Mental Health
475 peer-reviewed studies indexed
Mental Health Literacy and Information Needs of Young Adults With First Episode Psychosis and Their Support Persons.
Higher mental health literacy significantly predicted higher treatment satisfaction among service users and support persons, and lower stress levels among service users in a first episode psychosis clinic sample.
Mental health literacy among primary healthcare workers and its implications on detecting common mental health disorders across five geopolitical zones in Nigeria.
Mental health literacy among primary health care workers in Nigeria is critically low, with only 12.1% demonstrating above-average knowledge, highlighting an urgent need for extensive capacity building to improve detection of psychological illness.
Stakeholder Priorities for Cystic Fibrosis Mental Health Research: A Community and Provider Survey.
A survey of CF community members and providers identified six shared top mental health research priorities, with some notable differences between groups, yielding 'a compelling roadmap for CF mental health research.'
Implementing a school-based mental health literacy programme for adolescents: barriers, facilitators and preliminary outcomes.
The 'Do You M.I.N.D.?' school-based mental health literacy programme showed promise in enhancing students' MHL with overall pre-post improvements, though face-to-face delivery yielded significantly better scores than online delivery, highlighting the importance of maintaining interactive elements.
HIV-related stigma, couple relationship quality, and mental health in sero-discordant pregnant couples in Kenya.
HIV-related stigma perceived by both women and men was detrimental to their own and their partner's mental health, while high relationship quality was associated with better mental health independent of stigma but did not significantly buffer the negative effect of stigma on mental health in sero-discordant pregnant couples in Kenya.
Self-efficacy and quality of life mediate self-reported mental health outcomes in visual snow syndrome.
Lower self-efficacy and quality of life appear to serially mediate the associations between visual snow syndrome and mental health impairments, suggesting they may serve as modifiable intervention targets for depression and suicidal ideation in VSS.
A study on the mental health and body weight of Chinese college students in the context of COVID-19: implications for educational practice.
COVID-19 had a minimal impact on the body weight of Chinese college students but significantly affected their mental health, with somatization and hostility positively associated with overweight/obesity odds and phobic anxiety negatively associated, with these effects more pronounced in female students.
Three-year functional, physical, and mental health outcomes after critical COVID-19: A prospective multicentre cohort study.
Survivors of critical COVID-19 experienced a decline in functional outcome and worsening mental health between 1 and 3 years after ICU admission, with incomplete recovery increasing from 32% to 45%, and younger age and higher Clinical Frailty Scale score independently associated with incomplete recovery at 3 years.
Health and well-being after spousal loss among older men and women.
Spousal loss was associated with higher risks of mortality and dementia among men but not women, widowed men showed greater vulnerability to adverse outcomes across multiple domains, whereas widowed women demonstrated resilience and even reported increased happiness and life satisfaction over time.
Sociodemographic influences on Student Mental Health and their association with activation-regulating functional impairments.
Increased smartphone and social media use, frequent fast food consumption, weak familial relationships, and past mental health consultations were linked to worse activation dysfunction among university students, while participation in sports, strong family ties, and living with parents positively influenced activation levels.
A network analysis of the relationship between active health behaviors and mental health in adolescents.
Adolescent positive health behaviors and mental health form a complex association network in which anxiety is a core driver of psychological symptoms and physical activity is a key cross-system bridge negatively correlated with depression.
Association between COVID-19 diagnosis and severe mental health symptoms in adolescents in southern Brazil.
Adolescents who reported a COVID-19 diagnosis experienced worse mental health outcomes, with associations observed for severe anxiety and for the presence of multiple severe symptoms of depression, anxiety, or stress.
Mental health and macroeconomics: economic and social determinants that explain suicide in Ecuador.
Economic growth and underemployment significantly explain suicides in Ecuador, highlighting the importance of developing mental health protection policies that consider social aspects and job security.
Associations between early-life unpredictability and mental health during the Israel-Hamas war.
Early-life unpredictability was associated with greater psychological distress and emotion dysregulation before the Israel-Hamas war and a larger increase in psychological distress after the war started, suggesting it is a general risk factor for mental health vulnerability in adulthood and predicts worse outcomes in war-exposed individuals.
CORRELATION OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL COMPONENTS OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE, FUNCTION AND PAIN IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC NONSPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN.
Improving physical components of HRQoL affects assessment of the mental component in patients with chronic low back pain, and patients with better quality of life rated functional disability lower.
The health and wellbeing of incarcerated trans, gender diverse, and non-binary people: An international scoping review.
This scoping review found consistent evidence of restricted access to gender-affirming healthcare, systemic mental health challenges, exposure to violence, sexual health risks and HIV care gaps, and creativity and resilience among incarcerated trans, gender diverse, and non-binary people across international settings.
Mental Health in Educational Communities in Chile After a Public Health Emergency: An Assessment of Schoolchildren and Their Caregivers.
A predictive model of mental health outcomes in Chilean schoolchildren following COVID-19 found distinct psychological processes underlying posttraumatic stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth, with caregiver well-being, coping strategies, and rumination type serving as key predictors.
Child-reported violence, beliefs, and mental health: A cross-sectional quantitative study of 6-17-year-olds in South Africa.
Most children aged 6-17 in low-resource South African communities experienced emotional and physical abuse, peer and sibling violence, and community violence, with peer, community, and domestic violence most consistently associated with poor mental health outcomes.
How Emotion Regulation and Illness Identity Shape Mental Health in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.
Rumination and illness engulfment emerged as the most strongly associated predictors of depressive and anxiety symptoms in adults with congenital heart disease, highlighting the key role of repetitive negative thinking and an engulfed illness identity in emotional distress.
Land circulation impacts the physical and mental health of the elderly in rural Chinese households.
Land circulation has a significant positive impact on the health of the elderly that is mainly on mental health rather than physical health, with non-farm income and social interaction frequency serving as vital channels of this effect.
Intersectional insights into refugee mental health: exploring the impact of identity and systemic barriers.
Refugee mental health is shaped by the intersection of identity factors and structural barriers—not trauma exposure alone—with education level, English language proficiency, and region of origin emerging as the strongest predictors of PTSD symptom severity in a CART model.
Compounding Disasters and Australian Youth Mental Health: A Time of Significant (di)stress.
Although extreme climate events may cause significant distress in some young people, other stressful events may have more of an impact on overall mental health in Australian youth.
Improving mental health during crisis: Outcomes from the EMERALD online lifestyle medicine and coaching program.
The EMERALD 8-week online lifestyle medicine and health coaching program produced significant improvements across all mental health outcomes including depression, anxiety, wellbeing, loneliness, and functioning in adults with mild to moderate symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Self-rated health, mental wellbeing, nutrition habits, and their association with morbidity of ischemic heart disease.
Good self-rated health and mental wellbeing were significantly associated with lower odds of ischemic heart disease, while specific lifestyle habits including physical activity, sufficient sleep, and healthy nutrition were positively associated with better self-rated health and mental wellbeing.
The Acceptability and Appropriateness of Delivering Postnatal Mental Health Support at Community Health Centers.
Mothers in low-resource settings valued postnatal mental health interventions that aligned with personal needs and offered emotional support, but faced barriers including time constraints, childcare responsibilities, stigma, and location accessibility, with flexible formats and nonstigmatizing framing identified as strategies to enhance engagement.
The Associations Between Family Conflict and Adolescent Mental Health: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis.
Interparental conflict played a central role in predicting adolescent mental health across all four domains, adolescent self-esteem contributed to decreases in family conflict and increases in mental health over time, and family conflict and adolescent mental health mutually predicted each other in a sample of Chinese adolescents.
Explainable AI framework for improved Thalassemia mental health classification and feature selection.
The proposed AMSE-DFI framework using SF-36 data from 356 Bangladeshi Thalassemia patients outperformed conventional approaches for mental health classification, with LIME-based explainable AI providing interpretable insights into key predictors such as total SF score, role emotional, and physical health summary.
Impact of air pollution on mental health in bangladesh: a comparison between Dhaka and Rajshahi.
Air pollution exposure was significantly associated with increased depression, anxiety, and stress in Bangladesh, with Dhaka residents (higher pollution) showing substantially higher rates of mental health issues compared to Rajshahi residents (lower pollution).
Differential relationships between physical activity and mental health among adults with disabilities in Korea.
Sufficient physical activity (≥150 min/week) was positively associated with mental health among Korean adults with disabilities, with particularly pronounced protective associations for individuals with physical, sensory, and internal organ disabilities.
Neighborhood greenspace visits and mental health: insights from mobility data across nine U.S. metropolitan areas.
Greenspace engagement, not just presence, was linked to lower poor mental health across nine U.S. metropolitan areas, though associations varied by neighborhood and local context.
Kinlessness, sole family survivorship, and the mental and physical health of U.S. older adults.
Kinlessness and sole family survivorship have distinct ramifications for older adult well-being, with sole family survivorship more consistently associated with worse health outcomes than kinlessness among both women and men, and social ties not uniformly protective as substitutes for immediate family ties.
Context Matters: Urban Typology and Pandemic-Related Mental Health Decline in Low-Income South African Settings.
Residents from different urban typologies were affected differently by the COVID-19 pandemic, with anxiety and depression more prevalent in formal township dwellings and high-density apartments than in informal settlements, mediated by social and economic problems.
Exploring the impact of burnout and mental health in women leadership on bank success.
Banks with female CEOs generally outperform those led by males in developing countries, with positive correlations between female CEO age and education and bank performance, while CEO burnout shows a critical inverse relationship with bank performance.
Parental Mental Health, Feeding Practices, and Sociodemographic Factors as Determinants of Childhood Obesity in Greece.
Parental BMI, higher anxiety and depression, restrictive and emotion-driven feeding practices, and lower parental education were all associated with increased child BMI in a Greek sample, while monitoring and health-promoting feeding practices appeared protective.
Differences in Discrimination, Violence, Mental Health, and Substance Use Outcomes by Cancer History Among LGBTQ+ Individuals in North Carolina.
LGBTQ+ cancer survivors in North Carolina experience an elevated burden of discrimination, violence, suicide attempt, substance use, and accidental overdose in comparison to LGBTQ+ individuals without a cancer history.
Climate change and mental health: A multinational study of climate-anxiety, coping, and psychosocial responses.
Climate change is associated with substantial emotional and functional burden, particularly among vulnerable groups, supporting integration of mental health screening and psychosocial interventions into climate adaptation policies.
Mental health disparities between Spanish and foreign prison inmates: reasons for referral from prison to a specific unit in a general hospital.
Foreign incarcerated persons are overrepresented in psychiatric admissions and are particularly vulnerable to suicidal behavior, while Spanish inmates show more psychiatric history, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, and physical comorbidities, with social precarity likely accounting for some of the differences observed.
A scoping review of "Tang ping" (Lying flat) and mental health status among Chinese youth.
A scoping review of 27 articles found that 'Tang ping' is closely associated with mental health through accumulated stress, perceived loss of control, and effort-reward imbalance, and represents not a single behavioral pattern but a continuum of coping mechanisms for social stress.
Association between social skills and mental health outcomes in Health Science Residents in Brazil.
A high prevalence of emotional distress (86.3%), anxiety (58.8%), and depression (56.9%) was found among Brazilian health science residents, with greater social skills repertoire and learning environment satisfaction significantly associated with lower mental health symptom levels.
Yoga and Positive Education for Student Mental Health, Self-Compassion, and Vitality: A Mixed-Methods Study.
A 6-week hatha yoga program was associated with improved trait and state well-being outcomes including mental health, self-compassion, and vitality among undergraduate positive education students, providing preliminary evidence for yoga and positive education courses as a means of increasing university students' mental health.
Preferred Sources and Senders of Mental Health Information Among FFA Youth Residing on Farms.
Farm-residing youth were significantly less interested in receiving mental health information from medical doctors and mental health specialists compared to non-farm-residing peers, suggesting they may prefer receiving such information from youth leaders and spiritual coaches rather than traditional medical roles.
Mental health, psychological wellbeing, and coping with stress by Ukrainian war refugees staying in Poland.
Analysis of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland revealed significantly elevated psychological distress, with older age, partnered status, and skills-matched employment as key predictors of depression, and modifiable post-migration factors identified as important for refugee adaptation.
Clinical work perception and mental health in Danish resident doctors.
Substantial mental health concerns exist among Danish junior doctors, with pre-graduate locum experience enhancing confidence but not emotional resilience, suggesting institutional measures such as structured supervision, mentorship and targeted well-being support are needed in early medical careers.
Associations between mental health and cognitive function among community-dwelling older adults: a large-scale cross-sectional study.
Mental health partially mediates the link between age and cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults, with depression and anxiety both positively correlated with cognitive impairment.
Mental Health Nurses' Spiritual Well-Being, Personal Trauma History, Compassion Fatigue, and Compassion Satisfaction.
More than a quarter of mental health nurses reported high compassion fatigue risk while spiritual well-being, good physical health, and positive work climate were positively related to higher levels of compassion satisfaction among psychiatric nurses in Greece.
Household cannabis cessation and adolescent mental health outcomes in a prospective cohort study.
Household cannabis cessation was linked to a lower level of adolescent mental health problems at follow-up, suggesting that interventions aimed at reducing or eliminating household cannabis exposure may be beneficial for youth well-being.
My family member's health and my mental health: A longitudinal matched cohort study.
Using propensity score matching-difference in differences, this study found that individuals whose close relative or family member suffered a serious injury or illness had significantly lower mental health scores and higher odds of being time stressed compared to unexposed individuals, with effects persisting up to six years post-onset.
Workplace violence and self-reported physical and mental health: a national cross-sectional study in Lebanon.
Workplace violence affected almost 16% of employed adults in Lebanon and was associated with approximately tripled odds of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and nearly tripled odds of poor physical health.
Mental health, perceived social support, and sense of belonging among immigrants.
Among Farsi- and Arabic-speaking immigrants in Canada, 25.70% reported generalized anxiety symptoms and 26.40% exhibited major depression symptoms, rates considerably higher than the general Canadian population, with lower perceived social support significantly associated with higher anxiety and depression scores.
[Job precariousness and mental health: the moderating importance of age].
Job precariousness negatively affects the mental health of workers, with specific dimensions such as wages and vulnerability having significant impact, and age moderating the effect of wage precariousness such that mental health of young people is more vulnerable to wage precariousness.