Lifestyle and Behavioral Interventions to Reduce the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Community-Dwelling Adults With Serious Mental Illness: Implications for Nursing Practice.

Adults with mental illness are at increased risk of being diagnosed with metabolic syndrome and consequently cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and stroke. The current article explores community-based interventions to decrease the risk of metabolic syndrome by changing health behaviors among adults with serious mental illness (SMI). Ovid Medline, PsycINFO, and CINAHL were searched for nonpharmacological studies of behavioral or lifestyle interventions addressing risk of metabolic syndrome among adults with SMI.

Don't get bugged: practical strategies for managing bedbug infestation in psychiatric rehabilitation programs.

Bedbug infestation has become a major problem in the United States. Infestations can be frightening and expensive and appear to be more prevalent in urban settings and low-income housing such as homeless shelters, public housing, and single-room occupancy apartments. This exposes consumers and staff of psychiatric rehabilitation agencies to higher risk of infestation.

Assessment of a point-of-care metabolic risk screening program in outpatients receiving antipsychotic agents.

Study Objective: To assess the usefulness of a metabolic risk screening program, including point-of-care glucose testing, to quantify baseline metabolic risk in outpatients receiving antipsychotics.

Design: Retrospective, cross-sectional, cohort study.

Setting: University-affiliated department of psychiatry clinic.