Background: Research on patients with chronic psychotic disorders in rural areas is scarce.
Those patients may not receive adequate mental health care. Mental health disparities …

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The present paper aims to highlight the importance of Mobile Mental Health Units (MMHUs) …

In recent years serious mental health issues, such as schizophrenia spectrum disorders and
bipolar disorder, have been treated in the community by community-based mental health …

Background: Mental healthcare service delivery in rural and remote areas in Greece is
challenging due to socioeconomic and geographical reasons, and distant facilities. To …

Almost a decade ago, an article published in the official journal of the Hellenic Psychiatric
Association, concerning the state of Greek mental health reform, referred to the significant …

Data on the use of long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) in rural community mental
healthcare settings are scarce. This study aimed to investigate the prescription patterns of …

Background: Involuntary psychiatric admissions are a widely used practice despite ethical
concerns about coercion. There are particular concerns that vulnerable groups, such as …

The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model of care has been long considered to be
effective in the management of patients with severe mental illness (SMI) in most Western …

Background There is a lack of real-life population-based study examining the effect of
community mental health services on psychiatric emergency admission. In Hong Kong …

Mobile mental health units (MMHUs) have been proposed as an effective model to serve the
mental health needs of remote underserved areas. In 2013, the Department of Psychiatry …