Long-Term Efficacy of Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-Help Programs for Adults With Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Background: Depression is a worldwide mental disorder and a leading cause of disability. Many people with depression do not want to take medication or have the motivation to seek psychotherapy treatment for many reasons. Guided internet-based self-help programs may be a promising solution for addressing these issues.

Efficacy of computer- and/or internet-based cognitive-behavioral guided self-management for depression in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Background: Depression is a worldwide disease. CBT-based self-help treatment allows patients with mild to moderate depression symptoms to improve their depression or to bridge the waiting- or pandemic period until they receive further clinical treatment.

Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to explore the efficacy, acceptability and improvement in quality of life of computer-delivered and/or internet-based CBT self-help interventions with minimal guidance (up to 10 min) for depression.

[From the First Symptoms of Depression to Treatment. When and Where are People Seeking Help? Does Stigma Play a Role? - Results from a Survey at a German Convention for People with Depression].

Only a few of the people affected by depression receive early treatment. The aim of this study is to determine the time interval between first onset of symptoms and treatment utilization and the role of stigma in this process. Survey with participants from the 2nd German Patient Convention in Leipzig, Germany for patients, relatives and the general public.

Understanding Patient Experience Using Internet-based Email Surveys: A Feasibility Study at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Email is becoming a widely accepted communication tool in healthcare settings. This study sought to test the feasibility of Internet-based email surveys of patient experience in the ambulatory setting. We conducted a study of email Internet-based surveys sent to patients in selected ambulatory clinics at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada.

Personal and perceived stigmatization of depression: a comparison of data from the general population, participants of a depression congress and job placement officers in Germany.

Personal and perceived depression stigma was assessed with Griffiths and colleagues׳ Depression Stigma Scale in 1509 German adults. The sample comprised three groups of participants: attendees of a depression congress, job placement officers and a representative general population sample. In all groups, personal stigma was lower than perceived stigma.

Effects of angular shift transformations between movements and their visual feedback on coordination in unimanual circling.

Tool actions are characterized by a transformation between movements and their resulting consequences in the environment. This transformation has to be taken into account when tool actions are planned and executed. We investigated how angular shift transformations between circling movements and their visual feedback affect the coordination of this feedback with visual events in the environment.

Mount Sinai Hospital's approach to Ontario's Health System Funding Reform.

In April 2012, the Ontario government introduced Health System Funding Reform (HSFR), a transformational shift in how hospitals are funded. Mount Sinai Hospital recognized that moving from global funding to a "patient-based" model would have substantial operational and clinical implications. Adjusting to the new funding environment was set as a top corporate priority, serving as the strategic basis for re-examining and redesigning operations to further improve both quality and efficiency.

Effects of angular gain transformations between movement and visual feedback on coordination performance in unimanual circling.

Tool actions are characterized by a transformation (of spatio-temporal and/or force-related characteristics) between movements and their resulting consequences in the environment. This transformation has to be taken into account, when planning and executing movements and its existence may affect performance. In the present study we investigated how angular gain transformations between movement and visual feedback during circling movements affect coordination performance.

Mental health treatment seeking among patients with OCD: impact of age of onset.

Background: Several studies have described the deficits in the health care provided to persons with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), however, without making any distinction between psychiatric-psychotherapeutic professionals and general practitioners or other professionals. Also, the relation between subjectively defined early signs of the disorder, diagnosis and utilization of professional help has not yet been investigated systematically. The present study addresses these questions, using a self-rating questionnaire for patients with OCD (questionnaire on the utilization of professional help by patients with OCD).

Vision-to-event and movement-to-event coordination in an unimanual circling task.

Coordination of actions with events in extracorporeal space is essential for many everyday tasks. In the present study, we investigated how transformations, like in tool use, and varying the spatial context affect action coordination. For this aim, we used a circling task that required participants to coordinate the visual feedback of hand movements with a clockwise circling stimulus (event).

[Mental health in the working world from the perspective of occupational physicians].

Objective: As a contact person for mental health problems, occupational physicians have a wide range of tasks including the assessment and adaption of company-related psychosocial conditions and the implementation of treatment and rehabilitation measures. It is of interest how they perceive the relevance and occurrence of mental disorders on one hand, and the prevention and treatment of employees' mental disorders within the company on the other.

Method: Data collection with paper-and-pencil and Internet survey.

Depression in the workplace: a systematic review of evidence-based prevention strategies.

Background: Depression is one of the most common mental disorders, causing enormous personal and economic burden. In its early stages, however, it is the most manageable of mental disorders. The workplace, where a large proportion of the adult population can be reached, might be a good setting for prevention interventions that target depression directly.

Collaboration to partnerships.

Partnerships are at the center of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Nursing Excellence Professional Practice (HUP-NEPP) model. Through the use of collaboration, skilled communication, and respectful workplace, partnerships can be formed, leading ultimately to world-class patient care. At HUP, interdisciplinary partnerships are evidenced by the clinical nurses through shared governance.

Impact of a campaign on the public's attitudes towards depression.

A public campaign was launched in 2000 as part of the four-level community-based intervention 'Nuremberg Alliance Against Depression' (NAD) in Nuremberg, Germany. Evaluation results will be presented. A baseline survey was done before the campaign in Nuremberg and Wuerzburg (control region), two surveys followed 10 and 22 months after the implementation.

[Evaluation of target-group oriented interventions aimed at reducing the stigma surrounding mental illness].

Objective: To provide a systematic review of target-group oriented interventions aimed at reducing the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Methods: An electronic literature search was carried out based on PubMed. In addition, the reference lists of included studies were examined and other sources like the internet were used.

Adverse parenting as a risk factor in the occurrence of anxiety disorders : a study in six European countries.

Objective: The aim of the study was to test the homogeneity of the association between adverse parenting and anxiety disorders within these disorders as well as among six European countries.

Method: Based on data from 8,232 respondents (part II sample) originating from the European study of the epidemiology of mental disorders (ESEMeD), we examined the association between three dimensions of parental rearing (care, overprotection, authoritarianism) measured by a short form of the parental bonding instrument (PBI) and anxiety disorders by computing one logistic regression model per disorder.

Results: A similar pattern of recalled parenting behaviour across the four anxiety disorders assessed was found, with care and overprotection having the strongest associations.

Heavy use of psychiatric inpatient care from the perspective of the patients affected.

Background: Patients who spend an above-average amount of time in inpatient care are termed heavy users. Up to this point, very little has been known about what drives these patients to their heavy use of inpatient treatment.

Aim: For this reason, the present study investigates the causes for frequent inpatient admissions of heavy users from the perspective of the patients affected.

[Social psychiatry in the field of contrasting context between psychiatry and Social Medicine].

Objective: There has been a discussion going on that Social Psychiatry has entered a state of crisis in terms of its socio-scientific roots. Little is known, however, about its relationship to Social Medicine. The question is whether Social Psychiatry, having grown apart from Sociology, has also lost its scientific relation to Social Medicine.

Burnout of caregivers: a comparison between partners of psychiatric patients and nurses.

Care of a person with mental illness involves multiple burdens, possibly leading to burnout. This study compares partners of persons with schizophrenia and depression with nursing staff based on dimensions of burnout. Nursing staff and partners of patients with schizophrenia or depression were consecutively recruited from psychiatric hospitals and interviewed with the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

The relationship between biogenetic causal explanations and social distance toward people with mental disorders: results from a population survey in Germany.

Aims: Several studies have found an inverse relationship between people's readiness to endorse biogenetic causal explanations of mental disorder and their desire for social distance from people with mental disorders. The aim of this study is to examine why this may be the case.

Method: In the spring of 2001, a population survey was carried out among German citizens aged 18 years and older, living in private households.

Influence of newspaper reporting on adolescents' attitudes toward people with mental illness.

Background: Numerous studies have established proof of selective media reporting about the mentally ill, with the majority of the reports focusing almost exclusively on violence and dangerousness. A handful of studies found that there is an association between negative media portrayals and negative attitudes toward people with mental illness. However, empirical evidence of the impact of newspaper reports about mentally ill people on readers' attitudes is very scarce.

Public attitudes toward psychiatric treatment. An international comparison.

Aim: In order to examine whether there is a relationship between the state of mental health care and the acceptance of psychiatry, public attitudes toward psychiatric treatment in three countries where the reform of mental health care has progressed to a different degree will be compared.

Methods: Population surveys on public beliefs about mental illness and attitudes toward psychiatric treatment were conducted in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, and Novosibirsk, Russia. The data were compared with those from a population survey that had recently been carried out in Germany.

Empirical evidence for an invariant three-factor structure of the Parental Bonding Instrument in six European countries.

The objective of the present study was to test the Parental Bonding Instrument's (PBI) three-factor structure (care, overprotection, and authoritarianism) found by [Cox, B.J., Enns, M.

The disregarded caregivers: subjective burden in spouses of schizophrenia patients.

Although the burdens of relatives of schizophrenia patients have been the subject of numerous studies, there are hardly any publications on the living situation of the patients' spouses. The findings of this qualitative interview study of 52 spouses of schizophrenia patients are, therefore, especially noteworthy. Spouses not only face illness-specific burdens but also burdens resulting from their partnership and family roles.