Ethnic disparities in mental health problems in New Caledonia and French Polynesia.

Objectives: Indigenous people experience poorer mental health compared to the general population. Socioeconomic gaps partly explain these disparities. However, there is variability between populations and French overseas territories are understudied.

Impact of follow-up by peer support workers on mental health service users' global functioning and self-stigmatisation.

Objectives: The introduction of the first French professional peer support workers training program. (« Médiateurs de santé pairs en santé mentale ») led to a series of evaluations. After a number of qualitative studies demonstrating benefits of peer support for all stakeholders, our objective was to evaluate its direct effects for users by focusing on repeated quantitative measures: global functioning and self-stigma scores.

[Building an empowerment program to improve the health of patients with severe mental disorders].

Introduction: Risk factors and cardiovascular diseases are overrepresented in people with severe and persistent mental disorders. A person diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder is two to three times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than the general population.

Purpose Of Research: An empowerment program has been co-created to reduce these health inequalities.

[Smoking in psychiatry: realities and implications for its management].

Objective: This study looks at tobacco use among persons with psychiatric disorders and its management in public psychiatric units in France.

Methods: A thematic analysis based on semi-directive interviews with 10 patients and 9 caregivers was carried out.

Results: Patients use tobacco to deal with their emotions and mood swings.