Interventions to decrease health students' stigma toward schizophrenia: A scoping review.

Background: Schizophrenia is heavily stigmatized among health professionals. Given that health professional students are future members of the workforce and will provide care for people with schizophrenia, it is essential to implement interventions aimed at reducing stigma among this group.

Objective: This scoping review aimed to identify and synthesize existing literature on interventions to decrease schizophrenia stigma among health professional students, and to determine the possible gaps in the literature.

Attitudes towards family involvement in nursing care among psychiatric nurses in Hong Kong: A cross-sectional descriptive study.

Unlabelled: WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Family-involved interventions can result in better outcomes than traditional mental health care for both service users and their families. Nurses' attitudes towards family involvement can affect family participation in care. Earlier studies on psychiatric nurses' attitudes towards family involvement in care report ambiguous findings.

Use of a positive psychology intervention (PPI) to promote the psychological well-being of children living in poverty: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Poverty has a detrimental influence on psychological well-being of children. Existing evidence shows that positive psychology interventions are possible to mitigate such impact. Despite criticisms that positive psychology resembles a scientific Pollyannaism that promotes overly positivity, positive psychology is not the scientific Pollyannaism that denies the difficulties and emotions that people may experience.

Perspectives of Nursing Students towards Schizophrenia Stigma: A Qualitative Study Protocol.

Aim: This study aims to explore fourth-year nursing students' knowledge of schizophrenia and their attitudes, empathy, and intentional behaviours towards people with schizophrenia.

Design: This will be a descriptive qualitative study using focus-group interviews.

Methods: Fourth-year nursing students on clinical placement in a hospital in Hunan province will be invited for focus-group interviews.

Nurses' attitudes towards the use of physical restraint in psychiatric care: A systematic review of qualitative and quantitative studies.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Application of physical restraint is a common practice to protect service users and staff in psychiatric care. Nurses' attitudes towards physical restraint and its influencing factors in psychiatric settings in different countries are variable. Previous reviews include studies on different coercive methods, making it difficult to differentiate attitudes specific to physical restraint.

Psychometric properties of the clinical learning environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher scale (CLES+T) for undergraduate nursing students in Hong Kong.

The Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher Evaluation Scale is useful for understanding students' perceptions towards clinical placement and for measuring the quality of clinical education. Validated versions of the scale are only available for Western countries. Therefore, this study aimed to establish the validity and reliability of the Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher evaluation scale for undergraduate nursing students in Hong Kong.

Association Between Depression, Health Beliefs, and Face Mask Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is associated with increases in psychiatric morbidity, including depression. It is unclear if people with depressive symptoms understand or apply COVID-19 information differently to the general population. Therefore, this study aimed to examine associations between depression, health beliefs, and face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic among the general population in Hong Kong.

Prevalence of sexual harassment toward psychiatric nurses and its association with quality of life in China.

Objective: This study aimed to examine the prevalence of sexual harassment (SH) toward Chinese psychiatric nurses and its association with quality of life (QOL).

Methods: A total of 2124 psychiatric nurses were consecutively recruited from 10 psychiatric hospitals distributed across 10 provinces of China; of them, 1,449 were included for analyses. Participants' socio-demographic characteristics, experiences of workplace SH in the past year, and QOL were recorded.

The effects of bibliotherapy on the mental well-being of informal caregivers of people with neurocognitive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: The number of people with neurocognitive disorder is increasing, and the majority of them are cared for by informal caregivers in the community. Mental health problems are common among caregivers, however, professional support for them is often limited. Non-pharmacological self-help interventions, such as bibliotherapy, may improve mental well-being and has the potential for being integrated into clinical or social services.

Prevalence of depressive symptoms in primary school students in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Backgrounds: Depression in children and adolescents is usually under-recognized. The findings of epidemiological studies on depressive symptoms in primary school students are inconsistent across studies. This study reports a systematic review and meta-analysis on the prevalence of depressive symptoms in primary school students in China.

Voluntary admissions for patients with schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aims: Voluntary admission rates of schizophrenia vary widely across studies. In order to make the topic be informed by evidence, it is important to have accurate estimates. This meta-analysis examined the worldwide prevalence of voluntary admissions for patients with schizophrenia.

Prevalence of verbal and physical workplace violence against nurses in psychiatric hospitals in China.

Objective: Workplace violence (WPV) is common in mental health services in China, but its multi-center prevalence measured using standardized rating scales has rarely been reported. This study aimed to explore the prevalence of verbal and physical violence against nurses working in psychiatric hospitals and examine its independent socio-demographic correlates in China.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in 11 major psychiatric hospitals in China using a 9-item self-reported workplace violence scale.

Examining patterns of adversity in Chinese young adults using the Adverse Childhood Experiences-International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ).

Ample evidence supports significant and enduring associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and negative outcomes later in life. Subsets of ACEs (e.g.

Family intervention for caregivers of people with recent-onset psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: We aimed to systematically review the evidence of the effectiveness of family interventions for caregivers of people with recent-onset psychosis compared with usual psychiatric care. A secondary objective was to directly compare the effects of different types of family interventions.

Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), CINAHL Complete and EBSCOhost were searched to identify relevant randomized controlled trials.

Concept mapping to promote meaningful learning, help relate theory to practice and improve learning self-efficacy in Asian mental health nursing students: A mixed-methods pilot study.

Objectives: Student nurses are provided with a great deal of knowledge within university, but they can find it difficult to relate theory to nursing practice. This study aimed to test the appropriateness and feasibility of assessing Novak's concept mapping as an educational strategy to strengthen the theory-practice link, encourage meaningful learning and enhance learning self-efficacy in nursing students.

Design: This pilot study utilised a mixed-methods quasi-experimental design.

The prevalence of metabolic syndrome amongst patients with severe mental illness in the community in Hong Kong--a cross sectional study.

Background: Patients with severe mental illness are at increased risk of developing metabolic disorders. The risk of metabolic syndrome in the Hong Kong general population is lower than that observed in western countries; however the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with severe mental illness in Hong Kong is unknown.

Method: This cross-sectional study aimed to estimate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with severe mental illness in Hong Kong and to identify the relationships between metabolic syndrome and socio-demographic, clinical and lifestyle factors.

A concept mapping exploration of social workers' and mental health nurses' understanding of the role of the Approved Mental Health Professional.

This study uses concept mapping and participant interviews to explore how differing professional viewpoints and levels of knowledge held by social workers and mental health nurses affect perceptions of the Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) role during an interprofessional training programme. The results suggest that social workers entering the programme had a greater understanding of the role in comparison to mental health nurses; however, on completion of the programme, both professional groups demonstrated similar levels of learning. The study challenges assumptions that nurses may be inherently disadvantaged by their professional background in terms of learning about a role that is traditionally associated with social work practice.