Hui, Aika Rains, Luke Sheridan Todd, Anita Boaz, Annette Johnson, Sonia
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposeEvidence-based policy making is increasingly being advocated by governments and scholars. To show that policies are informed by evidence, policy-related documents that cite external sources should ideally provide direct access to, and accurately represent, the referenced source and the evidence it provides. Our aim was to find a way to syste...
Coffey, Michael Hannigan, Ben Meudell, Alan Jones, Mari Hunt, Julian Fitzsimmons, Deb
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposeMental health care is a complex system that includes social care organisations providing support for people with continuing needs. The relationship over time between decisional conflict, social support, quality of life and recovery outcomes across two time periods for people experiencing mental health problems in receipt of social care was i...
Chow, Winnie S. Ajaz, Ali Priebe, Stefan
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
BackgroundSince 1990, the provision of mental healthcare has changed substantially across Western Europe. There are fewer psychiatric hospital beds and more places in forensic psychiatric hospitals and residential facilities. However, little research has investigated the drivers behind these changes. This study explored qualitatively the perspectiv...
Penney, Stephanie R. Seto, Michael C. Crocker, Anne G. Nicholls, Tonia L. Grimbos, Teresa Darby, Padraig L. Simpson, Alexander I. F.
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposeTo quantify the demand for forensic psychiatric services in Ontario over the past 25 years and investigate whether the sociodemographic, clinical and offense-based characteristics of forensic patients have changed over time.MethodsWe investigated all forensic admissions from 1987 to 2012 resulting in a disposition of Not Criminally Responsib...
Martiello, Michele Arcangelo Boncompagni, Giuseppe Lacangellera, Davide Corlito, Giuseppe
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposeIncreased frequency of suicide in rural areas of Tuscany has been described since the 1970s. A case–control study was conducted in 2014 and 2015. The objective of this study was to identify major individual risk factors related to suicides in six rural districts of Tuscany.MethodsCases were identified as all 128 suicides occurred in six rura...
Alves, Flávia Jôse Oliveira Machado, Daiane Borges Barreto, Maurício L.
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposeThere is a growing awareness of the economic and contextual factors that may play a role in the aetiology of suicide. The Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) the Brazilian conditional cash transfer programme, established in 2004, aims to attenuate the effects of poverty of Brazilians. Our study aims to evaluate the effect of Bolsa Família Programme...
Dunlavy, Andrea C. Juárez, Sol Toivanen, Susanna Rostila, Mikael
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposePrior research has documented an association between unemployment and elevated suicide risk. Yet, few Swedish studies have explicitly considered how such risk may vary by different migration background characteristics among persons of foreign-origin, who often experience diverse forms of labor market marginalization. This study examines the ...
Emerson, Scott D. Carbert, Nicole S.
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposeMental illness represents a major public health burden among Canada’s large immigrant population. A burgeoning cross-sectional, longitudinal, and experimental evidence base implicates nutrition in mental health. Healthier diets (e.g., those rich in certain micro-nutrients) may benefit cognitive, social, and emotional functioning through atte...
Wang, Ling-Yi Chen, Shih-Fen Chiang, Jen-Huai Hsu, Chung-Y Shen, Yu-Chih
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposeStudies suggested autoimmunity plays a role in the etiology of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). The purpose of this study was to determine if a history of systemic autoimmune diseases (SADs) is associated with an increased risk of subsequent onset of OCD.MethodsPatients with or without SADs were identified in the Taiwan National Health I...
Beckman, Karin Lysell, Henrik Haglund, Axel Dahlin, Marie
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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
PurposeGender differences in youth self-harm are sparsely studied regarding long-term prognoses. We aimed to study the gender differences in effects of adolescent self-harm in early adult life in four domains: 1/family situation, 2/education and employment, 3/mental illness and suicidal behaviour, and 4/suicide and all-cause mortality.MethodA regis...
