Evaluation Of A Research Study

Making clinical decisions in psychiatric care is difficult. This difficulty is often exacerbated by a lack of tangible objective measurability in changes of clinical condition.

Law enforcement interactions with the mentally ill community are increasing, due to a number of factors such as cuts on long-term psychiatric beds, improvements in treatments and the philosophy of integration (Adelman, 2003). Which leads to mentally ill people living in the community, which leads to increase crisis and police interaction because of insufficient funding. Existing community-based crisis response services are not well unified and are limited, especially in rural areas. General hospital-based emergency services can also be difficult to access because of bed reductions, and only offer treatment to those only that are seriously ill (e.g. be actively delusional or suicidal). As Eric Macnaughton states in his study BC Early

“Hallucinations and voices that caused schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders have been stopped with the use of new medications”. (MHT, 2) “Just as aspirin can reduce a fever without curing the infection that causes it, psychotherapeutic medications act by controlling symptoms,” (MFMI, 4). “Another advantage of these medications is an increased understanding of the causes of mental illness. Scientists investigate the results of the medications, and through these results, they have learned a great deal about the working of the brain system.” (MFMI, 4) The use of new drugs has made it possible for mentally ill persons to live a normal life.

Across the country, a steady increase has been noted in the number of patients presenting to emergency departments for psychiatric complaints (Zun, 2014). Patients also attempt to use their primary care doctors to treat their mental illnesses. The mental health care options for these patients are extremely limited, especially for minority populations such as African Americans and Hispanics. One out of four adults in America suffers from some form of mental illness, yet only one out of three of those affected receives treatment (Safran, 2009). Furthermore, patients are routinely misdiagnosed, receive poor quality of care, receive care from providers who have no understanding of their cultures and values, or are not even able to receive care in the first place (Sanchez, 2012).

Write a three- to four-page article review in which you discuss methodological issues unique to psychological research and analyze basic applied psychological research relevant to the treatment of mental disorders. In your paper, you will discuss

Evaluation and treatment of the mentally ill population has developed from confinement of the mad during colonial times, into the biomedical balancing of neurological impairment seen in these modern times. There were eras of mental health reform, medicalization, and deinstitutionalization sandwiched in between (Nies & McEwen, 2011). Regardless of the stage of understanding and development, communities have not been completely successful in dealing with and treating persons who are mentally unwell. Fortunately, treatment has become more compassionate; social and professional attitudes have morphed into more humanistic and

The solution to the problem is to provide sufficient funding to the community-based mental health system so people could be helped before they become part of the prison system. Services like medication therapy and monitoring, residential services, rehabilitation services and support services are successful in bringing the severely mentally ill back to communities. As a rule, community services are also less expensive. Instead, we see mental health agencies being closed and stripped of their budgets. As a result the mentally ill have no place to go for treatment and support.

The community has grown to mistrust due to their lack of understanding it. One of the theories that come up is that the best way for the interventions to be impactful is for it to be made by the same race intervener as the participants. For instance, the four step process by Schantz is understood by the nation but it has a strong emphasis in Haiti. In order to improve on this situation is for them to be open minded but also willing to try to understand the cultural differences. Mental health professional misinterpret mistrust as a personal response rather than a cultural response. This shows that if researchers don’t pay attention to the community then the community wouldn’t respond accordingly. However, highly mistrustful African Americans or Caribbean Americans might be suspicious of receiving help from racially similar mental health professionals. The ethnic or racial match isn’t the same as a cultural match that’s interesting to think about because you would think if they were the same race then the community would respond nicely. This makes you think on how important it is to find the correct for an effective system between the community and the types of interventions that

The provision of health care services being informed by principles of evidence-based care, integration and patient engagement has mixed outcomes for mental health care. Evidence-based care focuses heavily on psychopharmaceuticals compared to psychotherapy in terms of funding because it is easier to present results of different drugs (quantitative data) than to present results of therapy (ex. CBT → qualitative data).

There hope is to diagnosis and treat the illness at hand. This article questions the validity of diagnosing each patient. If the doctors or the nurses’ diagnosis is wrong then, the treatment will also be wrong. This can create complications for all parties at hand. Most often there is protocol that most doctors have to follow when diagnosing a patient “However, it should not be forgotten that they are all using same diagnostic manual, and probability of diagnosing a person is in depression with same instructions.”(). Now this makes a person question whether the validity is of the doctor or the protocol. If it is the protocol than that is something that needs to be evaluated. At the time the DSM system was in use for diagnosing a patient. At the time of this experiment Rosenhan used the DSM-II statistical evaluation. Years later this statistical data was look over, “According to Mattison, Cantwell, Russell, Will (1979) general inter-rater reliability of DSM-II was about %57 and %54 for axis I in DSM-III. In DSM III, which is published twelve years later after first version of DSM II, reliability scores of psychosis, conduct disorder, hyperactivity, and mental retardation was slightly higher than general reliability scores; however, as it is accepted today with the circumstance of logical base, reliability under 0.7-0.8 is found questionable and possibility of error is

For example inpatients have many times vocalised and/or shown by their response to SR, that they believe this strategy is merely used to exert power over them (Mehan et al. 2004). (Taylor et al. 2012) quoted in their discussion 'The results of the present study suggest that patients’ opinions were not included in treatment planning. This might show that paternalistic decision-making still exists in psychiatric hospitals.' Both research papers selected allow for transferability since their findings in mental health facilities located in the USA and Finland are the same as the observations gained in Tasmania, ranging from age, sex, aggression criteria and inpatient perceptions of SR (Colorado State University 2011). If the findings can be generalised could be answered with 'yes' and 'maybe', 'yes' because the application of the research results can be applied beyond those examined, since the criteria are always the same, people with mental illnesses, SR in mental health facilities and aggression or violence shown, 'maybe' because similar research studies conducted in countries with a lower threshold for valuing human life and therefore higher thresholds of fair treatment expectancy by inpatients would change the research criteria and results (Collis and Hussey 2003, p. 225).

Yes. In the article, the aim of the research was to understand the experience of participants, their knowledge about type 2 diabetes, and the factors of medication adherence in Malaysia. According to Susan (2010), the five components of PICOT are population, issue, context, outcome, and time. According to Al-Qazaz et al (2011), the PICOT was presented by the researcher in the study were,

As advancements are made in science and technology that relates to the care of patients, it is critical for nurses to be aware of the treatments that have been proven to be evidence-based. Systematic research reviews (SRR) are considered to have the highest ranking or level of evidence falling under level 1 evidence for reliability, validity, and least amount of error (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015, p.607). The aim of this paper is to critique the chosen SRR related to core temperature obtainment in children, relevance of the research problem to nursing practice, rigor of the research found in the SRR to include levels of evidence and designs of included studies, the clarity of findings, summarized findings in the SRR, and the implications for practice.

There are number of things one should and should not do in a research-based presentation in the workforce. Number one, one should do in the research-based presentation is that the presenter should must have a clear appendix because that gives an outlook of the overall material of the presentation. The appendix can be in numbers or bullets however it must be readable and clear. In addition, there must be a logic behind all the appendixes. This is important because there will be a flow in the presentation which means one appendix leads to the other. For instance, I, myself disorganized the appendixes during my presentation. Two of my appendixes were the data from census, the third one was a case study and then I directly went to the scientific part about mindsets and how young population is effected by the stereotypes about gender and intelligence. I could have mentioned stereotypes and then how it effects children in young ages and then could have mention that we can do something about the gender gap in the STEM but have to take precautions in early period of time. Thus, Amazon can create a small organization which will help young girls to achieve their goals in math. After all this information I could have mentioned that case study about mindsets and would have some of the logic behind my appendixes. This shows that the research should have connection between the appendixes and the supporting statement of the researcher.

Black people are excessively socially excluded and as with crime, mental illness is associated with social exclusion. (Racism in Mental Health, 2005). Discrimination is imbedded within practices resulting from ways in which the services are organised, in the case of staff they are in charge of diagnosing and selecting criteria’s for treatment, they focus on indicators of dangerousness seen to be found in black patients (Wade, 1993). White patients within the system also manage to remain the dominant population because of the stereotyping of black patients as dangerous and the social exclusion of black staff by management (Wade, 1993).