When the National Mental Health Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1946, a programme to improve the mental health of the nation became a public responsibility. It is traditional in the United States for the majority of severe cases of mental illness to be cared for in public mental hospitals, but the passage of the Mental Health Act was a significant step forward. It provided Feder...

Recently, there has been discussion in this journal on the value of the lived experience in nurse education (Happell et al. 2014). People with lived experience’s views have also been sought on the care from mental health nurses (Ådnøy Eriksen et al. 2014; Gunasekara et al. 2014). The views reported in the latter studies were both interesting and different from nurses. If service users can make ...

Objectives Disregarding the quality of nursing homes can affect the mental health of older people living there. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the designing and architecture of nursing homes with the residents’ mental health. Methods & Materials This research was descriptive-correlational. With purposeful sampling, we selected 158 elderly residents of the nursing homes ...

Mutation of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor gene is an important initiating factor in the early stages of the adenoma-carcinoma sequence. The aim of this study was to investigate the two most common APC variants (Asp1822Val and Gly2502Ser) and their association with colorectal cancer and adenoma and whether these relationships are influenced by dietary and lifestyle factor...

BACKGROUND Recently, significant research effort has focused on using Twitter (and other social media) to investigate mental health at the population-level. While there has been influential work in developing ethical guidelines for Internet discussion forum-based research in public health, there is currently limited work focused on addressing ethical problems in Twitter-based public health rese...

MENTAL HEALTH PLANNING FOR SOCIAL ACTION. By George S. Stevenson. New York, The Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956. 358 pp. $6.50. Few, if any, have done as much to advance the cause of mental health as the author of this book for which so many have waited with keen anticipation. Dr. Stevenson, with rare insight and judgment, has presented the challenge that "there is more...

Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. In particular, people with mental illness are disproportionately affected with high smoking prevalence; they account for more than 200,000 of the 520,000 tobacco-attributable deaths in the United States annually and die on average 25 years prematurely. Our review aims to provide an update on smoking in the mentally ill. We re...

Primary prevention concepts have been widely applied to health problems of American Indian people. When applied to mental health issues, and the problem of suicide in particular, primary prevention intervention methods may not be effective. As an alternative, secondary and tertiary interventions directed at the prevention of suicide are examined, including evidence for their effectiveness, and ...