Development and implementation determinants of competency frameworks for mental health clinicians and service providers working with youth: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Despite high prevalence, access to mental healthcare for Canadian youth is limited, with less than 20% receiving adequate treatment. Marginalised and at-risk youth face particular challenges, including cultural misunderstandings, long wait times and negative care experiences. A competency framework for mental health clinicians working with youth can be a tool to increase the capacity of the health workforce to deliver culturally responsive care.

Behavioral skills training for teaching safety skills to mental health service providers compared to training-as-usual: a pragmatic randomized control trial.

Background: Violence in the healthcare workplace has been a global concern for over two decades, with a high prevalence of violence towards healthcare workers reported. Workplace violence has become a healthcare quality indicator and embedded in quality improvement initiatives of many healthcare organizations. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada's largest mental health hospital, provides all clinical staff with mandated staff safety training for self-protection and team-control skills.

A scoping review reveals candidate quality indicators of knowledge translation and implementation science practice tools.

Objectives: To identify candidate quality indicators from existing tools that provide guidance on how to practice knowledge translation and implemenation science (KT practice tools) across KT domains (dissemination, implementation, sustainability, and scalability).

Study Design And Setting: We conducted a scoping review using the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis. We systematically searched multiple electronic databases and the gray literature.

Behavioral Skills Training for Teaching Safety Skills to Mental Health Clinicians: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Control Trial.

Background: Workplace violence is an increasingly significant topic, particularly for staff working in mental health settings. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada's largest mental health hospital, considers workplace safety a high priority and consequently has mandated staff safety training. For clinical staff, key components of this training are self-protection and team-control skills, which are a last resort when an individual is at an imminent risk of harm to self or others and other interventions are ineffective (eg, verbal de-escalation).

Determinants of access to childhood cancer medicines: a comparative, mixed-methods analysis of four Caribbean countries.

Background: Equitable access to essential medicines is a key facet of childhood cancer care, recognised by WHO as vital to improved childhood cancer outcomes globally. In the Caribbean, childhood cancer outcomes are poorer than those in most high-income countries. We aimed to generate in-depth comparative evidence of the current challenges and opportunities related to access to childhood cancer medicines in the Caribbean to identify context-sensitive health systems strategies to improve drug access and inform evidence-based paediatric cancer policies in the region.

Health system determinants of access to essential medicines for children with cancer in Ghana.

Background: Evidence of the context-specific challenges related to childhood cancer drug (CCD) access is vital to improving outcomes for children with cancer in low- and middle-income countries, such as Ghana. We sought to determine the availability and cost of essential CCD in Ghana and identify the underlying determinants of access.

Methods: Our study integrated quantitative data on drug prices and availability with qualitative insights into health system and sociopolitical determinants of CCD access in Ghana.