Association between Bullying and Mental Health Status in New Zealand Adolescents

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Coggan ◽  
Sara Bennett ◽  
Rhonda Hooper ◽  
Pauline Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Mental Health Status

Associations between cognitive errors and mental health status in New Zealand adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-290
Author(s):  
Tatiana Tairi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Cognitive Errors ◽  
Cognitive Error

AbstractBackground:Cognitive models of psychopathology suggest that negatively biased thinking styles are involved in the development and maintenance of emotional disturbances.Aims:The present study examined the relationships between negative cognitive errors and indices of mental health status (i.e. anxiety and depression) in New Zealand adolescents.Method:A community sample of 490 youth aged 16–18 years completed an anonymous online survey consisting of the Children’s Negative Cognitive Error Questionnaire (CNCEQ), the Trait subscale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-T) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D).Results:Negative cognitive errors correlated positively with greater levels of anxious and depressive symptoms. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that overall cognitive error score was a strong predictor of adolescents’ self-reported anxious symptoms and, to a lesser extent, depressive symptoms. Moreover, cognitive errors significantly differentiated between adolescents with high scores from adolescents with low scores on both the anxiety (STAI-T) and the depression (CES-D) scales.Conclusions:These findings lend support to the generalizability of Beck’s cognitive theory to a New Zealand adolescent population and highlight the importance of focusing on prevention and early intervention programmes that directly target these faulty or biased ways of thinking in adolescents with anxious and/or depressive symptoms before meeting diagnostic criteria.

The Kessler PSychological Distress Scale in Te Rau Hinengaro: The New Zealand Mental Health Survey

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Oakley Browne ◽  
J. Elisabeth Wells ◽  
Kate M. Scott ◽  
Magnus A. McGee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Health Surveys ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
The Past ◽  
World Mental Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Distress Scale

Objective: The aim of the present study was to compare two versions of the Kessler 10-item scale (K10), as measures of population mental health status in New Zealand. Method: A nationwide household survey of residents aged ≥16 years was carried out between 2003 and 2004. The World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI 3.0) was used to obtain DSM-IV diagnoses. Serious mental illness (SMI) was defined as for the World Mental Health Surveys Initiative and the USA National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Participants were randomly assigned to receive the ‘past month’ K10 or the ‘worst month in the past 12 months’ K10. There were 12 992 completed interviews; 7435 included the K10. The overall response rate was 73.3%. Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves were used to examine the ability of both K10 versions to discriminate between CIDI 3.0 cases and non-cases, and to predict SMI. Results: Scores on both versions of the K10 were higher for female subjects, younger people, people with fewer educational qualifications, people with lower household income and people resident in more socioeconomically deprived areas. Both versions of the K10 were effective in discriminating between CIDI 3.0 cases and non-cases for anxiety disorder, mood disorders and any study disorder. The worst month in the past 12 months K10 is a more effective predictor than the past 1 month K10 of SMI (area under the curve: 0.89 vs 0.80). Conclusions: Either version of the K10 could be used in repeated health surveys to monitor the mental health status of the New Zealand population and to derive proxy prevalence estimates for SMI. The worst month in the past 12 months K10 may be the preferred version in such surveys, because it is a better predictor of SMI than the past month K10 and also has a more logical relationship to 12 month disorder and 12 month service use.

scholarly journals Fish consumption and self-reported physical and mental health status

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M Silvers ◽  
Kate M Scott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Fish Consumption ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Nutrition Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey

AbstractObjective:The aim of this study was to assess whether self-reported mental health status, measured using the SF-36 questionnaire, was associated with fish consumption, assessed using a food-frequency questionnaire.Design:The cross-national data were collected in the 1996/97 New Zealand Health Survey and 1997 Nutrition Survey, which were conducted using the same sampling frame. Survey respondents were categorised into those who consumed no fish of any kind and those who consumed some kind of fish, at any frequency. Data were adjusted for age, household income, eating patterns, alcohol use and smoking. Other demographic variables and potential confounding nutrients were included in the preliminary analyses but were not found to have a significant relationship with fish consumption.Subjects:Data from a nationally representative sample of 4644 New Zealand adults aged 15 years and over were used in this analysis.Results:Fish consumption was significantly associated with higher self-reported mental health status, even after adjustment for possible confounders. Differences between the mean scores for fish eaters and those who never eat fish were 8.2 for the Mental Health scale (P = 0.005) and 7.5 for the Mental Component score (P = 0.001). Conversely, the association between fish consumption and physical functioning was in the opposite direction (P = 0.045).Conclusions:This is the first cross-sectional survey to demonstrate a significant relationship between fish intake and higher self-reported mental health status, therefore offering indirect support for the hypothesis that ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids may act as mood stabilisers.

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