Views on volunteering in mental health: a focus group study with mental health professionals and volunteers in PortugalDiscover Mental Health - Tập 3 - Trang 1-11 - 2023
Mariana Pinto da Costa, Jaime Oliveira
Volunteering has reported health benefits. However, little is known in Portugal about the views of mental health professionals and volunteers on volunteering in mental health care. A qualitative secondary analysis of data from six focus groups with 28 participants was conducted in order to explore and compare the perspectives on volunteering in mental health of two stakeholders: mental health prof...... hiện toàn bộ
Digital footprints as a new translational approach for mental health care: a commentaryDiscover Mental Health - Tập 3 - Trang 1-4 - 2023
Julio Licinio, Ma-Li Wong
There is a crisis in mental health care, with more people suffering from psychiatric disorders than resources that are available for treatment, even though spending is substantial. Millions who suffer from addiction, psychosis, depression and suicidality are either untreated or inadequately treated and organized psychiatry is unable to reach them. Possibly as reflection of under-treatment of psych...... hiện toàn bộ
Machine learning based identification of structural brain alterations underlying suicide risk in adolescentsDiscover Mental Health - Tập 3 - Trang 1-13 - 2023
Sahil Bajaj, Karina S. Blair, Matthew Dobbertin, Kaustubh R. Patil, Patrick M. Tyler, Jay L. Ringle, Johannah Bashford-Largo, Avantika Mathur, Jaimie Elowsky, Ahria Dominguez, Lianne Schmaal, R. James R. Blair
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for individuals between 15 and 19 years of age. The high suicide mortality rate and limited prior success in identifying neuroimaging biomarkers indicate that it is crucial to improve the accuracy of clinical neural signatures underlying suicide risk. The current study implements machine-learning (ML) algorithms to examine structural brain alterations in...... hiện toàn bộ
A cross-sectional study of the relationship between depression status, health care coverage, and sexual orientationDiscover Mental Health - Tập 3 - Trang 1-11 - 2023
Yang Liu, Megan A. O’Grady
Health care coverage is an important factor in receipt of behavioral healthcare. This study uses data from the New York City Community Health Survey to examine how sexual minority status impacts the relationship between depression status and having health care coverage. Approximately 10% of the sample (n = 9571; 47% 45+ years old; 35% White Non-Hispanic; 7% sexual minority) reported probable depre...... hiện toàn bộ
Formulating treatment of major psychiatric disorders: algorithm targets the dominantly affected brain cell-typesDiscover Mental Health - - 2023
Jeffrey Fessel
Pharmacotherapy for most psychiatric conditions was developed from serendipitous observations of benefit from drugs prescribed for different reasons. An algorithmic approach to formulating pharmacotherapy is proposed, based upon which combination of changed activities by brain cell-types is dominant for any particular condition, because those cell-types contain and surrogate for genetic, metabolic...... hiện toàn bộ
COVID-19 and its impact on mental health as a function of gender, age, and incomeDiscover Mental Health -
Namrata Gulati, Chandni Nanda, Ramandeep Kaur Hora
AbstractThis paper examines the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of people from different socioeconomic classes. This has been done by creating an anxiety score, based on responses to a set of questions that were asked as part of a two-round telephonic survey done by Young Lives Data for India. Using this index, anxiety levels have been classified as high, m...... hiện toàn bộ
Improving the mental health of farmers: what types of remote support are acceptable, feasible, and improve outcomes? A feasibility RCTDiscover Mental Health - Tập 4 - Trang 1-11 - 2024
Kate Lamont, Hugo C. van Woerden, Emma King, Charlotte Wendelboe-Nelson, Roger W. Humphry, Cameron Stark, Chris Williams, Margaret Maxwell
The farming community have high rates of poor mental health, and are relatively ‘hard to reach’ with mental health services. The aim of this study was therefore to undertake a feasibility RCT, based on two mental health interventions. These were (1) CBT based ‘Living Life to the Full for Farming Communities’ (LLTTF-F;
www.llttf.com
), and (2) a...... hiện toàn bộ
Teacher, caregiver, and student acceptability of teachers delivering task-shifted mental health care to students in Darjeeling, India: a mixed methods pilot studyDiscover Mental Health - Tập 2 - Trang 1-24 - 2022
Christina M. Cruz, Choden Dukpa, Juliana L. Vanderburg, Abhishek K. Rauniyar, Priscilla Giri, Surekha Bhattarai, Arpana Thapa, Karen Hampanda, Bradley N. Gaynes, Molly M. Lamb, Michael Matergia
The acceptability of teachers delivering task-shifted mental health care to their school-aged students is understudied. Here, we evaluate teachers’, students’, and caregivers’ acceptability of Tealeaf (Teachers Leading the Frontlines), an alternative system of care in which teachers are trained and supervised to deliver transdiagnostic, non-manualized task-shifted care to their students. In a 2019...... hiện toàn bộ