Psychological Medicine - Christchurch
Recent Deposits
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Experiences of opioid detoxification using ibogaine in various treatment settings: Exploring ibogaine users’ motivations, understanding of risks, and effects of ibogaine treatment
Introduction Opioid dependence is a significant health concern in New Zealand. It has been estimated that there are 10,000 people who are daily or almost daily intravenous users of opioid drugs, half of whom are receiving ... -
The relationship between smoking cessation, depression and weight gain: a mixed method study
Introduction Public health measures have been effective in many countries including New Zealand in reducing the prevalence of smoking, but smokers with co-existing problems, including mental illnesses, are now becoming a ... -
Is it ACE? The influence of the Advanced Choice of Employment scheme on new graduates’ decisions to accept a position in the Nurse Entry to Specialist Practice in Mental Health and Addiction programme.
The nursing recruitment crisis has generated research into strategies to improve retention of newly qualified nurses. In New Zealand, all 20 DHB’s are committed to the Nurse Entry to Practice (NETP) and Nurse Entry to ... -
Coroners' Recommendations and Suicide Prevention in Specialist Mental Health Services
Suicide is considered to be a serious health and social issue and the improvement of services that cater for those affected by mental disorder is one of the principal targets for suicide prevention. All cases of suspected ... -
A study of practices and attitudes of a local Community Alcohol and Drug Service Workforce in relation to consumers with coexisting mental health and addiction problems
The first comprehensive national study on the opinions and attitudes of the New Zealand addiction workforce in addressing coexisting problems (CEP) was carried out by Gilbert (2010) using a telephone survey. The aim of ... -
Neuropsychological Functioning and Ghrelin Secretion in Women with Binge Eating
Aims: Binge eating disorders have a substantial impact on the lives of those affected, both psychologically and physically. The trend towards using a transdiagnostic model to understand binge eating disorders highlights ... -
Personality Associations with Mood, Hoarding, Health and Well-being
Background: Personality has been of interest since ancient times. Hippocrates, also known as ‘The father of Western Medicine’ was possibly the first to document the association between personality and mental and physical ... -
Alcohol-related psychiatric comorbidity
Background Alcohol problems and common mental disorders, particularly depression, contribute greatly to the global burden of disease and they often coexist. However, many aspects of the relationship between these two ... -
The Experience of Alcohol Use amongst Individuals with an Intellectual Disability in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Background: There is little research literature on alcohol use among those with intellectual and Developmental disability and no New Zealand based studies of such alcohol use prior to this study. Based upon overseas research, ... -
A Discourse Analysis of Self-management for Bipolar Disorder
In line with a movement across all areas of health concerned with chronic illness, self-management practices have become an important part of what it means to provide contemporary mental health care to people with the ... -
New Zealand’s emergent opioid trends - the influences and impacts: Consumer and clinician understanding of New Zealand’s changing patterns of opioid use, availability and impacts
This thesis explores opioid users and addiction service providers’ understandings of the changing patterns, availability and impacts of opioids and opioid use in New Zealand with a particular focus on the last two ... -
Critical Success Factors in Kaupapa Māori AOD Residential Treatment: Māori Youth Perspectives
There is a significant gap in the research literature regarding issues related to Māori rangatahi (Māori indigenous youth) alcohol and other drug (AOD) residential treatment. Historically, the majority of residential AOD ... -
Attitudes to Ageing: Relationships with Health and Health Behaviours in Midlife
There is growing pressure to understand and protect the health of the world’s ageing population. Despite projected rapid population ageing in New Zealand, limited attention has been given to attitudes towards ageing. ... -
Registered Nurses' Perceptions and Experiences of Nursing Adolescents in an Adult Mental Health Unit.
In this study the perceptions and experiences of Registered Nurses (RNs) nursing adolescents in an adult mental health (MH) unit were explored with the aim of identifying any nursing concerns regarding such admissions. The ... -
The Role of Alliance in Treatment Outcome for People with Alcohol Dependence and Depression
Introduction: The pantheoretical variable of alliance has consistently been reported to have a moderate yet robust effect on treatment outcome. However, the relationship is less clear in the addiction field where research ... -
Factors that influence the uptake and continuing practice of Interpersonal Psychotherapy by frontline mental health clinicians following formal training
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) was initially developed by Gerald Klerman and colleagues in 1968 as a time limited treatment for depression in a research setting. Since then international empirical studies have proved ... -
The Impact Of Childhood Adversity On Outcomes In Adult Depression
OBJECTIVES This thesis examined three types of childhood adversity, low parental care, overprotection and abuse, as predictors of response to two types of depression treatment: antidepressant medication and psychotherapy. ... -
Spirituality, Religion and Psychiatry in New Zealand: A survey of psychiatrists in New Zealand
The literature on spirituality, religion and health identifies spirituality and religious belief as being important components in the recovery from mental illness (May, Muir-Cochrane, & Clare, 2005; Swinton, 2001; Turbott, ... -
Exploring undergraduate nursing students’ experiences of their first clinical placement in an acute adult mental health inpatient service
Mental health nurses are vital to the mental health and addiction workforce. However, there are significant workforce challenges facing mental health nursing. With an aging workforce, increasing demand for mental health ... -
The Relationships Between Empathy and Burnout in Nurses
Empathy is essential in nursing, yet it remains difficult to define and measure and many nurses do not display empathy even if they possess it. Studies linking empathy and burnout are few, but the results generally favour ...