NURSE’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE RECEPTION AND COPING WITH MENTAL DISORDERS: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW

The Strain Theory of Suicide and mental disorders proposes that psychological strains precede suicidal behaviors and psychiatric disorders. This study was designed to test the theory with a large sample of suicide notes collected from Tasmania, Australia. The content of 261 suicide notes was analyzed for the presence of four psychological strains. It was found that 39.6% of the 261 suicide notes had at least one of the four psychological strains, with aspiration and coping strains being the most prevalent. We then compared the ratings of psychological strains with ratings of thwarted belonging and perceived burdensomeness and found that the presence of aspiration strain and coping strain was associated with thwarted belonging, while aspiration and deprivation strains were associated with perceived burdensomeness.

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Stressor And Coping Strategies Of People Living With Hiv/aids (PlWHA): A Literature Review

10.20944/preprints202104.0149.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ahmad Ikhlasul Amal ◽

Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Coping Strategy ◽

People Living With Hiv ◽

General Will ◽

External Conditions ◽

English Articles ◽

And Coping ◽

Living With Hiv ◽

Hiv Aids

Background: A person living with HIV / AIDS bargains with stressors such as discrimination, stigma depression, and several psychological impacts. The stressors experienced by people with HIV/ AIDS will certainly have an impact on daily activities, welfare, and management of medications which in general will have an impact on the quality of life. To deal with these stressors, it is necessary to have good and proper coping from within the PLWHA. Coping strategies need to be owned and carried out by PLWHA in order to respond adaptively to the stressor conditions experienced. Purpose: The aim of this review is to describe the stress experienced and the coping strategies used among PLWHA. Methods: This literature review used keywords in the search for international references are coping strategy, stressor, HIV-AIDS. Inclusion criteria: selection of titles that are relevant to the formulation of the problem and objectives, full-text articles in English, articles published from 2019 to 2021. The exclusion criteria used were coping strategy articles that did not involve HIV patients. Search references from electronic database sources namely ProQuest, CINAHL, and ScienceDirect.Six articles that are deemed worthy of analysis are then discussed or analyzed. Results: Age, gender and sexual orientation have contributed to the emerging stressor among PLWHA. The internal and external coping strategies focusing on the problem are important for PLWHA in handling the stressor. Conclusion: People with HIV-AIDS have many stressors in their lives, but they also have proper coping strategies depending on their internal and external conditions.

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YIN-YANG GENES IN CANCER, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS

BIOTECHNOLOGY: STATE OF THE ART AND PERSPECTIVES ◽

10.37747/2312-640x-2020-18-97-98 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 97-98

Author(s):

K. Malsagova ◽

A. Stepanov ◽

A. Sinitsyna ◽

A. Izotov ◽

A. Kaysheva

Keyword(s):

Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽

Mental Disorders ◽

Literature Review ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Yin Yang ◽

Spectrum Disorders

Literature review focuses on the genes associated with the development of diseases with inverse comorbidity, including schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, and most common cancers was carried out. The present study summarizes the information on 10 yin-yang genes that can be associated with both mental disorders and cancer.

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Workplace Stress and Coping Strategies among Indian Nurses: Literature Review

Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research ◽

10.5958/2349-2996.2017.00088.x ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 449

Author(s):

Wilson Nicolau Fernandes ◽

R. Nirmala

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Stress And Coping ◽

Workplace Stress ◽

And Coping

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Disease perception and coping strategies for stress in Polish patients with various mental disorders

Current Problems of Psychiatry ◽

10.2478/cpp-2019-0007 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 130-137

Author(s):

Marta Kłak ◽

Wioletta Karina Ozga

Keyword(s):

Mental Disorders ◽

Mental Disorder ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Depressive Disorders ◽

Psychotic Disorders ◽

Mental Healthcare ◽

Coping With Stress ◽

Positive Reinterpretation ◽

And Coping ◽

Disease Perception

Abstract Introduction: Nowadays more and more people struggle with mental problems associated with fast pace of life and overpowering stress. Individuals affected by mental disorders frequently apply ineffective methods of coping with stress, and their attitudes towards the disease in fact strengthen the psychopathological symptoms. The purpose of the present study was to compare disease perception and coping strategies for stress in Polish patients with various types of mental disorders. Material and Methods: The study involved 123 patients with depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, alcohol related disorders, subjects detained due to psychoactive substance-induced psychotic disorders and amnestic syndromes, staying at Mental Healthcare Centre. Measurements of the variables were carried out using COPE Inventory and Disease Perception Questionnaire. Results: The type of mental disorder differentiated the group with respect to the use of strategies aimed at seeking instrumental and emotional support, planning, positive reinterpretation, focus on emotions and substance use. There are significant differences between patients in the approach to illness as a task, weakness and threat. Conclusions: The results show that the type of mental disorder is important in the context of the strategies used for coping with stress and the patients' approach to their condition.

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Extending the vulnerability–stress model of mental disorders: three-dimensional NPSR1 × environment × coping interaction study in anxiety

The British Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/bjp.2020.73 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 217 (5) ◽

pp. 645-650 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Miriam A. Schiele ◽

Katharina Herzog ◽

Leonie Kollert ◽

Christoph Schartner ◽

Elisabeth J. Leehr ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Disorders ◽

Childhood Trauma ◽

Trait Anxiety ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Stress Coping ◽

Stress Model ◽

Coping Ability ◽

And Coping ◽

General Self Efficacy

BackgroundThe general understanding of the ‘vulnerability–stress model’ of mental disorders neglects the modifying impact of resilience-increasing factors such as coping ability.AimsProbing a conceptual framework integrating both adverse events and coping factors in an extended ‘vulnerability–stress–coping model’ of mental disorders, the effects of functional neuropeptide S receptor gene (NPSR1) variation (G), early adversity (E) and coping factors (C) on anxiety were addressed in a three-dimensional G × E × C model.MethodIn two independent samples of healthy probands (discovery: n = 1403; replication: n = 630), the interaction of NPSR1 rs324981, childhood trauma (Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, CTQ) and general self-efficacy as a measure of coping ability (General Self-Efficacy Scale, GSE) on trait anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) was investigated via hierarchical multiple regression analyses.ResultsIn both samples, trait anxiety differed as a function of NPSR1 genotype, CTQ and GSE score (discovery: β = 0.129, P = 3.938 × 10−8; replication: β = 0.102, P = 0.020). In A allele carriers, the relationship between childhood trauma and anxiety was moderated by general self-efficacy: higher self-efficacy and childhood trauma resulted in low anxiety scores, and lower self-efficacy and childhood trauma in higher anxiety levels. In turn, TT homozygotes displayed increased anxiety as a function of childhood adversity unaffected by general self-efficacy.ConclusionsFunctional NPSR1 variation and childhood trauma are suggested as prime moderators in the vulnerability–stress model of anxiety, further modified by the protective effect of self-efficacy. This G × E × C approach – introducing coping as an additional dimension further shaping a G × E risk constellation, thus suggesting a three-dimensional ‘vulnerability–stress–coping model’ of mental disorders – might inform targeted preventive or therapeutic interventions strengthening coping ability to promote resilient functioning.

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An Exploration of Family Caregiver Experiences of Burden and Coping While Caring for People with Mental Disorders in Saudi Arabia—A Qualitative Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17176405 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (17) ◽

pp. 6405 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Loujain Sharif ◽

Shimaa Basri ◽

Fidaa Alsahafi ◽

Mashael Altaylouni ◽

Shihanah Albugumi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Disorders ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Family Caregivers ◽

Public Awareness ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Educational Training ◽

The Public ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Associative Stigma ◽

And Coping

Family caregivers of people with mental disorders face a number of burdens and stressors, such as associative stigma and burnout. These burdens are often a result of their caring role coupled with insufficient support or ineffective coping strategies, which can affect their quality of life and biopsychosocial integrity that, in turn, may affect the care they provide. This study aimed to explore the experiences of family caregivers of people with mental disorders, through examining the burdens that they face and the coping strategies that they use. Using a descriptive qualitative approach, 13 semi-structured interviews were conducted with members of the Saudi public, recruited through popular social media platforms and analyzed using thematic analysis. Five main themes were constructed from the data: Type of care, Challenges, Coping and support, Perceptions of public awareness, and Messages to others. The findings emphasize the different types of burdens that caregivers experience, and their needs that require a range of responses such as educational training on effective coping strategies, and psychological support in the form of counseling or group therapy. This study highlights the voice of caregivers and their message to the public, in order to correct the misconceptions surrounding mental disorders and those associated with them.

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Thanatology as a resource in the care of addicts and people with mental disorders

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1183 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S682-S682

Author(s):

S. Färber ◽

M. Färber

Keyword(s):

Mental Disorders ◽

Literature Review ◽

Systematic Literature Review ◽

Careful Evaluation ◽

Triggering Events ◽

Competing Interest

IntroductionThe purpose of this research is to present multidisciplinary and relevance of Thanatology in coping of addictions and other mental disorders.ObjectiveThe aim of this paper is to analyse the scientific connections that thanatology establishes with other knowledge. With this postulate we present the thanatology and its relations with other disciplines, especially psychiatry, considering that addictions and mental disorders often have as triggering events of loss, death and mourning.MethodsTo develop this research we use the systematic literature review, following the process of research, cataloging, careful evaluation and synthesis of the documentation.ResultsThanatology is multidisciplinary shares and receives information from other sciences or sectors of knowledge without these modified or enriched. It is interdisciplinary because it originated disciplinary specialty of a mother discipline: Anthropology; and it is transdisciplinary, thence its relevance in research on the realities that revolve around mental disorders and addictions (Fig. 1).ConclusionIt is important to research on thanatology position in the scientific panorama, given the emergence of this reflection and the relevance of research for its interrelationship with other disciplines.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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The Relationship Between Reductionism and Prediction in Psychiatry: A Survey

10.31234/osf.io/pgryu ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Eren Asena ◽

Henk Cremers

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Mental Disorders ◽

Literature Review ◽

Significant Role ◽

Biological Psychiatry ◽

Learning Models ◽

Different Types ◽

Survey Results ◽

The Relationship ◽

Machine Learning Models

Introduction. Biological psychiatry has yet to find clinically useful biomarkers despite mucheffort. Is this because the field needs better methods and more data, or are current conceptualizations of mental disorders too reductionistic? Although this is an important question, there seems to be no consensus on what it means to be a “reductionist”. Aims. This paper aims to; a) to clarify the views of researchers on different types of reductionism; b) to examine the relationship between these views and the degree to which researchers believe mental disorders can be predicted from biomarkers; c) to compare these predictability estimates with the performance of machine learning models that have used biomarkers to distinguish cases from controls. Methods. We created a survey on reductionism and the predictability of mental disorders from biomarkers, and shared it with researchers in biological psychiatry. Furthermore, a literature review was conducted on the performance of machine learning models in predicting mental disorders from biomarkers. Results. The survey results showed that 9% of the sample were dualists and 57% were explanatory reductionists. There was no relationship between reductionism and perceived predictability. The estimated predictability of 11 mental disorders using currently available methods ranged between 65-80%, which was comparable to the results from the literature review. However, the participants were highly optimistic about the ability of future methods in distinguishing cases from controls. Moreover, although behavioral data were rated as the most effective data type in predicting mental disorders, the participants expected biomarkers to play a significant role in not just predicting, but also defining mental disorders in the future.

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