OBJECTIVE To describe and provide an example of integrated knowledge translation. METHODS We review the elements of integrated knowledge translation and describe the Family Help Program, a distance treatment program for child mental health as an example of integrated knowledge translation. RESULTS Family Help, a distance treatment program for child mental health, was developed with a grant ...

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

For major physical diseases, it is widely accepted that members of the public will benefit by knowing what actions they can take for prevention, early intervention, and treatment. However, this type of public knowledge about mental disorders (mental health literacy) has received much less attention. There is evidence from surveys in several countries for deficiencies in (a) the public's knowled...

PURPOSE To explore gender differences and the role of stigma in teen willingness to use mental health services. METHODS Self-administered, written questionnaires were conducted with 274 eighth graders in a suburban community in a mid-Atlantic state. Teens reported on social support for emotional concerns, mental health experience and knowledge, and stigma and barriers associated with mental h...

Service user involvement is promoted worldwide as a strategy to have a more needs-based and more responsive mental healthcare. However, there is limited knowledge about the role of service users in low and middle income countries. In this paper, we explore the potential of service user involvement in developing ‘good’ mental healthcare in LMICs. This is done using Transition Theory, by outlinin...

Teamwork between humans and intelligent systems gains importance with the maturing of agent and robot technology. In the social sciences, sharedness of mental models is used to explain and understand teamwork. To use this concept for developing teams that include agents, we propose contextsensitive sharedness criteria. These criteria specify how much, what, and among whom knowledge in a team sh...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to increase knowledge and skills of Advisory and Extension Agents (AEAs) in recognizing the symptoms of mental disorders, providing initial help, and offering the referral pathway for appropriate professional help. METHOD Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training was provided to AEAs and knowledge and skills pre-training were compared to 6-months post-traini...

Prior research has established the effect of presentation format on decision making performance. However, the effect of domain knowledge on presentation format choice has not been investigated. In the business context, reports are often generated by report designers who lack domain knowledge and the reports are used by decision makers who possess substantial domain knowledge. Drawing from the C...

ACCESSIBLE SUMMARY Employer/workplaces have an impact on mental health nursing staff's general attitudes towards persons with mental illness. Staff have more positive attitudes if their knowledge about mental illness is less stigmatized and currently have or have once had a close friend with mental problem. More favourable attitudes among staff towards persons with mental illness could be devel...

Introduction: Nowadays the Western mental health system is in transformation to recovery-oriented and trauma informed care which experiential knowledge becomes incorporated. An important development this context that traditional professionals came fore with their lived experiences. From 2017 2021, a research project was conducted Netherlands three organizations, focussing on how service users p...