Met and unmet needs of homeless individuals at different stages of housing reintegration: A mixed-method investigation.

This study aimed to identify and compare major areas of met and unmet needs reported by 455 homeless or recently housed individuals recruited from emergency shelters, temporary housing, and permanent housing in Quebec (Canada). Mixed methods, guided by the Maslow framework, were used. Basic needs were the strongest needs category identified, followed by health and social services (an emergent category), and safety; very few participants expressed needs in the higher-order categories of love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization.

[Public Participation and Mental Health: the contrasted and unfinished response of mental health users].

Objectives: The objective of this article is show the way that mental health users in Quebec responded to the last Mental Health Action Plan Directive (2005-2010): the strength of the links which were labelled as follows: 'The MSSS, The Health and Social Service Agencies, as well as the Centers of Health and Service Agencies must be sure to obtain the participation of mental health users (and those close to them), in all mental health and planning organizational services.' (MSSS, 2005: p.16) METHOD: The results presented in this article are based on the qualitative exploratory study conducted in the 11 regions of Quebec.

Speaking Out and Being Heard Residents' Committees in Quebec's Residential Long-Term Care Centre.

Residents' councils in Quebec's residential and long-term care centres have the mandate to promote the improvement of living conditions for residents, to assess their level of satisfaction, and to defend their rights. Based on two studies on the autonomy of councils, we examined how committees can express themselves on topics other than those the management is already aware of, to reveal various previously unknown aspects of the services, and to voice unexpressed concerns. We are especially interested in what makes management receptive, or not, to what the committee members say.

Gender relations and risks of HIV transmission in South India: the discourse of female sex workers' clients.

In South India, where the majority of the country's cases of HIV are concentrated, transmission of infection occurs mainly within networks composed of female sex workers, their clients and the other sexual partners of the latter. This study aims to determine how gender relations affect the risks of HIV transmission in this region. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 30 clients and analysed qualitatively.

[A reflection on services to families in which the mother suffers from a mental disorder].

This article presents results of a research conducted in Québec City between 2004 and 2006. The objective of this study was to examine services to families in which the mother suffers from a mental disorder. The authors examine the experiences and perspectives of parents with a mental disorder, spouses and children on the services offered to families ; the study also examines the organisation, the basis and the context of actions and interactions between stakeholders of various sectors of services to families with a parent with severe mental illness.

[Progress and living situations among the elderly with severe mental illness: perspectives of psychosocial services].

Services for elders with severe mental illness (SMI) have major deficiencies, among them a lack of adequate psychosocial services. Some analysts have attributed this situation to "double stigmatization" targeting both ageing and mental illness in our societies. Using qualitative methods (23 semi-directed interviews, theme-based content analysis), our exploratory research aims to understand better the perceptions of psychosocial practitioners working in community and institutional settings about the elderly with SMI and their living situations.

Transient asynchronous testicular growth in adolescent males with a varicocele.

Purpose: We assessed the testicular growth of adolescent males followed nonsurgically for the presence of left varicocele.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of adolescent males with a diagnosis of unilateral left varicocele and ultrasound testis volume measurements seen during a 10-year period. A total of 161 boys underwent at least 2 testicular ultrasounds as part of the evaluation for left varicocele.

[Continuity of care: a solution? Perspective of people with dual disorders.].

The authors discuss the current limits of the concept of continuity of care and the difficulties set by its determination from the perspective of the consumer. Obvious facts around this concept are also questionned. This reflection is anchored in preliminary results of an ongoing study on continuity of care with people with a dual diagnosis of mental disorder and substance abuse.

The Quebec complaint examination system: stakeholder perspectives on the purpose and intake of complaints.

Québec's complaint examination system has devoted considerable effort to supporting dissatisfied users who may wish to register complaints. It is open to question, however, whether this level of effort has, in fact, aided users in filing their complaints, and whether, once filed, the intake and processing of complaints has been rigorous and fair. Has the intake and handling of complaints at least improved? This is the question we shall attempt to answer here by presenting the results of our study concerning the impact of the Complaint Assistance and Support Centers (CAAPs) on the intake of complaints.

Activation of the calcineurin pathway is associated with detrusor decompensation: a potential therapeutic target.

Purpose: We hypothesized that the calcineurin pathway mediated some of the complex remodeling process that allows a bladder subjected to partial outlet obstruction to adapt to its new workload. Atrial natriuretic factor mRNA expression served as a marker of calcineurin activation.

Materials And Methods: A total of 16 New Zealand White rabbits underwent surgical creation of partial outlet obstruction, followed by randomization to receive cyclosporin A (20 mg/kg intramuscularly twice daily) or no additional treatment for 14 days.

Partial bladder outlet obstruction alters Ca2+ sensitivity of force, but not of MLC phosphorylation, in bladder smooth muscle.

Partial bladder outlet obstruction in the rabbit produces changes in bladder function similar to those seen clinically in patients with obstructive uropathies. Whole organ function is significantly altered, as are the smooth muscle cells inside the bladder wall. This study was designed to determine whether outlet obstruction alters smooth muscle function at the level of contractile filaments.