The ‘physical-mental’ treatment of cardiovascular disease co-morbid with mental disorders

Scaling up Treatment for Co-morbid Mental Disorders

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1011-8934 eISSN 1598-6357 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2015.30.6.829 • J Korean Med ...

Cardiovascular Diseases and Mental Disorders

Both cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and mental disorders are major public health issues, which lead to increased disability and mortality. CVD are the worldwide leading cause of death and are responsible for around four million deaths each year in Europe. Mental disorders also demonstrate high lifetime prevalence. For example, the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), a population-based study in th...

Drug-abusing offenders with co-morbid mental disorders: gender differences in problem severity, treatment participation, and recidivism.

OBJECTIVE This study examined the gender differences in drug-related problems and predictors of recidivism among a sample of 1444 offenders with co-morbid drug abuse and mental disorders participating in California's Proposition 36 Program. METHODS Background characteristics and problem severity in multiple key life areas were assessed at intake by using Addiction Severity Index, and drug tre...

Treatment of Children with Mental Disorders

Treatment of Children with Mental Disorders