Mental Health
475 peer-reviewed studies indexed
Study on the influencing factors of college students' healthy lifestyles based on the capability, opportunity, motivation-behavior model.
Social responsibility emerged as the strongest predictor of healthy lifestyles among college students and partially mediated the relationships of both eHealth literacy and social support with healthy lifestyles, while major, mental health status, and sense of hope moderated key pathways in the COM-B framework.
Prevalence and predictors of PTSD and low resilience symptoms among subscribers of the MoreGoodDays supportive text messaging program: A cross-sectional study.
Probable PTSD and low resilience are prevalent among MoreGoodDays subscribers, particularly among youth with high ACE scores and those seeking mental health counseling, highlighting the need for targeted mental health promotion strategies.
Perceived green and blue space, perceived biodiversity, and depression: Empirical evidence from China based on cultural ecosystem services.
Both perceived green and blue space were significantly associated with lower levels of depression, with perceived biodiversity fully mediating the relationship between perceived green space quantity and depression and partially mediating the effect of perceived blue space quality.
Effect of noise and green space exposure on depression, anxiety and stress among the Lebanese population.
Higher green space exposure was significantly associated with lower levels of depression, anxiety, and stress, while greater noise exposure was significantly associated with higher scores across all three mental health domains in the Lebanese population.
Projecting and valuing climate change impacts on anxiety and depression in the contiguous USA: a damage function approach.
Warming of 1–6°C would result in 401 million to 1.8 billion and 329 million to 1.4 billion excess annual self-reported anxiety and depression symptom-days in adults, respectively, representing a 5–23% increase from baseline, with corresponding annual economic values of US$13–57 billion and US$11–47 billion.
Exposure to climate-related stressors undermines mental health in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: a cross-sectional study.
Individuals in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq exposed to climate-related stressors such as extreme weather events and climate-induced homelessness presented significantly poorer mental health outcomes compared to those without such exposure.
Lost in the Digital World: The Effects of Internet Addiction and Internet Gaming Disorder on Sleep and Mental Well-being of Medical Students in the Konkan Region of India.
Internet addiction and internet gaming disorder were prevalent among medical undergraduates and showed strong, statistically significant associations with insomnia and depression, with year of study and hostel stay also significantly associated with these conditions.
A cross-sectional study on the mental health of healthcare workers treating COVID-19 positive patients in Gauteng, South Africa.
A considerable proportion of healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients in Gauteng, South Africa reported symptoms of depression, anxiety, and insomnia, with only half indicating the presence of workplace psycho-social support structures, and no significant differences found between public and private sector workers in mental health symptom prevalence.
The influence of housing, education and employment trajectories on mental health and behavioral outcomes for youth receiving child welfare and community services.
Helping youth who receive child welfare and community services transition into and maintain stable housing may lead to improvements in access to resilience-enabling resources that support positive development and prosocial behavioral outcomes, while transitioning to unstable housing is predictive of increased substance use and decreased positive future orientation.
The MindSKILLZ sport-based mental health promotion intervention for adolescents in Kenya: a mixed methods pilot study.
MindSKILLZ, a sport-based mental health promotion intervention delivered by near-peer mentors to adolescents in Kenya, showed positive trends across all quantitative mental health outcomes and was highly acceptable, though results were not statistically significant.
The impact of the three-level digital divide on the mental health of rural residents: A study from China.
The three-level digital divide (access, use, and utility) directly reduces mental health levels among rural Chinese residents through distinct mechanisms involving self-assessed fairness, social class, and economic status.
Financial decision-making power and mental well-being in older adults: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study in China.
Financial decision-making power is a significant and potentially modifiable factor associated with mental health among older adults, with effects partially mediated through ADL and leisure engagement, and a graded dose-response relationship observed across all five mental health outcomes.
Health economics analysis of restrictive school smartphone policies in secondary schools in England (SMART Schools).
Restrictive school smartphone policies were associated with minimal differences in quality of life or mental well-being of pupils, but may offer some cost savings to schools by reducing staff time spent managing phone-related activities.
[Real-time experiences, physical activity, and biological outcomes in the personal recovery of patients in mental health supported accommodations: a non-randomized multicenter clinical trial.].
EMPOWER-RES is a non-randomized multicenter clinical trial designed to assess the effectiveness of personal recovery-oriented treatment compared with standard treatment in enhancing functioning of patients with severe mental disorders in supported accommodations, integrating biological markers and digital technologies.
Youth Aware of Mental Health for Danish School Adolescents: Study Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Feasibility Pilot Trial.
This paper describes the study protocol for a two-armed cluster-randomized feasibility pilot trial investigating the feasibility, acceptability, and fidelity of delivering the Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM) program in Danish public schools to 8-9th-grade students.
The effect of smombie and phubbing levels on psychological well-being in adolescents.
Smombie and phubbing behaviors in adolescents are negatively associated with psychological well-being, with phubbing being a stronger predictor than smombie behavior.
Post traumatic stress disorder, Depression, and Post-migration stress behavioral pattern among Arabic immigrants and refugee populations: a review.
This review finds high prevalence rates of PTSD (11.4% to 83.4%) and depression (14.5% to 60%) among Arabic-speaking immigrants and refugees, influenced by pre-migration trauma, post-migration living difficulties, and sociodemographic factors, underscoring the need for culturally sensitive mental health interventions.
Supporting mental well-being of healthcare workers using a mobile app: A mixed-methods feasibility study.
This mixed-methods feasibility RCT demonstrates the feasibility of using a self-monitoring mobile app (MYARKEO) to monitor and promote mental well-being among healthcare workers and trainees, with promising engagement but identified challenges highlighting the need for app refinements before a future RCT.
Strengthening Culturally Responsive Mental Health Supports for Crises Preparedness: Lessons From Indigenous Educator's Experiences During COVID-19 Pandemic.
Culturally responsive and technology-enabled approaches are both feasible and meaningful for supporting Indigenous educators' mental health, with 'Two-Eyed Seeing'—integrating Indigenous and Western knowledge—supporting mental well-being, culturally grounded teaching, and community resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Co-developing SHELTER (Safe, Healthy Environments and Local Transformation for Equity and Resilience) with families with lived experience of homelessness in the New York City shelter system: A community needs assessment and data collection protocol.
This paper presents a community-based participatory research protocol co-developed with families with lived experience of homelessness to assess barriers in physical and social environments to optimizing health and wellbeing among children under five living in New York City shelters.
Tools and Resources for Engaging People With Lived and Living Experience and Caregivers in Mental Health and Substance Use Research: Findings From a Survey and Community Consultation Events.
While a wide variety of tools and resources are available to support lived/living experience and caregiver engagement in mental health and substance use research, many people do not have access to tools and resources that they would consider useful, highlighting the need for systematic collection and sharing of engagement resources.
From safety to agency: experiences of self-admission among patients with diverse mental health needs.
A transdiagnostic self-admission model in Region Stockholm fostered safety and autonomy among patients with diverse mental health needs, appearing to effectively promote person-centred care and personal recovery by facilitating coping strategies, crisis plans, and self-management while reducing emergency care needs.
Developing recommendations for promoting wellbeing in individuals with alopecia areata: a modified Delphi study.
Medical professionals, mental health professionals, trichologists and peer support facilitators can each play a role in promoting the psychological well-being of individuals with alopecia areata, with distinct roles and skill sets pointing to the need for a multidisciplinary approach.
From source identification to preferential interventions: Determinants of a workplace mental health promotion program to control workplace stress among health care workers based on a qualitative study.
Workplace stress among healthcare workers has both individual and environmental (mainly organizational) origins, requiring a combined multi-level approach including individual, social, organizational, and educational factors for mental health promotion programs.
Societal consequences of IPS implementation in Norway 2012-2019: study protocol for the IPSRON effectiveness study.
This paper describes the study protocol for IPSRON, a naturalistic effectiveness study using Norwegian registry data to assess the societal and economic consequences of IPS (Individual Placement and Support) implementation across Norway between 2012 and 2019.
Mental well-being among Syrian refugee workers in Lebanon: a multidimensional approach.
Work injuries, lack of access to health information, and high work demands increase the odds of poor mental well-being among Syrian refugee agricultural workers in Lebanon, while social support offers protection.
Contribution of Emotion Dynamics to Adolescent Psychosocial Well-Being: Protocol for a Longitudinal Study.
This longitudinal study protocol investigates how dynamic patterns in positive and negative affect (mean intensity, variability, instability, inertia, and reactivity to stress) relate to and predict change in adolescent psychosocial well-being across mental health, social well-being, and academic motivation domains using a 35-day daily diary procedure followed by assessments at 6, 12, and 18 months.
Exploring psychiatrists' perspectives on supporting parents with mental health Challenges: A mixed-methods study.
Although psychiatrists acknowledge their patients' parenting role, most are reluctant to provide further support, with key barriers including the individual-focused nature of psychiatric care, stigma, consent issues, and limited collaboration between adult and child services.
DEPRESS: Dataset on Emotions, Performance, Responses, Environment, and Satisfaction during COVID-19.
This study collected longitudinal multimodal data from 184 undergraduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from June 2020 to June 2021 to comprehensively assess the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on college students' mental health, online learning, and potential influencing variables.
Co-Designed Mental Health Screening App (Here for You) for University Students: Pilot Feasibility Mixed Methods Study.
The Here for You mental health screening app, co-designed with Indian university students, demonstrated feasibility and user acceptability with strong concurrent validity between app-based DASS-21 scores and clinician-administered scales (r=0.819 to r=0.972), offering a culturally resonant and scalable model for digital mental health screening in low-resource settings.
The mediating effect of cyber victimization and cyberbullying on the relationship between social media addiction and emotional and psychological well-being in adolescents.
Social media addiction negatively affects adolescents' emotional and psychological well-being both directly and indirectly through cyber victimization and cyberbullying as significant independent and sequential mediators.
Prolonged Effects on Frontline Caregivers: Occupational Stress and Mental Well-Being in Transformed Healthcare Environments Post-COVID-19.
Nursing technicians in Brazilian SUS emergency units showed heterogeneous general quality of life but pervasive anxiety reflecting a sustained psychological burden in the post-COVID-19 era, with psychological distress strongly negatively correlated with overall QoL and depression in the social domain.
Psychosocial impacts of a mouse plague and ongoing psychological stress.
A partially mediated path model accounted for 74% of variability in perceived severity of impacts and ongoing psychological stress following the 2021 Australian mouse plague, with severity predominantly influenced by perceived response costs, depression, and disgust elicited by the odour of mice.
Lifestyle consequences for rescue workers in public health emergencies: a cross-sectional study from china.
Public health emergencies trigger unhealthy lifestyle shifts and significant mental health deterioration among rescue workers, with restrictive environments amplifying these risks.
Implementation of a Participatory Ergonomics Intervention to Reduce Musculoskeletal and Stress-Related Mental Health Risks in Australian Retail Workers: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
This paper describes the protocol for a cluster quasi-randomized controlled trial evaluating the implementation of the APHIRM participatory ergonomics toolkit versus usual risk management practice in the online order fulfillment departments of a large Australian retail organization, with primary outcomes of physical and psychosocial hazard severity scores.
A Community Intervention to Increase Positive Parenting: A Three-Year Cohort Study in South Africa.
A community-wide parenting intervention in South Africa found that positive parenting did not increase across the whole community, though parenting stress declined and children's mental health improved by year three, possibly through increased parent employment rather than the intervention itself.
[Mental health of mothers of children with cancer treated in Pediatric Oncology at the mother and child hospital in Ivory Coast].
Management of pediatric cancer significantly impacts maternal mental health and family dynamics in Ivory Coast, with high levels of stress manifesting as moderate to severe anxiety in 73.3% and severe depression scores in 36.7% of mothers, highlighting the need for holistic support integrating psychological, familial, and socioeconomic care.
Juror decision making: Does juror stigma, mental health literacy, or the description of a defendant's mental health status, impact decision-making in a mock criminal trial?
Mental health information, stigma, and mental health literacy were all important predictors of guilt in a mock criminal trial, with the addition of a paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis associated with a reduction in guilt ratings even after controlling for all other factors.
Elucidating the role of unemployment in complex social inequalities in mental health: An intersectional mediation analysis of the cross-sectional Spanish National Health Surveys.
Complex mental health inequalities seem to be underpinned by the dual processes of higher risks and worse consequences of unemployment, with unemployment completely mediating mental health inequalities in strata of men with manual occupations but only partially in strata of women.
Promoting mental health in nursing students during clinical training: a phenomenological analysis of a psychoeducational intervention.
A psychoeducational programme for nursing students during clinical training provided spaces for reflection and emotional support, contributing to a healthier clinical experience and promoting mental health.
Modelling the effect of motivation on mental health components with fuzzy logic among elite athletes.
A Mamdani-type Fuzzy Inference System modelling intrinsic motivation, psychological safety, and mental well-being among 247 elite athletes demonstrated superior predictive accuracy over standard linear regression, revealing a primary risk gradient when all three inputs are low, buffering effects as protective factors increase, and a low-risk 'basin' when psychological safety and mental well-being are jointly high.
What factors shape the effectiveness of a leader-focused mental health training?
Leaders' learning goal orientation predicted increases in MH-related self-efficacy following Mental Health Awareness Training, and this relationship was positively moderated by organizational climate of MH openness, but neither learning goal orientation nor moderators affected changes in MH-related knowledge.
The Development and Protocol for Testing a Co-Created Digital Intervention (Sentinel) to Improve Mental Well-Being and Help Manage and Prevent Trauma in First Responders.
This paper describes the development and testing protocol for Sentinel, a co-created digital intervention designed to promote mental well-being, build resilience, and help manage and prevent trauma among first responders and frontline workers.
Balancing Work and Personal Life for Frontline Workers Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Three key factors—responsibility, flexibility, and hierarchical culture—were identified as significant influences on work-life balance among frontline workers, with the pandemic accounting for approximately 50% of the variance in balance scores.
Self-perceived quality of life, health, and physical activity among older adults: the roles of marital status and residence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marital status and living arrangements significantly affected the self-perceived health, physical activity, and quality of life of older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, with married/partnered and community-dwelling respondents reporting better outcomes than single/widowed and nursing home residents.
[The continuum of violence in Central America, Mexico, and the United States and the mental health of unaccompanied migrant adolescents: an exploratory study of Mexico municipalities and San Francisco].
Unaccompanied migrant girls, boys, and adolescents from Central America are exposed to a continuum of structural and daily violence at origin, transit, and destination that affects their mental health, yet they also demonstrate capacity for resilience and action.
The impact of the work organization on individuals' psychological well-being.
Transport workers (primarily on-site) showed significantly better psychological well-being than University workers (primarily remote), with work organization, gender, and age identified as significant influencing factors.
Roy adaptation model-based patient education for elderly patients undergoing laparoscopic radical gastrectomy.
RAM-based patient education could effectively increase adaptation levels to the disease, improve mental health, and life satisfaction of elderly patients undergoing laparoscopic radical gastrectomy.
"The pain isn't the hardest challenge… it's the frustration at how much it affects my day-to-day life, my mental health and my ability to train": a qualitative thematic analysis of elite athletes' lived experiences of persisting low back pain.
Elite athletes with persistent low back pain report disruption to identity, self-confidence and perceived worth, with the culture of elite sport magnifying psychosocial determinants of pain and recovery, while agency was fostered through validation, education, and diagnostic labelling.
Mental health promotion strategies for minority older adults in highland areas during disease outbreaks: a qualitative exploration.
Mental health promotion for minority older adults during pandemics requires the active involvement of multiple key agents, and integrated strategies combining self-awareness, leisure and spiritual activities, culturally appropriate interventions, and community engagement can substantially improve emotional resilience and overall well-being.