Can primary mental health services impact levels of involuntary admissions? A cluster-RCT of the ReCoN intervention
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DOI: 10.1007/s00127-025-02914-3
Abstract: Internationally, policies and legal changes seek to reduce the use of involuntary psychiatric admissions. Usually directed towards specialist services, these initiatives show little sustained progress. We tested whether an intervention at the level of primary… read more here.
Keywords: primary mental; mental health; intervention; involuntary admissions ... See more keywords
Heterogeneity of quality of life in young people attending primary mental health services
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DOI: 10.1017/s2045796022000427
Abstract: Abstract Aims The utility of quality of life (QoL) as an outcome measure in youth-specific primary mental health care settings has yet to be determined. We aimed to determine: (i) whether heterogeneity on individual items… read more here.
Keywords: young people; primary mental; health services; mental health ... See more keywords
Substance Use Disorder Among Patients with Primary Mental Illnesses in Southwestern Uganda
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DOI: 10.1080/15504263.2024.2434740
Abstract: Abstract Objective: Substance use is common among people with primary mental illness especially schizophrenia and bipolar disorder compared to the general population and complicates treatment outcomes. Methods: We enrolled 385 patients with primary mental illnesses… read more here.
Keywords: use; use disorder; substance use; primary mental ... See more keywords
Availability and accessibility of primary mental health services for adolescents: an overview of national recommendations and services in EU.
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DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa102
Abstract: BACKGROUND Mental health problems in adolescence can profoundly jeopardize adolescent current and future health and functioning. We aimed to describe existing recommendations and services regarding the delivery of primary mental health care for adolescents in… read more here.
Keywords: primary mental; accessibility primary; health services; health ... See more keywords
The architecture of the primary mental healthcare system for older people in India: what public policies tell us
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DOI: 10.1186/s13033-021-00494-8
Abstract: Background Old age mental healthcare is an issue that cuts across old age, general health, and mental healthcare policies. While strengthening the primary mental healthcare system in India is a common strategy across policy fields… read more here.
Keywords: mental healthcare; system; primary mental; health ... See more keywords
Something Happened with the Way We Work: Evaluating the Implementation of the Reducing Coercion in Norway (ReCoN) Intervention in Primary Mental Health Care
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DOI: 10.3390/healthcare12070786
Abstract: Background: Current policies to reduce the use of involuntary admissions are largely oriented towards specialist mental health care and have had limited success. We co-created, with stakeholders in five Norwegian municipalities, the ‘Reducing Coercion in… read more here.
Keywords: mental health; care; implementation; intervention ... See more keywords