Severe mental illness (SMI)
Diabetes self-management in people with severe mental illness
... a severe mental illness (SMI), such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are a vulnerable population who commonly experience health inequalities (Thornicroft, 2011); they have poorer physical ...
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Transgender Women with Severe Mental Illness and Homelessness: A Retrospective Case Series
... specific mental health service needs and concerns of TW in this ...with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) are one of the most vulnerable and most difficult to engage in order to receive medical ...
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Designing video stories around the lived experience of severe mental illness
... Severe mental illness, suffered for 12 months or more, is thought to affect approximately 4-7% of the global population ...caregivers’ mental wellbeing [16, ...
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Recovery and creative practices in people with severe mental illness: evaluating well being and social inclusion
... with severe mental illness (SMI) need to rebuild their identity, build a narrative about themselves that is acceptable and makes sense beyond the appearance of lack of ...
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Severe mental illness and mortality of hospitalized ACS patients in the VHA
... SMI, severe mental illness; ACS, acute coronary syndrome; VHA, Veterans Health Administration; AMI, acute myo- cardial infarction; EPRP, external peer review program; US, unstable angina; BMI, body ...
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Psychoeducation for siblings of people with severe mental illness
... Severe mental illness (SMI) may be defined according to three di- mensions: 1. A non-organic psychotic disorder; 2. Treatment du- ration lasting for two years or more; and 3. Disability resulting in ...
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Electronic personal health records for people with severe mental illness; a feasibility study
... The use of ePHRs will depend upon their universal accessibility and adaptability. The focus of this paper is the usage of ePHRs amongst people with severe mental illness (SMI). There is evidence to ...
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Engagement in assertive community treatment as experienced by recovering clients with severe mental illness and concurrent substance use
... with severe mental illness and concurrent substance use view inclusion in treatment and to determine the factors that are important for them to remain in ...
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Violent victimization of adult patients with severe mental illness: a systematic review
... “severe mental illness”, “major depression”, “schizophrenia”, and “bipolar disorder” in successive combinations with “victimization”, “victimisation”, “vic- timized”, “victimised”, and ...a ...
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Homesick: residential and care patterns in patients with severe mental illness
... that mental health care should shift more towards placing the care of psychiatric pa- tients in the community rather than in ...of severe mental illness, recovery of health, participation and ...
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Internalized stigma and its correlates among patients with severe mental illness
... with severe mental illnesses [PDs, unipolar and bipolar affec- tive disorders (BDs)] and to analyze the relationship between demographic and clinical variables and internalized stigma in those ...with ...
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Testing the Integral Model of treatment motivation in outpatients with severe mental illness
... with severe mental illness, we found statistically signiicant low to moderate correlations between the motivation subscale of the TMS-p and motivation scales derived from other motivation theories ...
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Work integration of people with severe mental illness in social enterprises
... At the follow-up phase, 23 of the 30 social enterprises contacted accepted to confirm their involvement in the research project and allowed us to collect data once again. Still, it was the 14 organizations located in the ...
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Assertive community treatment for elderly people with severe mental illness
... a severe mental illness, (3) no motiva- tion for treatment, and (4) having four or more addi- tional problems within the following domains: addiction, somatic problems, activities of daily living, ...
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The meaning of work in people with severe mental illness (SMI) in Iran
... Although numerous studies have focused on employment outcomes in SMI {for ex- ample, Wong, 2008; Macias, 2006; Gold, 2006; Bond, 2001 (15, 17-19) }, only a few have explored the perspectives of clients with SMI on ...
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Barriers to effective diabetes management – a survey of people with severe mental illness
... surveys that recruit in this way. As the study is cross-sectional, we are also unable to infer causation. Although we tried several routes to recruit participants, the sample size achieved was small, which resulted in ...
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Preferences for befriending schemes: a survey of patients with severe mental illness
... Befriending remains poorly understood and under researched with regard to the extent and nature of its impact on patient outcomes [7, 8]. Systematic re- views show a shortage of high quality studies [2, 9]. Based on ...
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Obesity and nutrition behaviours in Western and Palestinian outpatients with severe mental illness
... The Western patients classified as obese had a 2.54 OR for consuming low-fat products and a 0.29 OR for eating traditional products (such as sausages, eggs, cho- colate and cake which are typically high in fat). These ...
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Barriers to effective diabetes management – a survey of people with severe mental illness
... surveys that recruit in this way. As the study is cross-sectional, we are also unable to infer causation. Although we tried several routes to recruit participants, the sample size achieved was small, which resulted in ...
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Impact of socioeconomic deprivation on rate and cause of death in severe mental illness
... Our findings of a gradient in level of deprivation and magnitude of increase in mortality in those with SMI are novel in that we were able to describe the rate and cause of death of individuals with SMI in detail and ...
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