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Open access. Migration has been shown to be associated with negative mental health outcomes. Moreover, migrants tend to underutilise mental health services. The current study aimed to assess the association between predictors, divided into three groups (predisposing, enabling and need), and two outcome variables: (1) past professional mental health help-seeking during the stay in the United Kingdom; (2) intentions of mental health help-seeking from a mental health professional within the next three months.
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Parity of esteem means valuing mental health as much as physical health in order to close inequalities in mortality, morbidity or delivery of care. There is clear evidence that patients with mental illness receive inferior medical, surgical and preventive care. This further exacerbated by low help-seeking, high stigma, medication side-effects and relatively low resources in mental healthcare. As a result, patients with severe mental illness die 10–20 years prematurely and have a high rate of cardiometabolic complications and other physical illnesses. Many physical healthcare guidelines and policy recommendations address parity of esteem, but their implementation to date has been poor. All clinicians should be aware that inequalities in care are adversely influencing mental health outcomes, and managers, health-care organisations and politicians should provide resources and education to address this gap. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The Trust showcased to the committee how its staff and services have adapted to support deaf people as well as discussing the difficulties deaf adults and children have faced in accessing mental health care in the past.
The London Assembly Health Committee publishes its findings and recommendations to the Mayor today on how he can support better mental health for disabled people and Deaf people.
Excess mortality in severe mental illness (defined here as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and bipolar affective disorders) is well described, but little is known about this inequality in ethnic minorities. We aimed to estimate excess mortality for people with severe mental illness for five ethnic groups (white British, black Caribbean, black African, south Asian, and Irish) and to assess the association of ethnicity with mortality risk. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Comment. The global tragedy of excess mortality among people with serious mental disorders transcends geography, different systems of health care, and different approaches to health-care financing. Authors of a meta-analysis1 identified 203 studies representing 29 countries across six continents, finding a 2·2-times greater risk of mortality and an average of 10 years of potential life loss for people with serious mental illness compared with the general population. Contrary to expectations, the greatest cause of excess and early mortality is not suicide, but a high proportion of chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disorders, diabetes, tobacco-related illness, and obesity.2 Given the multinational finding of excess and early mortality, should people with serious mental illnesses be considered a distinct health disparity population with unique risk factors and susceptibilities? Or is serious mental illness similar to other health conditions for which disparities are driven by increased risk associated with ethnicity or socioeconomic status? Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Our Trust’s walk-in centres have seen an increase in people accessing free and confidential NHS support and advice to help with common mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, stress or feeling low in mood at centres offering a choice of service in different languages. Over 650 people have visited an Amman walk-in Centre in the past six months and been seen by a mental health practitioner who speak a range of different languages.
The Amman walk-in services are located at Soho Road Health Centre and Sparkhill Primary Care Centre. They provide NHS talking therapies by professionals from the Trust’s Birmingham Healthy Minds service who can support people in Punjabi, Mirpuri, Urdu and Bengali, in addition to English.
Staff from different cultural backgrounds recognised that a combination of stigma, language barriers and other factors meant that fewer people from these communities sought help for depression, anxiety, anger issues or stress.
In order to raise awareness of these issues, staff developed a play called 'mein pagal nein huhn' which means ‘I am not mad’ in Urdu.
Open access. Recent policy guidelines published by the Department of Health highlight the need to develop gender-sensitive psychiatric services. However, very little is currently known about the specific characteristics and needs of female patients entering acute psychiatric wards, particularly psychiatric intensive care units. This article aims to review the current literature on what is known about this group of patients.
Within an existing Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT) service there was provision of psycho-educational groups for ethnic minority groups whose language and illiteracy skills prevented people from engaging in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
A South Asian Women’s workshop has therefore been developed within an IAPT service in Primary Care