Psychiatric Services

Publication date: 01 November 2021

Publication date: 21 May 2021

Objective: Gabapentin is widely prescribed off label in medical practice, including psychiatry. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of risks associated with gabapentin combined with central nervous system depressant (CNS-D) drugs, which are ...

Publication date: 21 May 2021

Objective: Psychosis Recovery by Enabling Adult Carers at Home (Psychosis REACH) is a training for families of individuals with psychosis that consists of recovery-oriented psychosis psychoeducation, caregiver self-care, and skills training informed by ...

Publication date: 04 August 2021

Objective: Sexual and gender minority youths are more likely to consider, attempt, and die by suicide than are heterosexual and cisgender youths, yet little is known about how to predict future attempts or transitions from suicidal thoughts to behaviors. ...

Publication date: 21 May 2021

Objective: The study evaluated whether implementation of perinatal collaborative care is associated with improvements in screening and treatment recommendations for perinatal depression by obstetric clinicians. Methods: This cohort study, conducted from ...

Publication date: 25 May 2021

Objective: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) has been broadly incorporated into national frameworks for compulsory psychiatric treatment. Recently, instructions issued by the UN CRPD Committee discouraged ...

Publication date: 21 May 2021

Objective: In this study, the authors investigated the longitudinal effect of the recovery attributes of peer support workers (PSWs) on users of mental health services in Hong Kong over a 9-month period. Methods: Recovery attributes were measured among PSWs (...

Publication date: 09 August 2021

Objective: Shared decision making (SDM) is a health communication model that may be particularly appealing to service users with serious mental illnesses, who often want to be involved in making decisions about their mental health care. The purpose of this ...

Publication date: 02 June 2021

People with serious mental illness die 10–20 years earlier, compared with the overall population, and the excess mortality is driven by undertreated physical health conditions. In the United States, there is growing interest in models integrating physical ...

Publication date: 23 April 2021

Objective: People with psychiatric disorders are among the most frequent users of emergency departments (EDs). The transition of care from the ED to outpatient mental health treatment may be important for continuity of care; however, little is known about ...

Publication date: 12 May 2021

Objective: Risk for suicide is high after psychiatric hospitalization. The World Health Organization’s Brief Intervention and Contact (BIC) program has shown efficacy in preventing suicide. A version adapted for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ...

Publication date: 25 May 2021

Objective: The authors examined access to care among persons with serious mental illness during the pandemic and disparities in use of virtual care among this population versus among individuals with other psychiatric diagnoses. Methods: Data from the ...

Publication date: 09 June 2021

Objective: This study examined hospital and emergency room (ER) use among Medicaid enrollees before and after discharge from OnTrackNY, a coordinated specialty care program for recent-onset psychosis. Methods: Medicaid claims data were linked to program ...

Publication date: 08 July 2021

Objective: Emergency departments (EDs) are well positioned to deliver suicide prevention services. This study examined hospital and community correlates of recommended practices. Methods: This study examined results from a national survey of ED nursing ...

Publication date: 21 May 2021

Objective: This study examined the association between enrollment in Maryland’s behavioral health home (BHH) program and use of outpatient mental health services among people with serious mental illness. Methods: The study sample, drawn from Maryland ...

Publication date: 06 April 2021

It has been claimed that the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) budget, which traditionally has been evenly balanced between basic and clinical research, has shifted sharply and that 90% of NIMH resources are funding basic research. The authors ...

Publication date: 23 April 2021

The clinical practice of contacting law enforcement to perform safety welfare checks for persons who have missed psychiatry appointments is commonly regarded as benign. However, in nonemergency situations, these interventions may carry greater risk than ...

Publication date: 22 April 2021

After the publication of DSM-5, the American Psychiatric Association moved to a model of iterative DSM revision. Proposals for changes—including addition and deletion of diagnostic categories—can be made whenever data become available to support these ...

Publication date: 02 June 2021

In the past 5 years, Medicaid programs have implemented administrative barriers to enrollment. The impact of these provisions on access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment has been largely unstudied. This column reviews the literature on ...

Publication date: 02 June 2021

COVID-19 has devastated communities worldwide, and individuals with serious mental illness often experience poorer outcomes. The literature on psychiatric hospitals has mostly focused on controlling viral spread, and scant scholarship discusses the ...

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