Gender-based provisions in mental health legislation: a review of English language jurisdictions.

Objectives: Legislation is a powerful tool for facilitating mental healthcare. Gender is an important social determinant of physical and mental health. Many jurisdictions are in the process of revising their mental health law, to align with human rights commitments.

A survey of perceived traumatic birth experiences in an Irish maternity sample - prevalence, risk factors and follow up.

Objectives: To establish the prevalence and correlates of a subjectively traumatic birth experience in an Irish maternity sample.

Design: A questionnaire routinely provided to all women prior to hospital discharge post-birth was amended for data collection for this study. Two additional questions seeking information about women's perceptions of their birth were added and analysed.

Health-related quality of life and quality of care in pregnant and postnatal women during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A cohort study.

Objective: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and the delivery of high-quality care are ongoing concerns when caring for pregnant women during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We compared self-reported HRQoL and hospital quality of care among perinatal women with and without COVID-19.

Methods: This is a prospective cohort study of perinatal women attending a tertiary maternity unit during the pandemic.

The World Health Organization's QualityRights materials for training, guidance and transformation: preventing coercion but marginalising psychiatry.

The World Health Organization has developed training material to support its QualityRights Initiative. These documents offer excellent strategies to limit coercion. However, the negative portrayal of psychiatry, the absolute prohibition on involuntary treatment and the apparent acceptance of the criminalisation of individuals with mental illness are causes for concern.

A Focus Group Study of Indian Psychiatrists' Views on Electroconvulsive Therapy under India's Mental Healthcare Act 2017: 'The Ground Reality is Different'.

Background: India's Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (MHCA) greatly restricts the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in minors and bans unmodified ECT. Indian psychiatrists have raised concerns that these measures may deprive certain patients of life-saving treatment. This study describes the perspectives of Indian psychiatrists on how ECT is dealt with in the legislation.

Convergence or Divergence? Comparing Mental Capacity Assessments Based on Legal and Clinical Criteria in Medical and Surgical Inpatients.

Despite the high prevalence of mental incapacity for treatment decisions in hospitals (27.7%), there is little information about the relationship, if any, between mental capacity assessments based on clinical and legal criteria. We performed a cross-sectional study of mental incapacity for treatment decisions in 300 hospital inpatients in two hospitals in Ireland, using the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool for Treatment (MacCAT-T) and the legal definition of mental incapacity in Ireland's incoming Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015.

The right to mental healthcare: India moves forward.

In 2018, India's Mental Healthcare Act 2017 granted a legally binding right to mental healthcare to 1.3 billion people, in compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Many countries, including the UK, ratified the Convention but only India has stepped up to the mark so dramatically.

New legislation, new frontiers: Indian psychiatrists' perspective of the mental healthcare act 2017 prior to implementation.

Context: The mental healthcare act 2017 represents a complete overhaul of Indian mental health legislation.

Aims: The aim of this study was to establish the opinions of Indian psychiatrists regarding the new act.

Settings: Mental health professionals in Bihar and Jharkhand were interviewed.

India's Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: Content, context, controversy.

India's new mental health legislation, the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, was commenced on 29 May 2018 and seeks explicitly to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It grants a legally binding right to mental healthcare to over 1.3 billion people, one sixth of the planet's population.

Does Involuntary Admission With Bipolar Disorder Differ From Involuntary Admission With Schizophrenia and Related Disorders? A Report From the Dublin Involuntary Admission Study (DIAS).

Background: While involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment are common, little is known about what impact different diagnoses have on specific features of involuntary admission and on how involuntary status is terminated (eg, by psychiatrists or tribunals, which are independent, court-like bodies reviewing involuntary admissions).

Methods: We studied 2940 admissions, 423 (14.4%) of which were involuntary, at 3 psychiatry units covering a population of 552,019 individuals in Dublin, Ireland.

Variations in involuntary admission rates at three psychiatry centres in the Dublin Involuntary Admission Study (DIAS): Can the differences be explained?

Involuntary psychiatric admission is an established practice for patients who are acutely or severely mentally ill but the factors contributing to involuntary (as opposed to voluntary) admission are not fully clear. Nor is it clear why rates of involuntary admission often vary between hospitals within the same jurisdiction. We studied all admissions, voluntary and involuntary, in three inpatient psychiatry units in Dublin, Ireland, which cover a population of 552,019 people, over a one-year period (1 July 2014 until 30 June 2015, inclusive), as part of the Dublin Involuntary Admission Study (DIAS).

Rights, laws and tensions: A comparative analysis of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the WHO Resource Book on Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation.

Background: Good mental health legislation is essential for ensuring high quality mental health care and protecting human rights. Many countries are attempting to bring mental health legislation in line with the UN - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UN-CRPD). The UN-CRPD requires policy-makers to rethink the 'medical model' of mental illness and existing laws.

Which involuntary admissions are revoked by mental health tribunals? A report from the Dublin Involuntary Admission Study (DIAS).

Little is known about which involuntary psychiatry patients are likely to have their involuntary admission orders revoked by mental health tribunals or review boards and which are not. We studied 2940 admissions, of which 423 (14.4%) were involuntary, at three adult psychiatry units covering a population of 552,019 people in Dublin.

Concordance of the Indian Mental Healthcare Act 2017 with the World Health Organization's Checklist on Mental Health Legislation.

Background: India is revising its mental health legislation with the Indian Mental Healthcare Act 2017 (IMHA). When implemented, this legislation will apply to over 1.25 billion people.

Experiences of Using Prezi in Psychiatry Teaching.

Objective: Prezi is a presentation software allowing lecturers to develop ideas and produce mind maps as they might do on an old-style blackboard. This study examines students' experience of lectures presented using Prezi to identify the strengths and weaknesses of this new teaching medium.

Methods: Prezi was used to present mental health lectures to final-year medical and physiotherapy students.