Browsing by Subject "Mental health"
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(Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1996)A previously calculated predictive model for health risk selects infants who suffer 4-5 times more morbidity than their unselected peers. Preliminary results suggested that this risk is related to maternal neurotic ...
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(International Journal of Medical Education, 2022)Objectives: To investigate students' experience with medical education alongside their mental and physical health since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic across nine countries. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey ...
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(2011)Background: Chile is receiving immigrant populations coming from other Latin- American countries. Aim: To determine the prevalence of Common Mental Disorders (CMD) among immigrants who live in Independencia, a quarter in ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. This article analyses and compares the epidemiology of mental disorders and relevant public policies in Chile and Finland. In Chile, a specific mental health law ...
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(Springer, 2020)Approximately 1.251.225 foreign-born migrants reside in Chile, including 183.315 children. This study compares mental health indicators in immigrant and non-immigrant children to understand the mental health effects of ...
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(Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, India, 2021)Introduction: The psychological impact of COVID‑19 on health‑care workers (HCWs) has received attention from researchers to understand the extent of the effects of the ongoing pandemic on this population. The aim of this ...
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(Springer, 2015)The world’s largest school-based mental health program, Habilidades para la Vida [Skills for Life (SFL)], has been operating on a national scale in Chile for 15 years. SFL’s activities include using standardized measures ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2017-04)Background: Mindfulness has been conceptualized as paying attention to present moment experience in a non-judgmental manner, and the practice of developing that skill. Aim: To determine the impact of a mindfulness-base ...
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(Cambridge Univ Press, 2016)Background Lower and middle income countries (LMICs) are home to > 80% of the global population, but mental health researchers and LMIC investigator led publications are concentrated in 10% of LMICs. Increasing research ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2021)Introduction: Teachers have been reported to be a labor group with high rates of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), stress, and strong deterioration of quality of life (QoL). However, little information exists about the ...
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(BioMed Central, 2019)Background: The needs of people with dementia (PWD) have not been assessed in any Latin American country. Several European countries have already related unmet needs with quality of life, caregiver's age, burden, stress, ...
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(2012)Purpose: To determine the prevalence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in a representative sample of children and adolescents living in Santiago, Chile, as part of a national sample. Method Subjects aged 4-18 were selected ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2010)Background: The knowledge about prevalence of psychiatric disorders in all age groups is fundamental to plan an adequate mental health care. Aim: To determine the prevalence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in a representative ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Centro Interdisciplinario Estudios Bioética, 2016)Mental diseases are common, chronic and disabling, representing a problem in public health of importance in our country and in the world. For most common mental diseases, currently we dispose of medical and psycho social ...
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(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)© 2018 Chile is a country that is constantly affected by natural disasters. In this article we present the results of a qualitative follow-up study with members of the Chilean Red Cross, who led the evacuation of the Pucón ...
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(Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud, 2016)© 2016, Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud. All rights reserved. Mental diseases are common, chronic and disabling, representing a problem in public health of importance in our country and in the world. For most common ...
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(BIOMED Central Ltd., 2017)Background: Scientific knowledge is a fundamental tool for making informed health policy decisions, but the link between health research and public policy decision-making is often missing. This study aims to identify and ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Background: Suicidality in adolescents is a growing concern and is currently a public health issue in Chile and the world. Objective: To determine the association between the risk of suicidality with self-harm, ...
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(Frontiers Media, 2021)Objectives: This paper reviews the mental health policies that have been implemented in Chile in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the international context of countries' responses. Even before the start of the pandemic, ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2014)Background: Thirty to 50% of people exposed to a natural disaster suffer psychological problems in the ensuing months. Aim: To characterize the activities in mental health developed by Primary Health Care centers after ...