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PhotoVoice is a participatory approach that uses photography to offer a useful platform for sharing the stories of people with mental health conditions whose voices are often marginalized. This study aimed to ...
Minder is a mental health and substance use mobile application found to have a small but significant effects in a recent randomized trial. Poor engagement has been identified as a common threat to the effectivene...
Stepped Care 2.0 (SC2.0) and One-at-a-Time (OAAT) approaches can help address challenges related to accessing effective addiction and mental health (A&MH) services. OAAT services, available by walk-in or appoi...
Mental health disorders are major public health challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries such as Cambodia, where chronic shortages in mental health services and human resources exist. These...
Over 14 million adolescents have a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder yet only 20% receive adequate mental health services. There is a critical need to identify accessible and effective path...
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth and young adults aged 15–24 in Canada. Emergency departments often serve as the first point of contact for identifying suicide risk, particularly for yo...
The implementation of interventions, digital tools, and policy plans in health systems research is highly complex. Proof-of-Concept (PoC) studies facilitate the development of these applications although they ...
Care coordination is commonly employed to assist individuals with mental health challenges [MHCs]. However, its implementation in mental health contexts is inconsistent. The term, ‘care coordination’ is also u...
Digital technologies can facilitate comprehensive mental health assessment of an individual’s treatment needs, while also enabling data aggregation and analysis at the population or service level. The Service ...
Undiagnosed depressive and anxiety disorders may be widespread. The study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of undiagnosed depressive and/or anxiety disorders (DAD) among women in two low-r...
Safe Spaces offer a person-centred, non-clinical and welcoming place for adults experiencing a mental health crisis to seek support as an alternative to presenting to the Emergency Department (ED). The aim of ...
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) allocate a disproportionately small fraction of their healthcare budgets to mental health, leading to a treatment gap exceeding 75%. To address this disparity, the Worl...
Length of stay (LoS) is a critical parameter of inpatient forensic treatment functioning. Inpatient forensic LoS in Czechia varies across hospitals with the number of patients per 100,000 inhabitants and the t...
Several studies showed strong evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted mental health service use, with changes in emergency department visits, and psychiatric hospital admissions. It is not clear, however...
Perceived need for treatment is a first step along the pathway to effective mental health treatment. Perceived need encompasses a person’s recognition that they have a problem and their belief that professiona...
Depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms are common among adolescents; however, studies exploring their relationship with chronotype in European youth populations is scarce. This study aimed to evaluate the as...
Evidence suggests the use of a participatory approach for the improvement of TB care, however, there is limited evidence on how integrated depression screening and care could be delivered with TB services. Thu...
Emotional symptoms have emerged as a major public health concern, affecting the mental and physical well-being of college students worldwide. Negative life events and mental health literacy are commonly recogn...
Inpatient mental health care is an integral part of the continuum of mental health care in many countries, though it can be associated with challenges, such as reliance on coercive practices, negative patient ...
Poverty and mental illness are strongly associated. The aim of this study was to investigate the economic impact of implementing a district level integrated mental healthcare plan for people with severe mental...
Chronic war exposure causes resource shortages, disrupts care for existing health issues, and heavily impacts mental health, increasing the risk of trauma-related psychiatric disorders. Using longitudinal data...
Data from the World Mental Health (WMH) surveys on the coverage cascade has underscored the importance of perceived need for seeking treatment of mental disorders. However, little research has focused on treat...
Little is known about uptake of mental healthcare services by homeless people and even less is known about those living in precarious housing. The “WohnLos” study determined the prevalence of non-secure housin...
The sub-Saharan African Regional Partnership for mental health and capacity building (SHARP) study was a clinic-randomized trial of two implementation strategies for integrating depression screening and treatm...
Most women living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries remain undiagnosed and untreated for depression. Even though depression has an adverse effect on treatment outcome and disease progression, less a...
High unmet need for treatment of mental disorders exists throughout the world. An understanding of barriers to treatment is needed to develop effective programs to address this problem.
Health personnel lack a common standard for assessing lethality of suicide attempts. This may lead to inconsistent assessments and unclear reports about suicide attempts. We argue that the Risk-Rescue Rating S...
Group Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), an evidence-based treatment of depression recommended by the WHO mhGAP Intervention Guide, was implemented through a task-shifting approach in Senegal, as a treatment for dep...
Digital interventions (DIs) have emerged as promising tools for promoting mental health in the workplace. However, evidence on if, how, and under what circumstances they affect positive outcomes requires eluci...
Despite the significant burden of alcohol use disorders (AUD), there is a large treatment gap, especially in settings and populations affected by armed conflict. A key barrier to care is the lack of contextual...
The original article was published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2023 17:20
The original article was published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2024 18:12
Effective mental healthcare coverage (EMHC) is an important health system performance indicator of a population’s mental healthcare needs. This study aims to assess the factors and healthcare costs associated ...
Stigma and discrimination towards people with mental health conditions by their communities are common worldwide. This can result in a range of negative outcomes for affected persons, including poor access to ...
Access to traditional mental health services in Canada remains limited, prompting exploration into digital alternatives. The Government of Ontario initiated access to two internet-based cognitive behavioral th...
We set out to assess the appropriateness of current placement of mentally disordered offenders allocated by the courts in Italy to REMS or to forensic community residences. We hypothesised that as in other cou...
Pakistan faces profound mental health challenges, which necessitate the urgent need for a comprehensive assessment of its mental healthcare system. A holistic understanding of the mental health landscape is es...
There is increasing awareness of the importance of the transformation of mental health systems. Launched in 2019, the WHO Special Initiative for Mental Health seeks to accelerate access to quality and affordab...
Alcohol consumption in India is below the global average, with limited data on long-term effects. The current study aims to examine changes over time among alcohol consumers, the pattern of drinking and help-s...
The number of workers engaged in informal employment in China has reached 200 million individuals, constituting a substantial contribution to the pursuit of high-quality development and the attainment of stabl...
Addressing wellbeing at the community level, using a public health approach may build wellbeing and protective factors for all. A collaborative, community-owned approach can bring together experience, networks...
Child and adolescent mental health is a global priority. In sub-Saharan Africa, despite the high burden, there is a gap in health services for children and adolescents with mental health disorders. To bridge t...
Integration of diagnosis and treatment for mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders into primary health care is a recommended strategy to improve access to services in low-and middle-income coun...
When common mental disorders (CMD) co-occur with HIV/AIDS, they can complicate patient diagnosis, help-seeking behaviors, quality of life, treatment outcomes, and drug adherence. Thus, estimating the pooled pr...
Depression among young people is a global health problem due to its rising prevalence and negative physical and social outcomes. The prevalence of depression and the treatment gap among young people in Sub-Sah...
The burden of severe mental illness is high in low-resource settings like Uganda. But most affected people are not treated due to inadequacy of sectoral funding and trained mental health professionals. Medicat...
The Pacific population in Aotearoa New Zealand is youthful, with the majority (55%) being under the age of 25 (Statistics New Zealand, 2014). It is vital that youth mental health for Pacific is understood in r...
In humanitarian settings, brief screening instruments for child psychological distress have potential to assist in assessing prevalence, monitoring outcomes, and identifying children and adolescents in most ne...
This study aimed to evaluate a new service model, Specialists Together In the Community (STIC), in terms of patient outcomes. This model integrates Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT)-principles with...
Mental illness poses a substantial global public health challenge, including in Thailand, where exploration of access to mental health services is limited. The spatial and temporal dimensions of mental illness...
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