scholarly journals Good Food, Good Mood: Perspectives on the Relationship Between Nutrition and Mental Health With Division I Collegiate Athletic Programs

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma M. McCabe ◽  
Caroline J. Ketcham ◽  
Eric E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Division I ◽  
Athletic Programs ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Rest Time ◽  
Mental Health Programs ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Research has shown a strong relationship between nutrition and mental health. Packed schedules and little rest time may make student-athletes more susceptible to mental health issues than the general population, but few athletes are fully aware of the effects that nutrition can have on their mental health. While collegiate athletic programs are beginning to recognize the individual contributions of nutrition and mental health to performance and are hiring sport dietitians and psychologists for their athletes, it is unclear whether these topics are ever discussed within the same context. The goal of this study was to understand the perspectives of different athletic personnel on the relationship between nutrition and mental health. 17 athletic personnel (11 Female, 6 Male) from 6 NCAA Division I universities were recruited for a 30–45-min semi-structured WebEx interview. Participants included athletic trainers, coaches, dietitians, sport psychologists, strength and conditioning coaches, and sports medicine physicians. Participants were asked questions about their educational backgrounds, resources, and perspectives on the integration of nutrition and mental health in their programs. Transcribed responses were sorted into four themes: (1) Resources, (2) Education, (3) Department Integration or Collaboration, and (4) Student and Coach Engagement. All participants reported a need for greater monetary resources and staffing. Around 59% of the participants felt they had little more than general or personal interest-level knowledge on topics pertaining to nutrition or mental health, with the exception of sports dietitians or psychologists. Each school varied in the degree to which their athletic staff regularly communicated about their work and athlete health statuses. Athletes were reportedly more or less likely to utilize the resources provided depending on coach attitudes toward nutrition or mental health. Regardless of size, reputation and annual spending, each university was reported to be in the early stages of integrating nutrition and mental health programs into their existing athletic departments. Implications of this work may be to help schools plan for ways to reallocate funding for nutrition or mental health programming.

Mental Toughness, Sport-Related Well-Being, and Mental Health Stigma Among National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Student-Athletes

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Bird ◽  
Eadie E. Simons ◽  
Patricia C. Jackman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Division I ◽  
Mental Toughness ◽  
Public Stigma ◽  
Personal Stigma ◽  
The Relationship

Mental toughness has been associated with factors related to psychological well-being, but little is known about its relationship with stigma toward mental health and mental health help-seeking. This study investigated the relationship between mental toughness, sport-related well-being, and personal stigma toward mental health in a sample of 154 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I student-athletes. The moderating effect of mental toughness on the relationship between public stigma and self-stigma toward mental health help-seeking was also explored. Mental toughness was significantly and positively associated with sport-related well-being, but not significantly related to personal stigma toward mental health. Moderation analysis indicated that mental toughness was not a significant moderator of the relationship between public stigma and self-stigma, but higher levels of mental toughness were significantly associated with lower levels of stigma toward mental health help-seeking. Building mental toughness may be a way to increase well-being and to reduce stigma toward help-seeking in student-athletes.

Exploring Life Instability’s Relationship to the Mental Health of Older Adults With HIV

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 424-424
Author(s):  
Audrey Harkness ◽  
Gail Ironson ◽  
Cho-Hee Shrader ◽  
Dustin Duncan ◽  
Steven Safren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Medical Clinic ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Instability Index ◽  
Community Clinic ◽  
Destabilizing Factors ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The study is one of the first to examine both the prevalence of life instability among older adults with HIV (OAWH) in a community clinic and its relationship to their mental health. OAWH (N=623) from a community medical clinic completed an interviewer-administered assessment (English/Spanish) which included an additive Life Instability Index (LII) composed of indicators at the individual (e.g. education, housing instability, employment status) and community (e.g. poverty, transportation) levels. Participants were a mean age of 60 years (SD = 5.90) with the majority identifying as Black-non-Hispanic (65.9%), cisgender male (60.8%), and heterosexual (80.6%). Participants reported an average of 6.08 destabilizing factors (SD = 1.44). In multiple linear regression analyses LII was significantly related to increased substance use among participants (b= 0.08, p < 0.01), but not with anxiety or depression. An LII is an innovative approach to assess the relationship between OAWH’s mental health and social determinants of health.

An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Spirituality, Coping, and Emotional Distress in People Living with HIV Infection and AIDS

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton M. Somlai ◽  
Jeffrey A. Kelly ◽  
Seth C. Kalichman ◽  
Gregg Mulry ◽  
Kathleen J. Sikkema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
The Relationship

Evaluates levels of psychological distress, coping mechanisms, and their relationship with the religious beliefs and spiritual practices of people (N=65) living with HIV and AIDS. Results of the research indicate a strong relationship for spiritual dimensions with mental health, psychological adjustment, and coping. Concludes that a blending of spiritual traditions and mental health approaches are needed to facilitate the coping of people living with HIV and AIDS.

National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletic Departments’ Mental Health Screening Practices: Who, What, When, and How

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Megan Drew ◽  
Trent A. Petrie ◽  
Tess Palmateer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Athletic Trainers ◽  
Division I ◽  
Athletic Departments ◽  
Division Iii ◽  
Screening Practices ◽  
Minimal Data

College student athletes face unique, sport-related stressors that may lead to, or exacerbate, mental health (MH) concerns and symptoms. Although the National Collegiate Athletic Association has identified MH screening as a best practice, minimal data exist regarding contemporary screening practices. We explored National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I (DI), Division II (DII), and Division III (DIII) athletic departments’ current MH screening practices (N = 264). Compared with DII/DIII (53%), a greater percentage of Division I (89%) conducted formal MH screening. At DII/DIII institutions, athletic trainers were more likely to both administer and review screeners than any other sports medicine professional; sport psychologists primarily oversaw these tasks at DI schools. DI, compared with DII/DIII, institutions were more likely to have had a student athlete attempt suicide (62% vs. 40%) and participate in inpatient treatment (69% vs. 43%). There is a clear need for the National Collegiate Athletic Association to continue to promote policies that support MH screening and to create mechanisms in which it can monitor institutional involvement.

scholarly journals Psychiatric morbidity and substance use in young people aged 13–15 years: results from the Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health

2003 ◽  
Vol 182 (6) ◽  
pp. 509-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Boys ◽  
M. Farrell ◽  
C. Taylor ◽  
J. Marsden ◽  
R. Goodman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
National Mental Health ◽  
The Relationship

BackgroundPsychoactive substance use is strongly associated with psychiatric morbidity in both adults and adolescents.AimsTo determine which of alcohol, nicotine and cannabis is most closely linked to psychiatric disorders in early adolescence.MethodData from 2624 adolescents aged 13–15 years were drawn from a national mental health survey of children. The relationship between psychiatric morbidity and smoking, drinking and cannabis use was examined by logistic regression analyses.ResultsHaving a psychiatric disorder was associated with an increased risk of substance use. Greater involvement with any one substance increased the risk of other substance use. Analyses of the interactions between smoking, drinking and cannabis use indicated that the relationship between substance use and psychiatric morbidity was primarily explained by regular smoking and (to a lesser extent) regular cannabis use.ConclusionsIn this sample, links between substance use and psychiatric disorders were primarily accounted for by smoking. The strong relationship is likely to be due to a combination of underlying individual constitutional factors and drug-specific effects resulting from consumption over the period of adolescent development and growth.

Internalized Cultural Models, Congruity With Cultural Standards, and Mental Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 1302-1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kateryna Maltseva
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New England ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Cultural Consonance ◽  
Local Variant ◽  
Cultural Standards ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Using the cultural consonance theory and the assumptions embedded in the culture consensus model, the present article addresses the associations between consensually understood and collectively shared cultural models and individual mental health. The study specifically explored the role of internalization. A structured survey was developed to extract the local variant of the American cultural model of a “good, worthy life.” The data collected in New England in fall 2012 ( N = 306) contained measures of the individual familiarity with the cultural model, the degree of internalization of its elements, the extent to which each informant’s lifestyle matched the model in their daily life, and measures of positive and negative mental health. The results confirm that the degree of cultural competence and internalization of cultural ideas affect inter-informant variation in both negative and positive mental health, but the relationship is a complex one.

The Relationship Between Mental Health Programs and General Physicians

1987 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1338-1340
Author(s):  
Theodore W. Walker ◽  
Larry R. Faulkner ◽  
Edwin Shaw ◽  
Joseph D. Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
General Physicians ◽  
Mental Health Programs ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Konsep Memaafkan dalam Psikologi Positif

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Ulin Nihayah ◽  
Salsabila Ade Putri ◽  
Rahmat Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Negative Emotional State ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Force

Forgiveness is a very important positive force that exists within a person so as not to always be trapped in a negative emotional state which can proceed to release all negative emotions such as feelings of anger, feelings of hatred, hurt and even the desire to take revenge for others. how others treat us. Forgiveness is also included in a concept contained in the study of positive psychology which according to Martin Seligman that positive psychology does not only focus on a person's weakness or mental illness but also focuses on the positive strengths possessed by each person to regulate these negative emotions into a positive emotion. One way to develop yourself is by forgiving. Forgiveness has a very important role in a person's mental health, where when an individual is having feelings of anger, hurt, disappointment, and feelings of hatred towards others, this can increase the negative emotions that exist within the individual which can later cause stress. frustration, sadness and even the desire to take revenge against someone because they have harbored these negative emotions for too long which are eventually released with revenge. Forgiveness is very important because forgiving is a way to release all negative emotions that exist in a person and when successfully released it will have positive impacts that can be felt by the person, especially the positive impact on his mental health, which forgiveness will create feelings a person becomes more relieved, feels better, and the mood becomes calmer and more comfortable, therefore forgiveness is very important to do. The purpose of thr journal writing is, 1) to understand the concept of forgiveness within positive psychology, 2) understanding the relationship between forgivrness and mental health, 3) understanding the importance of forgiveness toward mental health.Descriptive qualitative writing method used in this study is to describe several important concepts that will be discussed so that they are clearer and easier to understand. The results of the study show that people who always forgive will make themselves calmer and make the quality of their lives better because basically forgiveness has a very clear urgency, especially in a person's mental health condition.

Cumulative Effect of Life Events in Physical and Mental Health

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
A.P. Amaral ◽  
A. Vaz Serra
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
List Type ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Mental Symptoms ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Aims:This study examines the cumulative effect of life events in physical and mental symptoms. We have two main goals:1.Investigating the cumulative effect of life events in the health of the individual;2.Examining the relationship between the nature of adverse events and type of symptoms presented in terms of physical and mental health.Method:Data collection was performed in the general population, in 2 different moments: time 1 (T1) and time 2 (T2) spaced of nine months. The sample consisted initially by 552 individuals, and by 328 individuals at T2. A correlational design was used.Results:The number of life events, with impact on the individual, accumulated throughout the 9 months shows significant relationships with the physical and mental health in last evaluation. The hassles with impact for the individual are the events most relevant in terms of health. Certain circumstances of life are more closely related to mental health (changing the frequency of familiar meetings, the non-recognition of tasks, the workload increased). Others are more related to physical health (have been robbed or stolen, infidelity).Conclusion:Findings suggest the importance of hassles in the heath and some specificity in the relation with the life events and the physical and mental symptoms.

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