Administrative update: utilization of services. III. Factors affecting emergency service utilization at a rural community mental health center.

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to determine the acute and long term services and supports (LTSS) utilization, cost of health care and disparities in access of care for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). Individuals with IDD on a waiver (receiving Medicaid-funded LTSS in community setting...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Amin MR,Gentile JP,Edwards B,Davis M

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Although case management is an important component of treatment for persons with major mental illnesses, little is known about who works in case management, what functions are performed and how much occupational stress case managers experience. Mental health care managers (CM's) throughout the state of Oregon (N = 216...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hromco JG,Lyons JS,Nikkel RE

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study surveyed federally-funded emergency psychiatric programs in 33 California community mental health centers (CMHCs). Four aspects of service organization were examined: (1) the availability of various response styles (telephone service, walk-in service, follow-up home visits, mobile initial response); ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Gaynor J,Hargreaves WA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing and responding to suicidal risk among inmates is discussed based on a comprehensive literature review and personal experience. Sections detailing jail conditions, suicide risk factors, reasons for self-harm, and practical responses are included. Intoxication, isolation, and the initial 24 hours of incarcerat...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Winkler GE

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About half of the current activity in consultation and education services of community mental health centers can be classified as primary prevention. Using a framework that distinguishes between institutional-level interventions (caretaker training and program consultation) and individual-level interventions (dealing ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Vayda AM,Perlmutter FD

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus of the present study was to examine the extent of noncompliance in psychiatric aftercare in an integrated hospital and community mental health service. Characteristics of those patients who were noncompliant were explored in order to facilitate the prediction of treatment noncompliance at the point of discha...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Owen C,Rutherford V,Jones M,Tennant C,Smallman A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proliferation of recent literature provides substantial direction as to the key ingredients-target groups, messages and methods, and evaluation-of local-level, public interventions to counter stigma and discrimination. This paper provides a selective narrative review of that literature from the perspective or standp...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ashton LJ,Gordon SE,Reeves RA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to explore four mental health consumers' experiences of completing self-report outcome measures in a research project. Participants were recruited from a community mental health organisation in Melbourne and were interviewed upon completion of a mixed methods research study where they were asked to co...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bibb J,McFerran KS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hurricane Katrina caused many individuals to evacuate to towns and cities throughout the United States. Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a treatment program designed to help clinicians and other disaster relief workers address the needs of adults, youth, and families immediately following disasters. We conducted focus...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Legerski JP,Vernberg EM,Noland BJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pictorial mood assessments reduce the barriers of age, culture, gender and language fluency in the course of psychiatric assessments. This study sought to validate the Ottawa Mood Scales, a pictorial form of mood assessment questionnaire among non-native English speaking young adults in Malaysia. Since the Ottawa Mood...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Wong MY,Croarkin PE,Lee CK,Lee PF

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This study described the prevalence and correlates of comorbid moderate-severe depressive symptoms (comorbid depression thereafter) and their association with quality of life (QOL) in schizophrenia patients treated in primary care. 623 schizophrenia patients were enrolled. Patients' socio-demographic and clinical char...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hou CL,Ma XR,Cai MY,Li Y,Zang Y,Jia FJ,Lin YQ,Chiu HF,Ungvari GS,Hall BJ,Zhong BL,Cao XL,Xiang YT

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts are highly prevalent comorbidities of end-stage-renal-disease (ESRD). There are no studies in Lebanon on the prevalence of these symptoms in Lebanese end-stage-renal-disease patients. Moreover, the association between ESRD on one hand, and anxiety, depression and suicidal idea...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Macaron G,Fahed M,Matar D,Bou-Khalil R,Kazour F,Nehme-Chlela D,Richa S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe uses for a 17-item instrument that efficiently measures the functioning level of chronically mentally ill persons living in the community. The Multnomah Community Ability Scale is designed to be completed by case managers who work with chronically mentally ill consumers. The instrument is sensitiv...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Barker S,Barron N,McFarland BH,Bigelow DA,Carnahan T

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sociodemographic differences between rural and urban clients with severe mental illness (SMI) are explored using approaches which extend research in this area beyond limitations found in the few existing studies. Sixteen hundred adult clients from 18 Wisconsin counties are classified according to the degree of ruralit...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Greenley JR,Dottl SL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with the significance of recent changes in the public's ability to correctly identify descriptions of mental illness. Whereas other investigators have argued that increased abilities to identify mental illness may lead to greater acceptance of the mentally ill, this paper suggests that increase...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Phillips DL

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are the addict and alcoholic mentally ill? By traditional standards, yes. The validity of the "mental illness" concept and its associated psychiatric labeling process, however, is challenged. A synthesis of the human ecological systems and third-force frames of reference is presented as a viable alternative to the med...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Carroll JF

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric rehabilitation supports individuals with mental disorders to acquire the skills needed for independent lives in communities. This article assesses the potential of outsourcing psychiatric rehabilitation by analysing care farm services in the Netherlands. Service characteristics were analysed across 214 car...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Iancu SC,Zweekhorst MB,Veltman DJ,van Balkom AJ,Bunders JF

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was intended to evaluate the mental health literacy vis-à-vis depression among inhabitants of Penang state in North Malaysia. Using a clustered random sampling method, 1,855 respondents were approached to participate in the survey. A total of 1,149 respondents actually participated, for a 61.9% response rat...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Khan TM,Sulaiman SA,Hassali MA,Anwar M,Wasif G,Khan AH

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association of opinions towards seeking psychiatric help with the duration of untreated mental disorders in a sectorized Athens area, served by a Community Mental Health Centre. The sample consisted of 134 individuals who had sought help from health or mental hea...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Madianos MG,Zartaloudi A,Alevizopoulos G,Katostaras T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five issues have been identified as major impediments to program evaluation. Examination of these issues shows many of them to be resolved in the process of conducting evaluations. It is asserted that only by implementing evaluations will the field move foreward. At the present time much energy is wasted discussing or...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Edwards DW,Yarvis RM

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persons with developmental disabilities and mental health needs present a complex and potentially rewarding challenge to workers in both developmental disabilities (DD) and mental health (MH) fields. These individuals may be shuttled between (DD) and (MH) systems. Effective care requires the person obtain services fro...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ryan R,Neligh GL,Aderman S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jail diversion and forensic community treatment programs have proliferated over the past decade, far outpacing evidence regarding their efficacy. The current study reports findings from a randomized clinical trial conducted in California for frequent jail users with serious mental illness that compares a forensic asse...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Cusack KJ,Morrissey JP,Cuddeback GS,Prins A,Williams DM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antipsychotic polypharmacy (APP) is a common strategy despite guidelines advising against this practice. This article seeks to quantify the prevalence and correlates of APP using Medicaid Analytic eXtract files from 2003 to 2004. Nineteen percent of Medicaid recipients who received an antipsychotic were treated with A...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Cotes RO,Goldsmith DR,Kopelovich SL,Lally CA,Druss BG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual dietetic consultations were trialled in a community-based first-episode psychosis program. Participants received eight individualised dietetic consultations, plus weekly shopping tours and cooking groups. The outcome measure was waist circumference (WC). In total, 30 patients commenced the program. An inten...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Teasdale S,Harris S,Rosenbaum S,Watkins A,Samaras K,Curtis J,Ward PB

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose is to present the mental health rehabilitation reform enacted in Israel in 2000, and to analyze the challenges it faces in its second decade of implementation. Lessons are drawn with regard to other jurisdictions interested in reforming mental health services. Besides reviewing the reform's accomplishments and...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Aviram U

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this paper is to document and evaluate the process of implementing an evidence-based depression intervention in community settings through the use of community-academic partnered approaches. We discuss how and to what extent the goals of community engagement and collaborative planning were achieved in the ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Khodyakov D,Sharif MZ,Dixon EL,Mendel P,Chung B,Linkski B,Jones JB

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with mental illness and mental retardation often fall between system and agency service cracks. This paper describes some of the barriers individuals and communities confront in developing new or expanding existing services to meet the needs of this population. It then describes how one community initiated...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Woodward HL

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As it is increasingly evident that distressing voices can be linked to traumatic events across diagnoses, there is a need for new transdiagnostic interventions for persons with voice hearing related distress. Twenty-five interviews with voice hearers and mental health professionals explored the trans-diagnostic suitab...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Schnackenberg J,Fleming M,Walker H,Martin CR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in activity patterns of 12 case managers over the first year of an intensive community support program are described and a method and format for the collection and analysis of time budget data in case management are presented. During the first six months of the program case managers recorded the predominant ac...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Wright RG,Sklebar HT,Heiman JR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a burgeoning literature on first-episode psychosis, the focus of which is early intervention. Little emphasis has been placed on the responses of young people to their experiences of psychosis. This study, therefore, aimed to describe and explain the responses of young people to their first episode of psychos...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Henderson AR,Cock A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00