Mental Health
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Friday, November 20, 2009

The health consequences of using physical restraints in nursing homes.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Using a national longitudinal sample of nursing homes residents (N = 264,068), we examine whether physical restraint use contributes to subsequent physical or psychological health decline. METHODS: The minimum data set, the on-line ... Read more...

Factors related to fatigue in women and men with early rheumatoid arthritis: the Swedish TIRA study.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To study whether there are differences between women and men with regard to the reported level of fatigue, to explore the strength of the relations between fatigue and disease activity, pain, sleep disturbance, mental health, and activity ... Read more...

Civilian social work: serving the military and veteran populations.

29 Sep 2009 This article discusses social work practice areas for civilian social workers who provide services to military service members,veterans, and their families. These practice areas include education, child welfare, domestic violence, mental health, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Health'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The health consequences of using physical restraints in nursing homes. 30 Oct 2009
• Factors related to fatigue in women and men with early rheumatoid arthritis: the Swedish TIRA study. 30 Oct 2009
• A global perspective on the dissemination of mental health research. 29 Oct 2009
• An unacceptable slur? 29 Oct 2009
• Civilian social work: serving the military and veteran populations. 29 Sep 2009
• Health-risk correlates of video-game playing among adults. 29 Sep 2009
• Normative values for a functional capacity evaluation. 29 Sep 2009
• Adiposity and weight change in mid-life in relation to healthy survival after age 70 in women: prospective cohort study. 27 Sep 2009
• Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children. 26 Sep 2009
• The role of psychological functioning in the use of complementary and alternative methods among disease-free colorectal cancer survivors: a report from the American Cancer Society's studies of cancer survivors. 13 Sep 2009
• Quality of life in a prospective cohort of elderly women with and without cancer. 13 Sep 2009
• Association between labour market trends and trends in young people's mental health in ten European countries 1983-2005. 6 Sep 2009
• A national approach to perinatal mental health in Australia: exercising caution in the roll-out of a public health initiative. 5 Sep 2009
• ["...Men are so vulnerable ..." does our medicine do justice to men?] Sep 2009
• Music therapy to relieve anxiety in pregnant women on bedrest: a randomized, controlled trial. 30 Aug 2009
• Trends in health care expenditures, utilization, and health status among US adults with spine problems, 1997-2006. 30 Aug 2009
• The effects of 16-week group exercise program on physical function and mental health of elderly Korean women in long-term assisted living facility. 30 Aug 2009
• Measuring preference-based quality of life using the EuroQol EQ-5D in patients with cerebral aneurysms. 30 Aug 2009
• The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the Bergen Child Study: a conceptually and methodically motivated structural analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• Does job loss cause ill health? 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Mental Health'

Definition: The state wherein the person is well adjusted.

Descriptor UI: D008603

Alternative terms: Mental Health; Health, Mental; Mental Hygiene; Hygiene, Mental;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F02.418; N01.400.500;

Online Note: use MENTAL HEALTH to search MENTAL HYGIENE 1966

History Note: 67; was MENTAL HYGIENE 1963-66

Technical Notes: no qualif