Mental Health
475 peer-reviewed studies indexed
Lessons learned from lockdown: how the COVID-19 pandemic revealed intersecting inequalities of mental health, well-being, and learning for first-year UK university students.
Longitudinal qualitative interviews with vulnerable first-year UK university students revealed that intersecting inequalities of low income and prior poor mental health shaped experiences of barely surviving, isolation, and spiralling poor well-being during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic.
A network analysis of the associations between COVID-19-related variables and health across sex, age and educational levels among Ghanaian youths.
COVID-19-related stress was a pivotal determinant of psychological well-being among Ghanaian youths, with network structures varying across sex, age, and educational levels, highlighting the importance of tailored health interventions.
What Crisis? Competing Narratives of Mental Health in US Higher Education.
Rather than accepting or rejecting the crisis framing wholesale, mental health professionals working with college students articulated five distinct and often competing ways of understanding what is happening in college mental health, each rendering certain aspects visible while obscuring others and implying fundamentally different interventions.
Associations Among Cyberbullying Victimization, Inhibitory Control, Neural Activation of Error Processing, and Mental Health Problems in Adolescents: Neuroimaging, Retrospective Longitudinal Cohort Study Using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Data.
Cyberbullying victimization is longitudinally associated with greater externalizing problems and altered neural activation during error processing in adolescents, though these neural alterations did not significantly mediate the relationship between victimization and externalizing problems.
Reliable Multi-Class Mental Health Prediction Using a WiSARD Discriminator Model on Imbalanced Data.
WiSARD achieved the best overall performance with an accuracy of 98.27%, F-measure of 0.983, MCC of 0.982, and KS of 0.981, outperforming all baseline models for multi-class mental disorder prediction on imbalanced data.
The relationship of physical activity on mental health among Chinese university students: a chain mediation model of sports lifestyle and phubbing.
Physical activity was significantly associated with better mental health among Chinese university students, with sports lifestyle and phubbing acting as independent and sequential mediators accounting for 56.07% of the total effect.
Shorter, faster, but still accurate: using ant colony optimisation to develop and validate the Athlete Mental Health Screener-18 (AMHS-18) as a brief alternative to Sport Mental Health Assessment Tool 1 (SMHAT-1).
The AMHS-18, developed using ant colony optimisation from SMHAT-1 items, achieved 80% accuracy, 94% sensitivity, and 72% specificity in independent validation, overperforming SMHAT-1 triage on all performance indicators as a brief alternative for athlete mental health screening.
Factors associated with extensions and withdrawals from stricto sensu graduate programs in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic: emphasis on mental health.
Extensions and withdrawals from Brazilian stricto sensu graduate programs during COVID-19 are related to academic, personal, and health factors, highlighting the need for institutional policies that promote comprehensive support with special attention to mental health and retention.
Role of adult attachment and spiritual attachment on meaning in life among religious minorities in Thailand: Insights for mental health promotion.
Attachment to God fully mediated the negative relationship between insecure human attachment and the presence of meaning in life among Thai Protestant Christians, serving as a central psychological resource that offsets meaning deficits associated with insecure human attachment.
"I Want to Live: A Qualitative Investigation of Barriers and Facilitators to ART Adherence & Mental Health Maintenance in People With HIV".
Health systems were not equipped to accommodate the unique needs of people with HIV who needed mental health treatment, complex mental health challenges intersected with other barriers, and a stable home base and community were critical to health but difficult to maintain.
Promoting mental health among at-risk adolescents in Malaysia (MyHeRo): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a school-based intervention compared with study skills condition for adolescents identified as at risk for anxiety and depression.
This paper describes a protocol for a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the 'Super Skills for Life' school-based intervention compared to a study skills control condition for reducing anxiety and depression in at-risk adolescents aged 12-14 years from low-income communities in Malaysia.
Early versus late entry into parenthood and mental health outcomes in Norway: A Bayesian longitudinal analysis of life satisfaction and depressive tendencies by gender and SES.
Early parenthood (age 23-30) was associated with higher life satisfaction at age 40 for both genders and lower depressive tendencies in midlife among females, with parenthood overall linked to improved adult mental health in a Nordic context.
Social support profiles, mental health, and future orientation in military trainees: implications for clinical social work and health care practice.
Latent class analysis identified five social support profiles among military trainees, with trainees in the low-support profile reporting elevated depressive symptoms and weakened future orientation, indicating a clinically significant risk group.
Associations of total daily working hours encompassing unpaid care and domestic work with nonrestorative sleep and mental health in middle-aged Japanese men and women: A cross-sectional study.
Total daily working hours encompassing unpaid care and domestic work had higher predictive value for nonrestorative sleep and poor mental health than income-generating work hours alone, particularly in women.
Exploring the mediating role of social environment in the relationship between built environment and mental health of older adults-evidence from Guangzhou, China.
Social capital and community safety play significant mediating roles between the built environment and the mental health of older adults, with significant differences in these pathways across older adults with varying income levels.
Unpacking the link between adverse childhood experiences and mental health disparities among Chinese men who have sex with men: The mediating role of filial piety and internalized homophobia.
ACEs significantly predicted depressive symptoms among Chinese MSM, with filial piety dimensions (compassionate reverence and pragmatic obligations) and internalized homophobia serving as serial mediators in culturally distinct pathways.
Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Positive Mental Health During Times of COVID-19 and War in Ukraine: A Four-Wave Longitudinal Study in Lithuania and Germany.
While average mental health showed no change across four waves spanning pre-pandemic to wartime, latent class analysis revealed two distinct trajectories: a low-symptom group (76.4%) with improving symptoms and a high-symptom group (23.6%) with substantially worsening depression, anxiety, stress, and positive mental health.
Emergency medical personnel perspectives on value and use of tailored discussion forum for mental health support. A qualitative longitudinal study.
Emergency medical personnel using the anonymous online discussion forum RUPERT expressed that shared experiences, mutual understanding, and social connection were central to its perceived value, while barriers to participation and usability remained key challenges in supporting mental health online.
The mechanism of physical exercise and adolescent short-form video app addiction: the chain mediating role of autonomous motivation and mental health literacy.
Physical exercise is negatively associated with adolescent short-form video app addiction, with autonomous motivation and mental health literacy serving as independent and chain mediators in this relationship.
Are all risks equal? Understanding the differential mechanism linking early environmental risk and obesity via the interplay of mental health and lifestyle factors.
Early environmental risk was significantly associated with later mental health problems, lifestyle factors, and obesity, with higher EER modestly associated with higher obesity risk via the interplay of externalising problems and drinking.
Supporting minority youths' mental health during COVID-19: the role of neighborhood composition.
Ethnic minority youths living in areas with lower levels of ethnic residential segregation, characterized by greater co-ethnic density, had better mental health outcomes over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but this protective relationship dissipated during the height of the pandemic in 2020.
Research protocol for BootStRaP assessment phase: A nine-nation study on boosting societal adaptation and mental health in a rapidly digitalising, post-pandemic Europe.
BootStRaP is a five-year multinational research programme prospectively monitoring over 2500 schoolchildren aged 12-16 years across nine European countries over a 6-month period to determine risk factors associated with problematic usage of the internet (PUI) and its health economic impact, and to design and test preventative self-management interventions.
Perceived microaggressions and migrant health in Germany: the role of psychological capital.
Perceived microaggressions were linked to poorer mental and physical health among migrants in Germany, partly through reduced psychological capital, which mediated but did not consistently buffer the health impacts of microaggressions.
Strengthening Nonspecialist Health Care Providers' Capacity to Address Mental Health in the Context of Domestic Violence in Nepal: Pre-Post Mixed Methods Training Evaluation.
Structured mental health training significantly improved both knowledge and attitudes among nonspecialist HCPs in public health facilities in Madhesh Province, with participants also reporting increased confidence in addressing common mental health concerns.
Learning together to promote mental health and well-being in English secondary schools: LTMH study refinement and feasibility evaluation, a comprehensive synopsis.
With some minor amendments, Learning Together for Mental Health met all pre-defined criteria for progression to a Phase III trial of effectiveness, demonstrating feasibility and acceptability across four secondary schools in southern England.
Sexuality and sexual boundary violations in healthcare organisations: a qualitative focus group study in mental health and disability care in the Netherlands.
Situations regarding sexuality and sexual boundary violations in healthcare are 'varied and complex' and 'unfold at different levels of interaction within the organisation,' requiring reflection and dialogue among clients, professionals, and managers to develop practical approaches.
Young People's Satisfaction With and Perceived Impact of a Multichannel Mental Health Helpline During and After COVID-19 Pandemic: Mixed Methods Analysis of Cross-Sectional Survey Data.
Young people's satisfaction with and perceived impact of a multichannel mental health helpline varied by pandemic period and communication channel, with qualitative analysis revealing themes of 'feeling heard' and 'being empowered' alongside areas for service improvement.
The relationship between family physical activity environment and mental health in high school students: the chain mediating role of parent-child relationship and exercise behavior.
The family PA environment was significantly and positively associated with mental health, with parent-child relationship and exercise behaviour each independently mediating this association, and a significant chain-mediating effect indicating that a supportive family PA environment improved relationship quality, which in turn promoted exercise behaviour and subsequently better mental health.
Association Among Self-Compassion, Resilience, Positive Mental Health and Risk of Gaming Disorder in 18-30 Year Old Population in China and Thailand: A Cross-Regional Study.
Self-compassion and positive mental health were negatively associated with gaming disorder risk in young adults, suggesting they could be protective mechanisms against gaming disorder, while resilience was not significantly associated.
Gender specific mental health among adolescents in Northern Italy: a cross-sectional study.
Gender-specific mental health problems in adolescents are still high post-pandemically, with about 40% of females and 27% of males screening positively for at least one mental health problem in 2025, and school stress, crises-related stress, and problematic Internet use being the most important non-gender-dependent associated factors.
Deterioration in mental health: towards a conceptualization based on patients' perspectives.
Mental health deterioration is a multifaceted concept that includes, but is not limited to symptomatic increases, and patients' overall life functioning and the fact that patients may choose to hide their symptoms must also be taken into account.
In the Shadow of Digital Burnout: A Qualitative Study on Academic Nurses' Perspectives on Digital Fatigue and Mental Health.
Digital fatigue among academic nurses negatively impacts mental health across physical, mental, cognitive, and social dimensions, with some nurse academics having difficulty coping with this fatigue in increasingly digitalized work environments.
Swedish private-sector employees' experiences of promoting and hindering factors for working while having mental health problems: A qualitative study.
Promoting and hindering factors for working while having mental health problems occur at multiple levels, with fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment, having an active and present manager, reasonable production goals, and leisure-time physical activity identified as key promoting factors, while employees who perceive symptom causes as related to private life tend not to seek workplace help despite impact on work.
The association between loneliness and quality of life in cancer survivors: All of Us research program.
Lonely cancer survivors were more likely to have fair/poor overall quality of life, severe pain, severe fatigue, and fair/poor physical and mental health compared to non-lonely cancer survivors, with the magnitude of associations varying between certain subpopulations.
A qualitative study assessing the acceptability of a multi-agent AI Chatbot for providing HIV and mental health support among men who have sex with men and transgender women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
A multi-agent AI chatbot designed to simulate supportive counselling was generally acceptable among MSM and transgender women in KwaZulu-Natal, with participants valuing its privacy, convenience and human-like interaction, though barriers included slow response times, limited rapport and repetitive messaging.
[Stressed Systems - A Qualitative Descriptive Study of the Resilience of Québec's Health-Care Network to Heat Waves and Associated Mental Health Impacts].
Health organizations must mobilize and develop, in collaboration with their partners, transformative actions to prevent the impacts of heatwaves on mental health and to respond to the needs they generate.
The Pathways and Efficacy of Horticultural Therapy in Promoting College Students' Mental Health: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-methods Study.
Horticultural therapy effectively enhances college students' life satisfaction, sense of life meaning, and affect balance, improving mental health through a multi-layered psychological pathway (Environment → Cognition → Emotion → Behavior).
'Digital Insight and Agency Scale' (DIAS): A Novel Tool to Illuminate Young People's Agency in Mitigating the Negative Impact of Digital Activities on Their Mental Health.
Most young people displayed agency in managing their digital activity, suggesting that this could be leveraged in interventions, rather than focusing solely on reducing access and time spent online.
Optimization of academic performance and mental health in college students through an AI-driven personalized physical exercise and mindfulness intervention system.
An AI-driven personalized system integrating physical exercise and mindfulness was associated with larger improvements in academic performance, psychological parameters, and physiological indicators among Chinese university students compared to standardized interventions and controls over 16 weeks.
Exploring how parental mental health and rearing styles relate to children's mental health: a cross-sectional study among migrant and local primary school students in China.
Maternal anxiety was significantly associated with children's self-blaming and sensitivity tendencies, with parental rearing styles (particularly overprotection and emotional warmth) acting as mediators, and these mediation effects were stronger among urban children than migrant children.
Centering transgender and gender nonconforming people of color in the study of minority stress, transition-related factors, and mental health.
Intersectional distal stressors were both directly and indirectly (through proximal stressors) related to anxiety and depression in TGNC people of color, and were indirectly related to reduced gender congruence through internalized proximal stressors, highlighting the importance of culturally humble, accessible services and policies that reduce barriers.
Predictors of Loneliness, Mental Wellbeing, and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Switzerland.
Increased general anxiety since the pandemic's onset was the strongest predictor across outcomes of loneliness, reduced mental wellbeing, and elevated stress in Switzerland, with pandemic-related burden reflecting an interplay of anxiety, relationship strain, and economic adversity.
Research on Eating and Adolescent Lifestyle (REAL) 2.0: 15-year follow-up study of eating disorders and weight-related trajectories, mental health and substance use health from early adolescence to early adulthood-a Canadian cohort profile.
The REAL 2.0 study describes a 15-year follow-up Canadian cohort of 278 participants originally surveyed as adolescents, finding high rates of eating disorders, disordered eating, anxiety, depression, and substance use in early adulthood.
Prevalence, Associations and Comorbidity of Cannabis Use and Cannabis Use Disorders in the Australian National Mental Health Surveys From 2007 to 2020-22.
Population-level cannabis use and cannabis use disorder prevalence remained stable in Australia from 2007 to 2020-22, but young people (16-25 years) showed a stronger association with cannabis use disorder in 2020-22 compared to 2007.
Option better than action? Autonomy over remote work, technostress, and mental health disparities in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The option for remote work, even when unused, related to better mental health outcomes, while technostress predicted mental health problems with an even stronger association for remote workers in terms of anxiety, and sex disparities in mental health appeared to be driven by factors other than remote work conditions or childcare.
'Sometimes sheep need a vet': A qualitative study of Pentecostal clergy knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours regarding mental health.
PAOC ministers hold nuanced, multifactorial views on mental health including both biomedical and spiritual attributions, typically offer spiritual care themselves while also making referrals to mental health professionals, but largely report a lack of formal mental health training and inconsistent support from the wider church.
Positive mental health among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: Findings from three cycles of the Survey on COVID-19 and Mental Health.
Despite some indication of recovery in the well-being of adults in Canada in the late stage of the pandemic, there remains room for improvement, especially among certain sociodemographic groups such as younger adults.
Sauna culture improves physical and mental wellbeing in the UK through social connection and ritual.
Across three studies (N=1,907), sauna culture in the UK improved physical and mental wellbeing through social identity, ritual perception, and emotional synchrony, suggesting that social and ritual aspects of sauna use contribute to its wellbeing effects.
A livelihood intervention improved nutritional, mental health and sexual health outcomes among HIV-affected adolescents in western Kenya: results from the Shamba Maisha randomised controlled trial.
An agricultural livelihood intervention among adults living with HIV improved food insecurity, mental health, and intimate partner violence outcomes among adolescent girls and young women in their households.
Dyadic association between support persons' attitudes towards medication for opioid use disorder and patients' mental health outcomes.
Support persons' stigmatizing attitudes towards buprenorphine were significantly associated with patients' depressive and anxiety symptoms at 3-month follow-up, such that patients whose support person reported increased stigma had the highest estimated probability of clinically significant mental health symptoms.