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on evaluation, assessments, and outcome measures should be included…More tailored approaches to support diverse groups within Canada and Indigenous populations are…suggested...” For full paper, see Mete at: journals.sagepub.com/share/QCUZUZ... #APNA #mentalhealth
“Suicide…claim[s] approximately 4,500 lives annually…Canada’s National Suicide Prevention Action Plan (2024–2027) constitutes a significant federal milestone in addressing a persistent public health concern…to further enhance the current plan, specific details…
on evaluation, assessments, and outcome measures should be included…More tailored approaches to support diverse groups within Canada and Indigenous populations are…suggested...” For full paper, see Mete at: journals.sagepub.com/share/QCUZUZ... #APNA #mentalhealth
“Suicide…claim[s] approximately 4,500 lives annually…Canada’s National Suicide Prevention Action Plan (2024–2027) constitutes a significant federal milestone in addressing a persistent public health concern…to further enhance the current plan, specific details…
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family support initiatives that address the structural inequalities affecting youth mental health. For full report, see Frieiro Padin et al. at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #APNA #mentalhealth
personal, educational, occupational, and familial factors [indicating an] urgent need for preventive strategies grounded in an intersectional perspective, integrating educational interventions, public welfare policies, and...
Of 539 youth, “nearly 20% showed mod to high risk [for suicide, with] Higher vulnerability…among women, migrants, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and questioning (LGBTIQ+) individuals…[and] adverse family relationships and socioeconomic precarity,…
For more with the author, see: youtu.be/n7X9HWux-Kc?... Details to access the study are included in the video description. #APNA #mentalhealth
JAPNA author, Dr. Janie Brown studied unmet palliative care needs for psyc inpts & concluded that “…every nurse is a palliative care nurse. Every nurse can start to consider what might this patient’s palliative care needs be, and what might I be able to do to support those palliative care needs?”
particularly in younger youth with a family history of mood disorder.” For full report, see Zelazny et al. at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #APNA #mentalhealth
“Suicide rates have risen disproportionately in Black youth, yet little is known about risk factors specific to this population…A depression diagnosis was the strongest indicator, highlighting the importance of early identification of depression in Black youth,...
The JAPNA call for papers for the special issue for telehealth has been extended to July 1, 2026. If you're working on a study or project associated with this topic, we would welcome your submission. journals.sagepub.com/page/jap/cal...
As an editor and an educator, I receive Discussion sections with no/few citations. Stephens & Phillips provide a great ex. of skillful construction of the discussion: briefly restating the purpose and framing the findings in the context of other studies.
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Providers [might use] flexible scheduling from in-person to telehealth...to improve attendance, given that telehealth appointment attendance is higher and may eliminate transportation concerns.” For full report, see Stephens & Phillips: journals.sagepub.com/share/TR2EJG...
“Missing outpatient psychiatric care could lead to decompensation and hospitalization.” In a study evaluating “837 appointments…16.25% resulted in missed appointments…There may be many reasons for a missed appointment, with forgetting an appointment being only one of them...
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For full report, see Kameg et al. at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #mentalhealth #APNA
the PMH nurse’s role, as students struggled to differentiate therapeutic communication from psychotherapy and acknowledged real-world time constraints that limit such interactions. Third, [they] identified...feedback...during debriefing, as essential to learning...”
In a qual study of therapeutic communication w/ standardized patients(SP) in a PMH nsg course, “students reported that SP simulations increased their comfort and confidence in therapeutic communication,...the simulations evoked ambiguity re:...
Psychiatric nurses [might guide] individuals toward credible hotline information and mental health–promotive content online [to] bridge the gap between distress and survival.” For full report, see Cleofas at: journals.sagepub.com/share/RJPIWW... #APNA #mentalhealth
“…online searches for suicide and crisis hotlines [served] as expressions of digital self-care and help-seeking agency...digital search behaviors can represent attempts to regain control by seeking knowledge, relief, or immediate support.
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more passive coping, and poor family communication. Interventions to improve family processes and maternal self-efficacy may be an important complement to individual therapy...Intervening at the family level as soon as the child is diagnosed may also help mitigate maternal depressive symptoms.”
In a study of depression in mothers of children with autism, Zavodny Jackson et al. found that “Mothers in the group who screened positive for depression described more child behaviors perceived as problematic, higher caretaking demands,… #APNA #mentalhealth
