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Different communication strategies for disclosing a diagnosis of schizophrenia and related disorders. (2017)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Delivering the diagnosis of a serious illness is an important skill in most fields of medicine, including mental health. Research has found that communication skills can impact on a person's recall and understanding of the diagnosis, trea... Read More about Different communication strategies for disclosing a diagnosis of schizophrenia and related disorders..

mHealth based interventions for the assessment and treatment of psychotic disorders: a systematic review (2017)
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The relative burden of mental health disorders is increasing globally, in terms of prevalence and disability. There is limited data available to guide treatment choices for clinicians in low resourced settings, with mHealth technologies being a poten... Read More about mHealth based interventions for the assessment and treatment of psychotic disorders: a systematic review.

Interventions for Anxiety and Depression in Conflict-Affected Areas—Reply (2017)
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Explanatory model of illness of the patients with schizophrenia and the role of educational intervention (2017)
Journal Article

This randomized controlled trial was conducted at Department of Psychiatry, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar from February to August 2015 to explore beliefs and concepts of patients with schizophrenia about their illness and to find out the effectiven... Read More about Explanatory model of illness of the patients with schizophrenia and the role of educational intervention.

Adherence to medication in the community: audit cycle of interventions to improve the assessment of adherence (2017)
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Aims and method To investigate whether medication adherence is monitored during follow-up in out-patient reviews. A retrospective audit was carried out with a sample of 50 follow-up patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disord... Read More about Adherence to medication in the community: audit cycle of interventions to improve the assessment of adherence.

A survey of eMedia-delivered interventions for schizophrenia used in randomized controlled trials (2017)
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Background: Randomized trials evaluating electronic Media (eMedia) delivery of interventions are increasingly frequent in mental health. Although a number of reviews have reported efficacy of these interventions, none has reviewed the type of eMedia... Read More about A survey of eMedia-delivered interventions for schizophrenia used in randomized controlled trials.

Prescribing pattern of clozapine and other antipsychotics for patients with first-episode psychosis: a cross-sectional survey of early intervention teams (2016)
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Objective: To describe the pattern of antipsychotic drug prescribing in patients with first episode psychosis, with more emphasis in the use of clozapine in this group of patients. Method: A cross-sectional survey involving six early intervention... Read More about Prescribing pattern of clozapine and other antipsychotics for patients with first-episode psychosis: a cross-sectional survey of early intervention teams.

TechCare: mobile assessment and therapy for psychosis - an intervention for clients in the Early Intervention Service: A feasibility study protocol (2016)
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OBJECTIVES: Technological advances in healthcare have shown promise when delivering interventions for mental health problems such as psychosis. The aim of this project is to develop a mobile phone intervention for people with psychosis and to conduct... Read More about TechCare: mobile assessment and therapy for psychosis - an intervention for clients in the Early Intervention Service: A feasibility study protocol.

Effect of a Multicomponent Behavioral Intervention in Adults Impaired by Psychological Distress in a Conflict-Affected Area of Pakistan: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2016)
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Importance The mental health consequences of conflict and violence are wide-ranging and pervasive. Scalable interventions to address a range of mental health problems are needed. Objective To test the effectiveness of a multicomponent behavioral... Read More about Effect of a Multicomponent Behavioral Intervention in Adults Impaired by Psychological Distress in a Conflict-Affected Area of Pakistan: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Prevalence of nonaffective psychosis in intellectually disabled clients: systematic review and meta-analysis. (2016)
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Epidemiological studies report high rates of schizophrenia in individuals with intellectual disability (ID). However, this subject has not been reviewed systematically. We aim to review studies that report the prevalence of nonaffective psychosis in... Read More about Prevalence of nonaffective psychosis in intellectually disabled clients: systematic review and meta-analysis..

Reporting and understanding the safety and adverse effect profile of mobile apps for psychosocial interventions: An update (2016)
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Recent years have seen a rapidly increasing trend towards the delivery of health technology through mobile devices. Smartphones and tablet devices are thus becoming increasingly popular for accessing information and a wide range of services, includin... Read More about Reporting and understanding the safety and adverse effect profile of mobile apps for psychosocial interventions: An update.

A global mental health fund for serious mental illness in low-income and middle-income countries. (2016)
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Serious Mental Illnesses (SMI) are psychiatric disorders (excluding developmental and substance use disorders) that result in considerable functional impairment. These conditions receive little or no funding in most Low and Middle Income (LAMI) co... Read More about A global mental health fund for serious mental illness in low-income and middle-income countries..

Authors' reply (2016)
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Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) for Schizophrenia: Literature Review and Meta-analysis (2016)
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There is a great deal of evidence supporting the use of CBT for psychosis (CBTp). In fact, CBTp is recommended by the National Treatment Guidelines in both the U.K. and the U.S. The availability of CBTp, however, remains an issue due to a variety of... Read More about Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) for Schizophrenia: Literature Review and Meta-analysis.

Telling the patients about diagnosis and outcome of schizophrenia: what, when and how? (2016)
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Informing patients about the diagnosis and outcome of a serious disorder is a key clinical skill and a basic ethical duty in a therapeutic encounter. How clinicians meet this challenge in schizophrenia, which is arguably one of the most serious menta... Read More about Telling the patients about diagnosis and outcome of schizophrenia: what, when and how?.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis based Guided Self-help (CBTp-GSH) delivered by frontline mental health professionals: Results of a feasibility study (2016)
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Availability of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is limited in spite of strong evidence base. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of a CBTp based Guided Self-help (CBTp-GSH) in comparison to Treatment As Usual (T... Read More about Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis based Guided Self-help (CBTp-GSH) delivered by frontline mental health professionals: Results of a feasibility study.

Development of fixed dose combination tablets of aripiprazole plus divalproex sodium and their simultaneous determination using HPLC-UV (2016)
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A vast majority of psychiatric patients are effectively treated with combination of drugs to improve efficacy and adherence, but due to limited research and development in fixed dose combination (FDC) in psychiatry, these products are not commonly av... Read More about Development of fixed dose combination tablets of aripiprazole plus divalproex sodium and their simultaneous determination using HPLC-UV.

Development, Testing and Reporting of Mobile Apps for Psycho-social Interventions: Lessons from the Pharmaceuticals. (2015)
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The mobile Health offers great potential for delivery of Psycho-social Interventions. So far, the researchers have focused mainly on efficacy, and to some extent feasibility of Psycho-social Interventions. Poor reporting of development and initial te... Read More about Development, Testing and Reporting of Mobile Apps for Psycho-social Interventions: Lessons from the Pharmaceuticals..

Interventions for psychotic symptoms concomitant with epilepsy (2015)
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Background This is an updated version of the original Cochrane review published in Issue 4, 2008. People suffering from epilepsy have an increased risk of experiencing psychotic symptoms. The psychotic syndromes associated with epilepsy have gene... Read More about Interventions for psychotic symptoms concomitant with epilepsy.

Requirement of research as a learning tool in medical education - less is more (2015)
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The importance of research in providing evidence based solutions can't be overemphasized. Therefore almost all curricula both in under and postgraduate medical training have some components of training in research. This varies from teaching in statis... Read More about Requirement of research as a learning tool in medical education - less is more.