Which antipsychotics would mental health professionals take themselves?

Perceptions and knowledge of antipsychotics among mental health professionals and patients

Aims and method To assess the patients' most influential concerns regarding long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) and mental health professionals' preconceptions about these concerns. For both groups, to assess the level of knowledge about LAIs. This cross-sectional study used semi-structured interviews of patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (n = 164), nurses (n = 43)...

How should health professionals take action against climate change?

Mental health training for law enforcement professionals.

The purpose of this pilot study was to determine topics of interest and preferred modalities of training for police officers in their work with persons with mental illness. Police officers across Massachusetts attending in-service mental health training were asked to rate the importance of potential mental health topics and the effectiveness of potential training modalities on a Likert-type sca...

Knowledge translation: empowering health professionals to take the lead.

PEAK was a 3-year research project funded by a grant from the Canadian Health Service Research Foundation and Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Its goal was to empower health professionals in interdisciplinary teams to raise questions from practice, seek evidence-based answers, and create personal learning projects ~PLPs! that enhance practice. Two knowledge brokers ~a nurse and...

Mental health care professionals and general practice

psychological distress' suggests that it is in such subgroups of the population that GPs can improve their performance. Work in our own practice also supports the feasibility of the Geriatric Depression Scale for use by practice nurses in screening assessment. However, the use of mental health-screening questionnaires in primary care remains uncommon.2 If there is pressing evidence of underperf...