Mental Health: MHU Issue 2 of 2024

Crisis interventions

• Efficacy of a short message service brief contact intervention (SMS-SOS) in reducing repetition of hospital-treated self-harm: Randomised controlled trial. Stevens GJ, Sperandei S, Carter GL et al. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, 224(3):106-113
• Mobile crisis services: A clinician survey of current suicide prevention practices and barriers to care delivery. Becker-Haimes EM, Schaechter T, Green KL et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2024, 60(3):562-571
• Adult mental health presentations to emergency departments in Victoria, Australia between January 2018 and October 2020: Changes associated with covid-19 pandemic public health restrictions. Newberry-Dupe J, Chu W, Craig S et al. Psychiatric Quarterly, 2024, 95(1):33-52
• Pathways and transitions for patients admitted to an emergency department after self-harming events. Sandahl M, Lassen AT, Stenager E et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2024, 18:18

Eating disorders

• From awareness to action: An urgent call to reduce mortality and improve outcomes in eating disorders. Ayton A, Ibrahim A, Downs J et al. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, 224(1):3-5
• An account of loneliness while living with an eating disorder. Grech P, Azzopardi A, Borg S. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 2024, 31(2):127-132

Lived experience workforce

• *"A light at the end of the tunnel": Experiences with peer specialists in the open dialogue model. Friesen P, Wusinich C, Lynch K et al. Psychiatric Services, 2024, 75(3):283-286
• Actions targeting the integration of peer workforces in mental health organisations: A mixed-methods systematic review. Reeves V, McIntyre H, Loughhead M et al. BMC Psychiatry, 2024, 24(1):211

Medication

• Measuring the impact of therapy on medication use: Data-linkage study. Jordan JA, Elliott A, Mongan D et al. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, 224(1):13-19
• Antipsychotic agents in anxiety disorders: An umbrella review. Garakani A, Buono FD, Salehi M et al. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2024, 149(4):295-312
• Lithium use and bone health in women with bipolar disorder: A cross-sectional study. Williams LJ, Agustini B, Stuart AL et al. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2024, 149(4):332-339
• *A qualitative study of clinicians' perspectives on reasons for delays in clozapine initiation. Gangadharan D, Tirupati S. Australasian Psychiatry, 2024, 32(2):147-150
• *Cognitive outcomes after antidepressant pharmacotherapy for late-life depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ainsworth NJ, Marawi T, Maslej MM et al. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, 181(3):234-245

Non pharmacological interventions

• Psychotherapies for generalized anxiety disorder in adults: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Papola D, Miguel C, Mazzaglia M et al. JAMA Psychiatry, 2024, 81(3):250-259
• Community-based art groups in mental health recovery: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Goodman-Casanova JM, Guzman-Parra J, Mayoral-Cleries F et al. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 2024, 31(2):158-173
• Disseminating action-based cognitive remediation to an early psychosis network: Clinician perspectives on feasibility and implementation barriers. Wood-Ross C, Milanovic M, Vanrooy T et al. Early intervention in psychiatry, 2024, 18(3):190-197
• Clinical outcomes of magnetic seizure therapy vs electroconvulsive therapy for major depressive episode: A randomized clinical trial. Deng ZD, Luber B, McClintock SM et al. JAMA Psychiatry, 2024, 81(3):240-249
• A feasibility, randomised controlled trial of club connect: A group-based healthy brain ageing cognitive training program for older adults with major depression within an older people's mental health service. Woolf C, Kaplan L, Norrie LM et al. BMC Psychiatry, 2024, 24(1):208

Patient centered care

• From pathways to partnerships: Building patient-centered clinical tracks (PCCT) in outpatient community mental health settings. Siber-Sanderowitz S, Gallo L. Community Mental Health Journal, 2024, 60(3):411-425
• Humanised care in acute psychiatric hospitalisation units: Definition, values and strategic initiatives from the perspective of persons with mental health problems, primary carers and professionals. Sanz-Osorio MT, Gonzalez-Diez L, Sanchez-Rueda G et al. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 2024, 31(2):228-239

Staff wellbeing

• *'Who you gonna call?' A qualitative study of psychiatrists accessing mental health services. Nguyen S, Blake J, Ng F et al. Australasian Psychiatry, 2024, 32(2):157-163

Everything else :)

• General psychiatry, still in no-man's land after all these years. Deahl M. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, 224(3):86-88
• Positive thinking about negative studies. Petkova E, Ciarleglio A, Casey P et al. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, 224(3):79-81
• Psychiatric electronic health records in the era of data breaches - what are the ramifications for patients, psychiatrists and healthcare systems? Looi JC, Looi RC, Maguire PA et al. Australasian Psychiatry, 2024, 32(2):121-124

We are very pleased to re-introduce our sparkly new space with its lovely fresh paint and lush library plants! Did you know that the library offers SVHM staff and students much more than books and journals? 

• Meeting rooms and comfortable study space
• Educational resources on EndNote, literature searching, scholarly writing, systematic reviews
• Literature search tutorials (individual sessions, your topic, 1 hour, online or face to face)
• Literature searches done for you (for hospital business - staff only)
• Search alerts (automated search updates via email)
• EndNote software for home computers (staff only) 
• EndNote tutorials (individual sessions, 1 hour, online or face to face)
• Systematic review supports
• Covidence systematic review software
• and much, much more!

Browse our website or contact us to find out more or book a tutorial.

Congratulations to our authors! Do you have a publication to celebrate? Please let us know!

1. Music-based intervention impacts for people with eating disorders: A narrative synthesis systematic review. Chang EX, Brooker J, Hiscock R, O’Callaghan C. Journal of Music Therapy, 2023, 60(2):202-231
2. Songwriting group music therapy to promote psychological adjustment in informal caregivers of elderly people with dependency: A mixed methods study. Perez-Nunez P, O'Callaghan C ... Amayra I. Front Psychol, 2024, 15:1334875
3. *Variation in outpatient consultation fees of psychiatrists in Australia by state and territory. Coulston C, Leahey J. Australasian Psychiatry, 2023, 31(5):662-668
4. *Building resilience among families supporting relatives with ABI in rural NSW: Testing the feasibility of telephone delivery of strength2strength program. Young D, Weaver J, Christie L, Genders M, Simpson GK. Brain Injury, 2024, 38(2):84-98
5. Priorities for research promoting mental health in the south and east of Asia. Lemon CA, Svob C, Bonomo Y ... Sartorius N. The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia, 2024, 23:100287
6. What accounts for turnover intention in the Australian public mental health workforce? Haywood D, Crocker KM, Gnatt I, Jenkins Z, Bhat R, Lalitha ARN, Butterfield I, Castle DJ. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2024, 33(2):359-368
7. Diet overall and hypocaloric diets are associated with improvements in depression but not anxiety in people with metabolic conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Paris T, Daly RM, ... Ryan MC, George ES. Advances in Nutrition, 2024, 15(2):100169
8. The impact of covid-19 on clinical forensic medicine and forensic psychiatry: A literature review. Xu Y, Parkin JA, Cunningham N. Medicine, Science & the Law, 2024:258024241229830 (abstract only)
9. Coproduction in evaluating a dual diagnosis tool with youth in a residential mental health service. Kroes S, Myers K, McLoughlan G, O'Connor S, Keily E, Petrakis M. Advances in Dual Diagnosis, 2023, 16(2):92-106 (abstract only)
10. *Exploring the cognitive profiles related to unimodal auditory versus multisensory hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Bere MJ, Rossell SL, Tan EJ, Carruthers SP, Gurvich C, Neill E, Sumner PJ, Van Rheenen TE, Toh WL. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2024, 29(1):55-71
11. The mental health Australia general clinical trials network (magnet): The why, who and how? Rossell SL, Barutchu A, ... Berk M. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2024, 58(3):195-197
12. Integration of care in practice: Victorian examples of models of care, tools and activities that promote integrated treatment, care and support for people experiencing mental illness and substance use or addiction. Victorian Dual Diagnosis Initiative Leadership Group Working Group on Dual Diagnosis Integrated Treatment, Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA). Includes contributions from Myers, K, Kroes, S. Melbourne; 2023
13. A new network analysis model in anorexia nervosa patients based on self-reported eating disorder symptoms, psychological distress, and cognitive flexibility. Giles S, Hughes EK, Castle D, Jenkins Z, Phillipou A, Rossell S, Urbini G, Fuller-Tyszkiewicz M, Krug I. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2024, 63(1):118-134
14. Advancing randomized controlled trial methodologies: The place of innovative trial design in eating disorders research. Ryan EG, Gao CX, ...  Phillipou A, Wolfe R. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2024, 12:12
15. Examining the relationships between cognition and auditory hallucinations: A systematic review. Bell A, Toh WL, Allen P, Cella M, Jardri R, Laroi F, Moseley P, Rossell SL. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2024:48674241235849
16. Resting-state amygdala subregion and precuneus connectivity provide evidence for a dimensional approach to studying social anxiety disorder. Mizzi S, Pedersen M, Rossell SL ...Labuschagne I. Transl Psychiatry Psychiatry, 2024, 14(1):147
17. Unraveling the associations between unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and mental health in the general adult Chinese population: A cross-sectional study. Wong VW, Yiu EK, Ng CH, Sarris J, Ho FY. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024, 349:583-595 (abstract only)
18. Group acceptance and commitment therapy for recovery from psychosis: Protocol for a single-group waitlist trial. Cugnetto ML, Morris EMJ, ...  Morrison I, ... Antonucci MT, ... Farhall J. JMIR Research Protocols, 2024, 13:e49849
19. *Eating behaviours and personality characteristics of clinicians and researchers working in eating disorders. Poiani-Cordella C, Toh WL, Phillipou A. Brunner-Mazel Eating Disorders Monograph Series, 2024, 32(2):195-211
20. Depression, anxiety and suicidality among Chinese mental health professionals immediately after China's dynamic zero-covid policy: A network perspective. Chen MY, Chen P ... Ng CH, Zhang L, Xiang YT. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024, 352:153-162 (abstract only)
21. The inter-relationships between depressive symptoms and suicidality among Macau residents after the "relatively static management" covid-19 strategy: A perspective of network analysis. Lam MI, Cai H, ... Ng CH, An FR, Xiang YT. Neuropsychiatric Disease & Treatment, 2024, 20:195-209

Further reading:

• SVHM staff publications 2023