OBJECTIVE Meta-analytical methods were used to investigate the effectiveness of case management and to compare outcomes for assertive community treatment and clinical case management. METHODS Controlled studies of case management published between 1980 and 1998 were identified from reviews and through database searches. The results were quantitatively combined and compared with results of stu...

The behavior of playing online games has the risk causing problems for adolescents' developmental age, which is social relationship to addiction. Good communication skills can facilitate adolescents in assertive interpersonal relationships prevent from game problems. This study aims determine effect training on who play games. Methods: applied a quasi-experimental pre-post test with control gro...

AIM In a survey conducted in the Lausanne catchment area in 2000, we could estimate on the basis of file assessment that first-episode psychosis (FEP) patients had psychotic symptoms for more than 2 years before treatment and that 50% did not attend any outpatient appointment after discharge from hospital. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a specialized programme aimed at improvi...

Objective : Assertiveness is important for effective team building in nursing. This article aims at evaluating the results of the previous studies on nurses’ assertiveness in each decade in order to discuss the possible ways for enhancing nurses’ assertiveness. Methods : Five databases (PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library) were searched for English-language article...

The only randomised controlled trial to test high-fidelity assertive community treatment (ACT) in the UK (the Randomised Evaluation of Assertive Community Treatment (REACT) study) found no advantage over usual care from community mental health teams in reducing the need for in-patient care and in other clinical outcomes, but participants found ACT more acceptable and engaged better with it. One...