Editorial Perspective: Prato Research Collaborative for change in parent and child mental health - principles and recommendations for working with children and parents living with parental mental illness.

Children whose parents have mental illnesses are among the most vulnerable in our communities. There is however, much that can be done to prevent or mitigate the impact of a parent's illness on children. Notwithstanding the availability of several evidence-based interventions, efforts to support these children have been limited by a lack of adequate support structures.

Putting on the Same Shoes: Lived Experiences of Women Who Are Reincarcerated.

Background: Women are discharged daily from correctional institutions across the world. Many of these women cycle in and out of jail and experience the "revolving door syndrome," characterized by release, reimprisonment, and subsequent rerelease into the community. Although many factors contribute to this phenomenon, there is limited understanding of its impact on imprisoned women, including their perceptions of returning to community life.

Feasibility and efficacy of a hospital-based violence intervention program on reducing repeat violent injury in youth: a randomized control trial.

Objectives: To determine feasibility and efficacy of an Emergency Department Violence Intervention Program (EDVIP) to reduce violence related injuries in youth.

Methods: One hundred and thirty youth aged 14-24 presenting to an emergency with violence related injury were randomized in parallel to receive EDVIP for 1 year (n = 65) or a waitlist control (n = 65). The primary outcome was to determine feasibility.

Factors in facilitating an organisational culture to prevent pressure ulcers among older adults in health-care facilities.

Objective: Despite the availability of high-quality clinical practice guidelines, pressure ulcers (PU) continue to develop among older adults in acute and long-term health-care facilities. Except during acute medical crisis or near end-of-life, most PUs are preventable and their development is a health-care quality indicator. The aim of this study was to understand which factors facilitate pressure ulcer prevention among adults over 65 years-of-age receiving care in health-care facilities.

Development of an Emergency Department Violence Intervention Program for Youth: An Integrated Knowledge Translation Approach.

Background: Violent interpersonal injury is a common presentation to emergency departments (EDs) and is increasingly being treated as a preventable condition. Given the complexity of the issue, it is key to ensure interventions are feasible and acceptable within the communities that are affected by violence. Our team consists of ED staff, community members who work with youth affected by violence, people who were affected by violence in their youth, and researchers.

Nurses' perspectives on the care of adults with mental health problems and histories of childhood sexual abuse.

Despite growing awareness and evidence linking childhood sexual abuse (CSA) to numerous ongoing health problems in adulthood, the integration of this knowledge into nursing practice remains inconsistent. This article reports the results of a study that explored nurses' perspectives on, and experiences with, providing care for adults with mental health problems who may also have histories of CSA. Nurses' views underscore the challenges and complexities involved when providing care for this population.

Use of social commitment robots in the care of elderly people with dementia: a literature review.

Globally, the population of elderly people is rising with an increasing number of people living with dementias. This trend is coupled with a prevailing need for compassionate caretakers. A key challenge in dementia care is to assist the person to sustain communication and connection to family, caregivers and the environment.

Nursing student perceptions of disability and preparation to care for people with intellectual disabilities.

As people with intellectual disabilities live longer and develop more chronic illnesses, nurses will have increasing contact with them. Therefore, nurses must have both an accurate understanding of and a positive attitude toward this population to ensure optimal nursing care is received. A cross-sectional survey of second-year and fourth-year nursing students measured their perceptions of disability, their contact with people with intellectual disabilities, and their perceptions of education to prepare them to care for people with intellectual disabilities.

Social commitment robots and dementia.

In 2010, approximately 500,000 Canadians suffered from a dementia-related illness. The number of sufferers is estimated to double in about 25 years. Due to this growing demographic, dementia (most frequently caused by Alzheimer's disease) will increasingly have a significant impact on our aging community and their caregivers.

How children understand parental mental illness: "you don't get life insurance. What's life insurance?".

Objectives: To understand how children living with parental mental illness (PMI) understand mental illness (MI) and what they want to tell other children.

Method: The study design was a secondary analysis of a grounded theory study exploring Canadian children's perceptions of living with PMI. Interviews from 22 children, ages 6 - 16, living with a parent with depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia receiving treatment for the MI, were re-read, coded and analyzed along with data categories, their properties, field notes and memos from the original data.

From sea to shining sea: making collaborative rural research work.

Rural researchers collaborate on many levels to collect and analyze data, develop research reports and disseminate findings. While this collaboration is critical, there is a dearth of literature about research team collaboration within all stages of the research process. The purpose of this article is to discuss the research experience of 10 rural researchers scattered across Canada who participated in the study, Health Research: Accessible, Applicable and Useable for Rural Communities and Practitioners.

Children's perceptions of living with a parent with a mental illness: finding the rhythm and maintaining the frame.

In this article, we explain how children managed their experiences of living with a parent with a mental illness. Symbolic interactionism served as the theoretical framework. The sample comprised 22 children between 6 and 16 years of age, who were living part- or full-time with a parent with depression, schizophrenia, or bipolar illness.

Children living with a parent who has a mental illness: a critical analysis of the literature and research implications.

This article provides an analysis and assessment of the literature that deals with children of a parent who has a mental illness. It argues that children's perspectives about living with a parent who has a mental illness have not been taken into consideration. A survey of the literature indicates that it can be divided into sections that include: the family context of the child, risks associated with the child's stage of growth and development, characteristics associated with resilience, and existing interventions.

ACTION: application and extension of the GENESIS community analysis model.

GENESIS (General Ethnographic and Nursing Evaluation Studies In the State) is a tested and proven community analysis strategy that integrates ethnographic and epidemiologic data to arrive at a comprehensive, holistic description of the health of a community and its residents. Communities analyzed in most project GENESIS studies have been rural or semirural. ACTION (Assessing Communities Together in the Identification Of Needs) is an extension of the GENESIS community analysis model that was developed to meet the unique needs of community-level research and analysis in an urban, multicultural setting.