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Mental Health: MHU Issue 1 of 2024

Guide to library resources for staff of St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne with an interest in mental health, psychiatry and psychology

Mental Health Update Issue 1 of 2024 (February)

Welcome to Mental Health Update - a current awareness library bulletin for staff at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. 

Full text access: Articles marked with an asterisk* require an SVHM login for offsite access.
Contact: helen.wilding@svha.org.au to subscribe to updates, ask a question, suggest a resource or request an Endnote library of citations (SVHM staff only)

Feature articles

Consultation liaison

Decision making

Inpatient care

Lived experience

Medication

Psychosocial interventions

Trauma informed

Everything else

Staff publications

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

  1. Workforce perspectives of sustaining the utilisation of a harm reduction instrument in a mental health residential setting. Kroes S, McKim H, Petrakis M. Healthcare (Basel), 2024, 12(2)
  2. Adjunctive continuous theta burst stimulation for major depressive disorder or bipolar depression: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies. Cai DB, Qin XD ... Ng CH, Zheng W, Xiang YT. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024, 346:266-272
  3. Clinical outcomes of deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Insight as a predictor of symptom changes. Acevedo N, Rossell S, Castle D, Groves C, Cook M, McNeill P, Olver J, Meyer D, Perera T, Bosanac P. Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, 2024, 78(2):131-141
  4. *The promise and challenges of transcranial magnetic stimulation and deep brain stimulation as therapeutic options for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Acevedo N, Castle D, Rossell S. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2024, 24(2):145-158
  5. Prevalence and variability of restrictive care practice use (physical restraint, seclusion and chemical restraint) in adult mental health inpatient settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Belayneh Z, Chavulak J, Lee DA, Petrakis M, Haines TP. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2024, 02:02
  6. Cognitive deficits among people with schizophrenia and prediabetes or diabetes. John AP, Mya T, Haywood D. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2024, 149(1):65-76
  7. Intersections of phenomenology, voice beliefs and distress in bipolar disorder: A comparison with schizophrenia. Smith L, Rossell SL, Thomas N, Toh WL. Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2024, 52(1):78-92
  8. Disordered gambling among people with psychotic disorders: A systematic review. Sankaranarayanan A, Ramanathan P, Mathew R, Wilding H, Castle D. Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany), 2024, 10(1):4
  9. The mental health of Australians bereaved during the first two years of the covid-19 pandemic: A latent class analysis. Maccallum F, Breen LJ, Phillips JL, ... Kinchin I, Glasgow N, Lobb EA. Psychological Medicine, 2024:1-12
  10. Recurrent mental health presentations to public hospital services: A focus on borderline personality disorder. Smith D, Cammell P, Battersby M, ... Bastiampillai T. The Primary Care Companion to CNS Disorders, 2024, 26(1):09
  11. To what extent does white matter map to cognition in bipolar disorder? A systematic review of the evidence. Caruana GF, Carruthers SP, Berk M, Rossell SL, Van Rheenen TE. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 2024, 128:110868
  12. Multisensory hallucinations and other unusual sensory experiences in the context of migraine: A systematic review. Li Y, Yolland COB, Rossell SL, Sommer IEC, Toh WL. Journal of Neurology, 2024, 18:18
  13. Depression and anxiety among caregivers of psychiatric patients during the late stage of the covid-19 pandemic: A perspective from network analysis. Sun HL, Zhao YJ, ... Ng CH, An FR, Xiang YT. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024, 344:33-40

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