Service users as collaborators in mental health research: less stick, more carrot

Managing Compliance : More Carrot, Less Stick David Widdowson National Manager Commercial Compliance Australian Customs Service Third International Conference on Tax Administration

Comparison of Mental Health, Aggression and Hopefulness between Student Drug-Users and Healthy Students (A Study in Iran)

Background: Addiction is a social problem and a destructive phenomenon; like other social diversions, addiction destroys the country’s most valuable assets, which are obviously the youth and the adolescents. In this regard, this study has been performed with the aim of comparing the mental health, aggression, and hopefulness of student drug-users and healthy students. Methods: The study has bee...

Different factors influence self-reports and third-party reports of anger by adults with intellectual disabilities.

BACKGROUND Many people with intellectual disabilities display high levels of anger, and cognitive-behavioural anger management interventions are used routinely. However, for these methods to be used optimally, a better understanding is needed of different forms of anger assessment. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of a range of measures to self- and carer reports of ang...

Incentivizing wellness in the workplace: sticks (not carrots) send stigmatizing signals.

Companies often provide incentives for employees to maintain healthy lifestyles. These incentives can take the form of either discounted premiums for healthy-weight employees ("carrot" policies) or increased premiums for overweight employees ("stick" policies). In the three studies reported here, we demonstrated that even when stick and carrot policies are formally equivalent, they do not neces...

Stigma and trust among mental health service users.

This article investigates whether and how the stigma experiences of mental health service users relate to trust in the professionals caring for them, and how both stigma and trust relate to service user satisfaction. The study uses survey data gathered from mental health service users (N = 650 service users from 36 organizations) and applies multilevel regression analyses. The results show that...