A5029832880- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Medicinal Plant Extracts Effects
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Pharmacy and Medical Practices
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Biosimilars and Bioanalytical Methods
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Alberta Health Services
2016-2023
University of Calgary
2020
University of Alberta
2018
Capital District Health Authority
2006
Capital Health
2006
Alberta Hospital Edmonton
2000-2003
University of Mississippi Medical Center
2003
Jackson Memorial Hospital
2003
Background In addition to the obvious physical medical impact of COVID-19, disease poses evident threats people’s mental health, psychological safety, and well-being. Provision support for these challenges is complicated by high number people requiring need maintain distancing. Text4Hope, a daily supportive SMS text messaging program, was launched in Canada mitigate negative health impacts pandemic among Canadians. Objective This paper describes changes stress, anxiety, depression levels...
This study reports on the changes in stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms of subscribers after 3 months using Text4Hope, a supportive text messaging program designed to provide support during pandemic.Standardized self-report measures were used evaluate perceived stress (measured with Perceived Stress Scale-10 [PSS-10]), anxiety General Anxiety Disorder Scale 7 [GAD-7]), Patient Health Questionnaire [PHQ-9]), at baseline 3rd month (n = 373).After subscribers' self-reports revealed...
Background: In March 2020, Alberta Health Services launched Text4Hope, a free mental health text-message service. The service aimed to alleviate pandemic-associated stress, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), major depressive (MDD), and suicidal propensity. effectiveness of Text4Hope was evaluated by comparing psychiatric parameters between two subscriber groups. Methods: A comparative cross-sectional study with arms: subscribers who received daily texts for six weeks, the intervention group...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread globally with far-reaching, significant, and unprecedented impacts on health everyday life. Threats to mental health, psychological safety, well-being are now emerging, increasing the impact of this virus world health. Providing support for these challenges is difficult because high number people requiring in context a need maintain physical distancing. This protocol describes use SMS text messaging (Text4Hope) as convenient, cost-effective,...
In March 2020, Text4Hope-a community health service-was provided to Alberta residents. This free service aims promote psychological resilience and alleviate pandemic-associated stress, anxiety, depression symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.This study aimed evaluate feedback, satisfaction, experience, perceptions of Text4Hope subscribers examine any differences based on gender after received 6 weeks daily supportive text messages. Additionally, this examined subscribers' anticipated...
Individuals discharged from inpatient psychiatry units have the highest readmission rates of all hospitalized patients. These readmissions are often due to unmet need for mental health care compounded by limited human resources. Reducing hospital admissions providing alternative effective will mitigate strain on healthcare system and people with illnesses their relatives. We propose implementation evaluation an innovative program which augments Mental Health Peer Support evidence-based...
Background: Peer support workers (PSW) and text messaging services (TxM) are supportive health that frequently examined in the field of mental health. Both interventions have positive outcomes, with TxM demonstrating clinical economic effectiveness PSW showing its utility within recovery-oriented model. Objective: To evaluate reducing psychological distress recently discharged patients receiving psychiatric care. Methods: This is a prospective, rater-blinded, pilot-controlled observational...
Introduction This study will evaluate the effectiveness of an innovative peer support programme. The programme incorporates leadership training, mentorship, recognition and reward systems for workers, supportive/reminder text messaging patients discharged from acute (hospital) care. We hypothesise that enrolled in system plus daily messages condition achieve superior outcomes comparison to other groups. Methods analysis is a prospective, rater-blinded, four-arm randomised controlled trial....
This paper outlines the transformation of youth mental health services in Edmonton, Alberta, a large city Western Canada. We describe processes and challenges involved restructuring how care are delivered to (11-25 years old) with needs based on objectives pan-Canadian ACCESS Open Minds network. provide narrative review have developed since our engagement initiative, its five central early identification, rapid access, appropriate care, continuity family engagement. Building an initial...
Background Peer support is an emotional, social, and practical help provided by nonprofessionals to assist others in sustaining health behaviors. valued recovery-oriented models of mental becoming increasingly implemented at the organizational level. Text messaging a relatively low-cost, high-impact, easily scalable program that uses existing technology, devoid geographic barriers, accessible end users. Objective This study aims evaluate effectiveness innovative peer system plus supportive...
Background: Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is considered one of the major clinical challenges in field psychiatry. An estimated 44% patients with depressive disorder (MDD) do not respond to two consecutive antidepressant therapies, and 33% up four antidepressants. Over 15% all MDD remain refractory any treatment intervention. rTMS a option for TRD. Likewise, iCBT evidence-based, symptom-focused psychotherapy recommended Objective: This study aimed evaluate initial comparative...
Natural health products (N.H.P.s) are frequently used by mental patients, who also more likely to be given prescription medications. Few patients report use of N.H.P.s their care providers, increasing the challenges safe N.H.P. use.To determine: (1) proportion seeking services taking drugs only, drug-N.H.P.s concurrently and neither, (2) which most commonly these either alone or in combination, (3) what each above groups an adverse event (A.E.) using active surveillance, (4) type A.E.s...
Abstract Background Long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics, along with community treatment orders (CTOs), are used to improve effectiveness through adherence among individuals schizophrenia. Understanding real-world medication adherence, and healthcare resource utilization (HRU) costs in schizophrenia overall by CTO status before after second generation antipsychotic (SGA)-LAI initiation may guide strategies optimize those Methods This retrospective observational single-arm study...
Major depression is a severe, disabling, and potentially lethal clinical disorder. Only about half of patients respond to an initial course antidepressant pharmacotherapy. At least 15% all with major depressive disorder (MDD) remain refractory any treatment intervention. By the time that patient has experienced 3 definitive failures, likelihood achieving remission fourth option offered below 10%. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) considered for MDD who are treatment. It not...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread globally with far-reaching, significant, and unprecedented impacts on health everyday life. Threats to mental health, psychological safety, well-being are now emerging, increasing the impact of this virus world health. Providing support for these challenges is difficult because high number people requiring in context a need maintain physical distancing. This protocol describes use SMS text messaging (Text4Hope) as...
Despite evidence in scientific literature indicating the effectiveness of both cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and physical exercise management major depressive disorder (MDD), few studies have directly compared them.This study aims to evaluate compare group CBT, exercise, only wait-listing receive treatment-as-usual (TAU) MDD. The investigators hypothesize that participants with MDD assigned CBT or arms will achieve superior outcomes wait-listed TAU only.This prospective rater-blinded...
Shared care involves collaboration between primary care, secondary and tertiary that enables the allocation of responsibilities according to treatment needs patients over course a mental illness. This study aims determine stakeholders’ perspectives on features an ideal shared model barriers practicing within addiction health programs in Edmonton, Canada. is qualitative cross-sectional with data collected through focus group discussions. Participants included patients, general practitioners,...
IntroductionAntipsychotic medications form the cornerstone of schizophrenia treatment. However, only a minority patients adhere to their initial antipsychotic regimen. It’s expected that Long-Acting Injectable (LAI) antipsychotics improves patient adherence treatment, however previous research comparing use first generation LAI’s against oral reported results were inconclusive.
 Objectives and ApproachExplore effectiveness in delivery mental health services Alberta.
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