Mental Health
475 peer-reviewed studies indexed
Digital Phenotyping for Adolescent Mental Health: Feasibility Study Using Machine Learning to Predict Mental Health Risk From Active and Passive Smartphone Data.
This study demonstrates the feasibility and utility of smartphone-based digital phenotyping for predicting mental health risks in nonclinical, school-going adolescents, achieving balanced accuracies of 0.67-0.77 across four mental health outcomes by integrating active and passive data with deep learning.
How Peer Rejection Affects Behavioral Problems Among China Migrant Children: A Moderated Mediation Model of Mental Health and Teacher Support.
Peer rejection positively predicted behavioral problems among China migrant children through the mediating effect of mental health, and teacher support moderated the effect of peer rejection on migrant children's mental health.
Genomic approach to investigate air pollution's causal impact on neurodevelopment and mental health: An extensive-scale 2-sample Mendelian randomization study.
This 2-sample Mendelian randomization study provides evidence supporting potential causal relationships between air pollution exposure and a wide range of neurodevelopmental and mental health outcomes, underscoring the importance of reducing air pollution exposure, particularly among vulnerable populations.
Craving under pressure: the interplay between hedonic hunger, mental health, and ultra-processed food consumption in shift-workers.
Hedonic hunger was associated with ultra-processed food intake in shift-workers both directly (β = 0.112) and indirectly through stress (β = 0.209), with psychological distress and food motivation serving as mediating pathways.
See me and hear me: a Photovoice study of Hispanic adolescents' mental health conceptualization and priorities in the USA.
Hispanic adolescents defined mental health as 'the ability to feel, express, and manage emotions' and identified self-expression, immigrant family dynamics, peer and community support, and mental health stigma as their primary mental health priorities.
Lifetime psychedelic use and opioid use disorder severity in a National Survey: the roles of psychedelic type and mental health.
Psychedelic use patterns showed divergent associations with OUD severity: mescaline/peyote use was linked to lower severity, whereas LSD/psilocybin/MDMA/DMT use was linked to higher severity, with effects differing by mental health impairment.
Crossfire: the emotional cost of Military Police work.
The affective cost of work was considered serious to critical among military police officers in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, with statistically significant associations observed between serious affective cost and medical leave due to bipolar disorder, cognitive changes, age, working time, and sleep.
Examining social camouflaging and its cognitive, mental health and neurophysiological correlates in autistic adolescents through triangulation-based assessment using self, parent and daily diary reports: a study protocol.
This protocol describes a study investigating social camouflaging in autistic adolescents aged 15-18 using triangulated assessment methods including self-report, caregiver-report, 7-day daily diaries, cognitive assessments, EEG, and hair cortisol to examine its mental health, cognitive, and neurophysiological correlates.
Prevalence of childhood polyvictimization, mental health outcomes, and associated risk and protective factors in Ethiopia and Uganda refugee settings.
Childhood polyvictimization is prevalent among refugee populations in Uganda and Ethiopia, with males experiencing higher rates than females, and is significantly associated with higher odds of mental distress, self-harm, and suicidal ideation/attempts in both settings.
Transitions Between Forms of Employment Quality and Associations With Self-Rated Health and Mental Health in the United States, 2008-2022.
Respondents transitioning to or from low-EQ arrangements (e.g., precarious employment or unemployment) reported poor/fair self-rated health and mental health more frequently relative to high-EQ types, and some respondents cycled between precarious employment and unemployment, potentially compounding the effects of employment instability on health.
Protocol for the 'exploration of mental well-being, health-related quality of life, and psychosocial outcomes in youths on dialysis in New Zealand: A cross-sectional methods study'.
This paper describes a protocol for a cross-sectional study of mental well-being, health-related quality of life, and psychosocial outcomes in youths aged 15-24 years on dialysis in Aotearoa New Zealand, using validated psychometric instruments, structural equation modeling, and qualitative content analysis.
The Impact of Work Demands and Meaningful Work on the Burnout and Mental Health Strain of Emergency Medicine Clinicians.
Meaningful work moderated the relationship between work demands and burnout in emergency medicine clinicians, such that the relationship between work demands and burnout was not significant for those reporting average or high meaningful work.
Moderated mediating effects of perceived loneliness and economic burden between social support and mental health for lung cancer patients.
Perceived loneliness partially mediated the relationship between social support and mental health among lung cancer patients, with economic burden moderating the relationship between perceived loneliness and mental health such that intervention strategies should be tailored to patients' economic burden level.
The impact of mining-induced earthquakes on mental health: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank.
Long-term exposure to mining-induced earthquakes, captured by accumulated peak ground acceleration, increases depression and anxiety symptoms, supporting a reassessment of the societal costs of natural gas mining.
Evaluating acceptability of the Inpatient Mental Health Pharmaceutical Assessment and Care Tool (IMPACT): A multi-site study in the United Kingdom.
The IMPACT tool was found to be acceptable by mental health inpatient pharmacy team members, resulting in a refined version, though some pharmacy technicians reported difficulties with clinical criteria outside their usual duties.
Correlation between blood biomarkers and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of depression and mental health scores in individuals with multiple sclerosis (iwMS).
Serum NfL is associated with depression and overall mental health scores in individuals with MS, while sGFAP showed no significant correlation with patient-reported outcome measures.
The hidden cost of specialization: a mixed-methods study on burnout, mental health, and financial ınstability in dental trainees.
Burnout among dental trainees is caused by a combination of mental health problems, lack of support, and stressors in their environment, with a prevalence of 75.4% and key predictors including higher mental health symptoms, lower institutional support, and male gender after controlling for anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Online racism, online mental health engagement, depression, and suicide risk among Asian American and Pacific Islander and Black American emerging adults.
Online mental health engagement was associated with a stronger link between online racism and suicide-related risk for both AAPI and Black emerging adults, with AAPI individuals showing amplified associations across multiple outcomes including suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, NSSI, and depressive symptoms.
Emotion Regulation and Well-Being in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease.
Emotion regulation is a critical factor in well-being outcomes among individuals with congenital heart disease, with maladaptive strategies negatively associated and adaptive strategies positively associated with life satisfaction, mental health, and general health.
Beyond direct-acting antiviral therapy: Characterizing mental health conditions and depressive symptoms among patients recently treated for hepatitis C.
A high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity was observed among a cohort of patients recently treated for HCV, highlighting an opportunity to engage HCV patients in mental health care.
Lived experience perspectives on resilience, mental health, and wellbeing: a focus group study of individual, social, and systemic determinants in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Resilience did not emerge as an individual capacity, but as something grounded in relational networks situated within cultural, spiritual and ecological contexts, suggesting a need for transformational approaches to resilience assessment and intervention that attend to structural determinants as well as individual coping capacity.
The effects of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and ten-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk score on mental health status.
ASCVD and a 10-year ASCVD risk score ≥5% are associated with the development of mental disorders including somatic symptoms, anxiety and insomnia, social dysfunction, and severe depression.
Exploring the influence of COVID-19 stress on mental health among international undergraduate and graduate students: A mixed-methods approach.
COVID-19 stress was significantly associated with anxiety and depression among international students, and education level moderated the relationship between COVID-19 stress and anxiety but not depression, with pandemic-related stressors being multifaceted in nature.
Perceived control as a resilience factor: associations with neural, physiological and affective stress responses and mental health.
Perceived control may act as a resilience factor, with a high-control class demonstrating more flexible cortisol secretion, greater bilateral posterior insula activation during psychosocial stress, less helplessness, fewer psychosomatic symptoms, and a less external locus of control compared to a low-control class.
Overall and sex-specific associations between secondary trauma exposure and health decline post October 7th, 2023: a population-based study.
Secondary trauma exposure was associated with decline in mental health, physical health and health behaviors beyond direct/indirect war-related trauma, with source-specific and sex-specific patterns highlighting the importance of tailored strategies to reduce health consequences of secondary trauma during crises.
Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Among Spanish University Professors: Associations With Lifestyle Habits and Physical and Mental Health Indicators.
Lower mental well-being, greater emotional exhaustion, and more frequent sleep disturbances were significant predictors of stress, anxiety, and depression among Spanish university professors, with additional associations found for gender, age, emotional eating, and vocal symptoms.
Predictors of Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease: The Role of Mental Health and Internalized Stigma.
Poorer quality of life in Parkinson's disease patients was associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms and motor severity, while caregiver burden was associated with depressive symptoms and perceived discrimination (internalized stigma subdomain).
How Do Families Experiencing Adversity Seek Information and Services to Support Their Child's Mental Health? A Qualitative Study.
Caregivers experiencing adversity prioritised feeling understood and non-judged when seeking child mental health support, faced challenges navigating abundant online resources, and expressed need for a practical, non-judgemental digital navigation platform providing evidence-based information and services.
Exploring social and environmental mechanisms as predictors of mental health among young adults with perinatal HIV infection and exposure.
Greater family support and family organization at Time 1 were consistently associated with lower odds of psychiatric disorders, anxiety, and mood disorders at Time 2 among young adults affected by perinatal HIV, highlighting the protective role of family dimensions in reducing mental health challenges.
The relative value of mental health for pandemic response: A discrete choice experiment with stakeholders and the general population in Europe.
Psychological distress accounted for 34% of relative importance in pandemic decision-making compared to 30% for hospital admissions, suggesting similar importance is attached to mental health and COVID-19-related hospitalisation risk, though stakeholders and the general population diverge regarding civil liberties restrictions.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts Before Age 18: Demographic Correlates and Associations with Mental Health Conditions.
SOGICE experiences, particularly before adulthood, were associated with multiple severe mental health conditions in a sample of LGBTQ+ adults, with pre-age-18 SOGICE associated with higher odds of five out of nine mental health conditions in multivariate models.
Research priorities for mental health and circadian science: a priority setting partnership of individuals with lived experience, carers, clinicians and researchers.
A James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership involving individuals with lived experience, carers, clinicians, and researchers identified a ranked list of top 25 research priorities (with a particular focus on the Top 10) for the fields of mental health and circadian rhythms.
The impact of social media addiction on college students' mental health through social support and resilience.
Social media addiction positively predicted mental health issues in Chinese college students, with social support and resilience serving as sequential mediators, and gender moderating the links from social media addiction and social support to mental health issues, with stronger effects in female students.
Determinants of health outcomes of stroke survivors in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
The determinants of health outcomes among stroke survivors in Africa are multifactorial, with clinical risk factors showing a statistically significant pooled association (OR 1.446, 95% CI: 1.202-1.739, P < 0.001), and key determinants including stroke severity, biomarkers, imaging findings, mental health, and quality-of-life domains.
The impact of school absence on mental health in children and young people: Analysis of an English national birth cohort.
School absence above the second quartile doubled the odds of later mental health problems in both primary and secondary school children, supporting 'a strong and potentially causal association between absence from school and later mental health problems.'
Individual level cognitive social capital and subsequent health and well-being among older adults in Japan: An outcome-wide study.
Higher levels of cognitive social capital (trust, reciprocity, and attachment) were consistently associated with better outcomes across all health and well-being domains among older adults in Japan, especially within psychological domains, with observed heterogeneity by gender and educational attainment.
Anxiety and depression among Canadian undergraduates with decreased sound tolerance.
Strong, positive correlations were found between decreased sound tolerance symptoms and mental health difficulties (anxiety and depression) among Canadian undergraduate students.
Effects of negative psychosocial experiences and sociodemographic factors on mental health literacy: A community-based inquiry among Black Canadians.
Negative psychosocial experiences including community attitudes toward mental illness and discrimination, as well as sociodemographic factors including age and multiple income sources, had statistically significant negative associations with mental health literacy among Black Canadians in Ontario.
Online Racism, Digital Mental Health Tools, and Online Mental Health Communication Among Black Young Adults With and Without Depression or Anxiety: Cross-Sectional Quantitative Study.
More frequent exposure to online racism was associated with greater likelihood of using digital mental health tools and greater engagement in online mental health communication among Black young adults, with those with depression or anxiety also showing greater use, though neither condition moderated the relationship.
Placental iron transport under maternal stress: a missing link in foetal programming and mental health.
Gestational environmental stress enhanced placental iron uptake and accumulation but paradoxically reduced iron transfer to the foetus, an effect observed exclusively in females and reproducible in vitro following both stress exposure and dexamethasone treatment.
Pharmacogenomics to optimise psychotropic prescribing: a survey of mental health professionals' perceptions, knowledge, and educational needs.
Mental health professionals showed positive attitudes towards pharmacogenomics testing but lacked confidence, formal training, and knowledge, with only 6% answering all knowledge questions correctly, highlighting the need for tailored education programmes.
Impact of caregivers' psychological well-being on mental health and disease management in children with type 1 diabetes: A cross-sectional study using structural equation modeling.
Caregiving burden predicted parental psychological distress, which in turn influenced children's illness attitudes and psychosocial outcomes, suggesting that supporting caregivers may indirectly improve coping and psychosocial well-being in children with type 1 diabetes.
Bridging Perspectives: Young Activists' Stories and Intergenerational Dialogue on Mental Health and Climate Change in Canada.
Young activists and an intergenerational group of non-activists both expressed concern, anxiety, sadness, and grief about climate change, though activists reported these emotions more frequently while remaining hopeful through collective action, and both groups underscored the disproportionate responsibility placed on young people to address climate change.
Long-term air pollution exposure and mental health in French adults of the CONSTANCES cohort: Role of black carbon independently of PM2.5.
Exposure to ambient air pollution was associated with psychological distress, with black carbon showing a deleterious role independently of PM2.5 and NO2 in a large French adult cohort.
Universal school-based transdiagnostic interventions to improve mental health and wellbeing among Chinese adolescents: a two-group, cluster-randomised controlled trial.
The AMHSP intervention showed lower depressive symptoms (SMD -0.09) and anxiety symptoms (SMD -0.11) relative to control at 3 months, indicating 'a slow but meaningful benefit of the programme and supports the potential of a low-intensity, curriculum-integrated approach to promoting adolescent mental health.'
The association between parental involvement in developmental advance and mental health in Chinese preschoolers: a cross-sectional study.
Balanced parental involvement in developmental advance enhances children's mental health by reducing total difficulties and boosting prosocial behavior, but excessive involvement may have negative effects.
Social support and mental health among university students with hearing impairment: A moderated mediation model.
Social support positively affects mental health among hearing-impaired university students, with adaptation mediating 51.2% of the total effect and disability duration moderating the relationship between social support and adaptation.
Cognitive and Mental Health Differences Across Latent Profiles of Religiosity and Spirituality in Korean Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Alzheimer's Disease.
Latent profile analysis identified distinct religiosity/spirituality patterns among Korean older adults with MCI or Alzheimer's disease that were differentially associated with cognitive function and psychological well-being outcomes.
Mental health problems among secondary school students 10-24 years in Kilimanjaro region, Northern Tanzania.
Mental health problems were highly prevalent (29.2%) among secondary school students aged 10-24 years in Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania, and were associated with older age, female sex, substance use, sexual activity, physical attack, bullying, and missed classes.
Associations between sleep duration and depression, mental health, physical health, and general health in U.S. adults: A population-based study.
Both short (≤5 hours) and long (≥9 hours) sleep durations are significantly associated with increased risk of depression, more days of poor mental and physical health, and worse self-rated general health compared to recommended sleep (6-8 hours) in a nationally representative U.S. adult population.