Sound practice: Exploring the benefits of establishing a music group on an acute mental health inpatient unit.

abstract：:This paper describes the rate of violent episodes at a youth psychiatric unit, identifies significant clinical and demographic differences between service users who had admissions with violent episodes and those who did not, and describes characteristics of violent incidents, including antecedents, consequences, victi...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： van Kessel K,Milne D,Hunt K,Reed PW

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The merits of technology-based mental health service reform have been widely debated among academics, practitioners, and policy makers. The design of new technologies must first be predicated on a detailed appreciation of how the mental health system works before it can be improved or changed through the introduction ...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Orlowski S,Lawn S,Matthews B,Venning A,Jones G,Winsall M,Antezana G,Bidargaddi N,Musiat P

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to understand the perspectives of mental health consumers, staff, and yoga teachers on the characteristics of a yoga-based intervention to be developed for consumers with a long-term mental health condition, in addition to anxiety and/or depression. Two focus groups were held with mental healt...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Snaith N,Rasmussen P,Schultz T,Proeve M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violence against nurses has increased particularly in psychiatric outpatient settings as psychiatric care shifts from being inpatient-based to being outpatient-based. Violence is a complex phenomenon that must be explored in different psychiatric nursing environments and settings. Violence in psychiatric outpatient se...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Konttila J,Pesonen HM,Kyngäs H

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited research exists regarding the therapeutic operations of adolescent mental health inpatient units, particularly in terms of nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions. This review collates what is known about reported nonpharmacological therapeutic interventions for young people admitted to general or non-dis...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Hayes C,Palmer V,Hamilton B,Simons C,Hopwood M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient aggressive behaviour remains a significant public health concern worldwide. The use of restraint and seclusion remains a last resort but not an uncommon practice in clinical psychiatry in the management of aggressive events. There seems to be a paucity of evidenced-based research examining the policy framework...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Lantta T,Varpula J,Cheung T,Wong WK,Cheng PYI,Ng T,Ng CF,Yam CP,Ip G,Bressington D,Välimäki M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental health Consultation-Liaison (CL) nursing continues to develop and gain recognition as a subspecialty of mental health nursing. CL roles are particularly important given the significant number of people experiencing mental illness and other mental health problems within the general health-care settings. However,...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： McNamara P,Bryant J,Forster J,Sharrock J,Happell B

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental health policy in Australia is committed to the development of recovery-focused services and facilitating consumer participation in all aspects of mental health service delivery. Negative attitudes of mental health professionals have been identified as a major barrier to achieving these goals. Although the educa...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Byrne L,Happell B,Welch T,Moxham LJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program (MHNIP) was established in Australia during 2007. The program enables mental health nurses to work in partnership with general practitioners (GPs) in the assessment and treatment of people with severe mental health problems. This paper provides insights into the demographic an...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Meehan T,Robertson S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study seeks to identify some of the explanatory factors associated with the use of intrusive measures among children with mental health and developmental disabilities in psychiatric facilities. Intrusive intervention data were collected using an organizational database that was developed internally at a tertiary ...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Stewart SL,Baiden P,Theall-Honey L

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary family caregivers of patients with dementia often experience high caregiver burden and significant decline in a range of health outcomes. The current study examined the relationship between medical comorbidities of inpatients with dementia and caregiver burden in adult-child primary caregivers, and the bufferi...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Liu H,Fang B,Chan J,Chen G

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collaborative research activities are increasingly being used across health-care settings and are viewed as a positive way to achieve mutual outcomes. However, interagency or intersectoral research programmes are not without problems. They are, at best, challenging and complex activities that require enormous commitme...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： McCloughen A,O'Brien L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical diagnosis has traditionally been the role of medical officers. However, mental health nurses working in crisis/emergency settings within Australia are expected to provide a provisional diagnosis postassessment of a consumer. There is limited literature and understanding how mental health nurses develop a provi...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Campbell K,Massey D,Broadbent M,Clarke KA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 1% of the population is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and despite longstanding critiques of the (bio)medical model, understanding of the disorder still arises primarily through (bio)medical explanations. In turn, causation, symptoms and treatments are increasingly sophisticated and well known while under...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Geanellos R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing handover occurs between shifts and is an important means of communication and information exchange around consumer care. The involvement of consumers in nursing handover, known as 'bedside handover', is well established within general health settings and promotes a patient-centred approach to care. Bedside han...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Mullen A,Harman K,Flanagan K,O'Brien B,Isobel S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the light of the increasing recognition of the relevance of spirituality in person-centred, holistic care, this study examines the attitudes of a convenience sample of mental health practitioners, including nurses, to the concepts of spirituality in general and in clinical practice. A series of 5-point Likert-style...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Rogers M,Wattis J,Stephenson J,Khan W,Curran S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumer participation in all aspects of mental health services is clearly articulated as an expectation of contemporary mental health policy. Consumer leadership has been demonstrated to be beneficial to mental health services. Barriers to implementation have limited the realization of this goal. In this discursive p...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Happell B,Scholz B

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 210 patients are admitted each year to the Western Australian State Forensic Mental Health Service, and most present with psychotic illness, along with other physical and mental comorbidities. In 2010, a healthy lifestyle programme, which included a formal exercise programme coordinated by an exercise ph...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Wynaden D,Barr L,Omari O,Fulton A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventrogluteal site is increasingly recommended for long-acting antipsychotic intramuscular injections; however, it remains infrequently utilized due to nurses' lack of confidence in site identification. The more recent G (geometric) method of ventrogluteal site identification is less subjective and likely more rel...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Larkin TA,Elgellaie A,Ashcroft E

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kennedy Axis V is a routine outcome measurement instrument which can assist the assessment of the short-term risk for violence and other adverse patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the interrater reliability and clinical utility of the instrument when used by mental health nurses in daily c...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Faay MD,van de Sande R,Gooskens F,Hafsteinsdóttir TB

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As police officers are often the first responders to mental health crises, a number of approaches have emerged to support skilled police crisis responses. One such approach is the police-mental health co-responding team model, whereby mental health nurses and police officers jointly respond to mental health crises in ...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Lamanna D,Shapiro GK,Kirst M,Matheson FI,Nakhost A,Stergiopoulos V

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The next of kin play a decisive role in the care provided for patients. This and their unique experience of psychiatric care make it important to include them when defining quality of care. The aim of the present study was to describe how next of kin perceive the concept of quality of care in the case of psychiatric c...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Schröder A,Larsson BW,Ahlström G

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postpartum depression is a serious mental illnessdisorder that occurs after delivery and is one of the most common post-partum complications. With the increasing popularity and extensive use of smartphones worldwide and the fact that China has become the country with the largest number of smartphone users, it is neces...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Li Y,Zhao Q,Cross WM,Chen J,Qin C,Sun M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study reported here is taken from a wider investigation into stress among preregistration nursing students, undertaken in the nursing department of a large university in northern England. British nursing is divided into four specialties or 'branches': adult, mental health, children's, and learning disability nursi...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Pryjmachuk S,Richards DA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medication adherence is problematic in all chronic illnesses, none more so than in individuals with schizophrenia. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the factors that impacted upon antipsychotic medication taking in people with schizophrenia living in regional-rural and metropolitan Victoria, Austral...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： McCann TV,Deans C,Clark E,Lu S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clients' perceptions of continuous support during the transition from hospital to the community have been understudied. The present study evaluated clients' perceptions of the benefits and potential adjustments to the implementation of a transitional discharge model (TDM), an intervention for community integration of ...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Forchuk C,Gyamfi S,Martin ML,Corring D,Srivastava R,Harerimana B

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The manner in which people with mental illness are supported in a crisis is crucial to their recovery. The current study explored mental health consumers' experiences with formal crisis services (i.e. police and crisis assessment and treatment (CAT) teams), preferred crisis supports, and opinions of four collaborative...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Boscarato K,Lee S,Kroschel J,Hollander Y,Brennan A,Warren N

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peer workers are increasingly being engaged in contemporary mental healthcare. To become a peer worker, patients must evolve from having a patient identity to a peer worker identity. This study aims to understand how mental health peer workers experience their transition and how it affects their view of themselves and...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Debyser B,Berben K,Beeckman D,Deproost E,Van Hecke A,Verhaeghe S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Holistic and person-centred nursing care is commonly regarded as fundamental to nursing practice. These approaches are complementary to recovery which is rapidly becoming the preferred mode of practice within mental health. The willingness and ability of nurses to adopt recovery-oriented practice is essential to servi...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Happell B,Waks S,Bocking J,Horgan A,Manning F,Greaney S,Goodwin J,Scholz B,van der Vaart KJ,Allon J,Granerud A,Hals E,Doody R,Russell S,Griffin M,MacGabhann L,Lahti M,Ellilä H,Pulli J,Vatula A,Platania-Phung C,B

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores what is known about adherence to antipsychotic medications in general and the possible reasons for non-adherence in Samoan New Zealanders. Samoan New Zealanders are either Samoan-born immigrants or their descendents born in New Zealand. Clinicians recognize a high prevalence of non-adherence among ...

journal_title：International journal of mental health nursing

authors： Ioasa-Martin I,Moore LJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00