Analysis of the Recomposition of Norms and Representations in the Field of Psychiatry and Mental Health in the Age of Electronic Mental Health: Qualitative Study.

Background: For the World Health Organization, electronic health (eHealth) is seen as an effective way to improve therapeutic practices and disease prevention in health. Digital tools lead to major changes in the field of mental medicine, but specific analyses are required to understand and accompany these changes.

Objective: Our objective was to highlight the positions of the different stakeholders of the mental health care system on eHealth services and tools, as well as to establish professional and user group profiles of these positions and the uses of these services.

Crazy'App: A web survey on representations and attitudes toward mental disorders using video testimonies.

Unlabelled: In the international context of efforts to combat the stigmatization of people with mental health problems, representations and attitudes about these illnesses have not to date been widely investigated in France. However, new technologies offer an unprecedented opportunity to collect such information on a large scale and to deploy more efficient action against stigma.

Objectives: The Crazy'App survey was designed as an instrument for studying potentially stigmatizing representations and attitudes towards mental disorders.

From e-Health to i-Health: Prospective Reflexions on the Use of Intelligent Systems in Mental Health Care.

Depressive disorders cover a set of disabling problems, often chronic or recurrent. They are characterized by a high level of psychiatric and somatic comorbidities and represent an important public health problem. To date, therapeutic solutions remain unsatisfactory.

[Initial training in psychotherapy for psychiatrists in France, a national qualitative study].

Objectives To explore the level of satisfaction among residents regarding their training in psychotherapies, the interest they have in these therapies, and their wishes in the area of training.Methods A survey including both a quantitative and qualitative methodology was undertaken among 869 residents out of 1,334 enrolled in the psychiatric residency program. In the 2009-2010 academic year.

[Costs and benefits of a funding program for psychotherapies for French people suffering from depressive or anxious disorders].

Objectives Depressive or anxious disorders are a major source of social and economic burden. Many international good practice guidelines recommend structured psychotherapy for treating depressive or anxious disorders. The positive impact of psychotherapy on health, quality of life, productivity, and on the direct and indirect costs has been widely demonstrated.

Costs and benefits of improving access to psychotherapies for common mental disorders.

Background: Structured psychotherapies are treatments used in common mental health disorders (CMHDs) that are recommended by international good practice guidelines. Their efficacy and positive impact on health--and thereby on the reduction of related costs for health insurance schemes and society--have been widely demonstrated. However in France, despite the considerable financial burden of CMHDs, psychotherapies with a non-medical psychotherapist are not reimbursed by the health insurance schemes.

[Initial training in psychotherapy for psychiatrists in France: results of a national survey].

Introduction: According to a recent change in the French legislation (2010) regarding the regulation of the use of the title of "psychotherapist", psychiatrists are now allowed to use this title at the end of their training, without any additional training. However, various publications from 2000 have shown that there is no specific training in psychotherapy at a professional level during the training of psychiatrists.

Goals: To study the current situation of the Academic training of French psychiatrists in psychotherapy during their residency, their interest for these therapies, their level of satisfaction regarding their training, and the importance of additional private training programs.

Use of general practitioners versus mental health professionals in six European countries: the decisive role of the organization of mental health-care systems.

Objective: To investigate patterns of use of general practitioners (GPs) and/or mental health professionals (MHPs) for mental health reasons, across six European countries, and the extent to which these patterns of use are associated with differences in mental health-care delivering systems.

Methods: Data are based on the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD): a cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of 8,796 non-institutionalized adults from six European countries, conducted between 2001 and 2003 using computer-assisted interviews with the CIDI-3.0.

Factors associated with use of psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrist providers by ESEMeD respondents in six European countries.

Objective: This study analyzed use of services from psychiatrists and other mental health professionals (psychologists, psychotherapists, counselors, and social workers) in six European countries.

Methods: Data were from respondents (N=8,796) to the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD), a cross-sectional survey (2001-2003) of a representative sample of noninstitutionalized adults in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain that was conducted via computer-assisted interviews with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, version 3.0.

[Factors associated with treatment adequacy of major depressive episodes in France].

Introduction: Level of treatment inadequacy amongst people suffering from a major depressive episode (MDE) remains an important issue in the literature. Moreover, from a public health perspective, it's important to know how this situation can be improved.

Aim Of The Study: The objective of this study was to identify which factors are associated with adequate treatment for depression in France.

[Use of services and treatment adequacy of major depressive episodes in France].

Introduction: Though depressive disorders are major problems of public health, general population data about use of services and treatment adequacy are scarce in France. The literature suggests that the percentage of people suffering from mental disorders who are adequately treated is low.

Aim Of The Study: The objective of this study was to estimate the 12-month use of services in the French general population suffering from major depressive episodes (MDE) and levels of treatment adequacy.

[National information campaigns on depression. A biopsychosocial anthropology?].

Introduction: Information and prevention campaigns are privileged tools for public health institutions in their risk reduction policies concerning heath disorders and their consequences. Mental health in general, and depression in particular, have been the focus of several public campaigns in different countries for 20 years.

Aim Of The Study: The aim of this paper is to analyse depression campaign messages, to highlight their underlying logics and to show some of their effects, in particular in relation to contextual conflicts between professionals that possibly emerge because of these campaigns.

Prevalence, risk factors, and use of health care in depression: a survey in a large region of France between 1991 and 2005.

Objective: To compare the prevalence, risk factors, and use of care for depression between 2 periods, concerning changes in social factors and health care provision.

Method: We compared data from 2 surveys carried out in a large urbanized French region (Ile-de-France) 15 years apart (1991, n = 1192; 2005, n = 5308), using comparable methodology and tools.

Results: The overall prevalence of depression has slightly increased over this period.

Religious advisors' role in mental health care in the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders survey.

Objective: To study the role of religious advisors in mental health problems in six European countries and to compare it to data from the USA.

Methods: Data were derived from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) study, a cross-sectional study, conducted in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. 21,425 individuals, 18 and older, were interviewed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview 3.

[New directions for psychotherapy research: an evaluation of a research protocol and a methodological and technical framework proposal].

Introduction: A recent report of the French research institute INSERM, based on a comprehensive review of the work done on the evaluation of psychotherapies Psychothérapies: trois approches évaluées, has shown the lack of research in France on this topic, notably in psychodynamic psychotherapy. The development of such research is needed. The first part of the paper deals with the limits of the third generation of studies on psychotherapy (medical model, use of RCT, DSM.

Factors associated with use of psychotherapy.

Context: Psychotherapies are recommended in manuals of good practice. There is however little epidemiological data assessing access to this type of treatment, and in particular the combined role of the offer and socio-demographic characteristics. The present research aims to contribute data on the profiles of a sample of individuals who underwent psychotherapy in France, and on the respective impact of various factors such as mental health status, socio-demographic characteristics, life events and the care offer, focusing on a specific population for whom the mode of financial cover for this type of care is governed by a complementary health insurance (MGEN).

[Psychotherapeutic practices in France: results of a professional-based health insurance participant survey].

Introduction: Today in France, little empirical data on the use of psychotherapy is available. This paper presents an empirical study of psychotherapeutic practices, from the patient's point of view. We will present results regarding frequency of psychotherapies, patients' characteristics, associations between different kinds of therapy, where they take place, and the reasons given for beginning psychotherapy.

[Distinction, limits and complementarity between efficacy and effectiveness studies: new perspectives for psychotherapy research].

Perron et al. (2004) criticize the collective expertise conducted by the INSERM on the efficacy of different psychotherapy methods for different mental disorders. They say the work is biased in favour of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (CBT), while there is a negative bias regarding other methods, in particular psychodynamic therapies.