The relationship between maternal mental health and communication skills in children in Shiraz, Iran

OBJECTIVES: Child development is a significant issue in global public health, and maternal mental health (MMH) can have a remarkable effect on children’s development of communication skills. We aimed to investigate the association between MMH and communication skills in a sample of Iranian children.METHODS: This study was conducted in Shiraz, Iran during 2016. In total, 640 mothers who lived in Shiraz and were registered in the Fars Birth Cohort (FBC) study were invited to attend the FBC clinic with their children. A trained physician evaluated MMH using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Additionally, a trained nurse assessed the children’s communication development status using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire for 60-month old children.RESULTS: The majority of the mothers were homemakers (82.8%) and had high school diplomas (38.9%). The mothers’ mean age was 33.7±4.6 years. Seventy-nine (12.3%) children had delayed communication skills, but no significant association was found between children’s communication skills and the mothers’ total GHQ score (p=0.43). In total, 493 mothers (77.0%) had abnormal somatic symptoms, 497 (77.7%) had abnormal anxiety/insomnia, 337 (52.7%) had social dysfunction, and 232 (36.3%) suffered from depression. Logistic regression indicated that after adjusting for confounders, the odds of delayed communication skills were 3-fold higher among the children of mothers with abnormal somatic symptoms than among other children (p=0.01).CONCLUSIONS: The study results confirmed that MMH had a significant impact on children’s communication skills. Moreover, maternal abnormal somatic symptoms exerted the strongest impact on the development of communication skills in 5-yearold children.

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Convergent Validity of the Arabic Scale of Mental Health

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/03.09.pr0.110.1.16-24 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 110 (1) ◽

pp. 16-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

College Students ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Somatic Symptoms ◽

Symptom Checklist ◽

Health Questionnaire ◽

Kuwait University ◽

Correlation Matrices ◽

Neuroticism Scale

To estimate the convergent validity of the Arabic Scale of Mental Health, three convenience separate samples ( ns = 162, 168, 138) of volunteer Kuwaiti college students, ages 19 to 32 years, responded anonymously to several scales measuring psychopathology Analyses showed total ratings for the scale correlated negatively with those of the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale, Factorial Arabic Neuroticism Scale, Somatic Symptoms Inventory, Arabic Scale of Insomnia, the nine subscales of the Symptom Checklist-90—R, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the seven subscales of the General Health Questionnaire. Three separate correlation matrices were subjected to principal components analyses for which a single bipolar factor, Mental health versus psychopathology, was retained in all three matrices. Loadings for the Arabic Scale of Mental Health were −.76, −.64, and −.76. It was concluded that this scale has suitable convergent validity.

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Mental health in the oil industry: a comparative study of onshore and offshore employees

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291700038563 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 997-1009 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Katharine R. Parkes

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Somatic Symptoms ◽

Oil Industry ◽

Published Data ◽

Regression Analyses ◽

Job Level ◽

Similar Work

SynopsisFew empirical studies have examined the mental health of workers on North Sea oil and gas installations, and it is unclear from the available literature whether offshore employees show impaired mental health relative to their onshore counterparts. The present study was intended to clarify this issue by direct comparison of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) scores of onshore and offshore personnel engaged in similar work. As compared with published data, only the onshore group showed low GHQ-12 scores, although both groups were low in neuroticism. Analysis of GHQ subscale scores demonstrated that anxiety was significantly higher among offshore workers than among those working onshore, but there were no significant differences in somatic symptoms or social dysfunction. Regression analyses showed that this result was not affected by control for age, job level, and neuroticism, although there was a significant interaction between job level and neuroticism in predicting anxiety. The nature of the offshore environment, and the factors which may play a causal role in elevated anxiety among offshore workers, are discussed.

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Postnatal Mental Health, Handwashing Practices, and Infant Illness in Rural China

10.21203/rs.3.rs-146598/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Qi Jiang ◽

Nourya Cohen ◽

Mika Ohtori ◽

Jie Gao ◽

Qingzhi Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Infant Health ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Maternal Mental Health ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

Health Problems ◽

Western China ◽

Depression Symptoms ◽

Global Public Health ◽

The Past

Abstract Background: Maternal mental health problems are a major burden to global public health and play an important role in infant wellbeing. While western countries have extensively studied the associations between maternal mental disorders, infant health, and hygiene practices, little is known in developing settings. This study investigates the correlations between postnatal mental health problems and infant illness as well as handwashing practices of mothers in rural western China.Methods: The research team followed a multi-stage random cluster sampling method to select a total of 720 mothers of infants aged 0-6 months from poverty counties in rural western China. Surveys questions about mental health were based on the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21), and questions about infant illness and handwashing practices followed evaluative surveys of prior studies. Adjusted ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions were run to examine how postnatal mental health problems (including depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms) are associated with infant illnesses and maternal handwashing practices.Results: We found significant associations between all three symptoms of postnatal mental health and whether the infant had shown symptoms of illness twice in the past two weeks; depression and anxiety symptoms are significantly associated with whether the infant had been taken to the doctor in the past two weeks. Additionally, depression symptoms had a significant negative association with all categories of handwashing practices, and symptoms of anxiety and stress were significantly associated with handwashing count and frequently washing hands after cleaning infant’s bottom.Conclusion: These results indicate that postnatal mental health problems are significantly associated with infant illness and suggest that postnatal mental health interventions may be effective in mitigating poor infant health outcomes.

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Maternal Mental Health, Handwashing Practices, and Infant Illness in Rural China

10.21203/rs.3.rs-130715/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Qi Jiang ◽

Nourya Cohen ◽

Mika Ohtori ◽

Jie Gao ◽

Qingzhi Wang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Infant Health ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Maternal Mental Health ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

Health Problems ◽

Western China ◽

Depression Symptoms ◽

Global Public Health ◽

The Past

Abstract Background: Maternal mental health problems are a major burden to global public health and play an important role in infant wellbeing. While western countries have extensively studied the associations between maternal mental disorders, infant health, and hygiene practices, little is known in developing settings. This study investigates the correlations between maternal mental health problems and infant illness as well as handwashing practices of mothers in rural western China.Methods: The research team followed a multi-stage random cluster sampling method to select a total of 720 mothers of infants aged 0-6 months from poverty counties in rural western China. Surveys questions about mental health were based on the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21), and questions about infant illness and handwashing practices followed evaluative surveys of prior studies. Adjusted ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions were run to examine how maternal mental health problems (including depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms) are associated with infant illnesses and maternal handwashing practices.Results: We found significant associations between all three symptoms of maternal mental health and whether the infant had shown symptoms of illness twice in the past two weeks; depression and anxiety symptoms are significantly associated with whether the infant had been taken to the doctor in the past two weeks. Additionally, depression symptoms had a significant negative association with all categories of handwashing practices, and symptoms of anxiety and stress were significantly associated with handwashing count and frequently washing hands after cleaning infant’s bottom.Conclusion: These results indicate that maternal mental health problems are significantly associated with infant illness and suggest that postnatal mental health interventions may be effective in mitigating poor infant health outcomes.

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Relationship Between Personality Traits and Mental Health in Athletes Students

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.02.058 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S257-S257

Author(s):

S.J. Mosavi Amiri ◽

M. Abbasalipour ◽

S.K. Mousavi Amiri ◽

R. Ghaemi Amiri ◽

M. Sheikholeslami Amiri ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Social Withdrawal ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Somatic Symptoms ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Pearson Correlation Test ◽

Competing Interest

AimThe purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between personality traits and mental health in athlete students. This study was a descriptive and correlation design.MethodSixty athletes students were randomly selected and responded to NEO-PIR inventory and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28). NEO assesses five personality traits: Neuroticism (N), Extroversion (E), Agreeableness (A), Openness to new experience (O) and Conscientiousness (C), and GHQ assesses four dimensions: Somatic symptoms (A), Anxiety (B), Social withdrawal (C) and Depression (D). NEO assesses five personality traits: Neuroticism, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to experience. The data were analyzed with Pearson correlation test.ResultsThe findings showed that there was positive significant correlation between neuroticism with somatic symptoms and depression, and negative significant correlation between extroversion, agreeableness, openness to new experience and conscientiousness with depression.ConclusionBased on findings, it is concluded that physical exercises and sport plans have positive effects on mood and affect of students, and decrease physical and mental diseases in athletes students.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Relationship between mental health and spiritual wellbeing among hemodialysis patients: a correlation study

Sao Paulo Medical Journal ◽

10.1590/1516-3180.2014.1321606 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 132 (1) ◽

pp. 23-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Beatriz Bertolaccini Martinez ◽

Rodrigo Pereira Custodio

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Negative Impact ◽

General Health Questionnaire ◽

Well Being ◽

Hemodialysis Patients ◽

Poor Mental Health ◽

Spiritual Wellbeing ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Study Results ◽

The Relationship

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: The stress of living with a terminal disease has a negative impact on the mental health of hemodialysis (HD) patients. Spirituality is a potential coping mechanism for stressful experiences. Studies on the relationship between spirituality and mental health among HD patients are scarce. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between mental health and spiritual well-being among HD patients. DESIGN AND SETTING: Cross-sectional observational study on hemodialysis patients at a single center in Brazil, between January and December 2011. METHODS : Mental health was assessed using the General Health Questionnaire and spiritual wellbeing was assessed using the Spiritual Wellbeing Scale; 150 HD patients participated in the study. RESULTS : A significant correlation was found between mental health and spiritual wellbeing (P = 0.001). Spiritual wellbeing was the strongest predictor of mental health, psychological distress, sleep disturbance and psychosomatic complaints. CONCLUSION: Poor mental health was associated with lower spiritual wellbeing. This has important implications for delivery of palliative care to HD patients.

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