Research Area: Mental Health

Description

Multidisciplinary team constituted by general practitioners, specialists in community and públic health, psychiatrists and nurses. This group encompasses two levels of care: primary care teams and mental health referral centres from the Catalan Health Institute and the Institute for Neuropsychiatry and Addictions at the Hospital del Mar. The main aim of the SMD Group is the study of patients suffering from severe mental disorders, which include: schizophrenia, bipolar, schizoaffective, obsessive compulsive, delusional and schizotypal disorders and other non-organic psychotic disorders, severe depressive episodes with psychotic symptoms and severe cases of recurrent depressive disorders. The definition of severe mental disorder is based on the diagnosis, duration and disability involved.

Research Lines

Patients with severe mental disorders: study of physical risk factors and other conditions. Effectiveness of interventions in patients with severe mental disorders, Coordination between care levels in patients with severe mental disorders, Multimorbidity and mental health, Mental disorders in children and young people. Prevention and coordination between care levels.

Members

Projects

Group projects:

PI: Mendoza Garcia de Paredes, Maria Dolores. Continuïtat dels tractaments farmacològics a l'alta hospitalària. Conciliació i adherència terapèutica. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2016

PI: Franch Nadal, Josep. Prevalença del trastorn mental sever en els pacient diabètics de la població de Barcelona ciutat. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2016

PI: Álvarez Ibáñez, MªIsabel. Estudio de la Efectividad de la Vacuna antipertúsica en pacientes atendidos en centros de atención primaria. Estudio de Casos y Controles. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2016

PI: Vinyoles Bargalló, Ernest. Prognostic value of non-specific ST-T changes and left ventricular hypertrophy electrocardiographic criteria in hypertensive patients: 16-year follow-up results from the MINACOR cohort. Funding: Fundació Catalana Hipertensio. Duration: 2016

Publications

Group Publications:

Foguet-Boreu Q, Fernandez San Martin MI, Flores Mateo G, Zabaleta Del Olmo E, Ayerbe García-Morzon L, Perez-Piñar López M, Martin-López LM, Montes Hidalgo J, Violán C. Cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with a severe mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC psychiatry. 2016 ; 16(1):141. doi:10.1186/s12888-016-0833-6. Epub 2016 May 12. pmc:PMC4866037. PMID:27176477. FI: 2,576.

The group participates in the following publications:

Nabbe P, Le Reste JY, Guillou-Landreat M, Munoz Perez MA, Argyriadou S, Claveria A, Fernández San Martín MI, Czachowski S, Lingner H, Lygidakis C, Sowinska A, Chiron B, Derriennic J, Le Prielec A, Le Floch B, Montier T, Van Marwijk H, Van Royen P. Which DSM validated tools for diagnosing depression are usable in primary care research? A systematic literature review. European psychiatry: the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists. 2017 Jan; 39:99-105. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.08.004. Epub 2016 Dec 16. PMID:27992813. IF: 3,912.

Thesis

Casañas R [Doctorand]. Evaluación de la efectividad de la Psicoeducación grupal en Depresión Mayor (síntomas leves/moderados) en Atención Primaria. Barcelona: Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 02/02/2016.

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