background essential primary health care is delivered through the public health center phc network by public health workers (behvarzs). health workers are exposed to different types of stresses while working. objectives the aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of burnout and associated factors among rural health workers in the health centers of birjand university of medical sciences...

INTRODUCTION Borderline personality disorder is a chronic mental disorder associated with severe psychosocial impairment and morbidity, greater usage of mental health resources, and a high mortality rate. Although there is no drug with an approved indication for this disorder, pharmacological treatment is a common practice based on the specific benefit of the drugs on the remission of the core ...

objective: parental self-efficacy is associated with increasing mental health in children. there is a paucity of research in iran on the role of parental self-efficacy in increasing mental health status of children. in this preliminary study, we studied the effectiveness of the world health organization international child development program (2002) for children aged 3 years and younger in incr...

CONTEXT Depression is a common condition associated with significant morbidity in adolescents. Few depressed adolescents receive effective treatment for depression in primary care settings. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a quality improvement intervention aimed at increasing access to evidence-based treatments for depression (particularly cognitive-behavior therapy and antidepress...

Summary A social cognitive intervention was developed and delivered as a credit course to improve mental distress of university students, based on findings in a previous health survey showing notable mental distress among future teachers in Hungary in 2007. The intervention included increasing information on psychoactive substances used for stress reduction; skills development in stress reducti...

BACKGROUND We used population-based data to determine the public's views of prenatal and postnatal mental health and to identify predictors of those views. METHODS A computer-assisted telephone survey was conducted by the Population Health Laboratory (University of Alberta) with a random sample of participants from the province of Alberta, Canada. Respondents were eligible to participate if t...

objectives: multiple studies have noted the positive effect of fasting on mental health improvement. the present study was conducted to determine the effect of fasting on mental health in the general population of kermanshah, iran. methods: in this analytical research, one-group pretest-posttest design was used for the evaluation of 110 residents of kermanshah city. general health questionnaire...

purpose: to examine and compare the prevalence of different types of mental disorders among the administrative staff and warders of the central prison of sistan and baluchestan. materials and methods: the study population included all employees of zahedan general office of prisons. the sample consisted of 100 employees, of whom fifty individuals worked in various administrative units of zahedan...

BACKGROUND Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings are the core mechanism for delivering mental health care but it is unclear which models improve care quality. The aim of the study was to agree recommendations for improving the effectiveness of adult mental health MDT meetings, based on national guidance, research evidence and experiential insights from mental health and other medical specialtie...