OBJECTIVES This multisite study aimed to answer the following research questions about women in urban and rural jails. First, what is the current and lifetime prevalence of serious mental illness (major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and psychotic spectrum disorders) of women in jail? Second, what level of impairment is associated with their serious mental illness? Third, what is the pr...

A housing estate built by the London County Council in Hertfordshire has provided the setting for a series of socio-medical investigations carried out by members of the Department of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Reports so far published include an analysis of general practitioner consultations (Brotherston and Chave, 1956), and a brief discussion of some social...

Common mental disorders are prevalent in Nigeria. Due to stigma and a limited number of trained specialists, only 10% of adults with mental illness in Nigeria receive any care. The Healthy Beginning Initiative is a community-based maternal/child health program that includes screening for perinatal depression and was implemented by lay, volunteer, church-based health advisors (CHAs). The aim of ...

Background: This study examined the tendency and suicidal behavior rates of Chinese adult inpatients with different types of mental disorders from 2010 to 2015. The aim was to provide some interesting clues for further studies. Methods: Adult patients with mental disorders who were hospitalized in Beijing Anding hospital from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2015 were included. Chi-square tests we...

Unselected population-based nationwide studies on the excess mortality of individuals with severe mental disorders are scarce with regard to several important causes of death. Using comprehensive register data, we set out to examine excess mortality and its trends among patients with severe mental disorders compared to the total population. Patients aged 25-74 and hospitalised with severe menta...

•The burden of hospital-acquired influenza (HAI) is not fully understood.•Having an underlying disease important characteristic hospitalized ILI.•HAI occurred at a rate 1 in 13 with influenza-like-illness (ILI) hospital.•The incidence HAI was highest the geriatric ward and increased over time.•HAI rates approximate those reported for Clostridium difficile. BackgroundHospital-acquired potentiall...

One of the most important issues in development trend for any country is having high mental health among the youth, so the study of students' mental health as an important group in every country is so necessary. The main aim of this research is the study of mental health among Shiraz University students as a sample group. With selecting Maslow and psychological modernization as theoretical fra...

BACKGROUND The current study aimed to explore the correct recognition of mental disorders across dementia, alcohol abuse, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), schizophrenia and depression, along with its correlates in a nursing student population. The belief in a continuum of symptoms from mental health to mental illness and its relationship with the non-identification of mental illness was als...