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24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S349–S805

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of discomfort, irritability, loss of appetite/body weight, skin

tingling/burning/inflammation/dermographism,

nausea,

EEG

changes. Twenty additional apparent neuropsychiatric effects of

such exposures will be listed (not considered established); these

20 suggest, however, that the neuropsychiatric effects go well

beyond the 14 established effects. Various types of EMFs have

been reported to produce neuropsychiatric effects including living

near cell phone antennae, heavy cell phone usage, occupational

exposure to radar, UHF or VHF transmission, smart meter radiation,

WiFi field exposure, digital television signal exposure, living near

a radio station antenna, or living near a short wave broadcasting

antenna.

Conclusions

The ever-increasing human exposures to such EMFs

threatens us with near universal widespread neuropsychiatric

effects and should be viewed as a major threat to the survival of

human civilization. Current safety guidelines are based only on

thermal effects and are therefore without any scientific merit.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

Further reading

Pall ML, 2015 PMID: 26300312.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1910

EV926

Dietary pattern and mental health:

review of literature

A. Tarelho

, M. Duarte , J. Melim , A. Batista , S. Almeida

Centro hospitalar de Leiria, EPE, psychiatry service, Leiria, Portugal

Corresponding author.

Introduction

If we are what we eat, are we eating ourselves into

depression and anxiety? There has been an emerge evidence sup-

porting a role for lifestyle factors in the development of these

conditions.

Objective

To review evolving concepts and gain insight on the

phenomenon of dietary pattern and mental health.

Methods

Bibliographic search in Pubmed for articles published

between 2010 and 2015, using the keywords words mental health,

diet and depression, from the 220 articles found, 68 were included.

Results

From the 68 selected articles, 19 were reviews, 3 ran-

domized controlled trials and 2 meta-analysis. The scientific

community agrees that substantial global changes in the food

system have had a highly detrimental impact on dietary pat-

terns. Thirty-three articles found a positive correlation between

unhealthy dietary patterns andpoorermental health or bettermen-

tal health with healthy eating habits, such as a potential protective

role of mediterranean diet (or similar) with regard to the preven-

tion of depressive disorders. A recent systematic review by Baskin

et al (2015) revealed positive associations between poor quality

and unhealthy diets and antenatal depressive and stress symptoms.

Healthy diets were inversely associated with antenatal depressive

and anxiety symptoms.

Conclusion

Although there is some evidence on the association

between dietary quality and mental health, we can’t tell if it’s a

casual linkage or what are the biological pathways that mediate

these relationships. Therefore, randomized control trials of diet are

necessary to disentangle the effects of multiple health behaviors

on mental health.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1911

Promotion of mental health

EV927

A mental health promotion program

among Iranian female high school

students

H. Heizomi , H. Allahverdipour

Tabriz university of medical sciences, health education & promotion,

Tabriz, Iran

Corresponding author.

Background

Female adolescents have a higher prevalence of psy-

chological disorder especially in the developing countries and

tradition communities. Adolescence is due to accompanied with

puberty and transitional age are suffering of mental health prob-

lems. Main purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness

of “psychological well-being promotion program” on the mental

health status of female high school students in Iran.

Methods

The non equivalent group, pretest-posttest design was

applied to conduct this study from November 2013 to December

2013 in Tabriz, Iran on 289 participants (148 in the experimental

and 141 in the control groups). One of the sub-regions of Tabriz city

was chosen randomly and within the area two high schools were

selected with almost same environmental conditions randomly as

the experimental and control groups. Participants who were in

the 9th grade were recruited randomly and classified in the both

groups of intervention and control. After diagnostic evaluation, the

planned program was performed based on two approaches of: (1)

environmental changes (playing music during breaks, sports com-

petitions, and interior decorating classes); (2) stress management

skills development program.

Results

The results were indicative of the intervention’s positive

impact. Based on the findings, the mean scores of the happiness

significantly increased in the intervention group (

P

0.001). The

mean scores of the stress significantly decreased in the intervention

group (

P

0.001).

Conclusion

The study results suggested that implementation

mental health promotion program improved mental health indices

which indicates effectiveness of comprehensive school health pro-

grams.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1912

EV928

Attitude toward mental health in the

Republic of Georgia

E. Chkonia

1 ,

, O. Nino

2

, S. Morgoshia

3

, G. Nino

4

1

Tbilisi mental health centre, psychiatry and drug abuse, Tbilisi,

Georgia

2

Tbilisi state university, department of psychiatry, Tbilisi, Georgia

3

Ministry of labour, health and social affairs of Georgia, mental

health, Tbilisi, Georgia

4

Council of Europe Office in Georgia, Senior Project Officer, Tbilisi,

Georgia

Corresponding author.

The stigma, discrimination and human rights violations that indi-

viduals and families affected by mental disorders suffer are intense

and pervasive.

In order to study attitude toward mental health problems, more

than 1000 population from the different region of Georgia have

been interviewedwithin 3 months (May-July 2015) in their house-

hold.

The scope of questions used in the survey were based on the ques-

tionnaire proposed by the NHS Information Centre, Mental Health

and Community.