BACKGROUND Depression is one of the leading contributors to the global burden of disease and often has an onset during adolescence. While effective treatments are available, many low-income countries, such as Malawi, lack appropriately trained health providers in community health settings, and this limits access to effective mental healthcare for young people with depression. To address this ne...

BACKGROUND Low literacy is a significant problem across the developed world. A considerable body of research has reported associations between low literacy and less appropriate access to healthcare services, lower likelihood of self-managing health conditions well, and poorer health outcomes. There is a need to explore the previously neglected perspectives of people with low literacy to help ex...

OBJECTIVE To determine the health information-seeking preferences of youth with mental health challenges and their caregivers, focusing on health literacy needs related to second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs). METHODS One hundred fifty two youth and 158 caregivers attending outpatient psychiatry clinics at BC Children's Hospital between February 2009 and December 2010 completed a SGA healt...

BACKGROUND Mental health literacy (MHL) is foundational for mental health promotion, prevention, stigma reduction, and care; School supported information pertaining to MHL in sub-Saharan Africa is extremely limited, including in Tanzania. Successful application of a school MHL curriculum resource may be an effective way to increase teacher MHL and therefore help to improve mental health outcome...

BACKGROUND Internet-based learning programs provide people with massive health care information and self-help guidelines on improving their health. The advent of Web 2.0 and social networks renders significant flexibility to embedding highly interactive components, such as games, to foster learning processes. The effectiveness of game-based learning on social networks has not yet been fully eva...

Background: Mental health literacy programs are a common community-based approach used to address the prevention of mental issues on college campuses. Current assessment strategies evaluate effectiveness these often lack strong theoretical rational and psychometric rigor.
 Purpose: The purpose this study was twofold. First, based upon extant literature, theory, standard clinical practice, ...

OBJECTIVES To assess young people's ability to recognise clinically defined depression and psychosis, the types of help they thought appropriate for these problems, their knowledge of appropriate treatments, and their perceptions regarding prognosis. DESIGN A cross-sectional telephone survey using structured interviews. Vignettes of a person with either depression or psychosis were presented,...

BACKGROUND Low levels of mental health literacy (MHL) have been identified as an important contributor to the mental health treatment gap. Interventions to improve MHL have used traditional media (eg, community talks, print media) and new platforms (eg, the Internet). Evaluations of interventions using conventional media show improvements in MHL improve community recognition of mental illness a...

background: worldwide, about 350 million people are infected with hepatitis b virus (hbv), most of them in asia. up to 1 million of them die due to these sequels annually. few studies concerned about hbv awareness of iranians young people. as health education programs should be based on awareness of target group about the disease, we conducted a national survey to evaluate health literacy and v...