Silvia Ferrari
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3801040 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Silvia Ferrari |
| PRENOMES | Silvia |
| SOBRENOME | Ferrari |
| ASSINATURA | FERRARI S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7929-4520 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Biopsychosocial Complexity of Revolving Door Admissions in an Acute Psychiatric Unit
BACKGROUND: Frequent psychiatric rehospitalizations, commonly referred to as revolving door (RD) pose major challenges to community mental healthcare system and may reflect patients' bio-psycho-social (BPS) complexity. AIMS: The aim of the current study was to investigate the association between BPS complexity and RD in an acute psychiatric hospital ward, located in a Northern Italy province serving around 500,000 inhabitants. METHODS: A retrospe…
Mental Health in Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
Una galleria d’arte nello specchio d’un sonetto
La publication de 14 secondes. L’art réfléchi dans un sonnet (Aix-en-Provence, Presses Universitaires de Provence - Maison Laurentine, 2021) de Giovanni Tesio témoigne de la vitalité des dialectes comme langue littéraire : le livre consiste en un recueil de traductions françaises, par Perle Abbrugiati, de sonnets en dialecte piémontais, eux-mêmes inspirés principalement par des œuvres d’art. Cette galerie d’art poétique contribue au débat sur le …
Microaggression toward LGBTIQ people and implications for mental health
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization
It is unclear whether poverty and mental illness are causally related. Using UK Biobank and Psychiatric Genomic Consortium data, we examined evidence of causal links between poverty and nine mental illnesses (attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anorexia nervosa, anxiety disorder, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia).…
Somewhere Between an Actual Disease and a Disease
Functional Neurological Disorders are characterized by sensory-motor or cognitive symptoms. Recent research has revealed their complex nature involving biological, psychological, and social factors. Care requires a multidisciplinary approach, which, to date, has yet to be considered. A Constructivist Grounded Theory study was conducted to understand the reasons behind this, exploring Functional Neurological Disorders diagnosis, communication, and…
Les défis de la traduction littéraire contemporaine. État présent des études et pistes de réflexion
This article proposes to consider, within the framework of a reflection on the «untranslatables», an approach to the activity of translation in an ethical way while dispelling certain prejudices which risk to condition the work of the translator, sometimes going so far as to undermine the possibility of translation. Taking as a starting point the problem raised by texts which, in a programmatic way, reveal their intertextual stratification and ar…
Can a negative religious causal attribution of mental illness affect the phenomenon of public stigma
This study assessed, through an exploratory approach, how religion-based negative causal attributions of mental illness may be associated to stigmatising attitudes and behaviours that contribute to public stigma in an Italian convenience sample. All participants (N = 311; average age = 33 years, 38.6% male) completed a set of three questionnaires: Religious Beliefs and Mental Illness Stigma Scale, the Attribution Questionnaire 27 and the Mental H…
The impact of trauma, substance abuse, and psychiatric illness on suicidal and self-harm behaviours in a cohort of migrant detainees
BACKGROUND: According to the WHO, detainees attempt suicide ten times more than the general population. AIMS: To investigate the impact of migration trauma on Suicidal and Self-Harm Behaviours (SSHB) of migrants in jail and to explore how substance use and other psychiatric features affect this relationship. METHODS: Prospective cohort study, conducted at the 'Sant'Anna' jail in Modena (Italy) between February 2017 and September 2019. Socio-demog…
Changes of consultation-liaison psychiatry practice in Italian general hospitals
CLP workload has increased considerably in the past 20 years in Italy, with changes in patient demographic and clinical characteristics. A trend toward increase in medication-based patient management was observed. These findings suggest that the psychiatric needs of patients admitted to the general hospital are more frequently addressed by referring physicians, although Italian CLP services still deserve better organization and autonomy
It’s All Covid’s Fault!”
Considering the persistence of the international emergency, effective strategies to anticipate, recognize and address distress in HCWs are essential, also because they may impact the organization and effectiveness of healthcare systems
Translation and Validation of an Italian Language Version of the Religious Beliefs and Mental Illness Stigma Scale (I-RBMIS)
Diagnostic Agreement between Physicians and a Consultation–Liaison Psychiatry Team at a General Hospital
Consultation-liaison psychiatry (CLP) manages psychiatric care for patients admitted to a general hospital (GH) for somatic reasons. We evaluated patterns in psychiatric morbidity, reasons for referral and diagnostic concordance between referring doctors and CL psychiatrists. Referrals over the course of 20 years (2000-2019) made by the CLP Service at Modena GH (Italy) were retrospectively analyzed. Cohen's kappa statistics were used to estimate …
Time Waits for No One
The primary aim is to describe the changes in the knowledge of mental health conditions, the attitudes toward the mentally ill, and the intended behaviour towards people with mental illness among the entire student population of the third year of a degree course in Psychology. A total of 570 students attended a seminar on stigma towards mental illness and were invited to complete an online survey which collected data on sociodemographic character…
First-episode Psychosis and Migration in Italy
Our finding of a "high functioning portrait" of FEP migrants allow us to hypothesize that a high burden of negative psychosocial factors is likely to be needed for the FEP onset. Furtherly, mental health services should implement more appropriate resources and organizational methods to respond to migrants' health needs
Users’ choice and change of allocated primary mental health professional in community-based mental health services
BACKGROUND: The recovery model in mental health care emphasizes users' right to be involved in key decisions of their care, including choice of one's primary mental health professional (PMHP). AIMS: The aim of this article was to provide a scoping review of the literature on the topic of users' choice, request of change and preferences for the PMHP in community mental health services. METHOD: A search of the PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Scien…
Is Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry ‘Getting Old’? How Psychiatry Referrals in the General Hospital Have Changed over 20 Years
There is an ever-growing awareness of the health-related special needs of older patients, and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Services (CLPS) are significantly involved in providing such age-friendly hospital care. CLPS perform psychiatric assessment for hospitalized patients with suspected medical-psychiatric comorbidity and support ward teams in a bio-psycho-social oriented care management. Changes in features of the population referred to a CL…
Stigma on Mental Health among High School Students
The purpose of this study was to describe the psychometric characteristics of the AQ-27-I in a high school student population. Students aged between 17 and 20 years and attending the fourth and fifth year of a scientific high school in Milan were approached at the school and were asked to fill in an anonymous socio-demographic form and the AQ-27-I. Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate the instrument reliability and confirmatory factor analysis (…
Clinical and Socio-demographic Variables Associated with the Outcome of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs
Minority stress and mental health among LGBT populations
INTRODUCTION: In the past five years, researchers have increasingly turned to the study of mental health outcomes in LGBt populations.the present paper summarizes recent literature on the relationship between minority stress experienced by sexual minorities and mental health.eViDeNce acQUisitiON: PsyciNFO, PubMed, and the eBscO Psychology and Behavioral science collection were searched for papers concerning minority stress and mental health dispa…
Assessment of Biopsychosocial Complexity and Health Care Needs
OBJECTIVE: The INTERMED Self-Assessment questionnaire (IMSA) was developed as an alternative to the observer-rated INTERMED (IM) to assess biopsychosocial complexity and health care needs. We studied feasibility, reliability, and validity of the IMSA within a large and heterogeneous international sample of adult hospital inpatients and outpatients as well as its predictive value for health care use (HCU) and quality of life (QoL). METHODS: A tota…
Impact of the economic crisis on health-related behaviors in Italy
BACKGROUND: Evidence exists supporting the impact of the Great Recession on health-related behaviors internationally, though few studies are available concerning the Italian population. AIM: To assess the impact of the late 2000s economic crisis on health-related behaviors linked to population mental health in Italy. METHODS: Descriptive study. Health indicators came from the Italian Institute of Statistics database (years 2000-2015). Statistics …
Micromorphologies of amber beads
Eine Reihe bronzezeitlicher Bernsteinperlen von zwei unterschiedlichen norditalienischen Fundplätzen wurde mit optischer und opto-digitaler Mikroskopie für hochauflösende 3D-Bilder, Rasterelektronenmikroskopie sowie mittels extrem feiner Silikonabgüsse der Durchlochungen untersucht. Die Ausgüsse belegen die Verwendung eines glühenden Werkzeugs, das Spuren an den Innenwänden der Perforationen hinterließ, dies ungeachtet des Abriebs aufgrund der Ke…
Alcohol drinking patterns in young people
Binge drinking represents a major clinical and public health concern. Here, we investigated the prevalence of binge drinking and its related consequences, in a population of young adults. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 4275 healthy subjects. In the overall sample, the percentage of binge drinkers was 67.6 per cent; among regular alcohol users, 79.5 per cent reported episodes of binge drinking. Among binge drinkers, several seriou…
Perceived insecurity, mental health and urbanization
AIMS: This article aims to (1) explore the levels of perceived insecurity in a sample of patients with mood or anxiety disorders and (2) assess whether living in 'big cities' can influence the levels of patients' perceived insecurity and social contacts compared to living in a non-urbanized context. METHODS: A total of 24 Italian mental health centers (MHCs) have been invited to participate. Twenty patients consecutively accessing the MHC have be…
Alcohol drinking patterns in young people
Binge drinking represents a major clinical and public health concern. Here, we investigated the prevalence of binge drinking and its related consequences, in a population of young adults. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 4275 healthy subjects. In the overall sample, the percentage of binge drinkers was 67.6 per cent; among regular alcohol users, 79.5 per cent reported episodes of binge drinking. Among binge drinkers, several seriou…
Investigating the impact of poverty on mental illness in the UK Biobank using Mendelian randomization
It is unclear whether poverty and mental illness are causally related. Using UK Biobank and Psychiatric Genomic Consortium data, we examined evidence of causal links between poverty and nine mental illnesses (attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anorexia nervosa, anxiety disorder, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia).…
Beta Regression for Modelling Rates and Proportions
This paper proposes a regression model where the response is beta distributed using a parameterization of the beta law that is indexed by mean and dispersion pa-rameters. The proposed model is useful for situations where the variable of interest is continuous and restricted to the interval (0, 1) and is related to other variables through a regression structure. The regression parameters of the beta regression model are inter-pretable in terms of …
Psychotic Symptoms and General Health in a Socially Disadvantaged Migrant Community in Bologna
Background and aims: Social exclusion and reduced access to community health services can lead to urgent health problems among immigrants; this may explain their increasing rate of admittance to psychiatric inpatient units. This cross-sectional study aims to evaluate the prevalence of psychotic symptoms among Romanian immigrants living in very poor conditions at an abandoned hotel in Bologna and to highlight the possible correlation with general …
Migrant pathways to community mental health centres in Italy
BACKGROUND: Many studies indicate that migrants in western countries have limited access to and low utilization of community mental health centres (CMHCs) despite the high prevalence of mental disorders. AIMS: We aimed to compare migrant pathways to care across four CMHCs located in different Italian provinces and to identify pathway to care predictors. METHODS: Migrants attending the four CMHCs between 1 July 1999 and 31 December 2007 were inclu…
Who cares for it? How to provide psychosocial interventions in the community
BACKGROUND: Since the Mental Health Reform Law 1978/180, in Italy mental hospitals have been progressively closed and a community-centred psychiatric care oriented to rehabilitation began. After almost 35 years, the de-institutionalization process is now complete. However, psychosocial interventions in the community are provided only rarely, although a specific mental health professional, the psychiatric rehabilitation technician, has been establ…
Pathways to mental health care in Italy
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: In Italy, the reform of the mental health system in 1978 should have drastically changed the provision of care and pathways of patients seeking to obtain it. The aim of this article is to examine the current pathways to psychiatric care in Italy. METHODS: We used a method developed in the World Health Organization international collaborative studies to investigate pathways to care in 15 Italian mental health centers. We recru…
Perceived insecurity, mental health and urbanization
AIMS: This article aims to (1) explore the levels of perceived insecurity in a sample of patients with mood or anxiety disorders and (2) assess whether living in 'big cities' can influence the levels of patients' perceived insecurity and social contacts compared to living in a non-urbanized context. METHODS: A total of 24 Italian mental health centers (MHCs) have been invited to participate. Twenty patients consecutively accessing the MHC have be…
Assessment of Biopsychosocial Complexity and Health Care Needs
OBJECTIVE: The INTERMED Self-Assessment questionnaire (IMSA) was developed as an alternative to the observer-rated INTERMED (IM) to assess biopsychosocial complexity and health care needs. We studied feasibility, reliability, and validity of the IMSA within a large and heterogeneous international sample of adult hospital inpatients and outpatients as well as its predictive value for health care use (HCU) and quality of life (QoL). METHODS: A tota…
Impact of the economic crisis on health-related behaviors in Italy
BACKGROUND: Evidence exists supporting the impact of the Great Recession on health-related behaviors internationally, though few studies are available concerning the Italian population. AIM: To assess the impact of the late 2000s economic crisis on health-related behaviors linked to population mental health in Italy. METHODS: Descriptive study. Health indicators came from the Italian Institute of Statistics database (years 2000-2015). Statistics …
Micromorphologies of amber beads
Eine Reihe bronzezeitlicher Bernsteinperlen von zwei unterschiedlichen norditalienischen Fundplätzen wurde mit optischer und opto-digitaler Mikroskopie für hochauflösende 3D-Bilder, Rasterelektronenmikroskopie sowie mittels extrem feiner Silikonabgüsse der Durchlochungen untersucht. Die Ausgüsse belegen die Verwendung eines glühenden Werkzeugs, das Spuren an den Innenwänden der Perforationen hinterließ, dies ungeachtet des Abriebs aufgrund der Ke…
Alcohol drinking patterns in young people
Binge drinking represents a major clinical and public health concern. Here, we investigated the prevalence of binge drinking and its related consequences, in a population of young adults. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 4275 healthy subjects. In the overall sample, the percentage of binge drinkers was 67.6 per cent; among regular alcohol users, 79.5 per cent reported episodes of binge drinking. Among binge drinkers, several seriou…
Minority stress and mental health among LGBT populations
INTRODUCTION: In the past five years, researchers have increasingly turned to the study of mental health outcomes in LGBt populations.the present paper summarizes recent literature on the relationship between minority stress experienced by sexual minorities and mental health.eViDeNce acQUisitiON: PsyciNFO, PubMed, and the eBscO Psychology and Behavioral science collection were searched for papers concerning minority stress and mental health dispa…
Users’ choice and change of allocated primary mental health professional in community-based mental health services
BACKGROUND: The recovery model in mental health care emphasizes users' right to be involved in key decisions of their care, including choice of one's primary mental health professional (PMHP). AIMS: The aim of this article was to provide a scoping review of the literature on the topic of users' choice, request of change and preferences for the PMHP in community mental health services. METHOD: A search of the PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Scien…
Is Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry ‘Getting Old’? How Psychiatry Referrals in the General Hospital Have Changed over 20 Years
There is an ever-growing awareness of the health-related special needs of older patients, and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Services (CLPS) are significantly involved in providing such age-friendly hospital care. CLPS perform psychiatric assessment for hospitalized patients with suspected medical-psychiatric comorbidity and support ward teams in a bio-psycho-social oriented care management. Changes in features of the population referred to a CL…
Stigma on Mental Health among High School Students
The purpose of this study was to describe the psychometric characteristics of the AQ-27-I in a high school student population. Students aged between 17 and 20 years and attending the fourth and fifth year of a scientific high school in Milan were approached at the school and were asked to fill in an anonymous socio-demographic form and the AQ-27-I. Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate the instrument reliability and confirmatory factor analysis (…
Clinical and Socio-demographic Variables Associated with the Outcome of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs
Translation and Validation of an Italian Language Version of the Religious Beliefs and Mental Illness Stigma Scale (I-RBMIS)
Diagnostic Agreement between Physicians and a Consultation–Liaison Psychiatry Team at a General Hospital
Consultation-liaison psychiatry (CLP) manages psychiatric care for patients admitted to a general hospital (GH) for somatic reasons. We evaluated patterns in psychiatric morbidity, reasons for referral and diagnostic concordance between referring doctors and CL psychiatrists. Referrals over the course of 20 years (2000-2019) made by the CLP Service at Modena GH (Italy) were retrospectively analyzed. Cohen's kappa statistics were used to estimate …
Time Waits for No One
The primary aim is to describe the changes in the knowledge of mental health conditions, the attitudes toward the mentally ill, and the intended behaviour towards people with mental illness among the entire student population of the third year of a degree course in Psychology. A total of 570 students attended a seminar on stigma towards mental illness and were invited to complete an online survey which collected data on sociodemographic character…
First-episode Psychosis and Migration in Italy
Our finding of a "high functioning portrait" of FEP migrants allow us to hypothesize that a high burden of negative psychosocial factors is likely to be needed for the FEP onset. Furtherly, mental health services should implement more appropriate resources and organizational methods to respond to migrants' health needs
Les défis de la traduction littéraire contemporaine. État présent des études et pistes de réflexion
This article proposes to consider, within the framework of a reflection on the «untranslatables», an approach to the activity of translation in an ethical way while dispelling certain prejudices which risk to condition the work of the translator, sometimes going so far as to undermine the possibility of translation. Taking as a starting point the problem raised by texts which, in a programmatic way, reveal their intertextual stratification and ar…
Can a negative religious causal attribution of mental illness affect the phenomenon of public stigma
This study assessed, through an exploratory approach, how religion-based negative causal attributions of mental illness may be associated to stigmatising attitudes and behaviours that contribute to public stigma in an Italian convenience sample. All participants (N = 311; average age = 33 years, 38.6% male) completed a set of three questionnaires: Religious Beliefs and Mental Illness Stigma Scale, the Attribution Questionnaire 27 and the Mental H…
The impact of trauma, substance abuse, and psychiatric illness on suicidal and self-harm behaviours in a cohort of migrant detainees
BACKGROUND: According to the WHO, detainees attempt suicide ten times more than the general population. AIMS: To investigate the impact of migration trauma on Suicidal and Self-Harm Behaviours (SSHB) of migrants in jail and to explore how substance use and other psychiatric features affect this relationship. METHODS: Prospective cohort study, conducted at the 'Sant'Anna' jail in Modena (Italy) between February 2017 and September 2019. Socio-demog…
Changes of consultation-liaison psychiatry practice in Italian general hospitals
CLP workload has increased considerably in the past 20 years in Italy, with changes in patient demographic and clinical characteristics. A trend toward increase in medication-based patient management was observed. These findings suggest that the psychiatric needs of patients admitted to the general hospital are more frequently addressed by referring physicians, although Italian CLP services still deserve better organization and autonomy
It’s All Covid’s Fault!”
Considering the persistence of the international emergency, effective strategies to anticipate, recognize and address distress in HCWs are essential, also because they may impact the organization and effectiveness of healthcare systems
Microaggression toward LGBTIQ people and implications for mental health
Psychiatry (23 obras) · Medicine (20 obras) · Mental health (17 obras) · Psychology (17 obras) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (13 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras) · Environmental health (5 obras) · Family medicine (5 obras)