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China's Mental Health Law Reform
Published in Bo Chen, Mental Health Law in China, 2023
When a person with a suspected mental disorder is at risk of harming themselves or others, a broader range of entities, including employers and the police, shall immediately intervene and take the person to a mental health facility for diagnostic assessment.93However, there is no clear time restriction for the assessment. Article 29 merely provides that, when receiving persons with suspected mental disorders deemed posing a risk, medical facilities shall hold them, designate a registered psychiatrist for diagnostic assessment immediately who issue a formal diagnostic result promptly.94
Disease prevention and screening in public health
Published in Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong, The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community, 2021
Martin C.S. Wong, Junjie Huang, Kevin Law, Hanyue Ding, Yun-yang Deng
Mental disorders include a wide range of diseases about mental condition, such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and schizophrenia. The widely used screening tools include Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2), World Health Organisation 5-Item Well-Being Index (WHO-5), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-2) and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS).
Mental health
Published in Gary Chan Kok Yew, Health Law and Medical Ethics in Singapore, 2020
Major Depressive Disorder, alcohol abuse and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder are the more common mental disorders amongst Singaporeans.12 Other notable mental disorders include schizophrenia, panic disorder, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, anxiety disorder and dementia.
Time trends in co-occurring substance use and psychiatric illness (dual diagnosis) from 2000 to 2017 – a nationwide study of Danish register data
Published in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2023
Solvej Mårtensson, Signe W. Düring, Katrine S. Johansen, Katrine Tranberg, Merete Nordentoft
The increase in patients with dual diagnosis in treatment should be of great concern as health care already struggles with supplying adequate treatment for this group, and action at different levels is necessary. At the societal level, there is a need for better understanding the drivers of both mental illness and substance use to implement more effective prevention strategies in order to stop the influx of patients as well as to prevent the harm from SUD for people with mental disorders. At the treatment level, there is a great need to ensure more intensive and coherent treatment of patients with dual diagnosis to guarantee more integrative and adequate treatment and prevent readmission for this patient group. The finding that dual-diagnosis patients constitute a large and an increasing proportion of patients also highlights the fact that staff dual-diagnosis competencies should be available at all treatment levels.
Demographic and Clinical Correlates of Treatment Completion among Older Adults with Heroin and Prescription Opioid Use Disorders
Published in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2022
Namkee G. Choi, Diana M. DiNitto, C. Nathan Marti, Bryan Y. Choi
PO cases with co-occurring mental disorders were less likely to complete outpatient treatment. While not statically significant, heroin cases with co-occurring mental disorders also appeared to have lower odds. It is not clear if treatments addressed co-occurring mental disorders. Some differences in factors associated with outpatient treatment for heroin and PO also need mentioning. While living arrangement was not a significant factor for PO cases, supervised housing was a positive factor for heroin cases, suggesting that heroin cases likely need supportive housing services to succeed. While referrals from substance use service providers and employer/other community sources were not significant factors for heroin cases, they were for PO cases, suggesting that the latter likely have more formal and informal support. Although there were marital status-related differences, we refrain from interpreting them given the high rates of missing marital status data in both types of opioid cases.
Positive factors related to graduate student mental health
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Susan T. Charles, Melissa M. Karnaze, Frances M. Leslie
Depressive symptoms were assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale Revised (CESD-R27). The CESD-R asks participants to rate the extent to which they experienced each of 20 symptoms in the past several weeks on a scale ranging from 1 (Not at all or less than one day in the last week) to 5 (Nearly every day for 2 weeks). Symptoms were based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Edition) criteria for a major depressive episode, including feelings of sadness and guilt, loss of interest in activities, fatigue, poor sleep and appetite, and suicidal ideation. To ensure that scores were consistent with the previously validated and reliable CES-D cutoffs,31 the CESD-R scale from 1-5 was recoded to a 0-3 scale, with the two highest scores both recoded to 3, as recommended.27 Only people who responded to all questions were included. A total score of 16 or greater is the cutoff score indicative of, or being at risk for, clinical depression.31 The cutoff value for a severe depressive episode is ≥ 28. Summed scores ranged from 0 to 60 (M = 14.30, SD = 12.11; α = .95).