This study done in rural and semi-urban clinics examined the ability of primary health care nurses in providing rehabilitation of psychiatric patients in the Primary Health Care service. The objectives of the study were to train and evaluate registered nurses' ability to implement rehabilitation to psychiatric patients in the community. Registered nurses were trained over a period of 10 days. E...

This editorial introduces this special section of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, which focuses on justice-involved persons with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders (CODs). It contains seven original articles examining CODs among justice-involved populations that vary by gender, age, setting (e.g., community/ court, jail, prison), environment (urban, rural), geographic regio...

Intestinal parasitic infections are common in mental institutions (Jeffrey, 1960; Yoeli et ai, 1972). In Saudi Arabia, previous studies have revealed that higher prevalences, especially of giardiasis and amebiasis, exist among residents of closed institutions such as orphanages, child nurseries, rehabilitation centers and schools com­ pared to urban or rural populations (AI-Madani et ai, 1989; ...

The management of urban sewer systems requires data about variability and discharge of typical waste water sources in urban catchments. Especially the infiltration of groundwater and the inflow of surface water (I/I) are important for decisions about rehabilitation and operation of sewer networks. In this paper a new methodology is presented which supports the identification and quantification ...

Numerous studies have been conducted to assess the impacts of urbanization on stream geomorphology and ecology. Recent research has shown benthic macroinvertebrates to be good indicators of stream health. Furthermore, significant correlations have been shown to exist between these benthic indicators and certain hydrologic metrics in receiving streams. These studies have used stream gage data an...

The objective of this study was to demonstrate the business case for telemedicine in nonrural areas. We developed an interactive spreadsheet to conduct multiple financial analyses under different capital investment, revenue, and expense scenarios. We applied the spreadsheet to the specific case of poststroke rehabilitation in urban settings. The setting involved outpatient clinics associated wi...

In the early 1980s, suburbanization and periurbanization processes became widespread in major cities within Spain. An interesting stage of returning to city centers commenced that materialized in the start of rehabilitation policies within historic centers. These processes coincided with weak population growth, an acute industrial economic crisis, and new democratic policies in municipal counci...

BACKGROUND Return-to-work (RTW) rates after spinal cord injury (SCI) in the USA are very low and are continuing to decline. Previous research has attempted to identify factors facilitating RTW; however, the phenomenon of RTW involves many personal factors and predicting RTW success remains difficult. PURPOSE The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the factors facilitating adults with S...