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Introduction This study examines whether attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) are associated with university students’ psychological distress and whether this relationship operates through perceived future employability and psychological...
Background Optimizing psychiatric outcomes, such as reducing coercive measures and chlorpromazine dosage, is crucial for ensuring patient autonomy and deinstitutionalization amid the increasing prevalence of mental disorders. Ensuring equitable...
Cognitively demanding tasks are often perceived as costly, leading to effort avoidance, particularly in populations with motivational impairments. Research on anxiety and cognitive effort are mixed: some suggest anxiety increases effort cost, while...
Background Restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concern among suicidology and mental health researchers regarding a possible increase in suicide risk, particularly among people already in psychological distress. Attachment...
There is growing interest in community-based mental health interventions in resource-limited settings, driven by the need for sustainable, locally grounded approaches. Yet many programmes remain dominated by individual and biomedical models and can...
Objective Medication adherence remains a major challenge in the long-term management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). While clinical determinants of adherence have been widely studied, the psychological mechanisms through which individual differences...
This study used data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) to examine the co-developmental trajectories of emotional symptoms and peer problems from ages 3 to 17. A sample of 16,983 children (48.8% female, 82.4% White ethnicity) was analyzed using...
With the growing intensity of global competition, understanding employees’ psychological awareness has become a vital aspect of organizational management. Among related constructs, emotional intelligence (EI) has drawn considerable interest, leading...
Purpose Parental death during adolescence or young adulthood (AYA) is a significant life event with profound psychological consequences and may initiate or escalate psychotropic medication use. This study identified distinct psychotropic medication...
Irritability is a common and functionally impairing affective experience in young adults, yet its momentary dynamics and connections to everyday functioning remain poorly understood in non-clinical populations. Using ecological momentary assessment,...
The COVID-19 pandemic posed significant challenges for many college students, particularly those with disabilities. However, little is known about how students’ stress and coping evolved during the pandemic or whether these changes influenced...
Mental health problems affect approximately 14% of older adults worldwide. Although urban environments are known to influence stress, a key contributor to mental health problems, well-controlled experimental studies examining how specific urban...
Anxiety, inadequate sleep, and insufficient physical activity are increasingly prevalent features of contemporary youth lifestyles and may collectively influence cardiac autonomic regulation. In this work, we aim to identify associations of these...
Purpose Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) is a common, distressing symptom among cancer patients, particularly those undergoing or having completed chemotherapy. Our study seeks to understand the experiences and needs of cancer patients with...
The transition to university life presents significant adaptive challenges. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), a cognitive-emotional disposition characterized by a negative response to ambiguity, is posited to be a critical vulnerability. This study...
Background Preparing nursing students to deliver person-centred mental health care requires not only psychiatric knowledge but also positive attitudes toward people with mental illness and the capacity for reflective thinking. This study evaluated an...
The mental health professions were actively involved in the Supreme Court’s 2025-2026 Term. For example, the American Psychological Association (APA) filed five amicus curiae briefs. Those briefs were in cases involving states’ prohibition on...
Objective Adolescent depression is a prevalent condition with limited effective treatment options. The inflammatory hypothesis of depression has gained increasing attention, yet evidence in adolescent populations remains scarce. Soluble...
Accurate prediction of antidepressant treatment response remains an important challenge in depression research. In this preliminary exploratory study, we propose an electroencephalogram (EEG)-based deep learning framework for predicting response to...
Depression has been recognized as a significant problem which is associated with undesirable outcomes and poor quality of life among patients with asthma. There is a dearth of evidence about the prevalence of depression and its associated factors...
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BMC Psychiatryis an open access, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses a wide range of topics, including psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and...
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiologyis intended to provide a medium for the prompt publication of scientific contributions concerned with...
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Community Mental Health Journalis dedicated to advancing public sector mental health services for individuals affected by serious mental illness,...