scholarly journals Environmental noise and sleep and mental health outcomes in a nationally representative sample of urban US adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. e056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara E. Rudolph ◽  
Aaron Shev ◽  
Diana Paksarian ◽  
Kathleen R. Merikangas ◽  
Daniel J. Mennitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Environmental Noise ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Nationally Representative

Association between Exposure to Noise and Sleep and Mental Health Outcomes in a Nationally-Representative Sample of U.S. Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan A. Casey ◽  
Aaron Shev ◽  
Diana Paksarian ◽  
Kathleen Merikangas ◽  
Daniel Mennitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Nationally Representative

scholarly journals The Moderating Role of Resilience in the Personality-Mental Health Relationship During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Pauly ◽  
Fabiana Ribeiro ◽  
Valerie E. Schröder ◽  
Laure Pauly ◽  
Rejko Krüger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Health Spending ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Moderate Stress

Background: Associations between personality traits and mental health outcomes (depression, anxiety, loneliness, and stress) have rarely been assessed in a population-representative sample of a high-income country during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, as far as we know, the role of health and social behaviors as well as resilience in the personality-mental health relationship has yet to be explored.Methods: A representative sample of 1,828 residents of Luxembourg filled in validated scales to assess personality traits and resilience, depressive symptoms, generalized anxiety, loneliness, and stress, indicating mental health, in mid-April 2020.Results: Approximately 21% of the participants scored above the cut-off for moderate depression and moderate loneliness. Moderate anxiety and moderate stress were present in 6.2 and 0.3% of the participants, respectively. Higher-educated respondents and those living in higher-value housing reported better mental health. Agreeableness and conscientiousness were most consistently associated with better mental health; neuroticism was most consistently associated with worse mental health. Spending more time on social media was also associated with elevated levels of all four mental health outcomes. Social and health behaviors did not change the personality-mental health relationships. Resilience moderated some of the personality-mental health associations, most consistently in neuroticism.Conclusions: Findings suggest educational and socioeconomic inequalities in mental health in a nationally representative sample during the COVID-19 confinement measures. Personality traits, particularly agreeableness, conscientiousness, and low neuroticism were associated with mental health. The moderating role of resilience in the personality-mental health relationship suggests intervention potential to improve mental health during periods of confinement.

scholarly journals Individual- and Relationship-Level Factors Related to Better Mental Health Outcomes following Child Abuse: Results from a Nationally Representative Canadian Sample

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 776-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracie O. Afifi ◽  
Harriet L. MacMillan ◽  
Tamara Taillieu ◽  
Sarah Turner ◽  
Kristene Cheung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Canadian Community Health Survey ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Abuse History ◽  
Good Mental Health ◽  
Nationally Representative

Objective: Child abuse can have devastating mental health consequences. Fortunately, not all individuals exposed to child abuse will suffer from poor mental health. Understanding what factors are related to good mental health following child abuse can provide evidence to inform prevention of impairment. Our objectives were to 1) describe the prevalence of good, moderate, and poor mental health among respondents with and without a child abuse history; 2) examine the relationships between child abuse and good, moderate, and poor mental health outcomes; 3) examine the relationships between individual- and relationship-level factors and better mental health outcomes; and 4) determine if individual- and relationship-level factors moderate the relationship between child abuse and mental health. Method: Data were from the nationally representative 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental Health ( n = 23,395; household response rate = 79.8%; 18 years and older). Good, moderate, and poor mental health was assessed using current functioning and well-being, past-year mental disorders, and past-year suicidal ideation. Results: Only 56.3% of respondents with a child abuse history report good mental health compared to 72.4% of those without a child abuse history. Individual- and relationship-level factors associated with better mental health included higher education and income, physical activity, good coping skills to handle problems and daily demands, and supportive relationships that foster attachment, guidance, reliable alliance, social integration, and reassurance of worth. Conclusions: This study identifies several individual- and relationship-level factors that could be targeted for intervention strategies aimed at improving mental health outcomes following child abuse.

scholarly journals Lifetime Interpersonal Polyvictimization: Abuse Typologies and Mental Health Outcomes in a Nationally Representative Sample of Men from the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Rhonda Burns ◽  
Cherie Armour
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
Nationally Representative

BackgroundInterpersonal polyvictimisation experiences are a specific type of traumatic experience that include physical, sexual or psychological attacks against a person and much research has concentrated on female only or mixed samples. Being a victim of one form of victimisation experience increases the risk of further victimisation experience resulting in polyvictimisation, and elevates the likelihood on negative mental health outcomes. ObjectivesThe current study seeks to establish interpersonal polyvictimisation typologies within a male sub-population of a large epidemiologic sample and establish associated risk of psychopathology across a range of mental health outcomes. MethodsUsing data from 15,794 adult males, aged over 18 years who completed the NESARC III, a Latent Class Analysis (LCA) of the endorsement of interpersonal victimisation experiences was conducted to establish latent profiles of interpersonal polyvictimisation. Subsequently regression analysis was conducted to establish risk of psychopathology across a series of DSM 5 diagnosed mental health conditions. FindingsA three-class solution was deemed optimal in line with published fit statistics. Class 3 was categorised by low/no endorsement and was labelled ‘normative’, Class 2 was categorised by high endorsement of childhood indicators and was labelled ‘childhood’, class 1 showed a moderate endorsement across life-course victimisation indicators and was labelled ‘lifecourse’. Interpersonal polyvictimisation profiles showed increased risk of negative mental health outcomes in adulthood suggesting that distinct typologies of interpersonal polyvictimisation exist within the adult male only population. ConclusionsExperiences of interpersonal polyvictimisation are robustly associated with adult psychopathology in males including elevated rates of the likelihood of PTSD, Anxiety and Depression in a dose response fashion. Interventions and support services should therefore be developed and implemented that are targeted to gender specific distinctiveness.

scholarly journals Changes in peer and sibling victimization in early adolescence: longitudinal associations with multiple indices of mental health in a prospective birth cohort study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Sharpe ◽  
Elian Fink ◽  
Fiona Duffy ◽  
Praveetha Patalay
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Bullying Interventions

AbstractVictimization by peers and siblings is associated with poorer mental health outcomes in adolescence. What is less clear is whether mental health outcomes improve if victimization experiences cease (e.g., being victimized in primary school but not secondary school). This study aims to explore how changes in victimization experiences are associated with changes in mental health outcomes in early adolescence. Data are from 13,912 participants in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a nationally representative cohort of individuals born in the UK. Self-reported victimization by peers and siblings, as well as mental health outcomes (depressive symptoms, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and body image), were collected at age 11 and age 14. Victimization at either time point was associated with poorer mental health across the range of outcomes, with effects largest for those who were consistently victimized. Those who reported increasing victimization had greater deterioration in their mental health compared with their peers who were never victimized. Conversely, children whose victimization decreased showed similar mental health development over this period as those who were never victimized. There was a cumulative effect of victimization by peers and siblings, with effect sizes generally larger for experiences with peers. Victimization in adolescence is associated with enduring reductions in mental health. Nonetheless, the promising outcomes associated with reductions in victimization suggest the potential for bullying interventions in schools to limit the deterioration in mental health in victimized groups.

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