Mental Health

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State anxiety responses to acute resistance training and step aerobic exercise across eight weeks of training.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to contrast state anxiety responses to acute aerobic and resistance exercise across an 8-week period. METHODS: State anxiety (STAI-Y1) was assessed immediately prior to and 5 min following 50-min exercise ...
B S Hale, J S Raglin (J Sports Med Phys Fitness, 200203)
state-anxiety-responses-acute-resistance-training-step-aerobic.asp

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Primary prevention and practical techniques to encourage mental wellness.

Women patients must be made aware that they need to train and perhaps readjust their attitudes and minds to handle and improve their mental wellness. Being their own person, with awareness of whom and how they want to be, strengthens their sense of self ...
Leah J Dickstein (Prim Care, 200203)
primary-prevention-practical-techniques-encourage-mental-wellness.asp

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Challenging contemporary mental health policy: time to assuage the coercion?

BACKGROUND: In the United Kingdom (UK) and elsewhere throughout the world, the policy and legal frameworks that surround the provision of mental health care are becoming increasingly coercive. For example, emerging mental health policy in the UK includes ...
Ben Hannigan, John Cutcliffe (J Adv Nurs, 200203)
challenging-contemporary-mental-health-policy-time-assuage-coercion.asp

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Integration of theory and practice in learning mental health nursing.

This article describes an action research project that aimed at a better integration of theory and practice in the education of mental health nursing students. Two partners, an institute of nursing and health care and a university hospital, collaborated ...
T Munnukka, T Pukuri, P Linnainmaa, N Kilkku (J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs, 200202)
integration-theory-practice-learning-mental-health-nursing.asp

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Capacity building in rural mental health in Western Australia.

A regional success story in capacity building in terms of workforce development in rural Western Australia is described. A rural and remote distance education program in mental health was delivered in 1999 across 10 rural sites to 31 health professionals ...
Samar Aoun, Lyn Johnson (Aust J Rural Health, 200202)
capacity-building-rural-mental-health-western-australia.asp

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The influence of perceived well-being and reported symptoms on health care utilization: a population-based study.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of reported well-being and symptoms on the utilization of health care, including alternative medicine. A random, age-stratified sample was drawn from the general population of Håbo, a municipality in ...
Ahmad Al-Windi, Elmfeldt Dag, Svärdsudd Kurt (J Clin Epidemiol, 200201)
influence-perceived-well-reported-symptoms-health-care-utilization.asp

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Daily living practice of the life-satisfied Thai elderly.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the life satisfaction of Thai elderly depends on their daily living practice. A comparative design was used to study 73 matched pairs of elderly people who perceive themselves as life satisfied or life ...
Pranom Othaganont, Chownpis Sinthuvorakan, Pongsai Jensupakarn (J Transcult Nurs, 200201)
daily-living-practice-life-satisfied-thai-elderly.asp

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The mental health status and long term care needs of the Chinese elderly in Hong Kong.

This paper examines the mental health status of 945 Chinese older people who are in need of long term care services in Hong Kong. It was found that for those aged respondents who are already waiting for admission to infirmary, over 59.3% were already ...
Raymond Ngan, Alex Kwan (Soc Work Health Care, 2002)
mental-health-status-long-term-care-needs-chinese-elderly-hong-kong.asp

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Psychoeducation in panic disorder patients: effect of a self-information booklet in a randomized, masked-rater study.

The aim of our study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-information booklet (SIB) in decreasing anxiety and panic attacks in Panic Disorder (PD) patients. Eighty-four patients attending an outpatient clinic due to panic disorder were randomly ...
P N Dannon, I Iancu, L Grunhaus (Depress Anxiety, 2002)
psychoeducation-panic-disorder-patients-effect-self-information.asp

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Brief scales for measurement of functional social support and psychological resources in French-speaking adults.

OBJECTIVES: Psychological resources and social support are important determinants of health, but brief and validated scales measuring these dimensions in French are lacking. METHODS: Instruments measuring self-esteem and mastery, and affective and ...
Patrick A Bovier, Eric Chamot, Thomas V Perneger (Soz Praventivmed, 2002)
brief-scales-measurement-functional-social-support-psychological.asp