{"title":"Sickness in Health: Bullying in Nursing and Other Health Professions.","authors":"Brenda Happell","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2529761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2025.2529761","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":"46 8","pages":"755-756"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145000623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reid Lantto, Tomas Jungert, Sara Lindström, Magnus Nilsson, Sofie Westling
{"title":"Profiling Attitudes Toward Individuals Who Self-Harm Among Mental Health Workers in Sweden: A Cross-Sectional Study.","authors":"Reid Lantto, Tomas Jungert, Sara Lindström, Magnus Nilsson, Sofie Westling","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2506475","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2506475","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Mental health workers' attitudes toward individuals who self-harm impact accessibility and quality of care. Previous studies have established the role of training on professionals' attitudes, with mixed findings for gender and work experience. While self-report attitudinal scales are frequently used, latent response trends across such scales are seldom considered. The present study examines mental health workers' responses across the <i>Self-Harm Antipathy Scale - Swedish Revised</i> (SHAS-SR) and explores the predictive roles of various intrapersonal and contextual factors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>On a sample of 596 mental health workers in Sweden, we employed standard multiple regression to predict outcomes on the SHAS-SR. We performed latent profile analysis on SHAS-SR subscales to identify distinct attitude profiles and their predictors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified four distinct attitude profiles: <i>Sympathetic</i>, <i>Reluctant</i>, <i>Judging</i>, and <i>Antipathic</i>. Area of work and gender predicted both wholescale scores and certain profile memberships. Working in emergency settings was associated with more negative attitudes and nearly nine times higher odds of an Antipathic rather than Sympathetic scoring pattern, compared to non-emergency workers.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Interventions to improve attitudes toward individuals who self-harm ought to be prioritized in emergency settings. The SHAS-SR scale might be used to identify target groups for health equity efforts in mental healthcare.</p>","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"782-791"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144484394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment Receipt Among Women Veterans with a Substance Use Disorder, 2015-2019.","authors":"Brayden Kameg, Thomas Cline","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2516059","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2516059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Women Veterans who experience mental health and substance use disorders (SUDs) are at risk for a variety of health and psychosocial disparities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study analyzed data from the 2015-2019 versions of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by the SAMHSA.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Approximately 37% of women Veterans with a past-year SUD received outpatient mental health treatment, compared to 26% of women non-Veterans (OR = 1.65, [1.04-2.62], <i>p</i> = 0.014) and 22.8% of men Veterans (OR = 1.96, [1.19-3.24], <i>p</i> = 0.004). However, 38% of women Veterans with SUD reported an inability to access mental health treatment within the past year, compared to 19% of men Veterans (OR = 2.64, [1.59-4.38], <i>p</i> < 0.001). Approximately 67% of women Veterans reported stigma-related barriers to mental health treatment access compared to 38% and 41% of women non-Veterans (OR = 3.23, [1.51-6.95], <i>p</i> < 0.001) and men-Veterans (OR = 2.92, [1.23 - 6.94], <i>p</i> = 0.007).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>While women Veterans with SUD were more likely to access outpatient mental health treatment and were more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medication than their counterparts, they were also more likely to report an inability to access mental health treatment within the last year.</p>","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"815-821"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to \"Beyond Being With: Disrupting the Idealization of Presence in Mental Health Nursing\".","authors":"Catherine L Hungerford","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2516818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2025.2516818","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Being With: Disrupting the Idealization of Presence in Mental Health Nursing.","authors":"Trae Stewart","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2520866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2025.2520866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle Cleary, Rachel Kornhaber, Danielle Le Lagadec, Catherine Hungerford
{"title":"Mastering the Discursive Paper: Balancing the Argument.","authors":"Michelle Cleary, Rachel Kornhaber, Danielle Le Lagadec, Catherine Hungerford","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2520865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2025.2520865","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144659251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jay Thomas, Rhiannon Corcoran, Graeme Reid, Alison Bryant
{"title":"A Thematic Exploration of the Experience of Inpatient Mental-Health Service-Users Who Are Prevented from Self-Harming.","authors":"Jay Thomas, Rhiannon Corcoran, Graeme Reid, Alison Bryant","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2492695","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2492695","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research and expert by experience (EBE) testimony has created a foundational understanding of self-harm as a mediator of psychological distress. However, risk-management is frequently prioritised in mental-healthcare services approaches. This research builds on existing understandings of self-harm to explore \"<i>if self-harm mediates psychological distress, then does preventing self-harm have consequences that must be understood and navigated?</i>\". This research thus explores the lived experience of preventive measures (i.e. means-restrictions) which limit participants' use of self-harm and the impact this has on their distress whilst in an inpatient environment. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with individuals with a history of self-harm who had experienced an admission to psychiatric hospital. A Reflexive Thematic Analysis was conducted. Participants described their understanding of how their; past-experiences, understandings of their own self-harm, and their emotional and behavioural responses to being unable to self-harm determined their experience of means-restrictions. The ways in which their psychological and emotional experience changed upon means-restrictions are outlined and explored; the ways in which they coped, experienced benefits and support, and how their testimonies positioned self-harm as secondary to the primary problem - emotional distress. Implications for theory and practice are discussed with regards to negotiating the psychological impacts while maintaining safety.</p>","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"702-710"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143988442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"''Two People in One Body\": Qualitative Study on the Family Perceptions of Recipients with a Family Member as Their Donor Using a Projective Method.","authors":"Özge İşeri, Oya Sevcan Orak","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2492692","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2492692","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim was to examine the family perceptions of recipients with a family member as their donor using a projective method. In this qualitative study, an arts-based narrative method was employed. The study was completed with 16 recipients through the drawing test, observation, and interviews. The recorded data for each participant were analysed projectively by creating a coding list related to family perception. Each participant's drawings were analysed in alignment with data obtained from other data collection tools and the categories were identified. And then categories were evaluated thematically, main themes identified. There were numerous inconsistencies between the recipients' consciously expressed statements and their unconscious projections. The significant changes in the life of another family member after organ transplantation have placed a dual responsibility on the recipient, both for their own life and for the donor's sacrifice, alongside feelings of gratitude. Another finding is the sorrow of lost time within family roles due to illness and its associated treatment processes. Organ transplant recipients tend to view themselves as different from others in society, experience guilt, and engage in self-directed negative attributions. The findings provide transplant and mental health nurses with a new perspective on assessing the psychosocial difficulties of transplant recipients and understanding family dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"711-720"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144005627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arianne Imbeault, Vincent Billé, Guyane Lessard, Steve Geoffrion, Marie-France Marin, Marie-Hélène Goulet
{"title":"Documenting Stigma: A Descriptive Qualitative Study of Psychiatric Emergency Notes of Aggressive Incidents.","authors":"Arianne Imbeault, Vincent Billé, Guyane Lessard, Steve Geoffrion, Marie-France Marin, Marie-Hélène Goulet","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2512896","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2512896","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical notes, as subjective reconstructions of events, can unintentionally reinforce stigma, perpetuating stereotypes and power imbalances that hinder care and recovery for people receiving care. In psychiatric emergency settings, documentation of aggression incidents may reflect workplace culture, reinforcing perceptions of violence and unpredictability. The aim of this study was to explore the representations of people receiving care conveyed in clinical notes written after incidents of aggression in psychiatric emergencies. A retrospective descriptive qualitative design was used to examine clinical notes reporting aggression incidents from 108 files from a Canadian psychiatric emergency service (2012-2019) collected through the Signature Biobank. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis by Braun and Clark, guided by Link and Phelan's stigma conceptualization theory. Four themes emerged: shaping individual stigmatization through documentation, hierarchical identities revealing a social separation, structural stigmatization, and emergence of a compassionate approach. Findings highlight how institutional changes are needed to ensure more nuanced, reflective, and trauma-informed documentation practices that respect people dignity and experiences. Training in trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and human rights-based documentation is recommended to reduce stigma and fostering person-centered care. Future research should examine broader institutional practices and explore how training impacts documentation and outcomes for people with mental illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"653-661"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144266188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aya Al-Shashani, Mohammad A Abu Sabra, Ekhlas Al-Gamal
{"title":"The Impact of Using Digital Health Interventions and Psychoeducation on Medication Adherence Among Patients with Schizophrenia: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Aya Al-Shashani, Mohammad A Abu Sabra, Ekhlas Al-Gamal","doi":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2492694","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01612840.2025.2492694","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Schizophrenia is a significant global mental health concern. It is associated with substantial disability and psychosis and can have an impact on all aspects of life. Medication is an appropriate and effective treatment; thus, improving adherence remains a main concern among patients with schizophrenia in clinical practice. Several approaches, such as digital health interventions (DHI) and psychoeducational approaches, may enhance medication adherence. Despite several efforts to create and improve these approaches, their impact remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Conduct a scoping review to provide an overview of how digital health interventions and psychoeducation impact the medication adherence of individuals with schizophrenia.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines, we screened 435 studies published between 2019 and 2024 from the databases including Springer Link, MEDLINE, Pro-Quest Central, CINAHL Plus, and Google Scholar. All articles were filtered using inclusion criteria to eliminate redundant, irrelevant, and unnecessary content.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 14 articles that addressed DHI and psychoeducational interventions for medication adherence in patients with schizophrenia were found to meet the inclusion criteria. Four themes emerged: psychoeducation, mobile applications, telephone interventions, and digital medical systems. DHI and psychoeducation effectively improved medication adherence, with mobile applications being the most popular and successful.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings of this review should be used by healthcare professionals to direct their clinical practice. Interventions in digital health can provide a wealth of creative ideas for integrating technical advancement with psychotherapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":14664,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Mental Health Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"735-745"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144013482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}