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Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Western Sydney University
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.26183/K26Y-KB88
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
DOI: 10.5688/AJPE787135
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-11-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2014
DOI: 10.5688/AJPE787133
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Date: 02-2020
DOI: 10.1029/2019EF001287
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1071/AH13134
Abstract: Objectives People with mental illness are at significantly higher risk of acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV) compared with the general population. This study assessed knowledge of and attitudes towards people with HCV and people who inject drugs (PWID) among support workers of clients with mental illness. Methods Support workers from a community managed organisation (CMO) in Australia were recruited to complete an online cross-sectional survey. The survey collected data about their knowledge of HCV and attitudes towards PWID and people with HCV. Results Valid responses were received from 117 support workers. Although HCV knowledge was moderate, there were significant knowledge gaps around transmission and treatment of HCV. Higher HCV knowledge was significantly associated with more positive attitudes towards PWID, but not with attitudes towards people with HCV. Participants had more positive attitudes towards people with HCV than towards PWID. Additionally, those with more positive attitudes towards HCV tended to also have more positive attitudes towards PWID. Conclusions Given that people with mental illness are at higher risk of acquiring HCV, these results point to the need for education targeted at support workers of clients with mental illness to increase HCV knowledge and promote positive attitudes towards PWID and people with HCV. What is known about this topic? The limited research available suggests that there are gaps in HCV knowledge among mental-health-service providers, although such research has generally targeted physicians. What does this paper add? This paper is the first to assess HCV knowledge, attitudes towards PWID and HCV among mental-health support workers. The findings suggest that although HCV knowledge is moderate, significant gaps exist, which are related to negative attitudes towards PWID. What are the implications for practitioners? Supportive and non-judgemental care is essential for people with mental illness and HCV, due to the potential for a double stigma arising from negative attitudes towards both mental illness and injecting drug use. This paper highlights the importance of targeted education for workers in the mental-health sector, to increase HCV knowledge and promote positive attitudes towards people with co-occurring mental-health, substance use problems and HCV.
Publisher: The Optical Society
Date: 22-06-2018
DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.003100
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 31-08-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2015
DOI: 10.5688/AJPE79335
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-06-2021
DOI: 10.1111/BJC.12312
Abstract: Recovery from mental illness is multiply‐determined, but one factor that has been proposed to influence recovery is the degree to which the person identifies as someone with a mental illness. This study examines the relationship between implicit identification with being mentally unwell and recovery among clients of a community mental health service. A multi‐faceted view of recovery was adopted. A longitudinal design was used to assess implicit identification with mental illness and its relationship to recovery, including symptom severity, well‐being, life satisfaction, and optimism, which were supplemented with ratings by both support workers and the research assistants who conducted the study. Participants were 216 community mental health care clients, with 150 retested at Time 2, and 100 retested at Time 3. Implicit identification with mental illness was correlated with recovery at Time 1 and Time 3, though this relationship did not emerge at Time 2. Cross‐lag regression analyses failed to reveal evidence that implicit identification with mental illness predicts subsequent recovery. The current research suggests that implicit identification with mental illness can be considered a marker of ongoing recovery, but is not predictive of subsequent recovery. Hence, these data suggest that implicit identification with mental illness is unlikely to play an independent role in the recovery process. Research regarding the mental health consequences of implicit identification focuses on symptomatology. Recovery is more than a reduction in symptoms, however, and thus, a broader conceptualization of recovery was examined. Implicit identification with being mentally unwell was associated with poorer recovery broadly operationalized, but did not predict subsequent recovery.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2018
Abstract: This article examines the relationships between goal setting and achievement, working alliance and recovery in an Australian mental health community-managed organisation. The study gathered data over a 14-month period after the introduction of routine outcome measures. Both goal achievement and the strength of the working alliance were shown to have a positive effect on the personal recovery of the clients in the study. Both working alliance and goal achievement are robustly supportive at whatever point a person is on in the recovery journey. The brief goals card used is a useful adjunct to other tools.
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 08-2019
DOI: 10.1111/HSC.12821
Abstract: Community mental health is a vital service, but it faces ongoing challenges from its high staff-turnover rates. The current study provides a preliminary test of a novel explanation for employee disengagement in community mental health. It is proposed that providing assistance to clients, while simultaneously feeling that only limited progress is being made, is associated with client-related burnout among community mental health providers, leading to negative work outcomes. Employees (N = 349) from three non-governmental community mental health organisations in Australia completed a survey assessing their perceptions of client improvement from treatment, client-related burnout and a range of organisational outcomes. Analyses revealed that perceptions that clients are not improving was associated with burnout, which in turn is related to lower job satisfaction, decreased job engagement, poorer workplace well-being, and increased turnover intentions. These findings suggest that interventions that highlight positive changes among clients could reinforce the important service provided by community mental health employees and may minimise burnout and negative work outcomes.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-04-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2018
Abstract: Research suggests that stigma impacts help-seeking behaviour and health outcomes for people affected by mental illness. This study compared the attitudes of Australian non-governmental organisation support workers towards people with mental illness with those of other health professionals. Three hundred and seventy four support workers were randomly allocated to answer questions about one of the six vignettes. Results indicated that non-governmental organisation support workers held more positive attitudes towards people with mental illness than those of general practitioners, psychiatrists and psychologists measured in prior research. These results suggest that non-governmental organisations may be a more positive and comfortable entry and referral point for mental health clients.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-1995
Abstract: This study investigated how color and flavor influences drink identification by children and adults. The children ranged in age from 2 to 18 years of age. Each subject tasted four drinks that differed in color and flavor. Each drink had an atypical color-flavor pairing (e.g., brown-pineapple) or a typical pairing (e.g., brown-chocolate). After tasting each drink, the subject chose which of four flavor names identified the drink. For the atypical drinks, the selection of color-associated names (e.g., chocolate for a brown drink) decreased, and the selection of flavor-associated names increased with age from the preschoolers to the adults. For the typical drinks, the selection of the correct name was greater than 80% for all ages. These results suggest that drink identification becomes more influenced by flavor as children get older because of an increase in the ability of children to focus on flavor as their perceptual-attentional skills mature.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-2006
Abstract: To identify the factors influencing Australian community pharmacists' willingness to participate in research projects and their attitudes towards research. A mixed-method survey instrument comprising demographics, previous participation in research, and perceptions about participation in research was mailed to 267 community pharmacists in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. An analysis of variance test was used to identify similarities and differences between research- and non-research-active respondents. Bivariate correlations and partial least squares (PLS) regression analyses were used to identify barriers and facilitators to research participation. The overall response rate to the survey was 40%. Of these, 70% were classified as previous research participants (PRP), and 30% were classified as non-previous research participants (NPRP). Both groups had mostly favourable attitudes towards research however, the results revealed several differences between the PRP and NPRP groups. Three items were identified as key facilitators to participation in research for both PRP and NPRP groups - having an interest in the research topic believing that the research will benefit the customer and a belief that community pharmacy research is important. Lack of time, either real or perceived, was identified as a key barrier to participation in research for both the PRP and NPRP groups. Researchers should take into account pharmacists' previous research experience when recruiting pharmacists into research projects. In the case of pharmacists with research experience, emphasis should be on promoting factors that facilitate participation. In the case of pharmacists with little research experience, emphasis should be on reducing barriers to participation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-09-2010
Abstract: Dyslipidaemia is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease. A key issue in management is adherence to therapy. Pharmacists are ideally situated to provide a service to increase medication adherence and optimize health outcomes. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a community pharmacist-delivered adherence support service on patients' adherence and total cholesterol levels. A repeated measures [baseline (t = 1), post-intervention at 3-monthly intervals (t = 2,3,4)], randomized-controlled study in community pharmacies, with patients on chronic lipid-lowering therapy was conducted. Measures used were Brief Medication Questionnaire, Medication Adherence Report Scale, total cholesterol and pharmacist intervention data sheets. A baseline t-test of cholesterol levels between groups was conducted followed by a repeated-measures analysis of variance. Seventeen pharmacists recruited 142 patients (97 completions: 49 control, 48 intervention). Most patients missed either the third or last visit, thus data at t = 3 and 4 were combined. Although the intervention group started with a higher cholesterol level (5.1 vs. 4.8 mmol/l), a difference was observed in the drop in cholesterol levels of the intervention group between t = 2 and 3 (F(1,95) = 8.85, P < 0.01), and between the two groups over the study period (F(2,190) = 4.89, P < 0.05). No changes in medicine adherence scores were observed though there was an improvement in participants' exercise and eating habits. Patients significantly lowered their cholesterol levels probably as a result of the service delivered by their pharmacists within the short study time frame of ~9 months.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2006
DOI: 10.1345/APH.1H163
Abstract: People with mental illness have been recognized as key stakeholders in the development of mental health education. However, few studies have evaluated the impact of people with mental illness as participants in education programs for students studying to become health professionals. To assess the impact of education provided by mental health consumer–educators on the attitudes of pharmacy students toward people with mental illness. The study used a 2 group, nonrandomized, clustered, comparative design, with 4 tutorial classes allocated to receive standard pharmacist-led instruction (comparison group), and 5 tutorial classes to receive standard pharmacist-led instruction plus additional input from mental health consumer–educators (intervention group). All pharmacy students (N = 229) enrolled in the third year of a 4 year pharmacy degree program were invited to participate. Consumer–educators receiving ongoing treatment for illnesses including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression participated in small-group work, case-study discussions, and role plays with pharmacy students in the intervention group. Pharmacy students' attitudes were assessed using a 39 item survey instrument derived from previously published instruments evaluating social distance, attribution, provision of pharmaceutical services, and stigmatization of people with schizophrenia and severe depression. Paired baseline and follow-up responses were obtained from 117 students in the intervention group and 94 students in the comparison group. Students who received the consumer intervention had decreased social distance scores (F (1209) = 5.30 p = 0.02). Students in the intervention group more strongly disagreed with 26 of 27 nonsocial distance statements that demonstrated a negative attitude toward people with mental illness (F (1209) = 13.58 p 0.001) and more strongly agreed with all 4 nonsocial distance statements that demonstrated a positive attitude (F (1209) = 7.56 p = 0.014). Consumer participation in mental health education for pharmacy students improves students' attitudes toward people with mental illness.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2010
DOI: 10.5688/AJ7406106
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1999
Abstract: The development of meat-eating habits of 999 Australian children between 1 and 16 years of age stratified across socioeconomic groups, was determined using a 4-day diary and measurement procedures to document intake. The results indicated that a stable pattern of meat-eating behaviour, as regards the frequency and type of meat eaten was established during the period 1-4 years of age and remained until 10-12 years for males and until at least 14-16 years for females. In contrast, the amount of meat consumed increased with age, the greatest increases occurring with adolescent males who ate the largest amounts of beef, chicken and pork. It is suggested that the early establishment of meat-eating habits may reflect a more general effect that may occur with other types of food.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.SAPHARM.2014.04.001
Abstract: Hospital pharmacists around the world are becoming increasingly involved in promoting the responsible use of medicines through clinical pharmacy services. This is reflected in the Basel Statements developed by the International Pharmaceutical Federation Hospital Pharmacy Section, particularly the theme 'Influences on Prescribing.' Some countries, particularly in Asia, are currently establishing clinical pharmacy services and would benefit from identification of facilitators. To validate a survey exploring clinical pharmacy services focusing on pharmacists' influences on prescribing, based on Basel Statements 28-31, and the factors that affect their implementation in the Western Pacific Region (WPR). Content and face validity of the survey (BS28-31) was established. This resulted in the BS28-31 consisting of 20 questions, which included a Clinical Pharmacy Services Facilitators (CPSF) scale (25 items) to measure respondents' perceptions of facilitators of clinical pharmacy services. The BS28-31 was emailed to hospital pharmacy directors in the WPR. The survey was made available in English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, French and Mongolian. Principal components and internal consistency analyses were conducted to assess the reliability and construct validity of the CPSF scale. The final survey was sent to a total of 2525 hospital pharmacy directors in the WPR of which 726 were returned from 31 nations yielding a response rate of 29%. Two items in the scale were removed due to low communalities (0.22 and 0.16). The resulting 23 item scale produced a parsimonious two-factor solution, ided into internal (e.g. in idual pharmacist traits and pharmacy departmental structure/resources) and environmental facilitators (e.g. government support, patient and physician expectations). This two factor solution explained 51.5% of the variance. In addition, the Cronbach's α for the internal and environmental subscales were 0.94 and 0.78 respectively. The BS28-31 survey was found to be a reliable and valid instrument for assessing hospital pharmacy directors' perceptions of clinical pharmacy services regarding pharmacists' influences on prescribing and their facilitators in the WPR.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-06-2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-07-2019
DOI: 10.1093/BJSW/BCY057
Abstract: This study explored how social workers located in Sydney and Hong Kong conceptualised client empowerment. Further, it investigated these professionals’ perceived facilitators and barriers to their empowerment practices, based on an ecological framework. A cross-sectional online survey was used, where the original Empowerment Scale for clients with mental health issues was adapted to measure conceptualisation of client empowerment from social workers’ perspectives. Eighty-three social workers serving people with mental health issues (MHIs) in Sydney and eighty in Hong Kong responded. A two-factor model was generated suggesting that practitioners tend to conceptualise client empowerment into two aspects: a relation-based dimension and a resource-oriented one. Compared with their Sydney counterparts, the Hong Kong practitioners considered resource-oriented empowerment as more integral to client empowerment (t(161) = 4.17, p & 0.001). Several key factors were found to be independently associated with endorsement of the two-factor client-empowerment model by practitioners: perceived less support from medical specialists but more support from teams serving the same client, perceived benefits of social work training and, finally, beliefs in the importance of social workers’ role in client empowerment. The study highlights the multiple dimensions of client empowerment and a wide range of inter-professional and sociostructural factors enabling social workers’ practices that support empowerment. Our paper highlights the role of professional empowerment as a stepping stone to enable their client-empowerment practices through policy support and inter-professional collaboration.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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