiatric conditions are interested in mental health apps and have begun to ...

Publication date: 01 March 2018

A Medicaid statewide quality improvement (QI) collaborative was developed to improve antipsychotic prescribing practices for children. With use of a multistrategy approach that incorporated data-driven feedback and evidence-based recommendations, ...

Publication date: 01 March 2018

Growing evidence suggests that specialized, multicomponent intervention provided early in the course of a psychotic disorder may have a positive effect in ameliorating the morbidity and mortality associated with these disorders. This column describes the ...

Publication date: 01 March 2018

Objective: This study describes responses to OpenNotes, clinical notes available online, among patients receiving mental health care and explores whether responses vary by patient demographic or clinical characteristics. Methods: Survey data from 178 ...

Publication date: 15 March 2018

Objective: A survey assessed use of and attitudes toward online mental health services among community college students to inform how such services may contribute to reducing unmet treatment need. Methods: A total of 6,034 students completed a Web-based ...

Publication date: 15 March 2018

Objective: This study tested the effectiveness of a nurse-delivered health check with the Health Improvement Profile (HIP), which takes approximately 1.5 hours to complete and code, for persons with severe mental illness. Methods: A single-blind, cluster-...

Publication date: 02 April 2018

Objective: The authors examined the use of different classes of psychotropic medication in outpatient treatment of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Methods: Data from the United States Medicaid program were used to examine psychotropic medication ...

Publication date: 16 April 2018

Objective: A growing body of literature demonstrates that high-fidelity implementation of the individual placement and support (IPS) model of supported employment increases the chances of achieving desired outcomes. This study examined the relationship ...