scholarly journals COVID-19 and Mental Health: A Study of its Impact on Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kshipra Moghe ◽  
Disha Kotecha ◽  
Manjusha Patil
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
Urban Student ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Collectivist Society

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyse the personal, social and psychological impact of COVID - 19 on the mental health of students of age group 16 to 25. A response from N= 351 students (from the most affected state in India), provided a comparative analysis based on the gender, and background to understand the pattern in issues related to mental health during the pandemic. The results show that female students are more concerned about health, and future, and are more prone to psychological issues like feelings of uncertainty, helplessness and outbursts than male students. Urban student population is more mentally affected than their rural counterparts, however time spent on the internet is almost the same despite the difference in infrastructure and resources. Also, there is an increase in need for solitude, being withdrawn and self-harm in male students require attention. A shift in perception from seeing family as a source of support to that of a restriction is indicated, although the benefits of a collectivist society are undisputed. The results indicate that there is overall increased awareness about mental health among the student population and with programs/strategies focusing on background and gender, a significant improvement is attainable.

scholarly journals Factors Related to Mental Health During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Pinedo ◽  
Isabel Vicario-Molina ◽  
Eva González Ortega ◽  
Andrés Palacios Picos
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
And Gender

The COVID-19 disease has forced governments to adopt exceptional measures. The lockdown decreed in Spain in 2020 required citizens to stay confined at home, which might have affected their mental health. The objective is to identify factors that influenced adults' mental health during this period. A sample of 3,508 adults from the Spanish general population completed an online survey that collected sociodemographic data and information about daily planning and activities, healthy habits, loneliness, coping humor and mental health. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. According to the results, the proposed model showed good fit values, and latent variables explained 30% of the variance in mental health. Loneliness, coping humor, healthy habits, age and gender had a significant weight in the prediction of mental health during lockdown. Area of residence, number of days of confinement and number of people in the household were not related to mental health. This study addresses the effect of COVID-19 and social distancing measures by identifying risk and protective factors for the development of mental health difficulties. There is a need to target specific and early interventions aimed at mitigating the psychological impact of the pandemic while increasing well-being, especially in more vulnerable groups.

scholarly journals Assessing mental health signals among sexual and gender minorities using Twitter data

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 765-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunpeng Zhao ◽  
Yi Guo ◽  
Xing He ◽  
Yonghui Wu ◽  
Xi Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Gender Minority ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minority ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Minority People

Sexual and gender minorities face extreme challenges that breed stigma with alarming consequences damaging their mental health. Nevertheless, sexual and gender minority people and their mental health needs remain little understood. Because of stigma, sexual and gender minorities are often unwilling to self-identify themselves as sexual and gender minorities when asked. However, social media have become popular platforms for health-related researches. We first explored methods to find sexual and gender minorities through their self-identifying tweets, and further classified them into 11 sexual and gender minority subgroups. We then analyzed mental health signals extracted from these sexual and gender minorities’ Twitter timelines using a lexicon-based analysis method. We found that (1) sexual and gender minorities expressed more negative feelings, (2) the difference between sexual and gender minority and non-sexual and gender minority people is shrinking after 2015, (3) there are differences among sexual and gender minorities lived in different geographic regions, (4) sexual and gender minorities lived in states with sexual and gender minority-related protection laws and policies expressed more positive emotions, and (5) sexual and gender minorities expressed different levels of mental health signals across different sexual and gender minority subgroups.

scholarly journals Hospital admissions for stress-related presentations among school-aged adolescents during term time versus holidays in England: weekly time series and retrospective cross-sectional analysis

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Blackburn ◽  
Omotomilola Ajetunmobi ◽  
Louise Mc Grath-Lone ◽  
Pia Hardelid ◽  
Roz Shafran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Cumulative Incidence ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Rate Ratios

Background Schools are a potential stressor for adolescents and may contribute to emergency hospital admissions. Aims We describe rates of stress-related presentations (SRPs) among school-aged adolescents (11–17 years) during school terms and holidays, and explore differences by age and gender. Method Using national administrative hospital data, we defined an SRP as an emergency hospital admission with a primary diagnosis related to pain, psychosomatic symptoms (e.g. fatigue) or mental health problems, or with self-harm indicated in any diagnostic position. We estimated incidence rate ratios for weekly SRPs in term time versus holidays from 2014–2015 to 2017–2018, using negative binomial regression models, stratified by age and gender. We estimated the cumulative incidence of any SRP between 11 and 17 years by analysing prior hospital admission histories of adolescents with an SRP in 2017–2018. Results Over the 4-year study period, 305 491 SRPs in 171 013 school-aged adolescents accounted for 31% of emergency admissions for this group. SRPs were predominantly for mental health problems or self-harm (38%), or pain (35%). Weekly admission rates for SRPs were higher in term time than holidays for all ages (age-specific incidence rate ratios were 1.15–1.49 for girls and 1.08–1.60 for boys). Rates were highest for girls aged 14 and 15 years. The estimated cumulative incidence of any SRP between 11 and 17 years was 7.9% for girls and 4.1% for boys. Conclusions Hospital admissions for SRPs are common among adolescents, affecting around two girls and one boy in every classroom. Higher rates in term time than holidays suggest that school factors may contribute.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS EXPERIENCES OF INDIAN POPULATION DURING CORONAVIRUS DISEASE PANDEMIC SOCIAL ISOLATION AND LONELINESS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-34
Author(s):  
DIVYA GOEL ◽  
MAJID FAROOQ
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mental Health Programs

Objective: The sudden emergence of wide spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to adoption of physical distancing or lockdown all over the globe to curtail the viral transmission. Although lockdown plays an important role, at the same time, it can adversely affect the psychological health of the population. In addition, because of stay at home order, people are more inclined to use the media which can further aggravate the mental health issues in population. This study was planned to study the perceived psychological issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Methods: An online social survey was conducted using semi-structured questionnaire, participants were added through snowball sampling technique. Results: A total of 455 people (264 females and 191 males) participated in the study. Majority of participants 228 (50.1%) felt stressed out during coronavirus lockdown period. Female gender was associated with greater negative psychological impact of lockdown. Most participants 263 (57.8%) were worried about the health of the loved ones. Most of the participants tried to seek information from different media. The difference between the stress level was highly significant (p=0.04639∗) between the participants depending on the duration for which they explore the information on different media. Conclusion: COVID-19 pandemic was associated with stress in the majority of people in our sample, and media has a role to modulate the psychological impact of this lockdown. As COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, we need to verify these findings on larger population and policy-makers need to strengthen our mental health programs to mitigate the psychological impact of this pandemic.

scholarly journals Age, gender and ethnicity of those detained under Part II of the Mental Health Act 1983

2002 ◽  
Vol 180 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Audini ◽  
Paul Lelliott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Black People ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender

BackgroundAggregate returns give limited information about those detained under the Mental Health Act 1983.AimsTo use existing data-sets to examine detentions under Part II of the Act.MethodData from 26 areas, with a combined population of 9.2 million, were combined. Population census data were used to standardise rates of detention by age, gender and ethnicity.ResultsThe 31 702 detentions are distributed bimodally with peaks at age 25–34 years and at over age 80 years. In the younger age group rates of detention are higher for men. The excess of women in the older group is no longer apparent when rates are standardised for age and gender. Detentions are over six times more likely to be of Black people than of White (450 v. 68 per standardised 100 000 population).ConclusionsThe difference in rates of detention between Black and White people is greater than previously thought. The excess of older women detained under Part II of the Act is largely due to the lower life expectancy of men.

scholarly journals Framing mental health questions using context better predicts disability than does frequency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anirudh Krishnakumar ◽  
MAURICIO SCOPEL HOFFMANN ◽  
Felix Schoeller ◽  
Jonathan Charles Clucas ◽  
Jake Son ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Functional Outcomes ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Latent Construct ◽  
Survey Instruments ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Adverbial Phrase

Most mental health questionnaires only probe behavior and emotion over one domain (e.g., frequency) by using an adverbial phrase such as 'How often...?'. This single-domain approach to behavior sampling may limit the scope of psychiatric evidence that these instruments can capture. We investigated whether adding domains such as intensity, duration, ability and context to mental health survey instruments garner responses that better characterize or measure relevant symptoms or behaviors, testing its association with relevant outcomes. We tested whether our multidomain instrument could be associated with hospitalization, self-harm, education, and disability. 1,504 participants took an augmented version of the SWAN questionnaire (‘SWAN+’), where 4 domains were added to the ability domain already present (frequency, duration, intensity, and context). First, we used structural equation models and the tri-factor modelling to analyze if the latent construct of domains was independently associated with the outcomes. Our results suggest that adding domains such as frequency and context could help characterize disability beyond the domain originally probed by the SWAN questionnaire. Different domains had different predictive effects across outcomes measured in the study. We also complemented results from the tri-factor modelling with a more classical approach, by performing regressions on the summed scores on each domain and the entire scale, adjusted by age and gender. Second, analyses were performed to identify the best predictor domain within each question to predict disability. Significant results were found for the ability and context domains on practically all questions (p<0.001), revealing that they are important for almost all questions, whereas frequency is predictive for only a subset of them. This confirmed the results of the tri-factor analysis demonstrating the clinical utility of our findings. It also indicated that context is more predictive than frequency, that ability and context should be uniformly applied, and that the ubiquitous frequency phrasing is not uniformly as informative in our study.Overall, our results suggest that the ‘multidomain’ approach to questionnaires may improve inferences about mental health and predictions of functional outcomes. Framing questions using appropriate and relevant domains seems critical to measure psychopathology adequately, as opposed to asking solely about the frequency or recurrence of any given symptom.

scholarly journals The Effect of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Consolata Uzzi ◽  
Bolaji Yoade ◽  
Victoria Iyanu Olateju ◽  
Mary Olowere ◽  
Gibson Anugwom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
The Impact

Background: As COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect every nation, Healthcare Workers (HCW) who care for the patients are psychologically impacted. This study aims to assess the psychological impact experienced by HCW and the psychosocial support they received. Methods: Using PubMed, google scholar and Embase from December 2019 through June 2021, we found 376 studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of HCW. Using our inclusion criteria, 325 studies were excluded. 51 full-text articles were assessed for eligibility. 9 articles which met our criteria and eligibility criteria reported on 19,232 HCW, and 75.2% of the study participants were women. Results: The study participants reported high levels of stress, hypervigilance, fatigue, sleep problems, PTSD symptoms, poor concentration, depression, anxiety, burnout, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, suicide and self-harm ideations and somatic symptoms due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The psychosocial support provided to HCW includes counseling and psychotherapy-based sessions on stress adaptation, onsite mindfulness-based crisis intervention, online form of emotional freedom technique, and Effort-reward system.  Conclusion: Multiple interventions found in our review were effective in mitigating psychological stress among HCWs. These interventions should be considered as part of support provided to HCW with psychosocial challenges.

Supporting LGBT Lives? Complicating the suicide consensus in LGBT mental health research

Sexualities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Bryan ◽  
Paula Mayock
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Health And Well Being

This article locates itself within an emergent, counter-discursive body of scholarship that is critical of universalizing depictions portraying queer-identified or LGBT youth as vulnerable and ‘at-risk’ of a range of negative mental health outcomes, including self-harm and suicidality. Drawing on key findings from a large-scale, mixed-methods study exploring the mental health and well-being of LGBT people, we seek to contribute to the development of a more expansive understanding of LGBT lives by demonstrating the diverse ways people engage with their sexuality and gender identity and illuminating the complex meanings that those LGBT people who have experienced psychological and suicidal distress ascribe to their feelings, thoughts and actions.

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AGGRESSIVENESS, PEER PRESSURE AND PARENTAL ATTITUDES AMONG TURKISH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 975-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jale Eldelekliog˘lu
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender

The relationships between aggressive behaviors, peer pressure, parental attitudes, and gender among 202 students from different public high schools were investigated in this study. Three scales were employed. Following the calculation of the correlation coefficients among the scores, a significant and positive relationship between the aggressiveness scores and the peer pressure, authoritarian and protective parental attitudes scores, and a significant and negative relationship between the aggressiveness scores and the democratic parental attitudes scores were found. Regression analysis was employed to see if the variables of peer pressure and parental attitudes predict the aggressiveness scores, and indicated that democratic parental attitudes, peer pressure and protective parental attitudes are the predictors of aggressiveness. Furthermore, the difference between the female and male students' aggressiveness score means was tested by using t test, and it was established that male students were more aggressive than were female students.

scholarly journals Examining the Mental Health Presentations of Treatment-Seeking Transgender and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Youth

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon L. Stewart ◽  
Jocelyn N. Van Dyke ◽  
Jeffrey W. Poss
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Treatment Seeking ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Supportive Family ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
And Gender

AbstractRecent research suggests that transgender and/or gender nonconforming (TGNC) youth present with heightened levels of mental health problems compared to peers. This study seeks to examine the mental health needs of a large sample of treatment-seeking TGNC youth by comparing them to cisgender males and females. Participants were 94,804 children and youth ages 4–18 years (M = 12.1, SD = 3.72) who completed the interRAI Child and Youth Mental Health Instrument (ChYMH) or Screener (ChYMH-S) at participating mental health agencies in the Ontario, Canada. Overall, the mental health presentations of TGNC youth were similar to cisgender females but at higher acuity levels. TGNC youth showed significantly higher levels of anxiety, depression, social disengagement, positive symptoms, risk of suicide/self-harm, and were more likely to report experiencing emotional abuse, past suicide attempts, and a less strong, supportive family relationship than cisgender females and males. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

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