Top Research Papers on Mental Health

The launch of the new World Mental Health Report is an exciting moment and represents a welcome step towards pushing mental health to become a truly global priority, making mental health everyone’s business.

5. Beliefs about mental illness and willingness to seek help: A cross‐sectional study, D. 6. Improved quality of life and cognitive stimulation therapy in dementia, B. 7. Elderly depressed patients: What are their views on treatment options?, T. 9. Physical health and mental disorder in elderly suicide: A case‐control study, (Volume 9, issue 6, 2005) 10. Music interventions for people with dementia: a review of the literature, K.

To overcome the internalized, interpersonal, and institutional racism, the impact of racism on health and on mental health must be an integral part of educational curricula, from undergraduate levels through continuing professional development, clinical work, and research.

Research in the field of traumatic stress has focused on neurobiological, psychological and social factors associated with trauma-related psychopathology and deficits in psychosocial functioning, but little is known about resilience to stress and healthy adaptation to stress.

The aim of the study was to analyze the phenomenon of violence among people treated psychiatrically in the municipality of Szczecin, Poland.

It is concluded that there are fewer mental health issues in China than in Pakistan both before and since the COVID-19 pandemic, and China’s mental health laws and policies are more robust and more widely implemented than those in Pakistan.

We provide an overview of Qatar's first epidemiological study on prevalence, predictors, and treatment contact for mood and anxiety disorders.

The Group is currently engaged in the organization of a series of free WPA webi­ nars on comorbidity between mental dis­ orders and infectious diseases, and has started a collaboration with the International Society of Addiction Medicine, in order to or­ ganize educational activities related to the management of addictions and physical illness in people with severe mental disorders.

The definitions of employee mental health, the costs of employeemental illness to organizations and to society as a whole, and the role of the workplace in promoting positive mental health are reviewed.

Keeping a human rights advocacy perspective front and center will allow researchers to work in collaborative ways with both refugee communities and receiving societies to develop innovative mental health policy and practice to meet the urgent need for a global response to the challenge of forced migration.

In a sample of 682 people with comorbid binge-eating disorder and obesity, women had significantly higher eating disorder psychopathology than men, suggesting that obesity in women may have a psychological manifestation that varies from that of men.

In my view, this quote captures the drive to achieve equity in mental health care. All people have worth, and every person’s worth adds to the worth of every other person. Our psychiatric-mental health nursing care is driven by this absolute belief that all people are of equal worth, of equal value. This belief is true for the newborn babe taking her first breath in her mother’s arms to the aged matriarch taking her final breath at death’s embrace. It is true for the most upstanding citizen to the most heinous criminal in our society. It is verified as one of our nation’s core principles in th...

Here is a book by a Church of Scotland minister immersed both in the Psalter and in the contemporary world and experiences of Christian disciples, living, working, engaging in acts of public worship, and spending time alone in meditation and prayer. In this book Lezley Stewart is re-imagining the Psalms for public worship and for private devotion. In so doing she communicates her passion for accessible and meaningful worship that connects life and faith together. The Psalter is a rich resource that captures and expresses the full range of human experience and human emotion coming face-to-face ...

Background The Nigerian mental health law titled the Lunacy Act of 1958 has been under scrutiny for violating the human rights of people with mental illness. The call to reform the obsolete Lunacy Act has garnered attention from the government, as the law has been unamended for over 60 years. Aim This study presents the challenges and implications of the new mental health law to the mental health services of Nigeria. Methods ScienceDirect, PubMed, and Google Scholar were used to find pertinent material. The implications and difficulties facing the new mental health law examined from the litera...

Coaches’ knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about mental health—or mental health literacy (MHL)—affect teams’ mental health climates and the detection, referral, and treatment of athletes’ mental health concerns. Thus, assessing collegiate coaches’ MHL, and factors related to its presence, is critical. Using the Mental Health Literacy Scale, 1,571 NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) coaches were surveyed regarding their MHL and demographic and mental health experience factors. Overall, 99.9% of the coaches surveyed believe that athletes’ mental health affected their sport performanc...

The metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were some of the hottest tech terms in 2021, according to a Google Trends search, and no other review has explored the future of mental health in the context of the metaverse.

A strategy for implementing the components of global mental health in two complex Colombian territories: Chocó and La Guajira is described, with an appropriation of all the components by the health systems of both territories.

The findings suggest the need to implement experimental or quasi-experimental studies to ascertain the effectiveness of interventions that promote adolescents′ positive Mental Health Literacy (MHL) level and Positive Mental Health (PMH) levels.

This review aims to answer whether and to what extent lifestyle and related nutrition affect mental health and whether there is scientific evidence supporting a link between diet and mental health.

The aim of this work was to link current understanding about insomnia mechanisms with current knowledge about mental health dysregulatory mechanisms, which represent important challenges in clinical practice on mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.

The study concluded that instituting education on healthy and culturally appropriate ways to support infant development in parent education programs may support Black parents in establishing healthy attachment and bonds and put Black mothers and birthing people at a disadvantage in autonomous decision making.

This commentary discusses two longitudinal studies to elaborate these contracting findings on social media and mental health and collects an accurate measure of social media use and other methodological challenges particularly affect data in this area.

The mass media are an important source of information about mental health, yet television shows, news stories, social media posts and other media fare often perpetuate stereotypes and misunderstanding about mental illness. For 70 years, scholars in media studies, psychology, sociology, and other fields have investigated media representations of mental illness and how exposure to media content informs people's beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors related to mental health. Despite the attention, little progress has been made in changing these messages and mitigating negative outcomes. Enter Media ...

High rates of mental health problems are a growing concern in Czech higher education, negatively impacting students’ performance and wellbeing. Despite the serious nature of poor mental health, students often do not seek help because of negative attitudes and shame over mental health problems. Recent mental health research reports self-compassion is strongly associated with better mental health and reduced shame. However, relationships between those constructs remain to be evaluated among Czech students. This study aims to appraise the relationships between mental health problems, negative men...

The authors’ preferred estimates suggest that mental health has a significant negative impact on obesity, and a new perspective on how good mental health helps curb obesity is provided.

Background: The role of working alliance remains unclear for many forms of internet-based interventions (IBIs), a set of effective psychotherapy alternatives that do not require synchronous interactions between patients and therapists. Objective: This study examined the conceptual invariance, trajectories, and outcome associations of working alliance across an unguided IBI and guided IBIs that incorporated clinician support through asynchronous text messaging or video messaging. Methods: Adults with high education attainment (n=145) with subclinical levels of anxiety, stress, or depressive sym...

This paper is a comprehensive review of the historical and conceptual development of psychotherapy, highlighting its evolution from a predominantly biological approach to a more integrative one that includes psychological and therapeutic methods. Psychotherapy, derived from the Greek roots "psyche" (mind) and "therapeia" (treatment), focuses on the treatment of mental and emotional problems through various psychological techniques. Originating from different psychological theories, psychotherapy has evolved into a diversified field with multiple approaches, including biological, behavioral, co...

This article explores this dilemma and its implications for community mental health, and suggests key steps towards more effective reform of this vital element of mental health care.

How mental health teaching is embedded into the MPharm and students’ perception of their own preparedness to help people with their mental health is determined and MHFA was viewed by students as one way to enhance this.

Data suggest that vaping is associated with mental health changes similar to those seen with combustible tobacco cigarettes, and data from randomized cessation trials may be especially valuable because of complex issues of temporality and confounding connected to observational data.

Using 44 sweeps of the US Census Household Pulse Survey data for the period April 2020 to April 22 we track the evolution of the mental health of just over three million Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find anxiety, depression and worry had two major peaks in 2020 but improved in 2021 and 2022. We show that a variable we construct based on daily inflows of COVID cases by county, aggregated up to state, is positively associated with worse mental health, having conditioned on state fixed effects and seasonality in mental health. However, the size of the effect declines in 2021 and 202...

Healthcare services must be affordable, personalised, and integrated

This project focuses on building a mental health tracker for the user and find out if they are suffering from any kind of mental stress and then suggest measures, they can take to get out of their present condition.

Abstract We analyze the role of education as a determinant of mental health. To do this, we leverage the age‐specific exposure to an educational reform as an instrument for years of education and find that the treated cohorts gained more education. This increase in education had an effect on mental health more than 2 decades later. An extra year of education led to a lower likelihood of reporting any symptoms related to depression (11.3%) and anxiety (9.8%). More educated people also suffered less severe symptoms – depression (6.1%) and anxiety (5.6%). These protective effects are higher among...

There was little change in the overall percentage of US children and adolescents with severe mental health impairment between 2019 and 2021, however, there was a significant increase in the gap separating outpatient mental health care of Black and White youth.

It is argued that, when the authors start with a focus on how and why individuals heal from mental disorders, they gain a better understanding of what mental health is: the exercise of self-regulatory metacognitive skill.

The findings highlighted the importance of identity and culture among first responders, and the need for cultural awareness and understanding among mental health providers working with this population.

There is a need to improve the care of women with PMDs in Italy and the provision of pre-conception counseling, integrated care pathways, and specialist skills and facilities for PMDs should be prioritized.

Experts in occupational and organizational psychiatry, employers, payors, clinicians, employees, and society in general seemed to be coalescing around four ideas: there is a strong business and moral case for employers to care about the mental health and well-being of their employees, stigma needs to be reduced, access to evidence-based mental health care needed to be improved, and workers expected their employer's to play a significant role.

Concerted efforts at individual, organizational, and governmental levels are essential to ensure efficient utilization of DMH.

This editorial aims to focus on political determinants of mental health, which are linked with governmental policy, ideologies of the rulers and governance processes, and how and where power is held and administered.

More research is needed to better understand the impact of Kombucha on the human body, but also to ensure the application of regulatory guidelines for its production and marketing and enable its safe and effective consumption.

Effective, evidence-based interventions that can help enhance the sense of safety, hope, and optimism, as well as serve to promote social connectedness for those who are impacted by natural disasters are discussed.

How smartphone-based research methods have the potential to dramatically advance the authors' understanding of the neuroscience of mental health is discussed, which will take the form of complementing lab-based hard neuroscience research with dense sampling of cognitive tests, clinical questionnaires, passive data from smartphone sensors, and experience-sampling data as people go about their daily lives.

There is need for more contextual awareness and research in this area in Africa to mitigate or forestall potential mental health crises in the near future, and systematic efforts to support funding at the nexus between climate change and mental health in Africa are recommended.

This model solves for several of the key challenges historically faced by digital health, through promoting digital literacy and access, the curation of evidence-based digital tools, integration into clinical practice, and electronic medical record integration.

Little research has been done on elite coaches’ mental health disorders, although studies confirm that they do experience, for example, symptoms of burnout, anxiety, and depression.

New technologies are a tool that can help individuals to maintain proper nutrition and good health and through the iCTs applications, everyone can individually control his weight, physical exercise, and find the right combinations to have a better and more quality life without diseases.

The aim of this paper is to provide a foundation for understanding how mental illness is represented in digital games, provide a new perspective for thinking critically about representation of mental illness in games, and overview a new framework for assessing video game content in this area.

Real people share their experiences of working through times of mental health pressures at work, off work and returning to work, and send these important messages; 1) you are not alone, 2) there are things you can do to reclaim your well-being, and 3) there is hope for a better tomorrow.