International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Participation in mental healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis

"This meta-synthesis demonstrates that service user participation in mental healthcare remains a policy aspiration, which generally has not been translated into clinical practice. The continued lack of impact on policy on the delivery of mental healthcare suggests that change may have to be community driven. Systemic service user advocacy groups could contribute critically to promoting authentic service user participation in the co-production of mental health services."

Interventions to increase use of services; Mental Health Awareness in Nigeria

"Mental health services in Nigeria consists mainly of large government psychiatric hospitals and there are very few mental health professionals to serve the large population of the country. However, more recently, community mental health services, which have been shown to improve access to care and clinical outcomes are beginning to develop in some locations.... Therefore interventions to increase service use are an essential component of health system. "

Content type: Research
| 11 July 2018

Assessment of patients’ satisfaction and associated factors among outpatients received mental health services at public hospitals of Mekelle Town, northern Ethiopia

Authors: Haftom Desta, Tesfay Berhe and Solomon Hintsa
Content type: Short report
| 28 June 2018

Knowledge of mental health legislation in Ghana: a case of the use of certificate of urgency in mental health care

Authors: Reindolf Anokye, Enoch Acheampong, Naomi Gyamfi, Amy Budu-Ainooson and Ernest Appiah Kyei
Content type: Research
| 26 June 2018

Child and adolescent mental health policy in South Africa: history, current policy development and implementation, and policy analysis

Authors: Stella Mokitimi, Marguerite Schneider and Petrus J. de Vries
Content type: Research
| 25 June 2018

Perceptions about pasung (physical restraint and confinement) of schizophrenia patients: a qualitative study among family members and other key stakeholders in Bogor Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia 2017

Authors: Nenden Hikmah Laila, Renti Mahkota, Tri Krianto and Siddharudha Shivalli
Content type: Research
| 18 June 2018

Does chronic disease influence susceptibility to the effects of air pollution on depressive symptoms in China?

Authors: Qing Wang and Zhiming Yang

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Content type: Debate
| 17 September 2008

Hope, despair and transformation: Climate change and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing

Authors: Jessica G Fritze, Grant A Blashki, Susie Burke and John Wiseman
Content type: Review
| 5 January 2015

Existing public health surveillance systems for mental health in China

Authors: Wei Zhou and Shuiyuan Xiao
Content type: Review
| 13 April 2008

Reducing stigma and discrimination: Candidate interventions

Authors: Graham Thornicroft, Elaine Brohan, Aliya Kassam and Elanor Lewis-Holmes
Content type: Research
| 4 September 2007

Relation between depression and sociodemographic factors

Authors: Noori Akhtar-Danesh and Janet Landeen
Content type: Case study
| 25 January 2011

Three models of community mental health services In low-income countries

Authors: Alex Cohen, Julian Eaton, Birgit Radtke, Christina George, Bro Victor Manuel, Mary De Silva and Vikram Patel

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International Journal of Mental Health Systems (IJMHS) publishes the latest mental health research and health systems research, reviews, case studies and guidelines, policy, debates, technical and methodological advances, and lessons from the field that will advance and shape the emerging discipline of global mental health.

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Participation in mental healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Norman J. Stomski and Paul Morrison

International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2017 11:67

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Global Mental Health and Development
Edited by: Prof Harry Minas
Collection published: 7 July 2014
Updated: 10 March 2015

International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Participation in mental healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Interventions to increase use of services; Mental Health Awareness in Nigeria

Articles

Assessment of patients’ satisfaction and associated factors among outpatients received mental health services at public hospitals of Mekelle Town, northern Ethiopia

Knowledge of mental health legislation in Ghana: a case of the use of certificate of urgency in mental health care

Child and adolescent mental health policy in South Africa: history, current policy development and implementation, and policy analysis

Perceptions about pasung (physical restraint and confinement) of schizophrenia patients: a qualitative study among family members and other key stakeholders in Bogor Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia 2017

Does chronic disease influence susceptibility to the effects of air pollution on depressive symptoms in China?

Hope, despair and transformation: Climate change and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing

Existing public health surveillance systems for mental health in China

Reducing stigma and discrimination: Candidate interventions

Relation between depression and sociodemographic factors

Three models of community mental health services In low-income countries

Aims and scope

Latest Review

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