Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting the sense of dignity of patients with mental health disorders during hospitalization. Methods: We employed a cross-sectional research design. The study population comprised adult patients who have been admitted to mental health wards of Iran psychiatry hospitals. A convenient sampling method was applied. Data was collecte...

BACKGROUND The WHO's mental health Gap Action Programme seeks to narrow the treatment gap for mental disorders by advocating integration of mental health into primary health care (PHC). This study aimed to assess the challenges and opportunities of this approach from the perspective of PHC workers in a sub-Saharan African country. METHODS A facility-based cross-sectional survey of 151 PHC wor...

Children with mentally ill parents are at risk of developing mental health problems themselves. To enhance early support for these children may prevent mental health problems from being transmitted from one generation to the next. The sample (N = 219) included health professionals in a large university hospital, who responded to a web-based survey on the routines of the mental health services, ...

the aim of this review is to focus the current knowledge about mental and behavioral disorders in usher syndrome. previous studies described the presence of various mental disorders associated with usher syndrome, suggesting possible mechanisms of association between these disorders. the most common manifestations are schizophrenia-like disorder and psychotic symptoms. mood and behavioral disor...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate in members of the Chinese community in Melbourne the impact of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training on knowledge about mental disorders and on attitudes to people with mental illness. The hypotheses were that at the end of the training participants would have increased knowledge of mental disorders and related treatments, and decreased nega...

Williamson’s Knowledge and its Limits is the most important philosophical discussion of knowledge in many years. It sets the agenda for epistemology for the next decade and beyond. The main thesis of the book is “knowledge first.” One aspect of this thesis is that knowledge is a basic mental state, a propositional attitude that cannot be explained in terms of belief plus certain other condition...

Background: Parents have high motivation to provide mental health promotion for their adolescents, but cannot treat them effectively due to the lack of knowledge and an organized model to do accordingly. Aim: To evaluate the effect of an educational program based on PRECEDE- PROCEED  Model on adolescents’ mental health and their parents’ participation. Method: The study was a randomized control...