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Therapists Perspectives on Access to Telemental Health Among Medicaid-Enrolled Youth

Mental Health Care for Women of Color: Risk Factors, Barriers, and Clinical Recommendations

Hypertension parents of school-aged children in the UAE

Determining the prevalence and predictors of hypertension and its awareness and control among parents of school-aged children in the United Arab Emirates.

Frontiers | Healthcare Professionals Attitudes Toward Patients With Mental Illness: A Cross-Sectional Study in Qatar

Background: Negative attitudes towards mental illness by Health Care Professionals (HCP) have been reported in many countries across the world. Stigmatizing attitudes by HCP can have adverse consequences on people with mental illness from delays in seeking help to decreased quality of care provided. Assessing such attitudes is an essential step in understanding such stigma and, if needed, developing and testing appropriate and culturally adapted interventions to reduce it. Aims: to assess physicians and nurses attitudes towards mental illness and to determine associated factors with different levels of stigma. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among Physicians and Nurses. The Mental Illness Clinician’s Attitudes (MICA) scale was used to assess attitudes toward mental illness. MICA scores range between 1 and 6 with higher values indicating higher stigmatizing attitudes. Demographic and work related information were also gathered. Descriptive statistics along with multiva

Managing Refusal of Medical Care in Older Adults - CIA

23 Treatment refusal can occur in the presence or absence of decision-making capacity. 24 The core elements of capacity are the ability to understand the information relevant to the decision, the ability to use or weigh that information as part of the decision-making process, and to communicate the decision. 25 Common law establishes that an adult is presumed to have the capacity to consent to or refuse medical treatment unless that presumption is rebutted. 26 However, capacity may be affected by symptoms of mental and physical illness, emotional state and cognition, which may fluctuate over time and resolve with treatment and support. 27,28 With psychosis, for example, there may be symptoms such as delusional beliefs leading to mistrust of clinicians or denial of illness.

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