Adolescent’s psychological health in Iran

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoumeh Simbar ◽  
Elham Zare ◽  
Zohreh Shahhosseini
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Health Authorities

Abstract Aim Adolescence is characterized by dynamic brain development in which the interaction with the social environment shapes the capabilities an individual takes forward into adult life. Improvement of adolescent psychological health depends on the recognition of their needs during this critical transition period. This study aimed to explain the concept of psychological health needs from the perspectives of male adolescents to improve the health of both adolescents and society. Method In this qualitative study with a content analysis approach, 52 male adolescents aged 13–18 years participated in 10 semi-structured individual interviews and seven focus group discussions. They expressed their experiences and opinions regarding psychological health needs. Purposive sampling was performed to recruit the adolescents in different areas of Tehran in 2017. Collected data was analyzed using the conventional content analysis method. Results The findings were divided into two main themes and five sub-themes including ‘self-esteem (self-cognition and Suitable relationship between teen and family)’, ‘Well-being and calmness (Intellectual affinity, Rich leisure time, Religious beliefs)’. Conclusion To promote emotional health in adolescents, it is necessary to plan for the empowerment of community, family, schools by health authorities and devise appropriate health policies.

Social health needs of Iranian male adolescents

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elham Zare ◽  
Masoumeh Simbar ◽  
Zohreh Shahhoseini
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Healthy Family

Abstract Background Adequate attention to adolescents’ health is considered an investment for the future of any country. Adolescents face many social and cultural challenges when they enter a new stage of social life. The advancement of adolescent social health depends on the recognition of their needs. This study aimed to explain the concept of social health needs from the perspectives of male adolescents to improve the health of both adolescents and the society. Method In this qualitative study with a content analysis approach, 52 male adolescents aged 13–18 years participated in 10 semi-structured individual interviews and seven focus group discussions. They expressed their experiences and opinions regarding social health needs. Purposive sampling was performed to recruit the adolescents in different areas of Tehran in 2017. Collected data was analyzed using the conventional content analysis method. Results The findings were divided into four main themes and eight sub-themes including “need to have a healthy family (healthy family relationships and family responsibility)”, “need to have a healthy society (favorable social status and favorable economic situation)”, “need to have educational facilities (promoting productivity in schools and public education facilities)”, “need to have communication with peers (healthy communication with peers and setting up for communication with peers of the opposite gender)”. Conclusion To promote social health in adolescents, it is necessary to plan for the empowerment of community, family, schools and mass media by health authorities and devise appropriate health policies.

scholarly journals Care for Women with Delusional Disorder: Towards a Specialized Approach

Women ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Alexandre González-Rodríguez ◽  
Mary V. Seeman ◽  
Aida Álvarez ◽  
Armand Guàrdia ◽  
Nadia Sanz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Delusional Disorder ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Prevalence Of Depression ◽  
Specific Health

Delusional disorder is a difficult-to-treat clinical condition with health needs that are often undertreated. Although individuals with delusional disorder may be high functioning in daily life, they suffer from serious health complaints that may be sex-specific. The main aim of this narrative review is to address these sex-specific health needs and to find ways of integrating their management into service programs. Age is an important issue. Delusional disorder most often first occurs in middle to late adult life, a time that corresponds to menopause in women, and menopausal age correlates with increased development of both somatic and psychological health problems in women. It is associated with a rise in the prevalence of depression and a worsening of prior psychotic symptoms. Importantly, women with delusional disorder show low compliance rates with both psychiatric treatment and with medical/surgical referrals. Intervention at the patient, provider, and systems levels are needed to address these ongoing problems.

scholarly journals Automatic emotion recognition in healthcare data using supervised machine learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e751
Author(s):  
Nazish Azam ◽  
Tauqir Ahmad ◽  
Nazeef Ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Healthcare Data

Human feelings are fundamental to perceive the conduct and state of mind of an individual. A healthy emotional state is one significant highlight to improve personal satisfaction. On the other hand, bad emotional health can prompt social or psychological well-being issues. Recognizing or detecting feelings in online health care data gives important and helpful information regarding the emotional state of patients. To recognize or detection of patient’s emotion against a specific disease using text from online sources is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a method for the automatic detection of patient’s emotions in healthcare data using supervised machine learning approaches. For this purpose, we created a new dataset named EmoHD, comprising of 4,202 text samples against eight disease classes and six emotion classes, gathered from different online resources. We used six different supervised machine learning models based on different feature engineering techniques. We also performed a detailed comparison of the chosen six machine learning algorithms using different feature vectors on our dataset. We achieved the highest 87% accuracy using MultiLayer Perceptron as compared to other state of the art models. Moreover, we use the emotional guidance scale to show that there is a link between negative emotion and psychological health issues. Our proposed work will be helpful to automatically detect a patient’s emotion during disease and to avoid extreme acts like suicide, mental disorders, or psychological health issues. The implementation details are made publicly available at the given link: https://bit.ly/2NQeGET.

scholarly journals A Study of Nurses’ Stress Management in Facing and Caring for COVID-19 Patients: A Qualitative Content Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahboobeh Hosseini Moghaddam ◽  
Zinat Mohebbi ◽  
Banafsheh Tehranineshat
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Face ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Abstract Background Being in the frontline of the battle against COVID-19, nurses need to be capable of stress management to maintain their physical and psychological well-being in the face of a variety of stressors. The present study aims to explore the challenges, strategies, and outcomes of stress management in nurses who face and provide care to COVID-19 patients. Methods The present study is a qualitative descriptive work that was conducted in teaching hospitals affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran, from June 2020 to March 2021. Fourteen nurses who were in practice in units assigned to COVID-19 patients were selected via purposeful sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured, individual interviews conducted online. The collected data were analyzed using MAXQDA 10 according to the conventional content analysis method suggested by Graneheim and Lundman. Results The data collected in the interviews resulted in 14 subcategories under 4 main categories: providing care with uncertainty and anxiety, facing psychological and mental tension, creating a context for support, and experiencing personal-professional growth. Conclusions Despite their concern over contracting the infection and transmitting it to their families, nurses feel compelled to provide professional care to patients under all circumstances. Work overload and working in exhausting conditions lead to nurses’ physical and psychological burnout, thus their need for the support of authorities and their families. Based on the nurses’ experiences, the primary outcomes of caring for COVID-19 patients are personal growth and professional empowerment.

“We Were Loving Warriors!”: A Content Analysis of Black Women’s Resistance Within Psychological Science

2022 ◽  
pp. 036168432110641
Author(s):  
shola shodiya-zeumault ◽  
Michelle Aiello ◽  
Cassandra L. Hinger ◽  
Cirleen DeBlaere
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Black American ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Psychological Science

Though findings are mixed, collective action engagement has been shown to be positively associated with greater academic success, social support, political efficacy, and well-being with racially marginalized individuals. Despite these findings, however, investigations of collective action engagement with Black American adult women within psychological science are scarce. Consistent with Black feminist thought, the construct of resistance may provide a necessary expansion to include all the ways that Black women actively work to transform their communities toward justice, beyond collective action. To ascertain the breadth and scope of psychological research related to Black women’s resistance (i.e., collective action engagement) to interpersonal discrimination and structural oppression, in this systematic review and content analysis we sought to identify participants’ and scholars’ definitions of resistance, as well as thematic dimensions and specific strategies of resistance. Additionally, we sought to determine the outcomes of resistance that have been assessed and the degree to which psychological health and well-being have been examined as an outcome of resistance within the literature. Findings from the analysis suggest the need for future examinations of the specific influence of Black American women’s collective action engagement and resistance to oppression on their well-being. Additionally, the findings of this review may have important implications for Black women’s well-being and as such, we discuss resistance work as a therapeutic intervention that can be encouraged by therapists, healers, community leaders, and educators.

scholarly journals Personality and Resilience as Determinants of Psychological Well-being among Military Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nity Sharma ◽  
Yashwant Kumar Nagle
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Military Children ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
As Stress ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

The military children are a population who are susceptible to psychological stress from the hardships of military life, such as frequent moves and separation from their parents during deployment. Military children are resilient as well as stress prone at the same time. Whilefrequent moves build resilience, combat deployments of their parents makes them vulnerable to the risks associated with psychological and emotional health, attachment problems and coping while overcoming traumatic grief due to death of a family member. The risk is highestright after the military personnel leaves for deployment and immediately upon return. In order to understand the psychological health of children of military personnel, it is important  to understand their resilience and personality in relation to psychological well-being. In addition to being a personal trait, resilience is a product of the relationships between children and the resources around them. Despite needs to better understand the impact of deployment on military children and families and to provide proper support for them, rigorous research is deficient. A comprehensive approach based on strengths and problems, of military children and families, with a focus on the prevention, is the need of the hour. The present paper focuses on study of personality and resilience as determinants of psychological well-being. The study was conducted on military children (N= 124) of Army Public School, using HEXACO-PI, Brief Resilience Scale and Psychological Wellbeing Scale. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results and implications are discussed in the paper. Issues in need of further research are emphasized, especially research into programs that assist military children and families.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND INTERNALIZING DIFFICULTIES IN ITALIAN EMERGING ADULTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Livia BURATTA ◽  
◽  
Claudia MAZZESCHI ◽  
Elisa DELVECCHIO ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Difficulties ◽  
Life Transition ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Internalizing Difficulties

The new theoretical view of well-being considers happiness not only as “feeling good” psychologically but, in a wider perspective, as an optimal experience in human functioning. In the last years research has examined the trajectory of psychological well-being (PWB) over the lifespan, in particular during different life transition period, and its relationship with psychological health. Few studies specifically focused on emerging adulthood, a life stage characterized by many developmental challenges. As conceived by Ryff’s model of PWB, it is a complex and multifaced construct with different dimensions. The aims of this paper were to explore the PWB dimensions in a specific population of Italian emerging adults and to analyse the link between the psychological well-being and internalizing emotional difficulties. Findings showed in Italian EA higher scores in specific dimensions of PWB such as personal growth and purpose in life, and lower scores in self-acceptance and environmental mastery. Moreover, results highlighted negative relationships between all PWB dimensions with internalizing difficulties. This study suggests the importance of exploring the specificities of PWB both in clinical and health contexts in order to promote more tailored interventions specifically aimed for internalizing difficulties. KEY WORDS: Psychological well-being, happiness, internalizing difficulties, emotional difficulties, emerging adulthood.

scholarly journals Adolescent’ Psychological Health Evaluation Using Investigative and Preventive Activities at School

Pedagogika ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ala Petrulytė ◽  
Virginija Guogienė
Keyword(s):  
School Psychologists ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Difficulty Level ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
And Gender

In Lithuania high rates of child and adolescent emotional and behavioral difficulty level are still observed, which manifests itself in increasing almost unabated wide bullying in schools, suicide cases, low student learning motivation and school absenteeism. Psychological help purpose in educational institution – to strengthen and develop students‘ psychological health, to promote safe and environment-friendly development of persons school development. Preventive programs and applied research execution are one of the most important activities of school psychologists in the educational community, strengthening students’ psychological health and well-being. Introducing the adolescent psychological health investigation Lithuania. The aim. To investigate the 12–18-year-olds emotional and social health, and to identify differences by age and gender. The research methodology. Social and Emotional Health Questionnaire (SEHS-S Furlong, 2014). Research participants. 1 628 teenagers, aged from 12 to 18 years. The study was carried out in 13 Lithuanian cities and 16 schools. The data was processed by Microsoft Excel and SPSS software. The study findings. Observed teens emotional and social health dispositions expression differences among different genders and age groups. The results are significantly positive in the context of adolescent development, and contribute to the students’ psychological risk reduction, human development strengths and health education at school.

scholarly journals Quality of Life and Challenges Experienced by the Surviving Adults With Transfusion Dependent Thalassaemia in Malaysia: A Cross Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai Cheng Foong ◽  
Kooi Yau Chean ◽  
Fairuz Fadzilah Rahim ◽  
Ai Sim Goh ◽  
Seoh Leng Yeoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Health Service Provision

Abstract Background Improvement in medical management has enabled transfusion dependent thalassaemia (TDT) patients to survive beyond childhood, building families, and contributing to the labour force and society. Knowledge about their adult life would provide guidance on how to support their needs. This study aims to explore the general well-being of adults with TDT, their employment status and challenges. Methods We contacted all regional Thalassaemia societies in Malaysia to invite TDT members aged 18 or over to participate. Participants were also recruited from the two participating hospitals. A self-administered questionnaire including ‘CDC Healthy-days’, WHOQOL-BREF and employment measurements was used. Multiple linear regression models were fitted with associations adjusted for several potential confounders. Results Of the 196 participants, almost half (45%) had comorbidities and 20% suffered multiple types: bone-related (13%), hormonal (12%), cardiac (3%) and infections (2%), resulting in 23% seeking treatment more than twice monthly. Within a month, they suffered from a mean 3.1 (SD 3.0) days of feeling unhealthy physically, a mean 2.6 (SD 3.5) days mentally unhealthy and their normal daily activities performance were affected for approximately 2.5 (SD 3.3) days - leading to 36% being jobless and 38% of those with a job receiving salaries below RM1000. The mean quality of life (QOL) score (mean (SD) for each QOL domain was: physical health 62.6 (15.5), psychological health 64.7 (15.7), social relationship 64 (15.9), environmental health 60.8 (16.7). Frequent activities limited days, being single, unwillingness to disclose thalassaemia status, presence of comorbidities, discrimination experiences and perceptions about employment difficulties were associated with lower QOL scores. Dissatisfaction with health service provision, conflicting judgement in prioritising between health and job, and poor public empathy were expressed. Conclusion Adults with TDT appeared to be fairly positive about their life in spite of high number of dysfunctional days and had perceptions that health services do not meet their needs. They continued to face life disruption in a rather non-supportive community. Supportive approaches and life-skill training are necessary where interventions should be started during childhood. Adjustment to health services should be considered.

scholarly journals Quality of life and challenges experienced by the surviving adults with transfusion dependent thalassaemia in Malaysia: a cross sectional study

2022 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai Cheng Foong ◽  
Kooi Yau Chean ◽  
Fairuz Fadzilah Rahim ◽  
Ai Sim Goh ◽  
Seoh Leng Yeoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Open Questions

Abstract Background Improvement in medical management has enabled transfusion dependent thalassaemia (TDT) patients to survive beyond childhood, building families, and contributing to the labour force and society. Knowledge about their adult life would provide guidance on how to support their needs. This study aims to explore the general well-being of adults with TDT, their employment status and challenges. Methods This study recruited 450 people with TDT, aged 18 and above, of both genders through all regional Thalassaemia societies in Malaysia and from the two participating hospitals, over five months in year 2016. A self-administered questionnaire including ‘Healthy Days Core Module’, WHOQOL-BREF and employment measurements was used. Multiple linear regression models were fitted with associations adjusted for several potential confounders. Results A total of 196 adults with TDT responded to the survey (43.6% response rate). Almost half (45%) had comorbidities and 9% suffered multiple complications: bone-related (13%), hormonal (12%), cardiac (3%) and infections (2%), resulting in 23% seeking treatment more than twice monthly. Within a month, they suffered from at least three days with poor physical and or mental health and their normal daily activities were disrupted up to three days. 36% were jobless and 38% of those with a job were receiving salaries below RM1000. The mean WHOQOL-BREF score (mean (SD)) was: physical health 62.6 (15.5), psychological health 64.7 (15.7), social relationship 64 (15.9), environmental health 60.8 (16.7). Having days with mental issues, financial status, education level, ethnic and marital status were main factors affecting QOL scores. Open questions showed dissatisfaction with health service provision, conflicting judgement in prioritising between health and job, and poor public empathy. Conclusion The adults with TDT perceived their health as good and had less unhealthy days when compared with people with other chronic diseases. However, some perceived themselves to be facing more life disruption in a rather non-supportive community and that health services do not meet their needs. Future qualitative studies are needed to focus on their perceived needs and to look for more tailored supportive approaches.

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