Background: Despite increased public awareness of the professional, integration of people with disabilities, they encounter more difficulties than their non-disabled counterparts in accessing employment.
Objective: The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the barriers and facilitators to hiring and retaining people with disabilities from the perspective of employers in the private and public sector in France.
Methods: This was a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with forty-two employers from public structures or private companies.
Aims: The study examines the experience of people living with mental disorders and their family during the spring 2020 confinement in France, as well as the care they received during this period. It also focuses on the experiences of caregivers and how they reorganized themselves during this same period.
Method: Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, three surveys were conducted during the confinement.
Int Rev Psychiatry
August 2012
In the last four decades, psychiatric care in France has led to the development of catchment area-based service provision. Within each geographical area teams are now responsible for psychiatric care both at outpatient and inpatient levels. However, financial and economic constraints have led to a reduction in beds and staffing levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Although weight gain is one of the most widely studied adverse effects of second-generation antipsychotics, only relatively few studies have specifically evaluated the long-term effect of switching antipsychotic medication on body weight. We aimed to evaluate the impact of switching antipsychotics on body mass index (BMI) during a 6-month follow-up period in a large cohort of patients with schizophrenia.
Method: Data came from a 6-month prospective naturalistic survey in 6007 patients with schizophrenia.
It is not clear whether patient's psycho-education enhances compliance to antipsychotic treatments and reduces the number of relapses. Here we investigated the impact of a new psycho-educational program (SOLEDUC) on the one- and two-years rate of relapse (primary outcome measure) and a number of clinical assessments (secondary outcome measures). This was a multicentric French clinical trial (51 centers) of Phase IV, open, controlled, randomized, consisting in two parallel groups: the Soleduc group (N=111) and the control group (N=109).
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