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senior psychiatrist is feasible and achievable and can lead to robust
improvements in symptoms and functional outcomes for patients
with schizophrenia.
Disclosure of interest The author has not supplied his declaration
of competing interest.
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Improving oral health care in mental
health service – A retrospective study
of oral health care monitoring for
service users accessing community
mental health team
U. Ahmed ∗, S.K. Siddiqui , K. Tabani
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Mental Health, Liverpool, United
Kingdom
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction Poor oral health can have a serious impact on quality
of life, social inclusion and self-esteem. There is evidence to sug-
gest that people with serious mental illness have a greater risk of
experiencing oral disease and have greater oral treatment needs
than the general population. Oral health problems are not well rec-
ognized by mental health professionals. We therefore conducted a
retrospective study to review oral health care monitoring within
the community mental health team.
Aims and objectives To review the oral health care monitoring for
patients accessing the community mental health team.
Methodology Audit tool was developed based on oral health care
guidelines outlined by the department of health, and literature
review. We then retrospectively review medical records of 25
patients against following standards:.
– every client should have the most basic of oral hygiene
equipment–toothbrush;
– clients should have basic oral hygiene knowledge, (i.e. brush twice
or at least once a day);
– every client should be registered to a dental practitioner;
– every client should have at least one dental check-up per year;
– clients with dentures should have their dentures checked up at
least once in five years;
– have a tooth brush less than three months old.
Results Out of the 25 patients none had met the standards. It
could be a reflection of lack of documentation rather than not pro-
viding appropriate information.
Conclusion Oral health care advice should be part of care plan for
people accessing mental health service.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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Psychiatric social work needs of
families having children with mental
diseases in Turkey
E. Arslan , F. Akgül Gök ∗ uyan
Ankara University, Social Work, Ankara, Turkey
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction Generally mental health patients continue their
lives with their families after they completed their treatments.
Therefore it means that they are spending their mental care process
with their families. That process psychosocially, economically and
physically affects every member of the family, especially primary
care taker. These families need services provided by psychiatric
social work services.
Objectives This study planned to determine psychosocial needs
of the families and develop some solutions.
Method This study is conducted with methods of qualitative
research. One of the family members of six young adults with men-
tal diseases has been interviewed face to face. Snowball sampling
method is used to reach participants. Qualitative methods are used
in order to deeply analyze emotions and thoughts of family mem-
bers while determining the needs of these families.
Conclusion This study is conducted with parents of children who
were treated at any inpatient treatment facilities and continue
to live with their families after being released from these facil-
ities. According to results psychiatric social work needs of these
families are below: (1) these families and care takers suffer from
problems resulting from lack of information on mental diseases
and processes of these diseases; (2) also these families suffer from
problems of social environment and lack of sufficient social work
services. According to results of this research it is suggested that
families should be informed about the mental diseases, treatments
and process after treatment and also families should supported by
raising coping strategies. The new service models should be devel-
oped accordingly.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
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Adult ADHD and the use of
mindfulness-based practice: A pilot
study
A. Allen∗, R. Ansari , J. Thurley , L. Murphy , E. Chan ,
C. McKinnon , R. Fitzgerald , A. Deeley , R. Wachter , J. Rajewski
The ADHD Clinic, Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada
∗ Corresponding author.
Educational objectives The goal of this poster is to discuss a brief
pilot study in which mindfulness – and yoga-based practices were
utilized with a group of adult ADHD patients.
Methods A sample of 10 adults participated in a pilot groupwhich
utilized the use mindfulness-based and yoga practices to address
ADHD. This group was a single 2 hour session which was a pilot for
a future 6-week psycho-educational group. The participants com-
pleted the following questionnaires: the Cognitive and Affective
Mindfulness Scale (CAMS-R), the Freiburg mindfulness inventory
and the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) in addition to
a survey regarding levels of knowledge of yoga and mindfulness
prior to the beginning of the session. The participants completed a
survey at the end of the session.
Results In our small sample group, all respondents reported
that they found the session helpful (43% strongly agreed; 57%
agreed). When asked if the participants were likely to explore
and learn more about ADHD and meditation on their own based
on what they learned in the session, most indicated that they
were likely to (43% strongly agreed; 43% agreed and 14% were
neutral).
Conclusions The use of treatment modalities involving the use of
meditation and mindfulness-based techniques in a group setting
are thought to be helpful in addressing some of the target symp-
toms of ADHD. Based on the preliminary data collected in our small
pilot study, our group intends to further explore the efficacy of
meditation-based groups in the form of a 6-week training program
in 2017.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.