Interventions for smoking cessation in inpatient psychiatry settings.

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of smoking cessation interventions on tobacco smoking in adults receiving inpatient psychiatry treatment. To assess whether the effects of smoking cessation interventions differ according to psychiatric diagnosis or type of intervention or comparator condition.

Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders.

Background: It is controversial whether compulsory community treatment (CCT) for people with severe mental illness (SMI) reduces health service use, or improves clinical outcome and social functioning.

Objectives: To examine the effectiveness of compulsory community treatment (CCT) for people with severe mental illness (SMI).

Search Methods: We searched the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's Study-Based Register of Trials (2003, 2008, 2012, 8 November 2013, 3 June 2016).

Psychological interventions for symptomatic management of non-specific chest pain in patients with normal coronary anatomy.

Background: Recurrent chest pain in the absence of coronary artery disease is a common problem which sometimes leads to excess use of medical care. Although many studies have examined the causes of pain in these patients, few clinical trials have evaluated treatment. This is an update of a Cochrane review originally published in 2005 and last updated in 2010.

Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders.

There is controversy as to whether compulsory community treatment (CCT) for people with severe mental illness (SMI) reduces health service use or improves clinical outcome and social functioning. To examine the effectiveness of CCT for people with SMI. We searched the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's Trials Register and Science Citation Index (2003, 2008, 2012, and 2013).

Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders.

Background: There is controversy as to whether compulsory community treatment (CCT) for people with severe mental illness (SMI) reduces health service use, or improves clinical outcome and social functioning.

Objectives: To examine the effectiveness of CCT for people with SMI.

Search Methods: We searched the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group's Trials Register and Science Citation Index (2003, 2008, and 2012).

Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies for common mental disorders.

Background: Since the mid-1970s, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies (STPP) for a broad range of psychological and somatic disorders have been developed and studied. Early published meta-analyses of STPP, using different methods and samples, have yielded conflicting results, although some meta-analyses have consistently supported an empirical basis for STPP. This is an update of a review that was last updated in 2006.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of distraction and hypnosis for needle-related pain and distress in children and adolescents.

Objective: To systematically review the evidence (and quality) for distraction and hypnosis for needle-related pain and distress in children and adolescents. To explore the effects of distraction characteristics (e.g.

Psychological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and distress in children and adolescents.

Background: This review is an updated version of the original Cochrane review published in Issue 4, 2006. Needle-related procedures are a common source of pain and distress for children. Our previous review on this topic indicated that a number of psychological interventions were efficacious in managing pediatric needle pain, including distraction, hypnosis, and combined cognitive behavioural interventions.

Psychological interventions for symptomatic management of non-specific chest pain in patients with normal coronary anatomy.

Background: Recurrent chest pain in the absence of coronary artery disease is a common problem that sometimes leads to excess use of medical care. Although many studies examine the causes of pain in these patients, few clinical trials have evaluated treatment. The studies reviewed in this paper provide an insight into the effectiveness of psychological interventions for this group of patients.

Effect of the increase in "alcopops" tax on alcohol-related harms in young people: a controlled interrupted time series.

Objective: To measure alcohol-related harms to the health of young people presenting to emergency departments (EDs) of Gold Coast public hospitals before and after the increase in the federal government "alcopops" tax in 2008.

Design, Setting And Participants: Interrupted time series analysis over 5 years (28 April 2005 to 27 April 2010) of 15-29-year-olds presenting to EDs with alcohol-related harms compared with presentations of selected control groups.

Main Outcome Measures: Proportion of 15-29-year-olds presenting to EDs with alcohol-related harms compared with (i) 30-49-year-olds with alcohol-related harms, (ii)15-29-year-olds with asthma or appendicitis, and (iii) 15-29-year-olds with any non-alcohol and non-injury related ED presentation.

Compulsory community and involuntary outpatient treatment for people with severe mental disorders.

Background: There is controversy as to whether compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental illnesses reduces health service use, or improves clinical outcome and social functioning. Given the widespread use of such powers it is important to assess the effects of this type of legislation.

Objectives: To examine the clinical and cost effectiveness of compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental illness.

Psychological interventions for symptomatic management of non-specific chest pain in patients with normal coronary anatomy.

Background: Recurrent chest pain in the absence of coronary artery disease is a common problem that sometimes leads to excess use of medical care. Although many studies examine the causes of pain in these patients, few clinical trials have evaluated treatment. The studies reviewed in this paper provide an insight into the effectiveness of psychological interventions for this group of patients.

Interventions for psychosexual dysfunction in women treated for gynaecological malignancy.

Background: Psychosexual dysfunction (sexual difficulties not directly due to physical factors) is known to be a common complication of treatment for gynaecological cancer. It has a considerable impact on quality of life (QoL) for the increasing number of women who are survivors of gynaecological cancer.

Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of interventions for psychosexual dysfunction in women who have been treated for gynaecological malignancy (cancer of uterine cervix, uterine corpus, ovary, vulva).

Advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness.

Background: An advance directive is a document specifying a person's preferences for treatment, should he or she lose capacity to make such decisions in the future. They have been used in end-of-life settings to direct care but should be well suited to the mental health setting.

Objectives: To examine the effects of advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness.