Prevalence and characteristics of intimate partner violence against women with severe mental illness: a prevalence study in Spain.

This study examined the prevalence and characteristics of intimate partner violence (IPV) towards women with a severe mental illness (SMI). The sample consisted of 142 adult women with SMI treated in public mental health services in three districts of Madrid (Spain). The prevalence of IPV in the 12 months preceding the interview was 30.3% and over the lifespan was 79.6%. 32.7% of women victims of violence do not qualify themselves as battered women. 48.5% of battered women do not talk about their abusive situation with anyone or come to any resource or service. Women victims of abuse have low social support. Women who have suffered physical abuse in childhood are at 2.22 times higher risk of being victims of IPV in the past year. Mental health professionals identified 50% of recent abuse cases. This research highlights the extent of IPV experienced by women with SMI.

Diferencias en el perfil de derivación recibido en los centros de rehabilitación psicosocial en función del género / Differences of the derivated profile at the psychosocial rehabilitation center by gender

Introducción: La percepción de los profesionales que trabajan en recursos de atención social a personas con trastorno mental grave apunta a la existencia de diferencias en las características de los hombres y mujeres que llegan a estos dispositivos. Material y Método: Este trabajo pretende ser una aproximación al análisis de dichas diferencias, para lo cual se ha comparado el perfil sociodemográfico y clínico-psiquiátrico de los hombres y mujeres derivados a los Centros de Rehabilitación Psicosocial de San Fernando de Henares, Alcalá de Henares y La Elipa, pertenecientes a la Red de recursos de atención social a personas con enfermedad mental grave y duradera de la Comunidad de Madrid, durante un período de cinco años. Durante esos años un total de 302 personas fueron derivadas a estos recursos, 188 varones y 114 mujeres. La muestra total se dividió en dos grupos: hombres-mujeres y se realizaron las tablas de contingencia y los análisis estadísticos pertinentes de las variables referidas. Resultados: Los análisis realizados indican que las mujeres que son derivadas a estos recursos son más mayores que los hombres, tienen en mayor medida certificado de minusvalía, cobran más a menudo pensiones no contributivas, no tienen una profesión definida y llegan tras un periodo de evolución mayor del trastorno (AU)

Introduction: The perception of the professionals who work in social attention services with severe mental disorder people, heads to the existence of differences between men and women’s characteristics that arrive to these services. Material and Method: This work intends to be an approximation to the analysis of these differences. To achieve this objective we have compared the social, demographic, clinical and psychiatric profiles of men and women derived to Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centers located at San Fernando de Henares, at Alcalá de Henares and at La Elipa, which belongs to the Social Attention resources network for people who suffer severe mental illness in the Community of Madrid during a 5 years’ period. During these years, a total of 302 persons were derived to these resources, 188 men and 114 women. The total sample was divided into two groups: menwomen, and contingency tables were produced, and the statistical analysis referred to the before mentioned variables. Results: The analysis done indicates that women who are derived to these resources are older than men, they have in a wider range, a disability certificate, they perceive more non contributory invalidity pensions, they do not usually have a defined profession and finally they normally arrive to these resources after a longer evolution of their disorders(AU)

Sobre la oportunidad de la rehabilitación psicosocial tras un primer brote: un caso clínico / About timeliness of psichosocial rehabilitation after a first onset: a case report

El inicio de las intervenciones rehabilitadoras en las fases tempranas de la psicosis, o tras un primer brote, ha generado un importante número de investigaciones así como el desarrollo de programas y la organización de servicios específicos (AU)

The psychosocial rehabilitation in early phases of psychosis or after a first episode of psychosis has generated a lot of investigation and the implement of programs and organization of specific services (AU)

Programa de control de peso en personas con enfermedad mental grave del espectro psicótico / Cognitive behavioral weight-loss program for individuals with psychotic mental diseases

El aumento de peso asociado a la esquizofrenia a partir del incremento del uso de los nuevos antipsicóticos es un problema en aumento. Por ello, en este trabajo, nuestro objetivo es poner en marcha un programa cognitivo-conductual de forma ambulatoria para el control de peso en personas con enfermedad mental grave del espectro psicótico, atendidos en un Centro de Rehabilitación Psicosocial (C.R.P.S.), y comparar los resultados con un grupo control. Para ello contamos con un grupo de intervención compuesto por 3 varones y 4 mujeres, y un grupo control con 4 varones y 4 mujeres. La intervención duró doce sesiones a lo largo de tres meses. También se realizó un seguimiento a los tres meses de finalizada la intervención en ambos grupos. Nuestros datos indican la eficacia de la intervención cognitivo-conductual en estas personas: se consiguió reducir el peso de los participantes y modificar sus hábitos de alimentación y de ejercicio físico

Overweight derived from the intake of new antipsychotic medication in order to treat schizophrenia is a growing problem. The main purpose of this study is to launch a cognitive behavioural program in outpatients. It is focused on the weight control of patients with chronic mental diseases, especially those diagnosed as psychotic, and who are under treatment in a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre. In this study, the results of an experimental group and a control group were compared. The experimental group was made up of 7 individuals, 3 males and 4 females, and the control group comprised 4 males and 4 females. The program had a duration of twelve sessions administered over a period of three months. Three months after concluding the program, both groups were followed up. The data obtained indicate the efficiency of the cognitive-behavioural treatment in the patients. The achievements of this project were, on the one hand, to significantly reduce the patients’ weight and, on the other, to modify their nutritional and physical exercise habits

[Cognitive behavioral weight-loss program for individuals with psychotic mental diseases]. / Programa de control de peso en personas con enfermedad mental grave del espectro psicótico.

Overweight derived from the intake of new antipsychotic medication in order to treat schizophrenia is a growing problem. The main purpose of this study is to launch a cognitive behavioural program in outpatients. It is focused on the weight control of patients with chronic mental diseases, especially those diagnosed as psychotic, and who are under treatment in a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre. In this study, the results of an experimental group and a control group were compared. The experimental group was made up of 7 individuals, 3 males and 4 females, and the control group comprised 4 males and 4 females. The program had a duration of twelve sessions administered over a period of three months. Three months after concluding the program, both groups were followed up. The data obtained indicate the efficiency of the cognitive-behavioural treatment in the patients. The achievements of this project were, on the one hand, to significantly reduce the patients' weight and, on the other, to modify their nutritional and physical exercise habits.