Mental Health
475 peer-reviewed studies indexed
A Virtual Living Lab Platform Codeveloped for Mental Health in Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes (BrightSpark Care Lab): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.
This paper describes the protocol for BrightSpark Care Lab, Canada's first virtual living lab for youth with type 2 diabetes, using a three-stage longitudinal mixed methods design to codesign a platform with youth coresearchers and generate understandings of mental health experiences in youth-onset T2D.
An app responding to behavior of people to promote mental wellbeing in anxious youth.
The SMILE app, a smartphone application delivering CBT-based interventions using mobile sensing technology, significantly decreased anxiety symptoms in youth aged 12-21 with severe anxiety at 4 weeks and also reduced depression symptoms, suggesting efficacy and potential scalability as a solution for youth with severe anxiety.
Uncovering Heterogeneity in the Measurement of Psychological Well-Being in Non-Western Culture: A Latent Profile Analysis of Ghanaian Undergraduates.
Four distinct latent profiles of psychological well-being emerged among Ghanaian undergraduates, with meaningful heterogeneity driven primarily by autonomy, personal growth, and environmental mastery, and profile membership varied by age but not gender.
'Tired of spinning plates': Synopsis of mixed methods exploration of mental health experiences of adult/older carers of adults with learning disabilities.
Caregiving driven by love is often exploited by health and social care services which deny basic support, information and kindness, and enduring struggle for support and worries about the future are often the cause of mental distress among family carers of adults with learning disabilities.
A Community-Led Social and Emotional Well-being Trial Intervention With First Nations Male Parents in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities.
A group-based parenting intervention for First Nations dads may improve important indicators of their social and emotional well-being, with the Enabling Dads intervention group showing notably but not significantly higher scores on theoretically germane SEWB items compared to controls.
The mediating role of resilience in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and psychological well-being in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: a cross-sectional study.
Resilience mediated the relationship between cognitive flexibility and psychological well-being among patients with irritable bowel syndrome, highlighting these as 'protective psychological resources that help patients manage stress and improve well-being in the context of IBS.'
Inter-generational transmission of psychological capital for adolescents: the mediating role of community social capital and the moderating role of spatial stratification.
Parental psychological capital positively influences adolescent psychological capital through social capital as a partial mediator, with this mediating effect being stronger in urban communities with high proximity to the downtown area compared to suburban communities.
PECULIARITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT UNIVERSITY CADETS.
Medical students showed significantly higher levels of depression and anxiety compared to law enforcement university cadets during active military aggression in Ukraine, with a close correlation between depression and anxiety indicators in both groups.
The psychological impact of first-time childbirth on parents.
The arrival of a first child brings about significant psychological and emotional adjustments in parents, driven by pressures associated with financial stability, career development, and shifts in personal identity, with effects varying notably across different socioeconomic backgrounds.
Factors associated with psychological wellbeing, is education one of them?
After controlling for relevant variables, a direct association between educational attainment and psychological wellbeing was identified, underscoring the complexity of factors influencing psychological wellbeing, extending beyond education alone.
Adolescents' contributions to the family in a community-based sample: Links with emotional well-being and individual differences.
Contributing to the family in more ways was associated with significantly higher levels of distress (anxiety and depression symptoms) among adolescents, controlling for background demographics, and this association was stronger among youth from homes with relatively higher levels of social and economic resources.
Translation and validation of the Chinese version of Type 2 Diabetes Distress Assessment System (C-T2-DDAS).
The C-T2-DDAS is a reliable and culturally appropriate tool for assessing diabetes-related distress in Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes, demonstrating good internal consistency, strong content validity, and confirmed eight-factor structure.
Short-Term Longitudinal Associations Between Critical Consciousness and Well-Being in Black and Latine Adults in Canada.
Complex cross-sectional associations emerged between critical consciousness and socioemotional well-being, and longitudinally, higher critical reflection was associated with greater anxiety symptoms 1-year later among Black and Latine young adults in Canada.
[Suicide, rape and family: trajectories of necropolitics in the lives of LGBTQIA+ youths].
Family violence against LGBTQIA+ individuals operates as a 'microphysics of necropower,' functioning as a predisposing factor for suicidal behavior, including through a newly proposed phenomenon termed 'certification rape.'
Long-term changes in quality of life with LVAD support and after heart transplantation in advanced heart failure.
BTT-LVAD and subsequent heart transplantation markedly improve physical QOL in patients with advanced heart failure, while mental QOL, which is relatively preserved at baseline, remains stable throughout long-term follow-up.
Evaluating the effects of the World Health Organisation's online intervention 'iSupport lite' to reduce burden in multilingual dementia carers: results from the Australian Draw-Care randomised clinical trial.
'Draw-Care' showed no significant effect on carers' burden and mood but did show significant improvements in some carers' quality of life measures.
Social engagement and depressive symptoms in Korean older adults: The potential moderating role of employment status.
All types of social engagement were significantly associated with depressive symptoms among Korean older adults, with employment status serving as an effect modifier such that employed older adults generally showed a lower likelihood of depressive symptoms compared to their unemployed counterparts.
Pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic changes in quality of life among medical trainees: impairment and recovery assessed using the WHOQOL questionnaire.
More favourable QoL trajectories were observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, with pre-pandemic scores consistently lower, marked declines followed by only partial recovery, while the pandemic period was characterized by higher and more stable trajectories, particularly with sustained improvements in the environmental domain and greater stability in psychological and social well-being.
Identifying subgroups with differential levels of service response to a digital screening and service navigation program for unmet social care needs.
Digital screening and navigation interventions may support families with lower psychosocial adversity but are insufficient for families experiencing higher levels of adversity, highlighting the need for tiered approaches to ensure equity.
The Effectiveness of Positive Psychology Intervention (PPI) for Persons Who Use Drugs (PWUDs).
A Positive Psychology Intervention (PPI) program empirically designed based on character strengths and virtues was validated as 'practical, effective, and functionally responsive to the drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation of the PWUDs,' showing significant improvements in mental wellbeing and psychological functioning but not life satisfaction.
Efficacy of a smartphone app to improve mental health among emergency service workers: A randomised controlled trial.
Despite consistent improvement across both app conditions, the minimal between group differences found here highlight the difficulties in developing effective, scalable resources for ESWs and the limitations of unguided digital programs more broadly.
The dynamic relationship between physical activity and psychological well-being in Chinese older adults: a longitudinal cross-lagged panel network analysis.
Physical activity and psychological well-being in older adults constitute a dynamic, bidirectional promoting system, with the path of influence evolving in stages from social support to personal growth.
Association between sleep quality and psychological wellbeing in 175 elite adult athletes: a cross-sectional study.
Sleep disturbance in elite athletes is closely associated with psychological fatigue and overall mood disturbance, with fatigue as the core predictor, and significant gender differences exist such that the mood-sleep association is stronger in female athletes.
Clinical Summaries of Social Media Timelines for Mental Health Monitoring: Human Versus Large Language Model Comparative Evaluation Study.
Medium-size LLMs can generate largely accurate and informative clinical summaries of social media timelines, but at the time of this writing they underperform human clinicians in capturing subtle psychological nuances and individual idiosyncrasies.
A randomised controlled feasibility study of the Carers-ID intervention to support the mental health of family carers of people with intellectual disabilities.
Despite retention challenges, results suggest feasibility in delivering the Carers-ID online intervention to family carers of people with intellectual disabilities, with a statistically significant between-group difference observed for resilience at two weeks post-baseline.
Examining the Effectiveness of Breathwork to Improve Resilience and Psychological Wellbeing While Reducing Anxiety, Depression, Stress, and Insomnia in Paramedicine Students: A Single-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial.
The A52 Breath Method significantly reduced reported symptoms of psychological distress and enhanced resilience in student paramedics, even during exam stress, with medium to large effect sizes.
Traditional Chinese Medicine based intervention for reducing sedentariness and improving psychological well-being in office workers: a feasibility randomized controlled trial.
A TCM-based sedentariness reduction intervention demonstrated feasibility, high acceptability, and preliminary efficacy in reducing sedentary behaviors of office workers, with all feasibility criteria fulfilled and a medium effect size reduction in sitting time.
Personalized Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Midtreatment Stepped Care to Improve Mental Health Among University Students in Sweden: Feasibility Study for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
This pioneering study of personalized ICBT with adaptive change among university students demonstrated the overall feasibility of the treatment, though modifications are necessary to mitigate assessment attrition and reduce treatment-related stress.
Impact of the Population Medicine Multimorbidity Intervention in Xishui County (POPMIX) on People at High Risk for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Who Experience Mental Health Symptoms: Protocol for the POPMIX-MH Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.
This paper describes the protocol for a 12-month, 2-arm cluster randomized controlled trial (POPMIX-MH) evaluating an integrated, population medicine-based multimorbidity intervention package among high-COPD-risk individuals with mental health symptoms in Xishui County, Guizhou Province, China.
Comparison of the 24-Style Tai Chi intervention based on various promotion approaches on college students' mental health: A randomized controlled trial.
24-Style Tai Chi effectively improves college students' mental health, with on-site and mixed approaches excelling in reducing anxiety and depression, and online and mixed approaches enhancing self-efficacy, suggesting a hybrid promotion strategy is optimal.
A Comparison of Participant Demographics Across Co-Designed Recruitment Methods to Two Student Mental Health Trials: Cross-Sectional Observational Study.
Social media recruitment for student mental health trials attracted younger, more gender-diverse, more LGBTQIA+, and more disabled participants compared to other recruitment methods, but did not differ in ethnicity.
A multi-component family intervention to lower depression and address intimate partner violence (MILAP) among young married women in Nepal: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
This paper presents a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating a Multi-component family Intervention to Lower depression and Address intimate Partner violence (MILAP) among young married women in Nepal, enrolling 300 family triads comprising a young married woman, her husband, and her mother-in-law.
The dynamic effects of a resilience-based intervention on mental health from baseline to 6-month follow-up among children affected by HIV: A network approach.
Using network analysis, this study demonstrates that a resilience-based intervention (ChildCARE) shifted the primary driver of mental health from depressive symptoms at baseline to self-esteem as the key upstream predictor post-intervention among children affected by HIV.
Interventions for Students' Well-Being at the University of Helsinki (INSIGHT): Protocol and Preliminary Descriptive Results for a Quasi-Experimental Controlled Trial of a Social Identity Intervention and Two Active Comparators.
This paper presents the protocol and preliminary descriptive findings for a quasi-experimental controlled trial (INSIGHT) investigating a social-identity group intervention called Groups 4 Health (G4H) for university students' well-being, with first results expected in 2026.
Educating during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Educator Perspective on Mental Health.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, educators reported widespread impacts across psychological, physical, social, and occupational health domains, with key systemic findings including lack of decision-making agency, increased stress and isolation, and feeling their concerns were not heard by administration.
Beyond infection: A mixed methods exploration of university students' perceived health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic had mainly negative impacts on German university students' mental and physical health, with increased psychological burden connected to helplessness, hopelessness, paralysis, and uncertainty, while correlational analyses showed relationships between perceived negative pandemic impacts and reduced life satisfaction.
Long-term enhancement mechanisms of peer support on college students' mental health: testing a chain mediation model based on three-year longitudinal tracking.
Peer support had a significant positive predictive effect on college students' mental health (total effect β = 0.33), operating through a chain mediation mechanism of self-efficacy and social adaptation that accounted for 63.6% of the total effect, with longitudinal and cross-lagged analyses confirming causal priority and cumulative enhancement characteristics over three years.
A nationally representative survey of the impact of discrimination towards people with mental health problems: SANE's 2025 National Stigma Report Card.
Discrimination in social life, family, and friendships was most common among Australians with mental health problems, but the highest burden was from discrimination in finding or keeping a job, in dating/intimate relationships, in housing, and in obtaining welfare benefits or disability pensions.
'It is a lifeline': International cross-sectional survey of benefits, barriers and acceptability of online yoga during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Both quantitative and qualitative data indicated that the benefits of online yoga outweighed its barriers, with small but significant associations between yoga practice and mental health, and participants reporting low levels of stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms compared to general population norms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Misi Yehewin (big breath): a cross-sectional survey series of Métis health and wellbeing during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Canada.
Despite fewer reports of worsening overall health in later pandemic phases, Métis people in Alberta showed persistently high rates of depressive symptoms (41%), anxiety (47%), high perceived stress (68%), and widespread food insecurity across all three survey waves.
The Effect of Revascularization versus Amputations on Patient Mental Health in the Early Postoperative Period: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study.
Amputation negatively affects the patient's mental and psychological health as compared to revascularization, with significantly higher postoperative depression and anxiety scores in the major lower limb amputation group.
Utilizing short experiential teaching methods for school mental health awareness among adolescents from Rural India - A Quasi experimental pilot study.
Brief experiential modules are feasible and superior to didactic methods for reducing stigma among rural adolescent girls, with significant attitudinal improvements observed exclusively in girls receiving experiential teaching.
The impact of regional environmental governance efficiency on residents' life satisfaction-an empirical analysis of panel data from 21 cities in Guangdong Province, China (2001-2023).
Efficient environmental governance in Guangdong Province significantly enhances residents' life satisfaction by improving living conditions and supporting mental wellbeing, offering a replicable model for sustainable development in rapidly growing economies.
No Thesis, No Future! Exploring the associations between research inaccessibility and suicidal ideation.
Mental health challenges and academic exclusion—particularly non-thesis status and inadequate supervisory or institutional support—are key contributors to suicidal ideation among university students in Bangladesh.
Antecedents of loneliness among cancer survivors: An exploratory analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data.
Social isolation was a strong predictor of mental health among cancer survivors, with key antecedents including cancer information access, inability of self-care, time since diagnosis, negative life perception, and perception of care quality, and several pathways varied significantly between rural and urban settings.
Job insecurity and psychological wellbeing among junior doctors in Malaysia: A national cross-sectional study.
Contract employment among junior doctors in Malaysia is associated with poorer mental health, reduced job satisfaction, and diminished career confidence despite similar professional aspirations, suggesting current employment practices may threaten healthcare workforce sustainability.
Which factors mediate the effect of childhood socioeconomic disadvantage on mental health in young adulthood? A protocol for a target trial emulation using linked administrative data from New South Wales, Australia.
This paper presents a protocol for a target trial emulation using linked administrative data from New South Wales, Australia (1990-2022) to examine how multiple mediating pathways explain the relationship between childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and acute mental health admissions and presentations in young adulthood.
Mediation role of artificial intelligence exposure in adverse childhood experiences: related mental health risks among college students.
Artificial intelligence usage mediates the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and mental health outcomes including loneliness, stress, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and depressive symptoms among college students, though the mediating effect proportions are small (2.6–5.4%).
'It's never one size fits all': a qualitative exploration of vision-impaired patients' preferences for mental health support.
Mental health support for vision-impaired patients needs to be tailored to unique individual needs, with clear information, practical advice, and ongoing peer and professional support forming a stepped care approach being most helpful.
Effectiveness of a Participatory Voice Intervention on Psychological Well-Being Among Warehouse Workers: Results From the Fulfillment Center Intervention Study, United States, 2021‒2023.
A participatory worker voice intervention (Health and Well-Being Committee) reduced psychological distress at 6-month follow-up among warehouse fulfillment center workers, with effects particularly pronounced among men, though differences were not significant at 12-month follow-up.