Sociodemographic Profile of Psychiatric Inpatients at a Center of Mental Health Care in Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S616-S616
Author(s):  
D. Soria ◽  
T.V.C. Vernaglia ◽  
N.R. Santiago ◽  
E.C.F. Ramos ◽  
D.R.D. Leitão ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Health Disorders

BackgroundThe most prevalent disorders between the chronic diseases are the mental health disorders. Almost 650 million of people in the world suffer of some mental health disorders, which cause serious impact on individual abilities, family relationship and social rehabilitation.AimsWe describe and study the sociodemographic characteristics and the diagnosis of a sample of male and female psychiatric inpatients undergoing treatment in a mental health care center in Brazil.MethodsIt is a descriptive cross-sectional study, carried out with 517 psychiatric inpatients from a Brazilian health institution – IMAS Nise da Silveira. Data was collected from January to December 2014 and occurred through consultation of the patients’ hospital notes. Univariate analysis was used for the data collection and analysis.ResultsOur sample was composed by 52.6% (n = 272) of men and 47.4% of women (n = 245); 50.5% were over 40 years old and have a long time of hospitalization. Overall, 64.6% had schizophrenia; 27.2% mood [affect] disorders; 3.7% mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use; 1.4% mental retartation; 0.4% personality disorders; 0.2% disorders of psychological development.ConclusionThe profile could advance the mental health care and rehabilitation of these people. Although could improve public policies.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Vocational and Educational Training in Family and Community Nursing as a European Priority: The ENhANCE Erasmus+ Project. Aspects for Mental Health Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Ioanna V. Papathanasiou ◽  
Evangelos C. Fradelos ◽  
Sofia Kastanidou ◽  
Konstantinos Tsaras ◽  
Francesca Pozzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Essential Condition ◽  
Health Disorders

Concerning community mental health care, current studies’ results have shown many benefits for individuals that are suffering from mental disorders and their families also, of the nursing care that is provided from Family and Community Nurses. According to these results the patient – centered, adequate and continuing nursing care is an essential condition for better health outcomes of chronic mental health disorders, can reduce relapses and hospitalizations, saving significant fund

Descriptive study of patients with intellectual disability attended in a community mental health care center

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S599-S600
Author(s):  
S. Oller Canet ◽  
E. Pérez Sánchez ◽  
L. Alba Pale ◽  
E. Mur Mila ◽  
B. Samsó Buixareu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
Health Care Center

IntroductionThe rate of mental illness among people with intellectual disability is at least 2.5 times higher than in the general population [1].ObjectiveTo describe the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of all patients with intellectual disability treated in a community mental health care center (CMH) located in a city of 120,000 inhabitants on the outskirts of Barcelona with a high poverty index.MethodsDocuments and patient records were reviewed. Clinical, sociodemographic and other treatment data of patients with intellectual disability treated at the CMH were collected.ResultsThe sample consisted of 118 patients. Mean age: 39.5 (SD: 15), 54% men. 92% single and 23.7% legally incapacitated. 46.6% never completed basic education and 44.1% completed primary school. Employment status: 14.4% unemployed, 14.4% currently active, and 50% pensioned. Patients living mainly with their family (parents:) 86%. 68.6% of patients showed aggressive behavior, but the rate of hospital psychiatric admissions was low (mean: 1.1 (SD: 2.3)). Organic comorbidity: 44.9%. Functionality measured with GAF mean: 45 (SD: 12). Level of intellectual disability was mostly mild (62%). Psychiatric diagnoses were: psychotic disorders: 49.25%, affective disorders: 6.8%, personality disorder: 3.4%, Obsessive-compulsive disorder: 3.4%, autism: 11.9% and other diagnoses: 37.3%. Patients treated with anti-psychotics: 78.8%, anti-depressants: 40.7%, and mood stabilizers: 70.5%.ConclusionsIntellectually disabled patients from our sample showed high comorbidity with psychotic disorders, were highly medicated and often exhibited aggressive behavior.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Multiple Cases of Life-threatening Adenovirus Pneumonia in a Mental Health Care Center

1998 ◽  
Vol 157 (2) ◽  
pp. 645-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES R. KLINGER ◽  
MARIA PIA SANCHEZ ◽  
LINDA A. CURTIN ◽  
MARGARET DURKIN ◽  
BELA MATYAS
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Health Care Center ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Adenovirus Pneumonia

scholarly journals Analysis of severity and variability of psychopathology disturbances in structure mental health disorders in long-distance sailors depending on their levels of psychosocial stress

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
K.A. Kosenko
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Psychosocial Stress ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Psychopathological Symptoms ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
Stress Burden

Using clinical-psychopathological and psychodiagnostic methods, we studied the severity and variability of psychopathological symptoms in the structure of mental health disorders in seafarers, depending on the level of psychosocial stress they experienced, to determine the targets of personalized mental health care measures for this contingent. During 2016–2019, 110 officers of the command staff of the Maritime Merchant Navy (CMN), 90 sailors of the Maritime Merchant Navy (SMN), 70 representatives of the command staff of the Maritime Passenger Fleet (CPF) and 30 privates of the Maritime Passenger Fleet (SPF) were surveyed. All were examined by men, citizens of Ukraine. The study included the use of clinical-psychopathological and psychodiagnostic methods. In the inter-voyage period, the vast majority of long-distance sailors are either mentally healthy (30.9 % CMN, 41.1 % SMN, 42.9 % CPF, 33.3 % SPF), or have some signs of mental maladaptation (52.7 % CMN, 37.7 % SMN, 44.3 % CPF, 40.0 % SPF). Clinically delineated disorders of the neurotic register of the F43 cluster (adaptation disorders) are characterized by 26.7 % SPF, 21.1 % SMN, 16.4 % CMN and 12.8 % CPF. The severity and variability of psychopathological manifestations, in general in the sample, correspond to the neurotic level of response, however, have differences among the examined different groups. The greatest severity of symptoms of depression on the background of high levels of anxiety, hostility and psychosis is inherent in SPF, and the greatest severity of anxiety, phobic anxiety, hostility and somatization is inherent in CMN. The lowest severity of psychopathological symptoms is characteristic of CPF. The severity and variability of psychopathological manifestations is directly associated with the level of stress experienced by the subjects: with increasing stress burden, the severity of the psychopathological response increases. The identified patterns should be taken into account in the development of specific measures of psychotherapy and psychoprophylaxis for this contingent, which is the prospect of this study.

scholarly journals Mental health care in Kuwait: Toward a community-based decentralized approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevag Kaladchibachi ◽  
Abdulwahab M Al-Dhafiri
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Health Disorders

A number of international studies have highlighted the prevalence of mental health disorders, and the combined lifetime incidence of mental illnesses has been estimated to be as high as 30 percent worldwide. Due to geopolitical, economic, cultural, and religious factors, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have been recognized as being particularly susceptible to the socioeconomic impact of mental health disorders, and our report examines the current state of mental healthcare policies in the Arab world and discusses the administrative/infrastructural and social/cultural challenges faced in the provision of adequate mental health care in Kuwait.

scholarly journals Principles of mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Rojnic Kuzman ◽  
Marko Curkovic ◽  
Danuta Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Health Disorders

Abstract We describe the basic principles of mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic that should be endorsed by the mental health professional associations and incorporated in the health strategies for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main principle is that there should be no substantial differences in the provision of health care for COVID-19 between persons with pre-existing mental health disorders and the ones without previous disorders. Subsequently, the organization of the health care should reflect that as well. These principles should (a) prevent the possible effects of stigmatizing attitudes toward mental health issues, possibly leading to potentially deleterious situations, such as psychiatric patients being treated (even temporarily) separately from other patients, in psychiatric facilities, where the staff is not equipped and trained adequately for the management of COVID-19; (b) highlight the fact that patients with mental health disorders are at greater risk for developing serious complications of COVID-19 infection due to other factors—they often smoke and have comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, all associated with higher morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 infection; (c) highlight that measures should be taken to minimize the risk of the spread of infection in psychiatric wards/institutions; (d) provide a general framework for the reorganization of mental health services toward the provision of services for persons in need, including frontline medical workers and patients with COVID-19 without previous mental health problems as well as for persons with pre-existing mental health problems under new circumstances of pandemic.

scholarly journals The Perspective of General Practitioners about Mental Illness: A Cross-sectional Observational Study from a Tertiary Care Centre, Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Muhammad Iqbal Afridi ◽  
Jawed Akbar Dars ◽  
Chooni Lal ◽  
Rakesh Kumar ◽  
. Sadia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Disorders

Objectives: To assess the general practitioner's perspective on mental illness in a tertiary health care setting. Study Setting and Duration: Online seminar in March 2020, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi. Study Design: Cross-sectional, Observational study Methodology: A total of 152 general practitioners were enrolled in the study. All house officers, psychiatric specialists, staff members, and patients were excluded from the study. An online survey instrument was used to collect data from general practitioners through social media. The questionnaire was related to the biodata of the physicians and their perspective on mental health disorders. Data was analyzed by using SPSS Version 26. Results: A total of 152 general practitioners participated in the study. The mean age of participants was 39.76 (11.540) years. The majority of them were male and married with an average experience of 12.80 (10.90) years. According to the participants, the most common symptoms experienced by patients with mental disorders were loss of appetite, hopelessness, and the loss of interest in day to day activities. The majority of the doctors confessed they find the treatment and management of psychiatric illnesses the hardest. Most of the participants were aware of the diagnostic criteria used for common mental health disorders. Over a hundred (66.4%) participants considered mental health disorders to be a medical disorder while 16 (10.5%) assumed it is the possession by supernatural creatures. 65 (42.7%) of the doctors confessed that they would not feel comfortable having a coworker or befriending a person with a diagnosed mental health issue. Conclusion: Our findings suggest that general physicians had good knowledge about common mental illnesses; however they found the management of these patients difficult. Mental health awareness and training intervention tools are needed to help improve the perspective of health care professionals towards patients with suspected mental illnesses.

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