Being Mentally Ill

وضعیت بهداشت جنسی بیماران روانی زن

 Introduction and Aim: Sexual health of mentally ill women is of great importance due to personal and common health issues (both physically and mentally) mentally ill women faced to. The main purpose of the present study was to describe sexual health status among mentally ill women admitted to Razi psychiatric hospital, Tehran, during the years 2001-2003. Materials and Methods: This was a descr...

A Mentally Ill Patient and his/her Social Environment

Background: Mental illness (MI) markedly affects a person’s daily living and leads to disability, reduced duration of active life and, finally, tremendous economic losses incurred by the state and society. Moreover, it has an adverse impact on the patient’s immediate social surroundings. The aim of the research was to study various aspects of mentally ill patients’ daily living and their social...

Why so glum? Toward a fair balance of competitive interests in direct-to-consumer advertising and the well-being of the mentally ill consumers it targets.

Police perspectives on responding to mentally ill people in crisis: perceptions of program effectiveness.

In this study, we sampled sworn police officers from three law enforcement agencies (n = 452), each of which had different system responses to mentally ill people in crisis. One department relies on field assistance from a mobile mental health crisis team, a second has a team of officers specially trained in crisis intervention and management of mentally ill people in crisis, and a third has a ...

Secondary school teachers' attitude to mental illness in Ogun State, Nigeria.

OBJECTIVE Teachers as role models stand in a unique position in the formation of their pupils' set values about mental health issues. The aim of this study therefore was to determine the attitude of teachers to mental illness. METHOD The questionnaire for the study was a drafted modified self-administered one, distributed among a randomly selected sample of teachers in the area of study. RE...