Barriers, attitudes, confidence, and knowledge of nurses regarding metabolic health screening and intervention in people with mental illness: a pilot study from Uganda

Davy Vancampfort; Andrew Watkins; Philip B Ward; Michel Probst; Marc De Hert; Tine Van Damme; James Mugisha

doi:10.4314/ahs.v19i3.30

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Barriers, attitudes, confidence, and knowledge of nurses regarding metabolic health screening and intervention in people with mental illness: a pilot study from Uganda

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Barriers, attitudes, confidence, and knowledge of nurses regarding metabolic health screening and intervention in people with mental illness: a pilot study from Uganda

Davy Vancampfort, Andrew Watkins, Philip B Ward, Michel Probst, Marc De Hert, Tine Van Damme and James Mugisha

African Health Sciences, Vol.19(3), pp.2546-2554

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v19i3.30

PMID: 32127827

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Abstract

metabolic syndrome

screening

Exercise

diet

smoking

Background: People with mental illness are at an increased risk for developing cardio-metabolic disorders. Routine screening following pharmacotherapy is however unacceptably low in sub-Saharan African countries with less than 1% adequately screened. It is unknown whether this is due to a lack of adequate competences.

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Title: Barriers, attitudes, confidence, and knowledge of nurses regarding metabolic health screening and intervention in people with mental illness: a pilot study from Uganda
Authors: Davy Vancampfort (Author) - KU Leuven
Andrew Watkins (Author) - South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Philip B Ward (Author) - UNSW Australia
Michel Probst (Author) - KU Leuven
Marc De Hert (Author) - KU Leuven
Tine Van Damme (Author) - KU Leuven
James Mugisha (Author) - Kyambogo University
Publication details: African Health Sciences, Vol.19(3), pp.2546-2554
Publisher: Markerere University, Medical School
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v19i3.30
ISSN: 1729-0503; 1680-6905
PMID: 32127827
Copyright note: © 2019 Vancampfort et al. Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Thompson Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99498407002621
Output Type: Journal article

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