Willging, Cathleen E Harkness, Audrey Israel, Tania Ley, David Hokanson, Patricia S DeMaria, Catherine Joplin, Aaron Smiley, Verida
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Community mental health journal
Mental health disparities affect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in rural America. There are few empirically-based mental health interventions for this population. This exploratory study uses a mixed-method approach to assess implementation issues related to the feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness, and prelimin...
Musyimi, Christine W Mutiso, Victoria N Haji, Zahra R Nandoya, Erick S Ndetei, David M
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Community mental health journal
We aimed to determine the prevalence and determinants of depression using mobile based mental health Global Action Programme Intervention guide (mhGAP-IG) in remote health care settings where most priority mental health problems are managed by non-mental health specialists and evaluate the feasibility of the application. Adult patients were recruit...
Aas, I H Monrad Sonesson, Ove Torp, Steffen
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Community mental health journal
The severity of illness in psychiatry is rated using the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale. The GAF scale is often used in both research settings and in the clinic. The scale ranges from 1 to 100 and is subdivided into ten 10-point intervals, each with verbal rating instructions called anchor points and examples. GAF is an instrument tha...
Pauselli, Luca Galletti, Chiara Verdolini, Norma Paolini, Enrico Gallucci, Daniela Balducci, Pierfrancesco Maria Bernardini, Francesco Kogan, Jerome H Shim, Ruth Moretti, Patrizia
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Community mental health journal
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess factors associated with client satisfaction in two mental health outpatient settings in Italy and the US. Sociodemographic and clinical variables, hope, and personality characteristics were evaluated in 18-65-year-old patients who had been receiving services for at least 2 months in one of two out...
Islam, Farah Khanlou, Nazilla Macpherson, Alison Tamim, Hala
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Community mental health journal
To determine the prevalence rates and characteristics of past-year mental health consultation for Ontario's adult (18 + years old) immigrant populations. The Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 2012 was used to calculate the prevalence rates of past-year mental health consultation by service provider type. Characteristics associated with mental...
Fishman, Keera N Levitt, Anthony J Markoulakis, Roula Weingust, Staci
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Community mental health journal
As mental health navigation services continue to be implemented, the need for valid and reliable tools to assess the quality of these services increases. While case managers target individuals with severe mental illness and aim to reduce burden and cost, and increase independence, navigation services target all individuals with a range of mental he...
Kim-Mozeleski, Jin E Tsoh, Janice Y Gildengorin, Ginny Cao, Lien H Ho, Tiffany Kohli, Sarita Lam, Hy Wong, Ching Stewart, Susan McPhee, Stephen J
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Community mental health journal
Culture impacts help-seeking preferences. We examined Vietnamese Americans' help-seeking preferences for depressive symptoms, through a telephone survey (N = 1666). A vignette describing an age- and gender-matched individual with depression was presented, and respondents chose from a list of options and provided open-ended responses about their hel...
Ralat, Sandra I Depp, Colin A Bernal, Guillermo
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Community mental health journal
Latinos with bipolar disorder (BD) have a high rate of nonadherence to psychiatric medication and treatment for other medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors than non-Latinos with BD. The aim of this study is to identify patients' perspectives on the reasons for nonadherence to psychiatric medication and for CVD risk fa...
Crump, Charlene J Hamerdinger, Stephen H
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Community mental health journal
Working with individuals who are deaf in mental health settings can be complex work, necessitating consideration for the difference in language abilities. These differences include not only the language differences of American Sign Language (ASL) and English, but also the range of heterogeneity within the Deaf Community. Multiple influences such as...
Mitchell, Jessica N Clark, Colleen Guenther, Christina C
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Community mental health journal
The relationship between criminal justice involvement and housing among homeless persons with co-occurring disorders was examined. Program participants assisted in moving to stable housing were interviewed at baseline, six months, and discharge. Those who remained homeless at follow-up and discharge had significantly more time in jail in the past m...
