International Journal of Social Psychiatry

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Volume 66, issue 8, 2020

Pandemics, panic and prevention: Stages in the life of COVID-19 pandemic pp. 733-734

Antonio Ventriglio, Cameron Watson and Dinesh Bhugra

Psychosocial interventions in schizophrenia: Focus on guidelines pp. 735-747

Antonio Ventriglio, Fabiana Ricci, Giuseppe Magnifico, Egor Chumakov, Julio Torales, Cameron Watson, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Annamaria Petito and Antonello Bellomo

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on socioeconomic and mental health aspects in Nepal pp. 748-755

Kritika Poudel and Pramod Subedi

Depression, anxiety, and stress and socio-demographic correlates among general Indian public during COVID-19 pp. 756-762

Shankey Verma and Aditi Mishra

The effect of childhood trauma on age of onset in patients with schizophrenia pp. 763-769

Cem İngeç and Esin Evren Kılıçaslan

Increased stressful impact among general population in mainland China amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide cross-sectional study conducted after Wuhan city’s travel ban was lifted pp. 770-779

Zheng Feei Ma, Yutong Zhang, Xiaoqin Luo, Xinli Li, Yeshan Li, Shuchang Liu and Yingfei Zhang

Participatory video as a novel recovery-oriented intervention in early psychosis: A pilot study pp. 780-784

Arlene G MacDougall, Sahana Kukan, Elizabeth Price, Sarah Glen, Richelle Bird, Laura Powe, Joshua C Wiener, Paul H Lysaker, Kelly K Anderson and Ross MG Norman

Do Tamil newspapers educate the public about suicide? Content analysis from a high suicide Union Territory in India pp. 785-791

Vikas Menon, Charanya Kaliamoorthy, Vivekanandhan Kavanoor Sridhar, Natarajan Varadharajan, Rini Joseph, Shivanand Kattimani, Sujita Kumar Kar and Yasir Arafat Sm

Factors influencing decision-making around pregnancy among women with severe mental illness (SMI): A qualitative study pp. 792-798

Ashlesha Bagadia, Madhuri H Nanjundaswamy, Sundarnag Ganjekar, Harish Thippeswamy, Geetha Desai and Prabha S Chandra

Subgroups with typical courses of depressive symptoms in an elderly population during 13 years of observation: Results from the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study pp. 799-809

Miriam Engel, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Nico Dragano, Miriam Engels and Susanne Moebus

Navigating COVID-19 with emotional intelligence pp. 810-820

Mubashir Majid Baba

Mental status of patients with chronic insomnia in China during COVID-19 epidemic pp. 821-826

Lili Yang, Zhenghe Yu, You Xu, Wenjuan Liu, Lu Liu and Hongjing Mao

COVID-19 lockdown in India triggers a rapid rise in suicides due to the alcohol withdrawal symptoms: Evidence from media reports pp. 827-829

Shakil Ahmed, M Omar Khaium and Fabeha Tazmeem

COVID-19, India, lockdown and psychosocial challenges: What next? pp. 830-832

Mahaveer Golechha

Volume 66, issue 7, 2020

Public policy, mental health and a public health approach to violence pp. 629-632

Vishal Bhavsar, Dinesh Bhugra and Albert Persaud

Very long-term outcome of psychotic disorders pp. 633-641

Vaios Peritogiannis, Afroditi Gogou and Maria Samakouri

mHealth for schizophrenia spectrum disorders management: A systematic review pp. 642-665

Olga Chivilgina, Tenzin Wangmo, Bernice Simone Elger, Thomas Heinrich and Fabrice Jotterand

COVID-19 quarantine: Post-traumatic stress symptomatology among Lebanese citizens pp. 666-674

Mirna Fawaz and Ali Samaha

The effect of a mental health promotion program on Korean firefighters pp. 675-681

Geun Hui Won, Jin Hyeok Lee, Tae Young Choi, Seoyoung Yoon, So Yeun Kim and Ju Hyun Park

The personal social network of psychiatric service users pp. 682-692

François Wyngaerden, Marie Tempels, Jean-Louis Feys, Vincent Dubois and Vincent Lorant

Decrease of hospitalizations and length of hospital stay in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders treated in a community mental health service in rural Greece pp. 693-699

Vaios Peritogiannis, Panagiota Gioti, Afroditi Gogou and Maria Samakouri

A cross-cultural study of attitudes toward suicide among young people in India, Italy and Australia pp. 700-706

Erminia Colucci and David Lester

Views of patient relatives and health professionals about the reasons of the patients enrolled in the community mental health center to discontinue or irregularly continue the center pp. 707-723

Nur Ceren Guvenc and Hatice Oner

A critical narrative analysis of psychiatrists’ engagement with psychosis as a contentious area pp. 724-730

Therese O’Donoghue and Jon Crossley

Volume 66, issue 6, 2020

Social isolation in Covid-19: The impact of loneliness pp. 525-527

Debanjan Banerjee and Mayank Rai

Prevalence of mental disorders among people who are homeless: An umbrella review pp. 528-541

Md Mahbub Hossain, Abida Sultana, Samia Tasnim, Qiping Fan, Ping Ma, E Lisako J McKyer and Neetu Purohit

A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of psychoeducation interventions for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia pp. 542-552

Majdi MB Alhadidi, Khatijah Lim Abdullah, Tang Li Yoong, Lourance Al Hadid and Mahmoud Danaee

Sixth-year follow-up of the effects of recreational activities found to eliminate the symptoms of social phobia and shyness pp. 553-559

Elif Karagün, Mustafa Yildiz, Çiğdem Çağlayan and Zekiye Başaran

The psychosocial effects of being quarantined following exposure to COVID-19: A qualitative study of Lebanese health care workers pp. 560-565

Mirna Fawaz and Ali Samaha

Childhood maltreatment in individuals at risk of psychosis: Results from the Brazilian SSAPP cohort pp. 566-575

Elder Lanzani Freitas, Alexandre Andrade Loch, Camille Chianca, Julio Cesar Andrade, Mauricio Henriques Serpa, Tania Maria Alves, Lucas Hortêncio, Marcel Tavares Camilo Pinto, Martinus Theodorus van de Bilt, Wagner Farid Gattaz and Wulf Rössler

Differences between homeless and non-homeless people in a matched sample referred for mental health reasons in police custody pp. 576-583

Gareth Hopkin, Lucia Chaplin, Karen Slade, Laura Craster, Lucia Valmaggia, Chiara Samele and Andrew Forrester

Engaging South Asian youth and families: A clinical review pp. 584-592

Neha Sharma, Deepika Shaligram and Grace H Yoon

From folk therapy to evidence-based psychiatry practice: The benefit of evidence-based psychiatry in treatment-naive psychotic patients pp. 593-599

Hung-Yu Wang, Joh-Jong Huang, Shu-Fang Su, Sheng-Hao Hsu, Li-Shiu Chou and Frank Huang-Chih Chou

Barriers to access to mental health services among Colombia outpatients pp. 600-606

Adalberto Campo-Arias, Guillermo A Ceballos-Ospino and Edwin Herazo

Supported employment programme for persons with severe mental disorders in India: A feasibility study pp. 607-613

Aarti Jagannathan, Nikitha Harish, C Venkatalakshmi, C Naveen Kumar, Jagadisha Thirthallli, Devvarta Kumar, Poornima Bhola, M Krishna Prasad, Sivakumar Thanapal, A Hareesh, Deepak Jayarajan, Radhakrishnan Govindan and Chaturvedi Sk

Community integration and related factors among people with mental illness in Japan: Multiple regression analysis stratified by social isolation level pp. 614-622

Ai Shioda and Keita Yamauchi

The coronavirus stress: A reality check of India’s mental health social agenda pp. 623-624

Govindasamy Agoramoorthy

Impact of social distancing on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: An urgent discussion pp. 625-626

Matias Carvalho Aguiar Melo and Douglas de Sousa Soares

Volume 66, issue 5, 2020

Pandemics and prejudice pp. 421-423

Elliot Clissold, Davina Nylander, Cameron Watson and Antonio Ventriglio

To be able, or disable, that is the question: A critical discussion on how language affects the stigma and self-determination in people with parability pp. 424-430

S. Bentolhoda Mousavi, Dusica Lecic-Tosevski, Hassan Khalili and S. Zeinab Mousavi

Informal and formal social support during pregnancy and joint maternal and paternal postnatal depression: Data from the French representative ELFE cohort study pp. 431-441

Aurélie Nakamura, Anne-Laure Sutter-Dallay, Fabienne El-Khoury Lesueur, Xavier Thierry, Florence Gressier, Maria Melchior and Judith van der Waerden

Depression, trauma and mentalizing: No influence of depressive symptoms on spontaneous theory of mind in a subclinical sample pp. 442-451

Anna R Hudson, Corinne Orlemann, Tine Van Tricht, Marcel Brass and Sven C Mueller

Feelings, thoughts and experiences of caregivers of patients with schizophrenia pp. 452-459

Kerime Bademli and Neslihan Lök

Geographical clusters and social risk factors for suicide in the city of São Paulo, 2006–2015: An ecologic study pp. 460-468

Daniel Hideki Bando, Ligia Vizeu Barrozo and Fernando Madalena Volpe

How can today’s substance-using youth be helped to quit? Perspectives of college students from Bangalore, India pp. 469-475

Padmavathy Doraiswamy, Prasanthi Nattala and Pratima Murthy

Stakeholders’ perspectives about the impact of training and sensitization of traditional and spiritual healers on mental health and illness: A qualitative evaluation in Ghana pp. 476-484

Peter Badimak Yaro, Emmanuel Asampong, Philip Teg-Nefaah Tabong, Sunday Atua Anaba, Sandow Stanislaus Azuure, Adam Yahaya Dokurugu and Fredrick Aminu Nantogmah

Depressive and anxiety disorders among single mothers in Dhaka pp. 485-488

Jhunu Shamsun Nahar, Sultana Algin, Mohammad Waliul Hasnat Sajib, Srijony Ahmed and S.M. Yasir Arafat

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Danish residential homes for people with severe mental illness: Use and perceived benefits of CAM in relation to recovery pp. 489-495

Dorte Wiwe Dürr and Anita Lunde

The problematic use of social networking sites associates with elevated symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder pp. 496-503

Orkun Aydin, Fikret Poyraz Çökmüş, Kuzeymen Balikçi, Didem Sücüllüoğlu-Dikici and Pınar Ünal-Aydin

Levels and predictors of anxiety, depression and health anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic in Turkish society: The importance of gender pp. 504-511

Selçuk Özdin and Şükriye Bayrak Özdin

Psychological health during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic outbreak pp. 512-516

Sonia Mukhtar

Student mental health in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for further research and immediate solutions pp. 517-518

Nicholas Grubic, Shaylea Badovinac and Amer M Johri

Staying connected during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 519-520

Qin Xiang Ng, Kuan Tsee Chee, Michelle Lee Zhi Qing De Deyn and Zenn Chua

Beyond the socio-economic status: The concept of ‘vital poverty’ pp. 521-522

Alberto Siracusano and Michele Ribolsi

Volume 66, issue 4, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus and its impact on global mental health pp. 317-320

Julio Torales, Marcelo O’Higgins, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia and Antonio Ventriglio

Mental health care in Italy: Basaglia’s ashes in the wind of the crisis of the last decade pp. 321-330

Mauro G Carta, Matthias C Angermeyer and Anita Holzinger

Early phase child and adolescent psychiatry response after mass trauma: Lessons learned from the Easter Sunday attack in Sri Lanka pp. 331-334

Miyuru Chandradasa, Layani C Rathnayake, Madushi Rowel and Lalin Fernando

Association between energy drink consumption, depression and suicide ideation in Korean adolescents pp. 335-343

Hun Kim, Junha Park, Seungryul Lee, Sang Ah Lee and Eun-Cheol Park

Psychotic experiences and psychiatric treatment utilization in Buenos Aires pp. 344-348

Hans Oh, Ai Koyanagi, Jordan E DeVylder and Eduardo A Leiderman

Predicting self-harm in an ethnically diverse sample of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the United Kingdom pp. 349-360

Zaqia Rehman, Barbara Lopes and Rusi Jaspal

The National Mental Health Survey of India (2016): Prevalence, socio-demographic correlates and treatment gap of mental morbidity pp. 361-372

Melur Sukumar Gautham, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Mathew Varghese, Vivek Benegal, Girish N Rao, Arun Kokane, Bir Singh Chavan, Pronob Kumar Dalal, Daya Ram, Kangkan Pathak, Raj Kumar Lenin Singh, Lokesh Kumar Singh, Pradeep Sharma, Pradeep Kumar Saha, Chellamuthu Ramasubramanian, Ritambhara Yeshwant Mehta and Theerthankara Meethal Shibukumar

Users’ choice and change of allocated primary mental health professional in community-based mental health services: A scoping review pp. 373-381

Giulia Rioli, Silvia Ferrari, Claire Henderson, Riccardo Vandelli, Giacomo Galli, Alessandro Minarini and Gian Maria Galeazzi

Role of traditional healers in the pathway to care of patients with schizophrenia in Egypt pp. 382-388

Mona Ibrahim Awaad, Nesreen Mohsen Ibrahim, Rehab Mohamed Naguib, Sherien Ahmed Khalil, Mahmoud Elhabiby and Zainab Khaled Mohamed

Service use and recovery among currently and formerly homeless adults with mental illness pp. 389-396

Nick Kerman and John Sylvestre

The impact of mental health diagnoses on perceptions of risk of criminality pp. 397-410

Jessica L Garcia, Adanna J Johnson, Marianna E Carlucci and Rachel L Grover

ShareDisk: A novel visual tool to assess perceptions about who should be responsible for supporting persons with mental health problems pp. 411-418

Srividya N Iyer, Megan A Pope, Gerald Jordan, Greeshma Mohan, Heleen Loohuis, Padmavati Ramachandran, Thara Rangaswamy and Ashok K Malla

Volume 66, issue 3, 2020

Turkish newspaper articles mentioning people with mental illness: A retrospective study pp. 215-224

Ozgur Sema Aci, Emre Ciydem, Hulya Bilgin, Zeynep Ozaslan and Seda Tek

Is intimate partner violence more common in pregnant women with severe mental illness? A retrospective study pp. 225-231

Liana Suparare, Stuart J Watson, Ray Binns, Jacqueline Frayne and Megan Galbally

Proof of concept of participant informed, psycho-educational, community-based intervention for people with severe mental illness in rural Vietnam pp. 232-239

Trang Nguyen, Tuan Tran, Sally Green, Arthur Hsueh, Thach Tran, Ha Tran and Jane Fisher

Correlating cognitive functions to symptom domains and insight in Egyptian patients with schizophrenia pp. 240-248

Afaf Hamed Khalil, Marwa Abd el-Meguid, Mostafa Bastawy, Samah Rabei, Ramy Ali and Mohamed Hossam Eldin abd Elmoneam

‘I wanted my child dead’ – Physical, social, cognitive, emotional and spiritual life stories of Turkish parents who give care to their children with schizophrenia: A qualitative analysis based on empowerment approach pp. 249-258

Fulya Akgül Gök and Veli Duyan

Indonesian online newspaper reporting of suicidal behavior: Compliance with World Health Organization media guidelines pp. 259-262

Nazriatun Nisa, Muhammad Arifin, Muhammad Fauzan Nur, Shylvana Adella and Marthoenis Marthoenis

Challenges faced by peer support workers during the integration into hospital-based mental health-care teams: Results from a qualitative interview study pp. 263-269

Ina Otte, Anna Werning, Alexa Nossek, Jochen Vollmann, Georg Juckel and Jakov Gather

Personality and attitudes towards people with mental disorders: Preliminary studies results pp. 270-278

Aleksandra Wolska and Alicja Malina

The effect of training given to parents with mentally disabled children on their life satisfaction self-stigma of seeking help depression and stress-coping styles pp. 279-291

Gulay Yildirim, Sukran Ertekin Pinar, Sultan Ucuk, Ozlem Duran Aksoy and Etem Erdal Ersan

Similar psychosis risks in adoptees and immigrants pp. 292-299

Mary V Seeman

Dual diagnosis: A systematic review of the organization of community health services pp. 300-310

Claudia Fantuzzi and Roberto Mezzina

Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage to promote mental healthcare in China: Challenges to maintaining the sustainability of safeguarding efforts pp. 311-313

Xiaodong Liu and Meina Li

Volume 66, issue 2, 2020

What gets in the way? Men’s perspectives of barriers to mental health services pp. 105-110

Zac E Seidler, Simon M Rice, David Kealy, John L Oliffe and John S Ogrodniczuk

Functioning in community-dwelling patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in rural Greece pp. 111-117

Vaios Peritogiannis and Panagiota Nikolaou

What constitutes recovery in schizophrenia? Client and caregiver perspectives from South India pp. 118-123

Subhashini Gopal, Greeshma Mohan, Sujit John and Vijaya Raghavan

Individual and socio-demographic determinants of suicide: An examination on WHO countries pp. 124-128

Gülnur İlgün, Birol Yetim, Şenol Demirci and Murat Konca

Influence of post-migration living difficulties on post-traumatic symptoms in Chinese asylum seekers resettled in Italy pp. 129-135

Massimiliano Aragona, Miriam Castaldo, Maria Cristina Tumiati, Cristina Schillirò, Alessandra Dal Secco, Francesca Agrò, Angela Forese, Marco Tosi, Giovanni Baglio and Concetta Mirisola

Do welfare benefit reassessments of people with mental health conditions lead to worse mental health? A prospective cohort study pp. 136-149

Ruth Stuart, Sanchika Campbell, Beatrice Osumili, Emily J Robinson, Mary Frost-Gaskin, Richard Pacitti, Paul McCrone and Claire Henderson

Scaling the great wall: The impact of communication barriers on quality of psychiatric care in Chinese patients pp. 150-155

Sanya Virani, Tianxu Xia, Navjot Brainch, Souparno Mitra, Saeed Ahmed, Herbert Mutasiigwa, Gaurav Chaudhari and Deval Zaveri

Beyond formalized plans: User involvement in support in daily living – users’ and support workers’ experiences pp. 156-162

David Matscheck, Amanda Ljungberg and Alain Topor

Posttraumatic stress disorder and complicated grief in bereaved parents of the Sewol Ferry disaster exposed to injustice following the loss pp. 163-170

Hyunjung Choi and Sun-mi Cho

Does child abuse have an impact on self-esteem, depression, anxiety and stress conditions of individuals? pp. 171-178

Çiğdem Berber Çelik and Hatice Odacı

Disability among patients with schizophrenia: A hospital-based study pp. 179-187

Omokehinde O Fakorede, Adegboyega Ogunwale and Akinwande O Akinhanmi

The impacts of maternal separation experience and its pattern on depression and dysfunctional attitude in middle school students in rural China pp. 188-197

Xiu-jing Cao, Yi-xuan Huang, Ping Zhu and Zhi-gang Zhang

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement: A systematic review with meta-analysis pp. 198-209

Elzenir Pereira de Oliveira Almeida and Modesto Leite Rolim Neto

Book Review: Our psychiatric future: The politics of mental health, Approach to the psychiatric patient: Case-based essays (2nd ed.) and Person centered approach to recovery in medicine: Insights from psychosomatic medicine and consultation-liaison psychiatry pp. 210-211

Martin Guha

Volume 66, issue 1, 2020

The wounds of childhood: Early trauma subtypes, salience and hyperarousal in a sample of adult psychiatric patients pp. 3-9

Maria Rosaria Anna Muscatello, Amelia Rizzo, Laura Celebre, Carmela Mento, Gianluca Pandolfo, Clemente Cedro, Fortunato Battaglia, Rocco Antonio Zoccali and Antonio Bruno

Peculiarities of health literacy in people with mental disorders: A cross-sectional study pp. 10-22

Pauline Katharina Mantell, Annika Baumeister, Hildegard Christ, Stephan Ruhrmann and Christiane Woopen

The light and dark sides of social capital: Depressive symptoms among incarcerated older adults pp. 23-33

Adrian J Archuleta, Stephanie Grace Prost and Seana Golder

Effect of economic crisis on suicide cases: An ARDL bounds testing approach pp. 34-40

Şenol Demirci, Murat Konca, Birol Yetim and Gülnur İlgün

Cultural adaptation framework of social interventions in mental health: Evidence-based case studies from low- and middle-income countries pp. 41-48

Meredith Fendt-Newlin, Aarti Jagannathan and Martin Webber

Taking steps towards deinstitutionalizing mental health care within a low and middle-income country: A cross-sectional study of service user needs in the Republic of Moldova pp. 49-57

Jona J Frasch, Ionela Petrea, Jana Chihai, Filip Smit, Matthijs Oud and Laura Shields-Zeeman

Anticipated socio-political developments and related personal responses as structural determinants of mental health problems: A population-based study pp. 58-66

Xue Yang, Rui She, Mason MC Lau and Joseph TF Lau

Is unemployment less important than expected for suicide attempted in developing regions? Occupational profile of suicide attempts in Jujuy, north westernmost Argentina pp. 67-75

Lorena Cecilia López Steinmetz, Romina Lucrecia López Steinmetz and Juan Carlos Godoy

Understanding family perspectives on supported employment pp. 76-83

Kristen Keefe, Thomas Styron, Maria O’Connell, Kate Mattias, Larry Davidson and Mark Costa

The presence, characteristics and correlates of pathological social withdrawal in Taiwan: An online survey pp. 84-92

Alison Fang-Wei Wu, Caroline Catmur, Paul WC Wong and Jennifer YF Lau

Perspectives of consumers in India on factors affecting recovery from schizophrenia pp. 93-101

Sailaxmi Gandhi, Diksy Jose and Geetha Desai

Corrigendum to Disclosing the diagnosis of schizophrenia: A pilot study of the ‘Coming Out Proud’ intervention pp. 102-102

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