Mental Health
475 peer-reviewed studies indexed
The impact of running on the mental health of recreational runners.
Results of this research indicate that recreational running has a positive impact on the mental health of recreational runners, with recreational runners scoring significantly higher on self-esteem and significantly lower on all psychiatric symptom domains compared to the general population.
Exploring the health and well-being benefits of reduced working hours with maintained salary: A scoping review and evidence map.
Reducing working hours to around 30-35 per week without pay loss may improve work-life balance, health, and well-being, though gender differences emerged with women often facing increased unpaid work.
[Recurring Floods: The Complex Relationship Between Mental Health and the Difficult Decision to Stay or Leave].
Multiple factors including place attachment, financial situation, flood stress, and adaptation strategies influence flood-affected residents' decisions to stay or leave, with each factor closely linked to mental health and the pursuit of emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
Prospective Associations Between Early Adolescent Problematic Screen Use, Mental Health, Sleep, and Substance Use.
Early adolescent problematic screen use is prospectively associated with poor mental and behavioral health outcomes 1 year later, extending prior cross-sectional findings.
HIV care interruptions, mental health, and the potential for mHealth interventions among adolescents and young adults with HIV in Uganda.
AYWH in Uganda frequently missed clinic appointments regardless of pandemic phase, had high initial mental health symptoms that decreased over 6 months, and had sufficient mobile phone and internet access to support mHealth interventions for HIV care continuity.
Associations between demographic, clinical, and socioeconomic factors and mental health in long COVID: A clinic-based cross-sectional study.
In a clinic-based cohort of 3,611 Long COVID patients, younger age, cognitive issues, and physical/activity impairments were significantly associated with mental health symptoms, with 38% screening positive for anxiety, 35% for depression, and 26% for both conditions.
Life stressors and mental health: Depressive symptoms, anxiety, and suicidal ideation or intent during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Life stressors were significantly associated with depressive symptoms, anxiety, and suicidal ideation or intent, with challenges in paying household bills being the most strongly associated stressor, and these associations were exacerbated after the COVID-19 pandemic compared to during it.
Interpersonal trust as a mediation of the influence of workplace spirituality and organizational justice on mental health.
Workplace spirituality and organizational justice had significant positive effects on teachers' interpersonal trust and mental health, with interpersonal trust mediating these relationships, explaining 56.8% of variance in interpersonal trust and 67.1% of variance in mental health.
Community, family, peer, and personal factors associated with adolescent mental health in Nicaraguan post-crisis context.
Cross-sectional and longitudinal path models of Nicaraguan adolescents found that parental monitoring, parental relationship satisfaction, family expressiveness, and friend support were negatively associated with PTSD and depression, while alcohol use, externalizing behaviors, prosocial peer engagement, and community violence exposure were positively associated with these outcomes, with pre-crisis alcohol use predicting post-crisis PTSD.
Mental health of caregivers for people with dementia and cerebral palsy as a key determinant of caregiver burden: a multivariable analysis.
Caregiver mental health is a key determinant of perceived burden of caring for people with dementia and cerebral palsy, exerting a stronger influence than patient dependence or physical demands.
Mental health of adolescents during times of war.
40.2% of Israeli adolescents scored within the abnormal range for mental health symptoms eight months after the October 7th attack, with executive dysfunction and lower resilience showing the strongest associations with poorer mental health.
Are Positive Mental Health and Social Support Protective Factors in the Development of Suicidal Ideation in Chronic Pain? A Longitudinal Study.
Positive mental health moderated the relationship between entrapment and suicidal ideation cross-sectionally in persons living with chronic pain, but neither positive mental health nor social support predicted change in suicidal ideation over 4 weeks longitudinally.
Mental health help-seeking intentions among health workers in the east coast of peninsular Malaysia: Perceived barriers and predictive factors.
Perceived need for help positively predicted mental health help-seeking intention while perceived stigma barriers negatively predicted it among health workers in East Coast Peninsular Malaysia, with notable barriers including concerns about perceptions of weakness, embarrassment, preference for handling problems independently, and challenges in taking time off work.
Promoting Mental Health, Physical Activity, and Healthy and Sustainable Dietary Behavior Among Practical Education Students in the Netherlands: Protocol for a Multiphase Participatory Research Study.
This protocol describes a multiphase participatory research study (LIFTS project) using mixed methods to promote healthy lifestyle among practical education students in the Netherlands, with objectives to meaningfully involve youth in vulnerable positions as coresearchers and evaluate outcomes of resulting health promotion programs.
Adolescent mental health and social inequality in the aftermath of COVID-19 in Bogotá, Colombia: a qualitative study using a critical ecological model.
In urban settings marked by social inequality, supportive environments within families, schools, communities, and institutions are essential for adolescent mental health, and structural strategies are required to confront social inequalities and promote both individual and collective actions to support adolescent mental health, particularly in post-pandemic contexts.
Exploring the relationship between burnout and mental health among village doctors: a study from Xun County, Henan Province.
Burnout and mental health conditions are highly prevalent among village doctors in Xun County, with emotional exhaustion and depersonalization (but not lack of personal accomplishment) significantly associated with poor mental health.
Health service contacts for mental health and substance use on release from prison: a retrospective population-based data linkage study.
People released from prison had significantly higher rates of mental health and substance use-related health service contacts across all services compared to a matched general population sample, with particularly disproportionate rates for emergency and unscheduled care, suggesting early support is either inadequate or not accessed by those in greatest need.
Association of Skin Cancer With Clinical Depression and Poor Mental Health Days: Cross-Sectional Analysis.
After adjusting for sociodemographic factors and comorbid chronic illnesses, nonmelanoma skin cancer diagnosis was not significantly associated with depression and was associated with a slightly lower number of poor mental health days, though unadjusted analyses suggested greater day-to-day distress among adults with nonmelanoma skin cancer.
The association of parental COVID-19 vaccination decisions with the mental health and lifestyle of children and adolescents.
Parental vaccine reluctance exerted a detrimental influence on children's pandemic experience and way of life, with non-response to vaccination programs associated with long-lasting challenges and psychosocial issues faced by affected children.
Migration status and internet use: gender differences in mental health among rural older adults in China.
Internet use was associated with mental health benefits for rural older adults in China, but older migrant women derived fewer mental health benefits from Internet use than their male counterparts, and left-behind older women derived fewer benefits than left-behind older men.
Mental health and depression as mediators between social media use screen time and academic integrity among tertiary students in Ghana.
Digital behaviors, particularly excessive and emotionally driven screen use, detrimentally affect students' mental health and ethical academic conduct, with depression statistically consistent with partial mediation between digital engagement and reduced academic performance and integrity.
Bridging mental health, cognition and the brain in mild traumatic brain injury: A multilayer network analysis of the TRACK-TBI study.
Multilayer network analysis of mTBI participants revealed that insomnia severity, immediate verbal memory, somatisation, and processing speed are key bridging nodes connecting affective, cognitive, and brain layers, suggesting potential targets for more customized treatments.
Trauma, empowerment, and resilience: understanding the mental health concerns of people living with human immunodeficiency virus in Manitoba.
Qualitative and quantitative study of 32 Manitobans living with HIV found that severe childhood trauma, interpersonal violence, stigma, racism, and socioeconomic stressors synergistically undermine HIV treatment engagement, while participants simultaneously demonstrated resilience and empowerment, pointing to a need for integrated mental health, substance use, and social determinants of health supports.
Character Strengths as Predictors of Mental Health and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 13-Month Longitudinal Study.
Character strengths predicted well-being and mental health over a 13-month pandemic period, with positive affect emerging as the primary mediator and goodness, interpersonal, and fortitude strengths yielding the strongest effects.
Impacts of gender disparities in mental health and quality of life: A cross-sectional study of Brazilian physicians.
Brazilian physicians report lower quality of life than both the general Brazilian population and international physician cohorts, with women experiencing greater psychiatric morbidity and mental disorders identified as the dominant predictor of psychological and overall quality of life outcomes.
Imaginaries of digital health: Unpacking the platformization of mental health through users' practices.
Users of digital mental health platforms experience persistent tension between platform imaginaries of efficiency, accessibility, and personalization and the realities of situated practice, addressing infrastructural misalignments through domestication practices that reconfigure the therapeutic setting as a datafied and everyday space.
Independent associations of mental health and diabetes complications with health-related quality of life: Evidence from a cross-sectional study.
Both diabetes complications and mental health determine HRQoL in people with diabetes, with depression emerging as the strongest independent predictor reducing HRQoL by up to 21%, explaining a similar proportion of variance (~22%) as diabetes-related complications (~20%).
Nonlinear associations between maternal depressive symptoms and children's mental health: a cross-sectional study.
A nonlinear dose-response relationship was observed between maternal depressive symptoms and children's mental health outcomes, with stronger associations below specific CES-D score thresholds and substantially weakened associations above these thresholds.
Translation, cultural adaptation, and content validity evaluation of a mental health literacy instrument in Bolivia.
This study presents a culturally adapted, content-validated instrument for assessing mental health literacy in Bolivia consisting of 53 items that demonstrates strong content validity and provides a solid foundation for further psychometric evaluation and broader application in Spanish-speaking and Latin American contexts.
Assessing Mental Health and Emotional States by Using Smartphone Photoplethysmography-Based Digital Pulse Waveform Analysis: Cross-Sectional Observational Study.
Smartphone-based photoplethysmography can capture pulse-waveform features associated with psychological measures, particularly negative psychological states, though predictive performance remains limited and variability in signal quality from user-operated recordings poses a practical challenge.
Workplace Dissatisfaction and Mental or Emotional Health: A Predictor of Turnover Intentions Among Governmental Public Health Employees.
Workplace dissatisfaction was significantly associated with suboptimal mental or emotional health and increased the probability of employees leaving public health roles among governmental public health employees.
Risk and resilience in the red lights: a mini-review on sex worker lived experiences and mental health outcomes.
Sex workers experience disproportionately high rates of depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicidality, dissociation, and substance use shaped by criminalization, stigma, and structural factors, while peer and community networks function as robust protective factors.
Environmental Exposure and Mental Health in Hong Kong: Protocol for a GPS- and Biosensor-Based Observational Study.
This protocol paper describes a prospective observational study using GPS devices and wrist-worn biosensors to investigate minute-level associations between environmental exposures (green-blue space, walkability, air pollution) and stress-related biomarkers in 750 Hong Kong participants over 2024-2026.
Mental health profiles and resilience among medical students in an active conflict zone: a cluster analysis.
Medical students in a conflict-affected Lebanese region experience alarming levels of anxiety, depression, and stress, yet resilience provides a degree of protection, with tailored risk-based interventions combining stress-management, resilience training, and healthy lifestyle habits being essential.
Hair cortisol concentration and adolescent mental health: Insight from the Queensland Twin Adolescent Brain Project.
Hair cortisol concentration (HCC) decreased significantly over two years in adolescent twins, with limited associations with psychosocial stressors, suggesting HCC 'may capture specific stress-related processes in certain subgroups' rather than functioning as 'a broadly sensitive biomarker of chronic stress.'
Emotional intelligence and its impact on the mental health of Chinese medical students: a questionnaire study.
EI plays a protective role in the mental health of medical students and partially explains gender disparities in anxiety and depression, with higher EI independently associated with lower odds of stress (OR 0.20), anxiety (OR 0.14), and depression (OR 0.12).
Discrimination and Gender: An Umbrella Review of Psychological Evidence.
Gender discrimination constitutes both a public health concern and a systemic social mechanism that shapes individual cognition, emotion, and behaviour, operating through institutional barriers, microaggressions, and stereotyping mechanisms that significantly affect mental health, physical health, and professional outcomes.
Secular- and longitudinal trends in mental health among older adults in Norway: The Tromsø Study 2001-2016.
Mental distress prevalence among older Norwegian adults declined from 2001 to 2016, with trends driven primarily by reduced anxiety symptoms and stronger improvements among women, narrowing sex differences in mental health.
Preoperative Mental Health, Sociodemographic, and Clinical Correlates of Baseline Pain and Function in Hallux Valgus Surgery Candidates.
Better preoperative mental health and higher education were associated with higher function and lower pain in hallux valgus surgery candidates, with additional associations found for sex, BMI, socioeconomic deprivation, diabetes, and prior surgery.
High Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Mental Health Illness Comorbidity in Urban Haiti.
CVD-MH illness comorbidity is highly prevalent in urban Haiti, especially among older adults and women, underscoring the need for integrated, contextually adapted approaches to address multimorbidity in crisis-affected low- and middle-income countries.
Caregiver mental health is associated with early childhood language outcomes and perception bias in rural China.
Caregiver anxiety and stress symptoms were linked to poor child language development, depression and anxiety were associated with less stimulating home language environment, and caregivers with depressive and anxiety symptoms tended to overestimate their children's language development and verbal inputs.
Psychological and Mental Health Support for Vietnamese University Students in Economics Majors: Approaches and Needs Assessment.
Students at Vietnamese economics universities commonly experience anxiety and depressive symptoms related to academic, financial, and career pressures, and express strong demand for individual, professional, confidential counseling services tailored to their context.
Telemonitored sleep quality and daily activity are associated with mental health outcomes among Japanese workers.
Objective sleep metrics and physical activity levels measured via telemonitoring were associated with mental health outcomes including distress, anxiety, depression, and harm avoidance among Japanese workers.
[Gender and age-specific aspects of mental health in children and adolescents].
Gender and age-specific features of mental health of children and adolescents indicate the specific features of successful and deviant development and should be considered when creating effective intervention programs.
Mental Health, Nonadherence, and Healthcare Utilization in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation: Evidence From a Multistate Cohort.
Mental health conditions and medication nonadherence are common and independently associated with higher acute care utilization among pediatric solid organ transplant recipients.
Longitudinal mental health data collected via the Corona Health smartphone app during COVID-19.
A longitudinal mental health dataset collected via the Corona Health smartphone app provides baseline and repeated EMA responses from 2,704 participants in Germany between July 2020 and January 2025, enabling examination of mental health trajectories during and after COVID-19.
Early-life light exposure and mental health and substance use outcomes in adolescence and young adulthood.
In utero photoperiod was not associated with mental health outcomes, but greater prenatal light exposure was linked to reduced smoking behavior in offspring from the GUTS cohort.
Mental health literacy as a mediator between parental and adolescent depression and anxiety in Chinese resource-poor region.
Mental health literacy (MHL) mediates the relationship between parental and adolescent depression and anxiety, suggesting MHL 'may play a protective role' in disrupting intergenerational transmission of mental health challenges in resource-poor settings.
A Vignette-Based Measure of Mental Health Literacy (PDR-V): Reliability, Validity, and Mindfulness Associations in a Cross-Sectional Sample.
The newly developed Psychological Disorder Recognition-Vignette (PDR-V) task demonstrated excellent internal consistency (KR-20 = 0.83) and preliminary convergent validity as a measure of mental health literacy, with specific facets of dispositional mindfulness and prior mental health exposure associated with higher scores.
Sex-specific trajectories of mental health and life satisfaction during the transition to grandparenthood in China.
Using fixed-effects models across five waves of China Family Panel Studies data, grandparenthood has sex-differentiated associations with well-being, with women showing short- to mid-term improvements in emotional well-being and men exhibiting sustained increases in evaluative well-being beginning at the birth of the first grandchild.