PURPOSE: There is evidence that internalized stigma significantly impacts the lives of people with severe mental illness. Nevertheless, there is little data on the prevalence of clinically significant internalized stigma. This study investigated the current prevalence and demographic correlates of significantly elevated levels of internalized stigma in two samples of people with severe mental i...

BACKGROUND E-mental health is a promising medium to keep mental health affordable and accessible. For consumers with severe mental illness the evidence of the effectiveness of e-health is limited. A number of difficulties and barriers have to be addressed concerning e-health for consumers with severe mental illness. One possible solution might be to blend e-health with face-to-face delivery of ...

Cultural groups respond differently to mental illness depending on the explanations of the cause, attitudes in the community toward mental illness and its treatment, and the social and community resources available to patients and their families. Our column last month explored these explanations and attitudes. This column focuses on family and community treatment of mental illness and the care ...

BACKGROUND Most mental illness is managed in general practice rather than specialist psychiatric settings. Management of mental illness in general practice is advocated as being less stigmatizing than psychiatric settings. Thus, other patients' discomfort with sharing the waiting room with the mentally ill may be problematic. OBJECTIVES To examine prevalence and associations of discomfort of ...

OBJECTIVE Violent behavior among individuals with severe mental illness has become an important focus in community-based care. This study examines the joint effect of substance abuse and medication noncompliance on the greater risk of serious violence among persons with severe mental illness. METHOD Involuntarily admitted inpatients with severe mental illness who were awaiting a period of out...

This study addresses the practical, methodological and ethical challenges that were found in three studies that used focus groups with people with severe mental illness, in the context of community mental health services in Brazil. Focus groups are a powerful tool in health research that need to be better discussed in research with people with severe mental illness, in the context of community ...

background: providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the iranian mental health office and the regional committee for the eastern mediterranean (affiliated with who). the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

BACKGROUND Persons with severe mental illness (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder) have a high prevalence of somatic conditions compared to the general population. Mortality data in the Nordic countries reveal that these persons die 15-20 years earlier than the general population. Some factors explaining this high prevalence may be related to the individuals in question; others arise from the...