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  1. Although a growing number of studies indicates a high prevalence of reported mental health problems in students and that the problems are growing in number and severity, less is known about the experiences of ...

    Authors: Maja Anna Marszalek, Helene Faksvåg, Thea Hannestad Frøystadvåg, Ottar Ness and Marius Veseth
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:87
  2. Pathways to care studies are feasible and tested means of finding the actual routes taken by patients before reaching proper care. In view of the predominance of nonprofessional service providers and the lack ...

    Authors: Anoop Krishna Gupta, Sulochana Joshi, Bikram Kafle, Ranjan Thapa, Manisha Chapagai, Suraj Nepal, Abhash Niraula, Sreya Paudyal, Prabhat Sapkota, Reet Poudel, Bina Sing Gurung, Prabhakar Pokhrel, Robin Jha, Sanjib Pandit, Suresh Thapaliya, Shuva Shrestha…
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:85
  3. Although access to specialized services is one of the main components of the study of paths to mental health care worldwide, the factors related to the continuity of the patient’s link with Primary Care after ...

    Authors: Carlos Alberto dos Santos Treichel, Ioannis Bakolis and Rosana Teresa Onocko-Campos
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:84
  4. Mental illnesses and disabilities as well as epileptic diseases remain an important public health issue. In Côte d’Ivoire, the provision of psychiatric care and specialised psychosocial facilities is almost no...

    Authors: Asseman Médard Koua, François Djo Bi Djo, Raymond N’Guessan Kouadio, Zoumana Coulibaly, Eric Sreu, Eméric Désiré Konandri, Aka N’zi Jean Vincent Koua, Sharon Huppertz, Gesine Heetderks and Michael Huppertz
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:83
  5. Clinical assessment of catatonia includes the use of diagnostic systems, such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and the International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision (IC...

    Authors: Zukiswa Zingela, Louise Stroud, Johan Cronje, Max Fink and Stephan van Wyk
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:82
  6. Despite the large treatment gap in Indonesia, limited studies have attempted to explore both service users’ and providers’ evaluations of the current mental health system holistically. This study aims to explo...

    Authors: Adelia Khrisna Putri, Nuvi Gustriawanto, Satwika Rahapsari, Anna Rusdiyana Sholikhah, Sanidya Prabaswara, Annisa Cahya Kusumawardhani and Susi Ari Kristina
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:81
  7. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) host the majority of the world’s refugees. Evidence suggests that refugees and asylum seekers have high mental health needs compared to the host country population. How...

    Authors: Sohail Jannesari, Claudia Lotito, Giulia Turrini, Siân Oram and Corrado Barbui
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:80
  8. The evidence base for suicide prevention programs in Australian schools is limited. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of a universal, mental health promotion and suicide prevention program—Youth ...

    Authors: Lauren McGillivray, Fiona Shand, Alison L. Calear, Philip J. Batterham, Demee Rheinberger, Nicola A. Chen, Alexander Burnett and Michelle Torok
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:79
  9. An open, non-controlled trial was conducted to explore the feasibility, experiences and outcomes of multi-family groups in community mental health care of patients with depression and anxiety.

    Authors: Saniya Saleem, Anayat Baig, Sana Sajun, Victoria Bird, Stefan Priebe and Aneeta Pasha
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:78
  10. Stigma refers to the discrediting, devaluing, and shaming of a person because of characteristics or attributes that they possess. Generally, stigma leads to negative social experiences such as isolation, rejec...

    Authors: Muhammad Arsyad Subu, Del Fatma Wati, Netrida Netrida, Vetty Priscilla, Jacqueline Maria Dias, Mini Sarah Abraham, Shameran Slewa-Younan and Nabeel Al-Yateem
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:77
  11. High rates of involuntary hospitalization and long lengths of stay have been problematic in Korea. To address these problems, the Mental Health and Welfare Law was revised in 2016, mainly to protect patient ri...

    Authors: Jongho Heo, Nan-He Yoon, Soyoun Shin, Soo-Young Yu and Manwoo Lee
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:76
  12. The mental health system in Indonesia comprises attempts to modernise a colonial relic. There is still a disconnect between available services and help-seeking behaviours at the grassroots level. This study ai...

    Authors: Sabrina Gabrielle Anjara, Carol Brayne and Tine Van Bortel
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:74
  13. The large treatment gap for mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) necessitates task-sharing approaches in scaling up care for mental disorders. Previous work have shown that primary healt...

    Authors: Oye Gureje, Bibilola Oladeji, Olatunde Olayinka Ayinde, Lola Kola, Jibril Abdulmalik, Waheed Akinola Lanre Abass, Neda Faregh and Phyllis Zelkowitz
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:73
  14. Old age mental healthcare is an issue that cuts across old age, general health, and mental healthcare policies. While strengthening the primary mental healthcare system in India is a common strategy across pol...

    Authors: Tom Kafczyk and Kerstin Hämel
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:72
  15. Nearly four decades ago, Unclaimed Children documented the gaps in the United States between mental health programs and caregivers’ perspectives about those services for their children. This absence of attenti...

    Authors: Lauren F. Seibel, Robin Peth-Pierce and Kimberly E. Hoagwood
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:71
  16. This article aims to review the quality of mental health services and the rights of the people receiving treatment in inpatient hospital care in Finland using the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Tool...

    Authors: Tella Lantta, Minna Anttila and Maritta Välimäki
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:70
  17. Men continue to be overrepresented in the Australian suicide statistics despite wide scale public health initiatives to improve men’s mental health literacy and to increase their help-seeking behaviour. Employ...

    Authors: Lynda R. Matthews, Jacky Gerald and Glenda M. Jessup
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:68
  18. Suicidal management and prevention in communities, especially in its first stages, is an effective intervention for the health systems. However, in numerous societies most cases go undetected. Primary Health C...

    Authors: Hosein Azizi, Ali Fakhari, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Elham Davtalab Esmaeili and Mohammad Mirzapour
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:67
  19. Worldwide, one in five children and adolescents suffer from mental health disorders, while facing limited opportunities for treatment and recovery. Growing up, they face multiple challenges that might contribu...

    Authors: Silje Akselberg Iversen, Joyce Nalugya, Juliet N. Babirye, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen and Norbert Skokauskas
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:66
  20. The Ugandan Ministry of Health decentralized mental healthcare to the district level; developed the Uganda Clinical Guidelines (UCG); and trained primary health care (PHC) providers in identification, manageme...

    Authors: Edith K. Wakida, Moses Ocan, Godfrey Z. Rukundo, Samuel Maling, Peter Ssebutinde, Elialilia S. Okello, Zohray M. Talib and Celestino Obua
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:65
  21. A range of services within Australia and internationally have been developed that are focused on the engagement of individuals who are of refugee background to work as a liaison between their communities and m...

    Authors: Karen Wei, Prem Chopra, Susie Strehlow, Mardi Stow, Ida Kaplan, Josef Szwarc and Harry Minas
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:64
  22. HIV/AIDS continues to be a major global public health problem with Eastern and Southern Africa being the regions most affected. With increased access to effective antiretroviral therapy, HIV has become a chron...

    Authors: Rwamahe Rutakumwa, Joshua Ssebunnya, James Mugisha, Richard Steven Mpango, Christine Tusiime, Leticia Kyohangirwe, Geoffrey Taasi, Hafsa Sentongo, Pontiano Kaleebu, Vikram Patel and Eugene Kinyanda
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:63
  23. Depression is globally recognized as a major mental health problem in all age categories, particularly among those living in poor economic conditions and with low levels of education, including the hill tribe ...

    Authors: Onnalin Singkhorn, Tawatchai Apidechkul, Khanittha Pitchalard, Katemanee Moonpanane, Pawadee Hamtanon, Rachanee Sunsern, Yosapon Leaungsomnapa and Jintana Thepsaw
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:62
  24. Considering many patients receive care from general hospitals, these healthcare institutions are uniquely situated to address mental and physical health needs. Little is documented, however, on the common curr...

    Authors: George Scott, Alessandra M. Beauchamp-Lebrón, Ashley A. Rosa-Jiménez, Javier G. Hernández-Justiniano, Axel Ramos-Lucca, Gloria Asencio-Toro and Julio Jiménez-Chávez
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:61
  25. Since 2011, a large influx of asylum-seekers and refugees has put pressure on the UK’s under-resourced national health services and mental health services. Asylum-seekers and refugees (ASR) may experience trau...

    Authors: Teresa Pollard and Natasha Howard
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:60
  26. Integration of depression services into infectious disease care is feasible, acceptable, and effective in sub-Saharan African settings. However, while the region shifts focus to include chronic diseases, addit...

    Authors: Chifundo Colleta Zimba, Christopher F. Akiba, Maureen Matewere, Annie Thom, Michael Udedi, Jones Kaponda Masiye, Kazione Kulisewa, Vivian Fei-ling Go, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Bradley Neil Gaynes and Brian Wells Pence
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:59
  27. There is increasing global evidence that mental health is strongly determined by social, economic and environmental factors, and that strategic action in these areas has considerable potential for improving me...

    Authors: Rebecca Horn, Stella Arakelyan, Haja Wurie and Alastair Ager
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:58
  28. Mental health issues and disorders are major public health challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast Asia, where chronic shortages in mental health services and human resources ...

    Authors: Alan Maddock, Carolyn Blair, Nil Ean and Paul Best
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:56
  29. University students often experience numerous financial, social and emotional stressors that can affect their mental health. The Peer Support Centre (PSC) is a pilot project that was established to provide pee...

    Authors: Rahul Suresh, Zoe Karkossa, Jérémie Richard and Maharshee Karia
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:54
  30. Globally, there is a large documented gap between needs of families and children with developmental disorders and available services. We adapted the World Health Organization’s mental health Gap-Intervention G...

    Authors: Syed Usman Hamdani, Zill-e- Huma, Nadia Suleman, Parveen Akhtar, Huma Nazir, Aqsa Masood, Mahjabeen Tariq, Ahmareen Koukab, Erica Salomone, Laura Pacione, Felicity Brown, Stephanie Shire, Siham Sikander, Chiara Servili, Duolao Wang, Fareed Aslam Minhas…
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:53
  31. While depression is a leading contributor to burden of disease in Vietnam, there is a critical gap in depression care due to the shortage of mental health specialists and extremely limited mental health servic...

    Authors: Leena W. Chau, Jill Murphy, Vu Cong Nguyen, Hayami Lou, Huyen Khanh, Trang Thu, Harry Minas and John O’Neil
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:52
  32. In low-income settings with limited social protection supports, by necessity, families are a key resource for care and support. Paradoxically, the quality of family care for people living with Severe Mental Il...

    Authors: F. Verity, A. Turiho, B. B. Mutamba and D. Cappo
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:48
  33. The integration of core packages of mental health care into routine primary health care has been introduced as an effective way to achieve universal health coverage in mental health care. Based on the transiti...

    Authors: Seyede Sedighe Hosseini Jebeli, Aziz Rezapour, Ahmad Hajebi, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh and Behzad Damari
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:47
  34. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: A. Bäck, C. Ståhl, U. von Thiele Schwarz, A. Richter and H. Hasson
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:46

    The original article was published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2016 10:75

  35. An estimated 8–30 % of people living with HIV (PLWH) have depressive disorders (DD) in sub-Saharan Africa. Of these, the majority are untreated in most of HIV care services. There is evidence from low- and mid...

    Authors: Eugene Kinyanda, Leticia Kyohangirwe, Richard S. Mpango, Christine Tusiime, Joshua Ssebunnya, Kenneth Katumba, Patrick Tenywa, James Mugisha, Geoffrey Taasi, Hafsa Sentongo, Dickens Akena, Yoko Laurence, Wilson Muhwezi, Helen A. Weiss, Melissa Neuman, Giulia Greco…
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:45
  36. Mental health illnesses are associated with frequent hospitalisation and an increased risk of all-cause mortality. Despite the high prevalence of depression in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), there ...

    Authors: Nqoba Tsabedze, Jamie-Leigh Hayes Kinsey, Dineo Mpanya, Vanessa Mogashoa, Eric Klug and Pravin Manga
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:44
  37. A personalized computer-adaptive system for clinical feedback and routine outcome monitoring in mental health, Norse Feedback aims to bridge the needs for standardized and idiographic measures in ordinary prac...

    Authors: Christian Moltu, Andrew A. McAleavey, Marianne M. Helleseth, Geir Helge Møller and Sam S. Nordberg
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:43
  38. Relapse in psychiatric disorders is highly distressing that posed a huge burden to the patients, family, and society. It interrupts the process of recovery and may increase the risk of resistance to treatment....

    Authors: Solomon Moges, Tilahun Belete, Tesfa Mekonen and Melak Menberu
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:42
  39. Qualitative studies evaluating maternal mental health services are lacking in Ethiopia, and the available evidence targets severe mental illnesses in the general population. We conducted a qualitative study to...

    Authors: Abel Fekadu Dadi, Emma R. Miller, Telake Azale and Lillian Mwanri
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:41
  40. Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack trained child mental health professionals. While teachers’ child development experience potentially positions them to fill the gap as lay mental health counselors, ...

    Authors: Christina M. Cruz, Molly M. Lamb, Priscilla Giri, Juliana Vanderburg, Peter Ferrarone, Surekha Bhattarai, Aileen A. Giardina, Karen Hampanda, Bradley N. Gaynes and Michael Matergia
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:40
  41. Mental health symptoms can be subtle, resulting in delaying treatment. A prompt identification of mental signs and symptoms is important for preventing mental disorders in the public. This study examined wheth...

    Authors: Ada Wai Tung Fung, Linda Chiu Wa Lam, Sandra Sau Man Chan and Sing Lee
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:39
  42. Implementing innovative health service models in existing service systems is complicated and context dependent. Flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) is a multidisciplinary service model aimed at provi...

    Authors: Kristin Trane, Kristian Aasbrenn, Martin Rønningen, Sigrun Odden, Annika Lexén and Anne Landheim
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:38
  43. Suicide is a significant concern in Australia and globally. There is a strong argument for training community gatekeepers in how to recognise and support suicidal people in their social network. One such train...

    Authors: Kathy S. Bond, Fairlie A. Cottrill, Andrew Mackinnon, Amy J. Morgan, Claire M. Kelly, Greg Armstrong, Betty A. Kitchener, Nicola J. Reavley and Anthony F. Jorm
    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2021 15:36

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