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aim and background: this aim of this study was to determine the relationship between psychological health and emotional intelligence with job burnout of nurses of state hospitals in tabriz. methods and materials: in this correlative descriptive study, 300 nurses of tabriz state hospitals who had more than 5 years work experience were chosen by cluster random sampling method. they accomplished g...

Psychiatric hospitals have been accused of being both ineffective institutions and the main parties responsible for the chronic status of the mentally ill. However, there is a lack of research on the influence of mental health care facilities on either the communities in which they are located or the nearby out-patient services. Their presence may be a cause for increased psychiatric demand. Th...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this policy paper is to put recent developments in Dutch mental health reform in an international perspective and draw conclusions for future directions in policy. CONTEXT OF THE CASE: The practice of Western psychiatry in the second half and particularly in the last decade of the 20th century has fundamentally changed. Dutch psychiatry has traditionally been prominen...

Materials and methods The study included two groups. The first consisted of 20 patients with Parkinson’s disease, who were outpatients in the Movement Disorder Clinic and the Memory Clinic of the Neurological Clinic of two public health general hospitals and a university hospital. The second consisted of 20 healthy controls. The two groups were matched for age and education. Patients with Parki...

Mental asylums, exported from Europe and implanted across the world as an integral part of the colonial enterprise, represent the most decisive instrument for the globalisation of psychiatry. In more recent times, while the narrative of deinstitutionalisation – closure of institutions and the move towards community-based services has been dominant in most high income countries (Fakhoury & Prieb...