NIMH Pages about Mental Health Services Research
- Economic Analysis Estimates Cost of Providing Comprehensive Mental Health Care Following Disasters
- August 11, 2009 • Science Update
Making evidence-based mental health services accessible to everyone in a disaster-stricken area would have substantial public health benefits, according to a statistical model developed by NIMH-funded researchers.
- Youth with Autism Coming of Age: New NIMH Study Will Focus on Transitions in Service Use and Coverage
- August 07, 2009 • Science Update
The transition from teen to young adult involves many highly anticipated rites of passage. However, for youths with developmental disorders, coming of age may signal the sudden end of coverage for education and training programs, health insurance, and youth-oriented services.
- Expert Panel Addresses High Rates of Smoking in People with Psychiatric Disorders
- February 18, 2009 • Science Update
Numerous biological, psychological, and social factors are likely to play a role in the high rates of smoking in people with psychiatric disorders, according to the report of an expert panel convened by the National Institute of Mental Health. The report reviews current literature and identifies research needed to clarify these factors and their interactions, and to improve treatment aimed at reducing the rates of illness and mortality from smoking in this population.
- Health Care Costs Much Higher for Older Adults with Depression Plus Other Medical Conditions
- February 13, 2009 • Science Update
Medicare participants who have diabetes or congestive heart failure as well as depression have significantly higher health care costs than their counterparts who do not have co-existing depression, according to a recent NIMH-funded analysis published online ahead of print January 16, 2009, in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society.
- New Research to Help People with Mental Disorders Quit Smoking
- April 04, 2008 • Science Update
A new grant funded by NIMH will develop an intervention designed to help people with serious mental illness (SMI) quit smoking. The addiction is very common among people with SMI, and contributes significantly to deteriorating health and higher costs for care. But it is difficult to treat among people with SMI because they require a tailored approach that is incorporated into their existing mental health treatment.
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- Mental Illness, Incarceration, and Community Re-entry: Telepsychiatry and Continuity of Mental Health Care
- October 29, 2008 – October 30, 2008
Austin, Texas
Participants discussed whether current knowledge and practices related to the continuity of mental health care in general and telepsychiatry specifically are effective, and how effective methods can be generalized to other domains of mental health care.
- Enhancing the Impact of Mental Health Services Research
- July 23, 2007 – July 24, 2007
Washington, D.C.
The Services Research and Clinical Epidemiology Branch of DSIR sponsored the 19th National Conference on Mental Health Services Research: “Enhancing the Impact of Mental Health Services Research”.
- Dissemination and Implementation Research Workshop: Harnessing Science to Maximize Health
- May 26, 2007
Rockville, Maryland
On March 26, 2007, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) co-sponsored a meeting entitled “Dissemination and Implementation Research Workshop: Harnessing Science to Maximize Health.”
- NIMH Special Symposium: Mental Illness, the Person, and Prison
- May 14, 2007
Bethesda, Maryland
In May 2007, NIMH hosted a symposium on the urgent problem of prisoners with serious mental illness.
- The 13th NIMH Biennial Research Conference on the Economics of Mental Health
- September 25, 2006 – September 26, 2006
Bethesda, Maryland
In September 2006, the NIMH Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR) sponsored a national research conference on mental health economics.
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