Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition

This book is the story of twelve people, each living with illness. Based on ethnographic research conducted over one year, it unfolds everyday experiences of living with a long term physical or mental health condition. In doing so, the book offers an innovative account of the body, health and illness in everyday life told from a sociological perspective.

Mental health of cisgender and transgender during COVID-19 pandemic

International Journal of Medical Research and Review ◽

10.17511/ijmrr.2020.i05.02 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 344-351

Author(s):

Amitab Bhattacharjee ◽

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Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi ◽

Mashiur Rahman Bhuiyan ◽

Sakera Sultana ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Environmental Effects ◽

Health Condition ◽

Growing Up ◽

Mental Health Condition ◽

Life Movement

Normally every individual wants to lead a free life movement but sometimes could not possible due to external environmental effects. During and after the home quarantine, people are still scared by consistent death and infected news of 2019-nCoV pandemic. Which is why, most of the persons have been feeling insecure and nervous that significantly growing up long term stress. The current study depicts the ongoing mental health condition of Bangladeshi cisgender and transgender individuals caused by SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.

Learning to manage a mental health condition: Caring for the self and ‘normalizing’ identity at work

Management Learning ◽

10.1177/13505076211006618 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 135050762110066

Author(s):

Hadar Elraz ◽

David Knights

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Health Condition ◽

Identity Work ◽

The Self ◽

Health Conditions ◽

Mental Health Condition ◽

External Pressures ◽

Ethics Of Caring

This article examines the internal and external pressures to ‘normalize’ identity in relation to individuals experiencing mental health conditions (MHCs) at work. The data takes the form of three vignettes extracted from a larger empirical study of 60 interviews. These explore the tensions surrounding identity for individuals experiencing MHCs as well as their interventions to suppress exhibiting the condition. The analysis captures a number of competing meanings surrounding identity in relation to learning to care for the self and managing MHCs. Our contribution is to explore the relationships between learning to care for the self and the performativity of ‘normalizing’ identity in managing MHCs at work. It also provides a potential means of integrating Foucault’s ethics of caring for the self with the literature on identity in ways that can be illuminating for those who manage their MHCs and the demands of work through processes of ‘normalization’. This analysis offers theoretical insights regarding how identity work may be self-defeating in exacerbating MHCs and therefore is of some practical benefit for managers, health professionals and those experiencing MHCs since they often leave individuals with little choice but to intensify their attempts to ‘normalize’ their identities.

The influence of the built environment in enacting a household model of residential aged care for people living with a mental health condition: A qualitative post-occupancy evaluation

Health & Place ◽

10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102624 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 71 ◽

pp. 102624

Author(s):

Phillippa Carnemolla ◽

Deborah Debono ◽

Fleur Hourihan ◽

Suyin Hor ◽

Hamish Robertson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Built Environment ◽

Aged Care ◽

Health Condition ◽

Residential Aged Care ◽

Mental Health Condition ◽

Post Occupancy Evaluation ◽

Household Model

Parental mental health conditions and use of healthcare services in children the first year of life– a register-based, nationwide study

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-021-10625-y ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Signe Heuckendorff ◽

Martin Nygård Johansen ◽

Søren Paaske Johnsen ◽

Charlotte Overgaard ◽

Kirsten Fonager

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Health Condition ◽

Health Conditions ◽

Mental Health Condition ◽

Parental Mental Health ◽

Mental Health Conditions ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

Paternal Mental Health ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background Parental mental health conditions have been associated with increased morbidity and use of healthcare services in offspring. Existing studies have not examined different severities of parental mental health conditions, and the impact of paternal mental health has been overlooked. We examined the association between two severities of parental mental health conditions and use of healthcare services for children during the first year of life and explored the impact of both maternal and paternal mental health conditions. Methods This register-based cohort study included all live-born children born in Denmark from 2000 to 2016. Information on socioeconomics, diagnoses, drug prescriptions, and healthcare contacts was extracted from nationwide public registries. Parents were grouped according to severity of mental condition based on the place of treatment of the mental health condition. Negative binominal regression analyses were performed to estimate the incidence rate ratio (IRR) of contacts to general practice (GP), out-of-hour medical service, emergency room (ER), and out- and inpatient hospital contacts during the first 12 months of the child’s life. Results The analyses included 964,395 children. Twenty percent of the mothers and 12 % of the fathers were identified with mental health conditions. Paternal mental health conditions were independently associated with increased risk of infant healthcare contacts (GP IRR 1.05 (CI95% 1.04–1.06) and out-of-hour IRR 1.20 (CI95% 1.18–1.22)). Risks were higher for maternal mental health conditions (GP IRR 1.18 (CI95% 1.17–1.19) and out-of-hour IRR 1.39 (CI95% 1.37–1.41)). The risks were even higher if both parents were classified with a mental health condition (GP IRR 1.25 (CI95% 1.23–1.27) and out-of-hour contacts IRR 1.49 (CI95% 1.45–1.54)), including minor mental health condition (GP IRR 1.22 (CI95% 1.21–1.24) and out-of-hour IRR 1.37 (CI95% 1.34–1.41)). This pattern was the same for all types of healthcare contacts. Conclusions Both maternal and paternal mental health conditions, including minor mental health conditions, were associated with increased utilization of healthcare services. Focus on both parents’ mental health conditions (even if minor) may be warranted in service planning.

Self-reported suboptimal sleep and receipt of sleep assessment and treatment among persons with and without a mental health condition in Australia: a cross sectional study

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-021-10504-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexandra P. Metse ◽

Caitlin Fehily ◽

Tara Clinton-McHarg ◽

Olivia Wynne ◽

Sharon Lawn ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Physical Health ◽

Health Condition ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Mental Health Condition ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Sleep Assessment ◽

Assessment And Treatment ◽

Sleep Parameters

Abstract Background Poor sleep and poor mental health go hand in hand and, together, can have an adverse impact on physical health. Given the already disproportionate physical health inequities experienced by people with a mental health condition worldwide, the need to consider and optimise sleep has been highlighted as a means of improving both physical and mental health status. Sleep recommendations recently developed by the United States’ National Sleep Foundation incorporate a range of sleep parameters and enable the identification of ‘suboptimal’ sleep. Among community-dwelling persons with and without a 12-month mental health condition in Australia, this study reports: [1] the prevalence of ‘suboptimal’ sleep and [2] rates of sleep assessment by a health care clinician/service and receipt of and desire for sleep treatment. Methods A descriptive study (N = 1265) was undertaken using self-report data derived from a cross-sectional telephone survey of Australian adults, undertaken in 2017. Results Fifteen per cent (n = 184) of participants identified as having a mental health condition in the past 12 months. Across most (7 of 8) sleep parameters, the prevalence of suboptimal sleep was higher among people with a mental health condition, compared to those without (all p < 0.05). The highest prevalence of suboptimal sleep for both groups was seen on measures of sleep duration (36–39% and 17–20% for people with and without a mental health condition, respectively). In terms of sleep assessment and treatment, people with a mental health condition were significantly more likely to: desire treatment (37% versus 16%), have been assessed (38% versus 12%) and have received treatment (30% versus 7%). Conclusions The prevalence of suboptimal sleep among persons with a mental health condition in Australia is significantly higher than those without such a condition, and rates of assessment and treatment are low for both groups, but higher for people with a mental health condition. Population health interventions, including those delivered as part of routine health care, addressing suboptimal sleep are needed.

Diabulimia: mental health condition or media hyperbole?

Practical Diabetes ◽

10.1002/pdi.1753 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 104-105a ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Clare Shaban

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Condition ◽

Mental Health Condition

Using Natural Language Processing to Assess the Psychological Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Insomnia via Tweets: A Pre-Post Retrospective Pilot Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.33454 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Arash Maghsoudi ◽

Sara Nowakowski ◽

Ritwick Agrawal ◽

Amir Sharafkhaneh ◽

Sadaf Aram ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Natural Language Processing ◽

Natural Language ◽

Language Processing ◽

Temporal Analysis ◽

Health Condition ◽

Additional Stress ◽

Mental Health Condition ◽

Twitter Users

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed additional stress on population health that may result in a higher incidence of insomnia. In this study, we hypothesized that using natural language processing (NLP) to explore social media would help to identify the mental health condition of the population experiencing insomnia after the outbreak of COVID-19. OBJECTIVE In this study, we hypothesized that using natural language processing (NLP) to explore social media would help to identify the mental health condition of the population experiencing insomnia after the outbreak of COVID-19. METHODS We designed a pre-post retrospective study using public social media content from Twitter. We categorized tweets based on time into two intervals: prepandemic (01/01/2019 to 01/01/2020) and pandemic (01/01/2020 to 01/01/2021). We used NLP to analyze polarity (positive/negative) and intensity of emotions and also users’ tweets psychological states in terms of sadness, anxiety and anger by counting the words related to these categories in each tweet. Additionally, we performed temporal analysis to examine the effect of time on the users’ insomnia experience. RESULTS We extracted 268,803 tweets containing the word insomnia (prepandemic, 123,293 and pandemic, 145,510). The odds of negative tweets (OR, 1.31; 95% CI, 1.29-1.33), anger (OR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.16-1.21), and anxiety (OR, 1.24; 95% CI: 1.21-1.26) were higher during the pandemic compared to prepandemic. The likelihood of negative tweets after midnight was higher than for other daily intevals, comprising approximately 60% of all negative insomnia-related tweets in 2020 and 2021 collectively. CONCLUSIONS Twitter users shared more negative tweets about insomnia during the pandemic than during the year before. Also, more anger and anxiety-related content were disseminated during the pandemic on the social media platform. Future studies using an NLP framework could assess tweets about other psychological distress, habit changes, weight gain due to inactivity, and the effect of viral infection on sleep.

Prevalence of parental mental health conditions among children aged 0–16 years in Denmark: A nationwide register-based cross-sectional study

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1177/14034948211045462 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 140349482110454

Author(s):

Amanda M.S. Christesen ◽

Camilla K. Knudsen ◽

Kirsten Fonager ◽

Martin N. Johansen ◽

Signe Heuckendorff

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Geographical Variation ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Health Condition ◽

Health Conditions ◽

Mental Health Condition ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Parental Mental Health ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Mental Health Conditions

Aim: Parental mental health conditions adversely affect the children. Information on the prevalence of parental mental health conditions is needed to help policymakers allocate resources appropriately. Therefore, the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of children with parental mental health conditions in Denmark and further estimate the age-specific prevalence and geographical variation. Methods: In this nationwide register-based cross-sectional study, we included all children born between 2000 and 2016 if they resided in Denmark on 31 December 2016. Information on both maternal and paternal mental health conditions was retrieved from primary and secondary healthcare registers. Parental mental health conditions were categorised in three severity groups: minor, moderate, and severe. We estimated the proportion of children with parental mental health conditions on 31 December 2016. Results: Of the 1,106,459 children aged 0–16 years, 39.1% had at least one parent with a mental health condition. The prevalence increased with age of the children until the age of six years. Geographical variation in the prevalence ranged from 29.0% to 48.3% in the 98 municipalities. Minor parental mental health conditions (23.5%) were more common than moderate (13.5%) and severe parental mental health conditions (2.2%). Hospital-diagnosed parental mental health conditions were prevalent in 12.8% of the children. Conclusions: Two in five children aged 0–16 years in Denmark have parents with a mental health condition and geographical variation exists. The high prevalence of children with parental mental health conditions is an important public health challenge, which calls for attention.