16^th World Congress on Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing March 27-28, 2020 Barcelona, Spain

Biography:

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of obsessive beliefs and symptom severity with depressive symptoms and quality of life in Thai patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Eighty-nine OCD patients were recruited for this study. The Obsessive Belief questionnaire-Thai version(OBQ-T), Thai self-report version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale-Second Edition(YBOCS-II-SR-T), Florida Obsessive Compulsive Inventory-Thai version(FOCI-T), Thai version of Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Pictorial Thai Quality of Life(PTQL) were utilized. Pearson’s correlation coefficients and multiple regression analyses were used for analyzing the data. The results revealed moderate correlation between the scores of obsessional beliefs and the number of OCD symptoms (r=0.47). In addition, it relatively correlate with severity of OCD measured with YBOCS-II-SR-T (r=0.40) and FOCI-severity (r=0.47). Also, there was a  modest correlation between obsessional beliefs and depressive symptoms (r=0.48) and an inverse relationship with total quality of life score (r= -0.49). Multiple regression analyses indicated that the degree of obsessional beliefs was predicted by the number of OCD symptoms (β=0.32, t =2.57, p ≤ .05), and depressive symptoms (β=0.29, t =2.33, p ≤ .05). The results from this study implied that during the treatment of OCD, health providers should concern not only the severity of OCD but also the number of symptoms and depressive symptoms.

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Thanita Tantrarungroj has awarded Diploma of the Thai Board of Psychiatry and has worked as an instructor at Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital since 2009. 

Biography:

Janvier Hakizimana has a Bachelor’s Degree of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the University of Kibungo in 2011. He serves as psychologist in the mental health program and the manager of psychotherapy (PM+) at Partners in Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima Rwanda program from 2017 until now. He is responsible for the integration and decentralization of psychotherapy services from the district hospital to the health center and community health level.  Prior to his work at Partners In Health, he worked as a psychologist treating refugees with the American Refugee Committee from 2015-2017. He also worked as a psychologist counselor of people living with HIV/AIDS at Kirehe District Hospital from 2011-2015.

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Problem Management Plus (PM+) is a brief psychological intervention for adults developed by the World Health Organization to help people living in adversity and experiencing emotional and practical problems; Partners In Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima has adapted this model to treat depression in individuals in Burera District, Rwanda. PM+ involves elements of cognitive behavioral therapy and problem solving, and has been seen to improve depressive symptoms in other low-middle income countries. Through 4 key strategies, PM+ helps patients with depression and adversity; they include: 1) Managing Stress (helping patients manage anxiety and stress through a mindful breathing exercise), 2) Managing Problems (helping patients address practical problems), 3) Get Going Keep Doing (drawing on principles of behavioral activation, this module improves the patient’s level of activity) and 4) Strengthening Social Supports (focuses on reducing isolation and improving a patient’s support network). Prior to this intervention there was no available psychotherapeutic service in the district. The unique aspects of this model is the way training is organized and the delivery of this intervention by nonspecialists. The capacitation of generalists nurses with psychotherapeutic skills takes place at health centers during PM+ Sessions where supervising psychologists provide ongoing mentorship, evaluation and instruction. Preliminary data has shown that PM+ is effective in addressing depressive symptoms in our rural setting. We hope that this intervention can be used to ameliorate the unmet burden of disease caused by depression in low middle income countries that have a low number of mental health specialists.

Biography:

Deniz Korkmaz is bachelor student at Inonu University. He is 27 years old. University students' difficulties in substance use have increased his curiosity in this field. He plans to progress academicly in substance addiction.

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Material and Method: The research was carried out at the Turgut Ozal Medical Center Psychiatry Clinic of Inonu University between September 2016 and March 2017. The inpatient treatment of substance use disorder in the clinic and outpatients has created the population of the study. The sample of the research; 135 individuals were identified performing power analysis with 0.05 error level, 0.6 effect size, and 0.95 ability to represent the universe. The data of the study were collected by the researchers using the Patient Information Form (PIF), Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (ATQ) and Substance Abuse Proclivity Scale (SAPC).

Results: The average age of the participants was 30.1, 97.8% were male, 52.7% were primary school graduates, 59.3% were middle income, 65.9% were single, 60.4% were living with their parents, 44% were workers and 46.2% were using more than one substance , the mean duration of substance use was 10.9 years, the average age of starting substance use for the first time was 18.25, 69.2% did not have dependent individuals in their family, and 62.6% were living in the city center. Comparison of the Relationship Between the Mean Scores of ATQ and SAPC, as automatic thoughts increases, the tendency to use substances increases.

Recommendations: Substance use has rapidly increased in the whole world and has become a very important social problem. Although it is not possible to define a typical personality structure that is predisposed to addiction, cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques for automatic thinking of individuals who are inclined to use substance may help reduce dependence.

Biography:

Sheryl Garriques-Lloyd completed her BSc in Nursing and her MSc in Nursing Education at The UWI School of Nursing, Mona. She previously completed education in Psychiatric Nursing. She now lectures at The UWI School of Nursing, Mona in both the undergraduate and graduate programmes

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Mental health nurses working in the mental healthcare service are the largest work group. Globally a shortage of 128, 000 psychiatric nurses exist in low and middle-income countries. The study was conducted to determine the perceptions of 4^th year undergraduate nursing students toward mental health nursing and the contributing factors to their perception in an urban school of nursing in Jamaica. A quantitative cross-sectional study with a census sampling of the 4^th year cohort of undergraduate nursing students (N=70) was done. Data were collected using the Nurses Perception of Psychiatric Nursing Questionnaire. The majority (97.1%) of the participants had a positive perception toward psychiatric nursing but only 22.9% were interested in pursuing psychiatric nursing. Amongst the participants, psychiatric nursing was perceived the least valued of nine nursing subspecialties. Contributing factors to nursing students’ perception included prior care for an individual who was diagnosed with a psychiatric illness and consideration to choose psychiatric nursing as a specialty. The tendency of nurses seems to be choosing of specialties that they perceive as highly skilled or highly valued. Innovative and creative strategies are needed to make psychiatric nursing more attractive to motivate nursing students towards choosing psychiatric nursing as their future specialty. The intent and action of choosing psychiatric nursing would assist in the recruitment and retention of nurses into this workforce, providing the necessary manpower to manage the global burden of mental illness.