Examining community mental health providers' delivery of structured weight loss intervention to youth with serious emotional disturbance: An application of the theory of planned behaviour.

Background: Rates of overweight and obesity are disproportionately high among youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED). Little is known about community mental health providers' delivery of weight loss interventions to this vulnerable population.

Objective: This study examined attitudinal predictors of their providers' intentions to deliver weight loss interventions to youth with SED using the theory of planned behaviour.

Community Mental Health Providers' Beliefs About Addressing Weight Loss Among Youth Clients with Serious Emotional Disturbance and Overweight/Obesity: An Elicitation Study.

Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) have high rates of overweight/obesity. Factors influencing mental health provider intentions to deliver weight-related advice are unclear. This study used qualitative methodology and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) constructs to examine these factors.

Diabetes Knowledge Among Adults with Serious Mental Illness and Comorbid Diabetes Mellitus.

This study examined the association between psychiatric symptoms and diabetes knowledge (DK) among 90 adults with serious mental illness (SMI) and type 2 diabetes. The relationship between DK and glucose control (i.e.

Self-Efficacy and Hemoglobin A1C Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness and Type 2 Diabetes: The Roles of Cognitive Functioning and Psychiatric Symptom Severity.

Background: Self-efficacy is a core element of diabetes self-care and a primary target of diabetes interventions. Adults with serious mental illness (SMI) are twice as likely as adults among the general population to have Type 2 diabetes. This population faces substantial barriers (i.

Oral health in adults with serious mental illness: needs for and perspectives on care.

This study used qualitative methods to investigate barriers to and facilitators of oral health care among 25 adult community mental health outpatients with serious mental illness (SMI). Participants completed 30- to 60-min, semi-structured interviews that were recorded and transcribed. Qualitative analysis was used to characterize common themes.

Depression, diabetic complications and disability among persons with comorbid schizophrenia and type 2 diabetes.

Background: People with schizophrenia are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes, its complications, depression, and disability. However, little is known about the interrelationships of these 3 factors in adults with schizophrenia and type 2 diabetes.

Objective: We sought to assess the number of diabetic complications and depressive symptom severity as predictors of disability and evaluate depressive symptom severity as a mediator of the relationship between diabetic complications and disability in a sample of 62 adults with schizophrenia and type 2 diabetes.

Depression Treatment Among Rural Older Adults: Preferences and Factors Influencing Future Service Use.

The purpose of this study was to investigate depression treatment preferences and anticipated service use in a sample of adults aged 55 years or older who reside in rural Wyoming. Sixteen participants (mean age = 59) completed 30- to 60-minute, semi-structured interviews. Qualitative methods were used to characterize common themes.

Barriers and facilitators of a healthy lifestyle among persons with serious and persistent mental illness: perspectives of community mental health providers.

The investigators used qualitative methods to examine perspectives of community mental health professionals on obesity management in adults with serious mental illness (SMI). Data from 5 focus groups were subjected to constant comparison analysis and grounded theory. Results showed that influences at individual, social, community, and societal levels impact development and maintenance of obesity.

Genetic attributions and mental illness diagnosis: effects on perceptions of danger, social distance, and real helping decisions.

Unlabelled: Genetic essentialism suggests that beliefs in genetic causes of mental illness will inflate a desire for social distance from affected individuals, regardless of specific disorder. However, genetic contingency theory predicts that genetic attributions will lead to an increased desire for social distance only from persons with disorders who are perceived as dangerous.

Purpose: To assess the interactive effect of diagnosis and attribution on social distance and actual helping decisions across disorders.

A healthy lifestyle intervention for middle-aged and older schizophrenia patients with diabetes mellitus: a 6-month follow-up analysis.

Unlabelled: The purpose of this study was to test the sustained impact of a 6-month diabetes management intervention in middle-aged and older adults with schizophrenia and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Method: Fifty-two individuals, over the age of 40 completed both baseline and 12-month follow-up assessments.

Results: At 12 months, Diabetes Awareness and Rehabilitation Training (DART) participants experienced significantly greater improvement in body mass index, waist circumference and diabetes knowledge than did the Usual Care Plus Information (UCI) group.