Providing good quality psychiatric services to patients who attend general hospital has been an area that has attracted a lot of interest.(1)(2) We know that more than one quarter of general hospital patients have a mental disorder, mental ill health impedes recovery from physical illness, and mental disorders are often unrecognised in patients with physical illness. By improving the quality of...

background and aim: the most important component of each organization is its workforce. improving employees’ mental health and commitment is the prerequisites to training a healthy workforce. this study was undertaken to examine the relationship of organizational commitment (oc) with mental health among employees of birjand university of medical sciences, birjand, iran. methods: in this correla...

background osteoarthritis (oa) is a multifactorial, disabling and degenerative disease that worsens with age and affects patient’s health-related quality of life (hrqol). objectives the current study aimed to assess if age and comorbidities have an influence on knee oa and knee replacement outcome before and after the surgery. methods a quasi-experimental intervention study was conducted on a s...

concerns mental health, with only about 5% referred on to psychiatrists. Shepherd (1991) insisted that the only real hope for significant improvement in mental health care lay in the improvement of GP provision there will simply never be enough psychiatrists. The past 15 years have seen real evidence of this improvement, with a growing literature on mental health problems in primary care (Kendr...

OBJECTIVES To identify progress and challenges in mental healthcare in South Africa, as well as future mental health services research priorities. METHOD A systematic review of mental health services research. Literature searches were conducted in Medline, PsychInfo and Sabinet databases from January 2000 to October 2010 using key phrases. Hand searches of key local journals were also conduct...

Introduction: Presence of mentally retarded children in every family affects on the structure and mental health of family specially parents. The purpose of this research is the comparison of the mean of psychological well-being, mental health and self-esteem between parents of normal and educable students. Materials & Methods: This was causal- comparative and retrospective study and the instru...

The life expectancy of both men and women has gradually been increasing in the past few decades due to improvement in medical facilities and its availability to larger number of people leading to an increase in the proportion of elderly people in the population. However, factors like the fast pace of life, smaller family norm, breaking of joint family system, and industrialisation are leading t...

OBJECTIVES Improvement of psychosocial work environment has proved to be valuable for workers' mental health. However, limited evidence is available for the effectiveness of participatory interventions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect on mental health among nurses of a participatory intervention to improve the psychosocial work environment. METHODS A cluster randomized...