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Application and Results of the Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life (Mansa)

The Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life (MANSA) is a brief instrument for assessing quality of life focusing on satisfaction with life as a whole and with life domains and its psychometric properties appear satisfactory.
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Long-term mental health of war-refugees: a systematic literature review

Existing evidence suggests that mental disorders tend to be highly prevalent in war refugees many years after resettlement, and there is a need for more methodologically consistent and rigorous research on the mental health of long-settled war refugees.
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Reinstitutionalisation in mental health care: comparison of data on service provision from six European countries

Reinstitutionalisation is taking place in European countries with different traditions of health care, although with significant variation between the six countries studied, and general attitudes to risk containment in a society may be more important than changing morbidity and new methods of mental healthcare delivery.
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A new scale to assess the therapeutic relationship in community mental health care: STAR

STAR is a specifically developed, brief scale to assess TRs in community psychiatry with good psychometric properties and is suitable for use in research and routine care.
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Depression and anxiety in labor migrants and refugees--a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Factors associated with mental disorders in long-settled war refugees: refugees from the former Yugoslavia in Germany, Italy and the UK.

Higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were associated with older age, a lower level of education, more traumatic experiences during and after the war, absence of combat experience, more migration-related stress, and a temporary residence permit.
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Multilevel ordinal factor analysis of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)

The results show that the fit of the model and the parsimony of the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) models indicated by the number of factors necessary to explain the inter‐correlation among PANSS items improved significantly when data clustering is taken into account through multilevel analysis.
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Ethnic variations in pathways to and use of specialist mental health services in the UK

There is strongEvidence of variation between ethnic groups for voluntary and compulsory admissions, and some evidence of variation in pathways to specialist care.
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Patients' views and readmissions 1 year after involuntary hospitalisation

Patients' views of treatment within the first week are a relevant indicator for the long-term prognosis of involuntarily admitted patients.
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Good practice in health care for migrants: views and experiences of care professionals in 16 European countries

The aim of this study was to assess the difficulties professionals experience in their service when providing such care and what they consider constitutes good practice to overcome these problems or limit their negative impact on the quality of care.
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