Mirea, Dan-Mircea Martin-Key, Nayra A Barton-Owen, Giles Olmert, Tony Cooper, Jason D Han, Sung Yeon Sarah Farrag, Lynn P Bell, Emily Friend, Lauren V Eljasz, Pawel
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JMIR mental health
Web-based assessments of mental health concerns hold great potential for earlier, more cost-effective, and more accurate diagnoses of psychiatric conditions than that achieved with traditional interview-based methods. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of a comprehensive web-based mental health assessment on the mental health and well-b...
Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Machida, Masaki Nakamura, Itaru Saito, Reiko Odagiri, Yuko Kojima, Takako Watanabe, Hidehiro Inoue, Shigeru
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BJPsych Open
Background It has been indicated that the health impact of COVID-19 is potentially greater in individuals from lower socioeconomic status than in the overall population. Aims To examine how the spread of COVID-19 has altered the general public's mental health, and whether such changes differ in relation to individual income. Method An online longit...
Zaçe, D. Hoxhaj, I. Orfino, A. Viteritti, A.M. Janiri, L. Di Pietro, M.L.
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Journal of Psychiatric Research
Considering the importance of evidence on interventions to tackle mental health problems in healthcare workers (HCWs) during pandemics, we conducted a systematic review, aiming to identify and summarize the implemented interventions to deal with mental health issues of HCWs during infectious disease outbreaks and report their effectiveness. Web of ...
Gücük, Sebahat Erim, Burcu Rahşan Kayhan, Mehmet
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Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to compare smoking behavior in out-patients in terms of psychological factors with a view to supporting cessation treatment. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional and analytical study through face-to-face interviews by the primary care physician with 765 volunteer participants who applied to our hospital for ...
Silva, Washington Allysson Dantas de Sampaio Brito, Tátila Rayane Pereira, Cicero Roberto
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Personality and Individual Differences
Situations of public calamity, such as that caused by COVID-19 pandemic, strongly impact mental health, especially among people who feel most anxious about the imminence of death, as highlighted by the Terror Management Theory. In this research, we investigated how and under which conditions concerns about death itself and anxiety are related to ps...
Evers, I Heerings, M de Roos, N M Jongen, P J Visser, L H
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Nutritional neuroscience
A healthy diet has been associated with less symptoms or progression of disease in multiple sclerosis (MS). However, whether specific diets are needed, or general healthy diet recommendations are sufficient is unknown. To investigate the association between diet quality, use of diets, and quality of life (QoL) in men and women with MS. Diet quality...
Kobayashi, Lindsay C O’Shea, Brendan Q Kler, Jasdeep S Nishimura, Raphael Palavicino-Maggio, Caroline B Eastman, Marisa R Vinson, Yamani Rikia Finlay, Jessica M
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BMJ Open
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in early 2020, has resulted in massive social, economic, political and public health upheaval around the world. We established a national longitudinal cohort study, the COVID-19 Coping Study, to investigate the effects of pandemic-related stressors and changes in life circumstances on mental health and well-...
Bizri, Maya Kassir, Ghida Tamim, Hani Kobeissy, Firas Hayek, Samer El
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Journal of Health Psychology
The COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant mental health toll on healthcare workers in Lebanon. We examined pandemic-related psychological distress among healthcare workers in a tertiary care medical center. One hundred and fifty participants completed an online questionnaire. About half showed a high risk of acute distress (58.7%) on the GHQ-28, ...
Suesse, Bianca Lago, Luise Westley-Wise, Victoria Masso, Malcolm Cuenca, Jose Pai, Nagesh
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Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England)
There is a need for greater understanding about frequent and high use of inpatient mental health services, and those with ongoing increased needs. Most studies employ a threshold of frequent use (e.g. numbers of admissions) and high use (e.g. lengthy stays) without justification. To identify model-driven thresholds for frequent/high inpatient menta...
Herle, Moritz Smith, Andrea D. Bu, Feifei Steptoe, Andrew Fancourt, Daisy
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Clinical Nutrition Espen
Background & Aims The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the implementation of stay-at-home and lockdown measures. It is currently unknown if the experience of lockdown leads to long term changes in individual’s eating behaviors. The objectives of this study were: i) to derive longitudinal trajectories of change in eating during UK lockdown, and ii) to i...
