Factors Associated With Staff Engagement in Patients' Tobacco Treatment in a State Psychiatric Facility.

Background: Persons with mental illnesses (MI) who use tobacco are likely to experience poorer physical health and worsened psychiatric symptomology as compared to their non-tobacco-using counterparts. Therefore, engaging them in treatment is an important aspect of evidence-based care.

Objective: To use the theory of planned behavior to examine factors associated with intentions to provide and the provision of evidence-based tobacco treatment.

Evaluating the efficacy of graded in vivo exposure for the treatment of fear in patients with chronic back pain: a randomized controlled clinical trial.

Psychological treatments for chronic pain, particularly those based upon cognitive behavioural principles, have generally been shown to be efficacious. Recently, a treatment has been developed based upon the fear-avoidance model of chronic musculoskeletal pain, which suggests chronic pain can be relieved by exposing the individual to movements and tasks that have been avoided due to fear of (re)injury. This graded in vivo exposure treatment has been found to be beneficial in case studies.