background: implementing community-based psychiatric services is one of the priorities of the who/emro mental health programs. this study presents an aftercare service, as a community based-service, for patients with severe mental illness (smis).   methods : in this randomized controlled clinical trial design, 176 patients, who attended selective hospitals with smi, were allocated into three gr...

Universal screening for perinatal depression (PND) has been widely debated, and several trustworthy guidelines have published worldwide on how to effectively conduct it. Nevertheless, a narrow view of mental health the strict adherence condition-specific assessment protocols limit clinical utility such screenings. In this paper, traditional approaches PND are revisited simultaneously consider t...

OBJECTIVES (1) To investigate the impact of perinatal common mental disorders (CMD) in Ethiopia on the risk of key illnesses of early infancy: diarrhoea, fever and acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) and (2) to explore the potential mediating role of maternal health behaviours. DESIGN Population-based cohort study. SETTING Demographic surveillance site in a predominantly rural area of Ethiopi...

This paper examines mental health service use among publicly insured white and African-American pregnant and postpartum women who live in a metropolitan area. The study examines the extent to which ethnicity, physical health problems, and behavioral health risk factors are associated with the probability of service use during the prenatal-postpartum period. It also analyzes the patterns of serv...

BACKGROUND Intimate partner violence (IPV) around the time of pregnancy is a widespread global health problem with many negative consequences. Nevertheless, a lot remains unclear about which interventions are effective and might be adopted in the perinatal care context. OBJECTIVE The objective is to provide a clear overview of the existing evidence on effectiveness of interventions for IPV ar...

Introduction Disorganized attachment has been described as an important risk factor for developing serious mental disorders in childhood, adolescence and adulthood, such borderline personality disorder, psychoses, afective disorders, a higher suicide risk, instance. Bonding (BD) parents are related to insecure disorganized children. BD can be early diagnosed at 4 6 weeks after birth. Objectives...

Mental disorders are among the most common morbidities of pregnancy and the postnatal period, and can have adverse effects on the mother, her child, and family. This Series paper summarises the evidence about epidemiology, risk factors, identification, and interventions for non-psychotic mental disorders. Although the phenomenology and risk factors for perinatal mental disorders are largely sim...

background: this study sought the relationship between social support, mental health and demographic factors in new students of tehran university (2005-06). methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study enrolled 2916 university students. subjects were evaluated using demographic questionnaire, general health questionnaire-12 and social support scale. statistical analysis was performed by anov...

the robust increase in mental disorders, elevated use of sedatives and increased number of psychiatric hospitals, even in developed countries, indicate the need for preparing the human mind against tribulations. although industrial advances have provided mankind with comfort, they have also increased the level of stress and psychological traumas. here, the question arises as how we can free ind...