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Background:Sedentary behavior (including sitting) is negatively associated with physical health, independent from physical activity (PA). Knowledge on the associations with mental health is less elaborated. Therefore this study aims to investigate the relationship between sitting and 5 indices of mental health in adults (psychological distress, depression, anxiety, somatization, and sleeping problems), and between sitting interactions (sitting×gender, sitting×age, sitting×education, and sitting×PA) and these mental health indices.Methods:A cohort of Belgian adults (25–64 years; n = 4344) provided self-reported data on sitting and PA and on 5 mental health indices. Cross-sectional associations were examined using multiple linear regression analyses.Results:Analyses adjusted for gender, age, education, and PA showed significant positive associations between sitting and the 5 mental health indices (P < .05). All associations were true for both men and women, and for low and high educated individuals, while some were only found in older individuals (somatization, P < .001) and those being insufficiently active (psychological distress, P = .007; depression, P = .002; and anxiety, P = .014).Conclusions:More sitting seems to be associated with poorer mental health, independently of gender, age, education, and PA. Moderation analyses showed that these associations may differ according to age and PA levels.

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Association between Dietary Energy Density and Mental Health in Overweight/Obese Women

10.21203/rs.2.20529/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Niloofarsadat Maddahi ◽

Habib Yarizadeh ◽

Leila Setayesh ◽

Yasaman Nasir ◽

Shahab Alizadeh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Physical Activity ◽

Energy Density ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Serum Triglyceride ◽

Dietary Energy ◽

Obese Women ◽

Health Indices ◽

Dietary Energy Density ◽

Adjusted Model

Abstract Objectives: Mental health, sleep quality and dietary intake are interlinked. Impairment of mental health and low sleep quality may contribute to obesity through the consumption of diets high in energy density. Nevertheless, it is not clear whether dietary energy density (DED) influences mental health. This study aimed to examine the association of DED with mental health indices, including depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep quality in overweight/obese women.Results: After adjustment for age, BMI, and physical activity, subjects in the highest quartile of DED had higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure, but lower serum triglyceride, than those in the lowest quartile (p <0.05). DED was significantly associated with increased odds of stress in the crude (OR =2.15, 95%CI: 1.01-4.56, p= 0.04) and adjusted model for age, BMI, and physical activity (OR = 2.56, 95%CI: 1.13-5.79, p=0.02). No significant relationship was observed between DED and depression, anxiety and sleep quality.

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Evaluation of the effects of 12 weeks mindfulness-based stress reduction on glycemic control and mental health indices in women with diabetes mellitus type 2

Advanced Biomedical Research ◽

10.4103/abr.abr_133_20 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

Anahita Babak ◽

OmidNikkhah Ravari ◽

SeyedehZeinab Mousavi

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Diabetes Mellitus ◽

Glycemic Control ◽

Stress Reduction ◽

Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 ◽

Diabetes Mellitus Type ◽

Health Indices ◽

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

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Association between Dietary Energy Density with Mental Health and Sleep Quality in Women with Overweight/Obesity

10.21203/rs.2.20529/v3 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Niloofarsadat Maddahi ◽

Habib Yarizadeh ◽

Leila Setayesh ◽

Yasaman Nasir ◽

Shahab Alizadeh ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Physical Activity ◽

Energy Density ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Serum Triglyceride ◽

Dietary Energy ◽

Obese Women ◽

Health Indices ◽

Dietary Energy Density ◽

Adjusted Model

Abstract Objectives : Mental health, sleep quality and dietary intake are interlinked. Impairment of mental health and low sleep quality may contribute to obesity through the consumption of diets high in energy density. Nevertheless, it is not clear whether dietary energy density (DED) influences mental health. This study aimed to examine the association of DED with mental health indices, including depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep quality in overweight/obese women. Results: After adjustment for age, BMI, and physical activity, subjects in the highest quartile of DED had higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure, but lower serum triglyceride, than those in the lowest quartile (p <0.05). DED was significantly associated with increased odds of stress in the crude (OR =2.15, 95%CI: 1.01-4.56, p= 0.04) and adjusted model for age, BMI, and physical activity (OR = 2.56, 95%CI: 1.13-5.79, p=0.02). No significant relationship was observed between DED and depression, anxiety and sleep quality.

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Effects of Basketball and Baduanjin Exercise Interventions on Problematic Smartphone Use and Mental Health among College Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine ◽

10.1155/2021/8880716 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Tao Xiao ◽

Can Jiao ◽

Jie Yao ◽

Lin Yang ◽

Yanjie Zhang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

College Students ◽

Perceived Stress ◽

Short Form ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Problematic Smartphone Use ◽

Exercise Interventions ◽

Health Indices ◽

Smartphone Use

Problematic smartphone use (PSU) has become a prevalent issue worldwide. Previous studies suggest that physical exercising may effectively reduce smartphone users’ addiction levels. Comparisons and further evaluations on the long-term effects of different types of exercise-based interventions on treating PSU remain to be investigated. Objective. We investigated if group-based basketball and Baduanjin exercise (a type of Qigong) would reduce PSU and improve the mental health of college students and whether such effects would be sustained. A twelve-week experiment was conducted, where 96 eligible Chinese college students with PSU were randomly assigned to two intervention arms (i.e., basketball and Baduanjin exercises) and a control arm. Outcome measures, including PSU (measured by the Mobile Phone Addiction Index in Chinese (MPAI)) and mental health indices for anxiety (measured by Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SRAS)), loneliness (measured by the short-form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (UCLA-LS)), inadequacy (measured by the revised Janis and Field’s Feelings of Inadequacy Scale (FIS)), and stress (measured by the Chinese version of Perceived Stress Scale (CPSS)) were collected at the baseline, the end of week 12, and the two-month follow-up. A Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) model for longitudinal data was utilized in analyses. Results. Both exercise interventions demonstrated significant effects on decreasing PSU (basketball: p < 0.01 ; Baduanjin: p < 0.01 ), feelings of anxiety (basketball: p < 0.01 ; Baduanjin: p = 0.04 ), loneliness (basketball: p < 0.01 ; Baduanjin: p < 0.01 ), inadequacy (basketball: p < 0.01 ; Baduanjin: p < 0.01 ), and perceived stress (basketball: p < 0.01 ; Baduanjin: p = 0.04 ), at the end of interventions. At two months after interventions, both exercise interventions demonstrated significant effects on decreasing PSU (basketball: p < 0.05 ; Baduanjin: p < 0.05 ), feelings of anxiety (basketball: p < 0.01 ; Baduanjin: p = 0.03 ), loneliness (basketball: p < 0.01 ; Baduanjin: p < 0.01 ), and inadequacy (basketball: p < 0.01 ; Baduanjin: p = 0.01 ), but not for feeling of stress. Furthermore, group-based basketball demonstrated larger improvements for all these significant results on reducing PSU and meanwhile improving their related mental health parameters among college students.

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Telemental Health Services for Indigenous Communities in Australia

10.1093/med/9780190622725.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sisira Edirippulige ◽

Matthew Bambling ◽

Pablo Fernandez

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Services ◽

Indigenous Population ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Mental Health Disorder ◽

Limited Resources ◽

Telemental Health ◽

Indigenous Australian ◽

Health Indices ◽

The Impact

Telemental health has been recognized as one of the key methods to closing disparities in health indices in the indigenous Australian populations. The conditions in which Australia’s indigenous communities are presently living have also been equated with parts of the world with limited resources. There is a rationale for exploring opportunities for using telemental health and study its effectiveness in this population This chapter discusses the high burden of mental health disorder among the indigenous population, the telemental health initiative to provide mental health services for these isolated communities, and the impact of these initiative on the wellbeing of the recipients. Chapter concludes with barriers to provide these services and potential solutions in the Australian context.

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New York City Community Mental Health Indices

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e548952012-001 ◽

2000 ◽

Author(s):

Carole Siegel ◽

David O'Neill ◽

Kristine Jones ◽

Eugene Laska ◽

Morris Meisner ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Community Mental Health ◽

York City ◽

Health Indices ◽

City Community

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Quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary tuberculosis and in the presence of the arterial hypertension

MedAlliance ◽

10.36422//23076348-2020-8-3-37-45 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 37-45

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Mental Health ◽

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽

Arterial Hypertension ◽

Pulmonary Disease ◽

Chronic Obstructive ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽

Health Indices

Objective. To analyze the characteristics of the quality of life (QOL) changes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), COPD + TB and arterial hypertension (AH) (COPD + TB + AH). Material and Methods. QOL indices were analyzed by 8 scores of SF-36 questionnaire in 115 res-pondents (n = 35 (COPD), n = 25 (COPD + TB), n = 20 (COPD + TB + AH), n = 35 (AH)). Results. Compared to patients with AH, the level of role functioning based on physical con-dition, general health, vitality, social functioning, and mental health patients with COPD, COPD + TB and COPD + TB + AH, was assessed below the average in general population. Patients with COPD + TB + AH showed the lowest rates of both physical and mental health indices. Conclusion. The presence of comorbid COPD and AH in patients receiving treatment for TB leads to a decrease in the QOL of patients with 3 competing diseases, which requires an integrated ap-proach to the management of this category of patients, involving specialists of various specialties to increase patient compliance and cure then from TB.

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