S Priebe

..This study aimed to develop a measure of the TR with clinician and patient versions using psychometric principles for test construction...

..for mental distress? (2) Are perceived causes of mental distress actually related to treatment preferences? (3) Are EMs influenced uniquely by ethnic group, or are they more closely associated with the presence of common mental disorders?..

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..War experiences can affect mental health, but large-scale studies on the long-term impact are rare. We aimed to assess long-term mental health consequences of war in both people who stayed in the conflict area and refugees...

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..This study explored the psychometric qualities of the outcome data generated in the DIALOG intervention to explore whether they may be used for evaluating treatment outcomes...

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..There is little empirical evidence on how health professionals cope with this challenge. This study explores the experiences of health professionals providing care to IM in three types of health care service across 16 European countries...

..Care appears highly valued by the patients. The findings encourage establishing more centres in the region and call for employment schemes for people with mental illnesses...

..This study assessed the views and values of professionals working in different health care contexts and in different European countries as to what constitutes good practice in health care for immigrants...

..However, there is a lack of knowledge across Europe concerning interventions that aim at reducing somatic morbidity and excess mortality by promoting behaviour-based and/or environment-based interventions...

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..This study focuses on how health professionals navigate and how they experience providing treatment for undocumented migrants in the Danish health care system...

..To establish whether reinstitutionalisation is occurring in mental health care and, if so, with what variations between western European countries...

..This study aims to assess the prevalence of mental disorders, level of psychological symptoms and subjective quality of life in a random sample in a rural region in Italy 8 years after an earthquake...

..Little is known about what characteristics of teams, staff and patients are associated with a favourable outcome of severe mental illness managed by assertive outreach...

..Assertive outreach has been established to care for'difficult to engage' patients, yet little is known about how patients experience their disengagement with mainstream services and later engagement with outreach teams...

..To assess long-term mental health outcomes in people who suffer from war-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but do not receive appropriate treatment...

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..Little is known about the long-term outcome of involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals...

..Data on effectiveness of acute day hospital treatment for psychiatric illness are inconsistent...

..Outcomes reflecting the social situation are widely considered as important in the treatment of people with schizophrenia...

..Patient-clinician communication is central to mental healthcare but neglected in research...

..This study aimed to establish whether there has been a trend in Europe toward more institutionalized care since 2002...

..This study designed and tested a new method of combining different relevant selection criteria within the context of a survey of housing services for people with mental health disorders in England...

..The study aimed to develop and test a simple, brief and meaningful index of social outcomes that can be used across a broad range of mental health studies and is potentially obtainable from routine documentation...

..If so, it could be expected to be closely associated with physical, but not psychological symptoms. The study tests this hypothesis...

..Yet, samples were often non-representative or small or both. This study aims to assess the prevalence of PTSD and predictors of PTSD 6 months after an earthquake in a rural region of Italy...

..This would be in the interest of clinicians, in optimizing their therapeutic potential, and patients alike...

..The association of employment and SQOL was stronger in mood and neurotic disorders than in schizophrenia. The findings may inform the use and interpretation of SQOL data for patients with schizophrenia...

..This study assessed treatment costs and outcomes in such centers in former Yugoslavia...

..Offering financial incentives to achieve medication adherence in patients with severe mental illness is controversial...

..Legislation and practice of involuntary hospital admission vary substantially among European countries, but differences in outcomes have not been studied...

..However, there has been little practical attention to training in it, and no specific theory of what constitutes good communication in psychiatry has been developed. This review aims to identify principles that guide good communication...

..It is less clear whether the TR also predicts outcomes of psychiatric treatment programmes in patients with psychosis (i.e. outside conventional psychotherapy)...

..This study explores whether and, if so, to what extent direct treatment costs as paid by insurance companies and social welfare in the German health care system can be estimated through a simple Institutionalisation-Index...

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..The study aimed to identify patient characteristics associated with differences in outcomes of acute treatment in day hospitals and conventional hospital wards...

..Patients' initial experience of treatment, in the form of perceived coercion or satisfaction with treatment, has predictive value for up to a year following the admission...

..As compared to other stressful experiences, the experience of human rights violations similarly increases the risk of PTSD, but appears more important for MD...

..Although the model of assertive outreach has been widely adopted, it is unclear who receives assertive outreach in practice and what outcomes can be expected under routine conditions...

..This study aimed to establish whether psychiatric patients' subjective initial response (SIR) to hospital and day hospital treatment predicts outcomes over a one-year follow-up period...

..5% of variance. The findings indicate that SQOL changes are influenced by symptom change, in particular in depression/anxiety. The level of influence is limited and may not compromise using SQOL as an independent outcome measure...

..To investigate the therapeutic relationship and how it is influenced by sociodemographic and clinical factors...

..This study aimed to assess patient characteristics, care provision and costs in different types of housing services in England...

..Assertive outreach teams have been introduced in the UK, based on the assertive community treatment (ACT) model. It is unclear how models of community care translate from one culture to another or the degree of adaptation that may result...

..To investigate the relationship between social exclusion and outcomes of mentally ill patients with substance abuse problems receiving assertive outreach treatment in London...

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..These data suggest that treatment of depression associated with CFS, regardless of causation, could help to improve SQOL in CFS patients...

..The high dissatisfaction with several social domains of life should be considered in treatment, and depressive and anxiety symptoms might be targeted to improve SQOL...

..The aims of the present study were to assess the extent to which levels of morale are sensitive to differences between professional groups and health care systems, and identify factors influencing morale across groups and settings...

..Patients with acute paranoid schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder seem to have a specific and consistent disturbance of body size perception, which might indicate a dysfunction of sensory information processing...

..High scores on ego-demarcation at admission predicted poor treatment outcome after 2 weeks. The findings suggest that ego-pathology might be used to capture additional and clinically meaningful symptom dimensions in schizophrenia...

..Quantifying repair offers a new way of analyzing how mutual understanding is established in interaction, and links communication processes with treatment outcomes...

..We tested the hypothesis that the political change occurring in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 affected patients with long-term schizophrenia, resulting in more and longer hospitalisations...

..Psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been associated with problematically low treatment completion rates...

..Migrants are a heterogeneous group as regards their country of emigration, reasons for migration and legal status...

..We also looked at: (3) If these pathologies, and/or changes in them, or other characteristics are associated with specific clinical outcomes...

..Hence, unpacking the presuppositions that have informed research on the therapeutic relationship to date may be a useful first step in developing this field...

..The high levels of emotional distress suggest that psychosocial management is as important as physical management in hospital outpatients with chronic fatigue syndrome, irrespective of its aetiology...

..War experience may affect mental health. However, no community-based study has assessed mental disorders several years after war using consistent random sampling of war-affected people across several Western countries...

..Finally, methodological advances in linking communication processes with treatment outcomes in large-scale observational studies and trials are a challenge for research on medical communication...

..Patient-reported outcomes are increasingly used to evaluate the care of people with schizophrenia...

..This study aimed to assess involuntary inpatients' satisfaction with treatment and explore how coercion and other factors are associated with satisfaction...

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..To review the methods and findings from studies of the therapeutic relationship (TR) in the treatment of severe mental illness...

..In this paper, we review the conceptual issues related to the provision of supported housing schemes, the characteristics of residents, research methods and outcomes, and the factors influencing the quality of care provided...

..To investigate how doctors engage with patients with psychotic illness in routine consultations...

..Such an empirical approach to examining psychiatric ethics may ensure that we incorporate the subjectivities of various interested parties in the clinical decision-making process...

..Moreover, the study will hopefully reveal new insights into how therapeutic processes in community mental health care work and how they can be optimised...

..The study investigated whether long-stay patients would benefit from discharge into the community in Berlin, Germany...

..Rehospitalization was assessed over a 9-month follow-up period. Controlling for other predictors, a more positive TR was found to predict fewer hospitalizations in new patients but not in established ones...

..This is the first randomized controlled trial specifically designed to test the effectiveness of manualized BPT on negative symptoms in chronic schizophrenia...

..Explanatory models of illness may differ between ethnic groups and influence treatment satisfaction and compliance...

..While most participants, for different reasons, did not want to seek psychiatric treatment, a significant number, particularly in Western European countries, felt prevented from receiving treatment...

..At least for this group, new approaches might have to be considered. Larger studies are required to identify predictors on which patients are likely to fall into this group...

..Due to the different condition of migration in Europe, variables related to mental health of migrants are: motivation for migration, living conditions in the home and in the host country...

..The review aims to identify the extent and nature of research on mental disorders and their care in immigrant populations in three major European countries with high levels of immigration, i.e. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom (UK)...

..Therefore, future research needs to focus on how the general factor can be assessed more directly and to identify how the specific variance of different criteria independent of that factor can be maximized...

..Therefore, this study investigates what is reported in German language publications on mental health service research...

..This leads to the anticipation of positive as well as negatives scenarios for the future which are briefly described and contrasted...

..The aim of this study was to test whether aspects of the initial non-verbal behaviour of patients with schizophrenia and depression in medical consultations differ and are associated with symptom levels in each group...

..To identify and characterize a subgroup of schizophrenia patients with marked and dominating bodily sensations (cenesthesias and body image aberration)...

..Although there has been some research on a nation-wide level, no work has been done to compare mental health legislation in different countries in relation to detention rates and to patients' perception of hospital detention...

..The paper reports an historical analysis of the debate on trauma and psychosis in German psychiatry...

..This study aimed to explore psychiatric patients' experiences of involuntary admission and treatment by reviewing qualitative studies...

..The historical view may enrich the current debate in which the concept of posttraumatic stress disorder has been increasingly criticized...

..However, integrating various models of psychological trauma into a psychiatric tradition focusing on a biological model proved to be difficult and inconsistent...

..To explore the current state of Italian social psychiatry research as evidenced by original papers published in peer-reviewed journals 2004-2006...

..The methodological quality of research should be improved to establish whether the inconsistency of findings reflects methodological artefacts or true differences between different samples and contexts...

..It may influence patient outcome indirectly or be therapeutic in its own right. Appropriate conceptual models, evidence on effective interventions and specific training are required to optimise communication in everyday routine practice...

..Therapeutic alliance between clinicians and their patients is important in community mental healthcare. It is unclear whether providing effective interventions influences therapeutic alliance...

..Patients' views of the helping alliance and attitudes toward drugs should be considered in predicting compliance with antipsychotic medication...

..Both areas were - slowly and in discontinuity - established as criteria of integration of people with mental illnesses, which was increasingly accepted as an aim of mental health care...

..The concept of social exclusion is now widely used in discussions about the nature of disadvantage, and there are ongoing initiatives to promote social inclusion among those with mental health problems...

..To capture the views on user involvement among employees in community mental health services in Austria...

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..This study is aimed at exploring what schizophrenic patients and their closest relatives expect the further course of the illness will be like and how it can be influenced...

..Additionally, they reported more needs for support and more negative consequences of alcoholism. The findings underline the relevance of quality of life ratings in detoxification treatment and their association with depressive symptoms...