Protective factors for mental health and well-being in a changing climate: Perspectives from Inuit youth in Nunatsiavut, Labrador

IntroductionImmigration detention has a profound and negative impact on the physical health, mental health, development and social-emotional well-being of children, adolescents and their families. Australian clinicians will report results from detailed health and well-being assessments of asylum seeking children and adolescents who have experienced prolonged immigration detention.Methods and analysisThis is a national, multicentre study with a longitudinal cohort design that will document health and well-being outcomes of the children and adolescents who have been detained in offshore detention on the remote island of Nauru. Outcome measures will be reported from the time arrival in Australia and repeated over a 5-year follow-up period. Measures include demographics, residency history and refugee status, physical health and well-being outcomes (including mental health, development and social-emotional well-being), clinical service utilisation and psychosocial risk and protective factors for health and well-being (eg, adverse childhood experiences). Longitudinal follow-up will capture outcomes over a 5-year period after arrival in Australia. Analysis will be undertaken to explore baseline risk and protective factors, with regression analyses to assess their impact on health and well-being outcomes. To understand how children’s outcomes change over time, multilevel regression analysis will be utilised. Structural equation modelling will be conducted to explore the correlation between baseline factors, mediational factors and outcomes to assess trajectories over time.Ethics and disseminationThis research project was approved by the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network Human Research Ethics Committee. Subsequent site-specific approvals have been approved in 5 of the 11 governing bodies where the clinical consultations took place. In order to ensure this research is relevant and sensitive to the needs of the cohort, our research team includes an asylum seeker who has spent time in Australian immigration detention. Results will be presented at conferences and published in peer-reviewed Medline-indexed journals.

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Study protocol: the OxWell school survey investigating social, emotional and behavioural factors associated with mental health and well-being

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052717 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. e052717

Author(s):

Karen Laura Mansfield ◽

Stephen Puntis ◽

Emma Soneson ◽

Andrea Cipriani ◽

Galit Geulayov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Protective Factors ◽

Well Being ◽

Risk And Protective Factors ◽

Self Report ◽

Care Seeking ◽

Social Emotional ◽

Behavioural Factors ◽

Health And Well Being ◽

Care Seeking Behaviour

IntroductionImproving our understanding of the broad range of social, emotional and behavioural factors that contribute to mental health outcomes in adolescents will be greatly enhanced with diverse, representative population samples. We present a protocol for a repeated self-report survey assessing risk and protective factors for mental health and well-being in school pupils aged 8–18 years with different socioeconomic backgrounds in England. The survey will provide a comprehensive picture of mental health and associated risks at the community level to inform the development of primary and secondary prevention and treatment strategies in schools.Methods and analysisThis protocol is for a large-scale online repeated self-report survey, representative of children and adolescents aged 8–18 years attending schools or further education colleges in participating counties in England. The survey consists of around 300 questions, including validated measures of mental health and well-being, risk and protective factors, and care-seeking behaviour and preferences. Additional questions each year vary to address current events and novel hypotheses, developed by the research team, collaborators and stakeholders. Primary analyses will investigate current and changing risk and protective factors, care-seeking behaviour and attitudes to allowing linkage of their sensitive data to other databases for research, and will compare measures of mental health to measures of well-being.Ethics and disseminationThe study was approved by the University of Oxford Research Ethics Committee (Reference: R62366). Tailored data summaries will be provided to participating schools and stakeholders within 3 months of data collection. The main findings will be presented at scientific meetings, published in peer-reviewed journals and shared via digital and social media channels. At the end of the study, other researchers will be able to apply for access to anonymous data extracts.

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Cross-Sectional Study Protocol for the COVID-19 Impact Survey of Mothers and Their 7–11 Year Old Children in Alberta, Canada

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2021.597759 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Nicole Letourneau ◽

Sheila McDonald ◽

Lyndsay Jerusha MacKay ◽

Rhonda C. Bell ◽

Erin Hetherington ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Protective Factors ◽

Maternal Mental Health ◽

Multivariable Analysis ◽

Well Being ◽

Risk And Protective Factors ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

The Impact ◽

Health And Well Being

Objectives: Our aim is to understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on families who have been followed longitudinally in two cohorts studied in Alberta, Canada. We will examine household infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, financial impact, domestic violence, substance use, child school and daily life and relationships in the home. We will identify risk and protective factors for maternal mental health outcomes using longitudinal data that can inform policy and government resource allocation in future disasters.Methods: Mothers who are currently participating in two longitudinal studies, Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON; N = 1,800) and All Our Families (AOF: N = 2,534) were eligible to participate. Mothers were invited to complete the baseline COVID-19 Impact Survey (20–30 min) within 4 months of March 15, 2020, which was when the province of Alberta, Canada, implemented school closures and physical-distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Mothers were asked to report on their own, their child's and their family's functioning. Mothers were re-surveyed at 6 months after completion of the initial COVID-19 Impact Survey, and will be re-surveyed again at 12 months.Results: Responses from participants in both cohorts will be examined in harmonized analyses as well as separately. Descriptive, multivariable analysis will be undertaken to examine risk and resiliency over time and factors that predict mental health and well-being.Conclusions: This study will provide timely information on the impact of COVID-19 for Albertan families. It will identify risk and protective factors for mental health and well-being among contemporary urban families supported by a publicly funded health care system to inform allocation of resources to support those most vulnerable during a global pandemic.

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Promoting mental health and well-being for children and young people

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e427052008-006 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Young People ◽

Well Being ◽

Children And Young People ◽

Health And Well Being

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Mental Health and Well-being in Northern Ontario, 2002

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e509012013-090 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Connie Nelson ◽

Jungwee Park

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Northern Ontario ◽

Health And Well Being

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Times of change and opportunity: Toward a psychological model of mental health and well-being

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e530962014-001 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Kinderman

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Model ◽

Health And Well Being

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A positive psychology study and intervention on the well-being of French PhD students in biology

10.31234/osf.io/rht94 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Gabriel Marais ◽

Rebecca Shankland ◽

Pascale Haag ◽

Robin Fiault ◽

Bridget Juniper

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Positive Psychology ◽

Large Fraction ◽

Reference Sample ◽

Well Being ◽

Attrition Rates ◽

Human Costs ◽

The Uk ◽

And Control ◽

Health And Well Being

In France, little data are available on mental health and well-being in academia, and nothing has been published about PhD students. From studies abroad, we know that doing a PhD is a difficult experience resulting in high attrition rates with significant financial and human costs. Here we focused on PhD students in biology at university Lyon 1. A first study aimed at measuring the mental health and well-being of PhD students using several generalist and PhD-specific tools. Our results on 136 participants showed that a large fraction of the PhD students experience abnormal levels of stress, depression and anxiety, and their mean well-being score is significantly lower than that of a British reference sample. French PhD student well-being is specifically affected by career uncertainty, perceived lack of progress in the PhD and perceived lack of competence, which points towards possible cultural differences of experiencing a PhD in France and the UK. In a second study, we carried out a positive psychology intervention. Comparing the scores of the test and control groups showed a clear effect of the intervention on reducing anxiety. We discuss our results and the possible future steps to improve French PhD students’ well-being.

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Mental Health and Well-being of People Who Seek Help From Their Member of Parliament

Case Medical Research ◽

10.31525/ct1-nct04203966 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Health And Well Being ◽

Member Of Parliament

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Supporting the Mental Health and Well-Being of First Responders from Career to Retirement: A Scoping Review

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x21000431 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Erin Smith ◽

Greg Dean ◽

Lisa Holmes

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Help Seeking ◽

First Responders ◽

Well Being ◽

First Responder ◽

Help Seeking Behaviors ◽

Holistic Approaches ◽

Pubmed Database ◽

Health And Well Being

Abstract Introduction: First responders are at greater risk of mental ill health and compromised well-being compared to the general population. It is important to identify strategies that will be effective in supporting mental health, both during and after the first responder’s career. Methods: A scoping review was conducted using the PubMed database (1966 to October 1, 2020) and the Google Scholar database (October 1, 2020) using relevant search terms, truncation symbols, and Boolean combination functions. The reference lists of all relevant publications were also reviewed to identify further publications. Results: A total of 172 publications were retrieved by the combined search strategies. Of these, 56 met the inclusion criteria and informed the results of this overview paper. These publications identified that strategies supporting first responder mental health and well-being need to break down stigma and build resilience. Normalizing conversations around mental health is integral for increasing help-seeking behaviors, both during a first responder’s career and in retirement. Organizations should consider the implementation of both pre-retirement and post-retirement support strategies to improve mental health and well-being. Conclusion: Strategies for supporting mental health and well-being need to be implemented early in the first responder career and reinforced throughout and into retirement. They should utilize holistic approaches which encourage “reaching in” rather than placing an onus on first responders to “reach out” when they are in crisis.

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