Malak, Malakeh Z Al-Amer, Rasmieh M Khalifeh, Anas H Jacoub, Shirooq M
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Girls married at an early age are more likely to be victims of violence from their husbands or their in-laws. This may lead them to experience mental problems such as post-traumatic stress, depression, and/or anxiety. There are a lack of data related to the psychological reactions among teenage married girls living at the Palestinians refugee camps...
Amin, Ridwanul Rahman, Syed Tinghög, Petter Helgesson, Magnus Runeson, Bo Björkenstam, Emma Qin, Ping Mehlum, Lars Holmes, Emily A Mittendorfer-Rutz, Ellenor
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
There is a lack of research on whether healthcare use before and after a suicide attempt differs between refugees and the host population. We aimed to investigate if the patterns of specialised (inpatient and specialised outpatient) psychiatric and somatic healthcare use, 3 years before and after a suicide attempt, differ between refugees and the S...
O'Connor, Meredith Romaniuk, Helena Gray, Sarah Daraganova, Galina
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
This study aimed to examine the continuity of internalising difficulties from childhood to adolescence, and determine if the influence of established risk factors on adolescent mental health differed depending on childhood internalising experiences. Data were used from the Kindergarten cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC, ...
Paraschakis, Antonios Karageorgiou, Vasilios Efstathiou, Vasiliki Douzenis, Athanassios Boyokas, Ilias Michopoulos, Ioannis
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Severe financial crises could influence a country's suicide trends and characteristics. We aimed to highlight differences among suicide completers before and after the onset of Greece's serious debt crisis of 2010 based exclusively on forensic data. The sample's size permitted a further elaboration by means of a time series analysis too. Data were ...
Barrett, Benjamin W Abraham, Alison G Dean, Lorraine T Plankey, Michael W Friedman, M Reuel Jacobson, Lisa P Teplin, Linda A Gorbach, Pamina M Surkan, Pamela J
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Racial/ethnic minorities experience disproportionate rates of depressive symptoms in the United States. The magnitude that underlying factors-such as social inequalities-contribute to these symptoms is unknown. We sought to identify exposures that explain racial/ethnic differences in clinically significant depressive symptomology among men who have...
Twenge, Jean M Farley, Eric
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Previous research on associations between screen media use and mental health produced mixed findings, possibly because studies have not examined screen activities separately or accounted for gender differences. We sought to examine associations between different types of screen activities (social media, internet, gaming, and TV) and mental health i...
Salway, Travis Gesink, Dionne Ferlatte, Olivier Rich, Ashleigh J Rhodes, Anne E Brennan, David J Gilbert, Mark
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Sexual minority adults experience fivefold greater risk of suicide attempt, as compared with heterosexuals. Establishing age-specific epidemiological patterns of suicide is a prerequisite to planning interventions to redress the sexual orientation suicide inequity, and such patterns must be carefully interpreted in light of correlated period and co...
Salas-Wright, Christopher P Goings, Trenette C Vaughn, Michael G Cohen, Mariana Andrade, Patricia Pérez Gómez, Augusto Duque, Maria Mejía Trujillo, Juliana Maldonado-Molina, Mildred M Schwartz, Seth J
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
In recent years, more than 5 million Venezuelans have left their once prosperous country, with several hundred thousand settling in the United States (US). At present, our understanding of the health risk behavior profiles of Venezuelan émigré youth, and their links with cultural stress, remains limited. Drawing from a sample of recently-immigrated...
Bromberg, Daniel J Paltiel, A David Busch, Susan H Pachankis, John E
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
While advances in HIV prevention and treatment have changed the epidemic for gay and bisexual men, another epidemic faces this population. Gay and bisexual men represent one of the highest risk groups for depression, which potentially poses quality-of-life and public health challenges comparable to those of HIV. The present study seeks to inform co...
Li, Yan Hildersley, Rosanna Ho, Grace W K Potts, Laura Henderson, Claire
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Media coverage on mental health problems has been found to vary by newspaper type, and stigma disproportionately affects people with mental illness by diagnosis. This study investigated the relationships between types of UK national newspaper (tabloid vs. broadsheet), illness classification (SMI-severe mental illnesses vs. CMD-common mental disorde...
