BACKGROUND: The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has disrupted millions of lives and commerce. We investigated psychological reactions and insomnia during the COVID-19 outbreak in adults with mental health disorders (MDs). METHODS: A self-reported psychological and sleep online survey was conducted in China between February 5th to 19th, 2020. A total of 244 adults with MDs and 1116 controls matched for age, gender and sites were included. Worsened symptoms of anxiety, depressive and insomnia ...
#1Xue Yang(CUHK: Chinese University of Hong Kong)H-Index: 9
#2Huahua Hu(CUHK: Chinese University of Hong Kong)H-Index: 1
Last. Guohua Zhang(WMC: Wenzhou Medical University)H-Index: 5
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BACKGROUND: The current study aims to track the changes in the levels of smart phone addiction (SPA) and depressive symptoms between pre and during COVID-19 and potential risk factors of among Chinese college students in a four-wave longitudinal study. METHODS: The participants were recruited from a Chinese university (n = 195; 58.5% females). The first three-wave surveys were conducted before COVID-19 (during December of Year 1, June of Year 1, and December of Year 2 of their college study; Tim...
#1Martin P. Paulus(McGovern Institute for Brain Research)H-Index: 109
#2Rayus Kuplicki(McGovern Institute for Brain Research)H-Index: 14
Last. Sahib S. Khalsa(McGovern Institute for Brain Research)H-Index: 24
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BACKGROUND Adherence to treatment, i.e. the extent to which a patient's therapeutic engagement coincides with the prescribed treatment, is among the most important problems in mental health care. The current study investigated the influence of pairing an acute positive reinforcing dopaminergic/noradrenergic effect (methylphenidate, MPH) with a standard antidepressant on the rates of adherence to medication treatment. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether MPH + escitalopram...
BACKGROUND Clozapine clinics can facilitate greater access to clozapine, but there is a paucity of data on their structure in the US. METHODS A 23-item survey was administered to participants recruited from the SMI Adviser Clozapine Center of Excellence listserv to understand characteristics of clozapine clinics. RESULTS Clozapine clinics (N = 32) had a median caseload of 45 (IQR = 21-88) patients and utilized a median of 5 (IQR = 4-6) interdisciplinary roles. The most common roles included psyc...
Last. JianLi Wang(University of Ottawa)H-Index: 46
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OBJECTIVES To understand users' perceptions about receiving their personalized depression risk score and to gain an understanding about how to improve the efficiency of risk communication from the user perspective. METHODS A qualitative study embedded in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on evaluating the impact of providing personalized depression risk information on psychological harms and benefits. The participants (20 males and 20 females) were randomly selected from the intervention arm o...
BACKGROUND Patients who undergo psychological treatment can report both negative and positive effects, but evidence of factors influencing the likelihood of negative effects is limited. AIMS To identify aspects of the organisation and delivery of secondary care psychological treatment services that are associated with patient experiences of negative effects. METHOD Cross-sectional survey of people with anxiety and depression who ended psychological treatment delivered by 50 NHS trusts in England...
Last. Liansheng Zhao(SCU: Sichuan University)H-Index: 14
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Background null It is unclear whether psychotic experiences (PEs) gradually merge into states of clinical psychosis along a continuum which correspond to a dimensional classification or whether latent classes appear above a certain severity threshold which correspond better to diagnostic categories of psychosis. null Methods null Annual cross-sectional surveys, 2014-19, among Chinese undergraduates (N = 47,004) measured PEs, depression and etiological risk factors using standardized self-report ...
#1Babul Hossain(IIPS: International Institute for Population Sciences)H-Index: 1
#2Pawan Kumar Yadav(IIPS: International Institute for Population Sciences)H-Index: 1
Last. K. J. Vinod Joseph(IIPS: International Institute for Population Sciences)
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BACKGROUND Depression among the elderly is well-documented and associated with socio-economic factors, physical and mental health conditions. Few studies have focused on older adults' physical limitations and depressive symptoms. However, very little is known about marital status' role in such associations, especially in India. The present study examines the association between physical limitations and self-reported depressive symptoms and moderating role of marital status in such association se...
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