OBJECTIVE Little is known about the profile of patients treated in mental health services in low-income, post-conflict countries, especially in the post-emergency phase. We postulated that patients attending the first community mental health service in East Timor would be characterized not only by mental disturbance but by high levels of social vulnerability. METHOD Drawing on existing method...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence and burden of mental disorders have been growing in Latin-American and the Caribbean countries and research is an important tool for changing this scenario. The objective of this paper is to describe the development of mental health research in Latin American and the Caribbean countries from 1995 to 2005. METHOD The indicators of productivity were based on the ISI Ess...

Although poor parenting practices place youth living in under resourced communities at heightened risk for adjustment difficulties, less is known about what influences parenting practices in those communities. The present study examines prospective linkages between three latent constructs: parental strain, mental health problems and parenting practices. Parental victimization by community viole...

BACKGROUND Limited evidence about mental health finances in low and middle-income countries is a key challenge to mental health care policy initiatives. This study aimed to map mental health finances in Ghana, Uganda, India (Kerala state), Sri Lanka and Lao PDR focusing on how much money is available for mental health, how it is spent, and how this impacts mental health services. METHODS A re...

BACKGROUND Common mental disorders do not always show as consistent socioeconomic gradients as severe mental disorders and physical health. This inconsistency may be due to the multitude of socioeconomic measures used and the populations and national contexts studied. We examine the associations between various socioeconomic circumstances and common mental disorders among middle-aged Finnish an...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between cooking and selected indicators of diet quality, mental well-being, and family relationships. DESIGN Data were collected as part of Youth'12, a nationally representative health and well-being survey. SETTING Secondary schools in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS A total of 8,500 students. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Cooking ability and frequency of cook...

In our day to day, we often experience a sense of being tired due to mental or physical workload. Along with that, there is also a feeling of degrading performance, even after the completion of simple tasks. These mental states however, are often not felt consciously or are ignored. This is an attitude that may result in human error, failure, and may lead to potential health problems together w...

With the introduction of the Internet, many people saw the beginning of a new era; an era of democratization, of status equalization, and of freedom of speech for everyone. The accessibility of other places and people via the medium of computers, as well as the absence of many social and status cues, would make it possible for people to reach out to other people across the national and social b...

OBJECTIVE To identify quality measures for international benchmarking of mental health care that assess important processes and outcomes of care, are scientifically sound, and are feasible to construct from preexisting data. DESIGN An international expert panel employed a consensus development process to select important, sound, and feasible measures based on a framework that balances these p...