 | | Leadership development as a novel strategy to mitigate burnout among female physicians | Leadership development as a novel strategy to mitigate burnout among female physicians
Leadership development as a novel strategy to mitigate burnout among female physicians
Overview
Female physicians are more likely to experience burnout and less likely to hold leader¬ship positions. Effective interventions are needed to support women physicians in the workforce. The objective of this study is to determine if a shared learning, social-based leadership development program will impact burnout and career trajectory for female physicians. After various methods were applied it was concluded that burnout can be improved, and leadership aspirations fostered with a group leadership development in a cohort of female physicians.
Journal PLOS ONE Volume 20 Issue 3
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| | Hearing impairment and dementia: cause, catalyst or consequence? | Hearing impairment and dementia: cause, catalyst or consequence?
Hearing impairment and dementia: cause, catalyst or consequence?
Overview
The relationship between hearing impairment and dementia has attracted significant attention, the 2024 Lancet Commission report identifying hearing loss as the largest modifiable risk factor for dementia from mid-life. The nature of this linkage between dementia and hearing remains unclear and is likely to be complex. In principle, hearing impairment could cause (directly promote), catalyse (amplify) or be a consequence of neurodegenerative pathology and cognitive decline.
Here we use this framework to examine different lines of evidence for the association between hearing impairment and dementia and consider how this evidence speaks to potential mechanisms and treatment implications. We conclude by considering practical clinical implications for management of patients with hearing impairment and dementia, the potential role for central hearing tests as ‘auditory biomarkers’ of dementia, and the need for further collaborative and mechanistically motivated research in this area.
Journal Journal of Neurology
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| | H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) | H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu)
H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu)
Overview
H1N1 influenza, referred to as swine flu, is a highly contagious respiratory disease in pigs caused by one of several swine influenza A viruses, as recently reviewed. Transmission of swine influenza viruses to humans is uncommon.
Swine influenza is a highly contagious respiratory disease in pigs caused by one of several swine influenza A viruses, as recently reviewed. In addition, influenza C viruses may also cause illness in swine. Strategies to control swine influenza virus (SIV) in animals typically include one of several commercially available bivalent swine influenza virus vaccines. Once a human becomes infected, he or she then can spread the virus to other humans.
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| | What is the effect of homework engagement in group cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders and depression | What is the effect of homework engagement in group cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders and depression
What is the effect of homework engagement in group cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders and depression
Overview
Homework plays an integral role in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) treatment programmes. While previous research has generally reported positive outcomes linked to homework adherence in CBT, there is a lack of extensive evaluation concerning its effect within transdiagnostic CBT (tCBT) settings. CBT is a leading treatment for anxiety and depression because it is strongly supported by evidence. Homework assignments are central to CBT, helping patients practise therapeutic skills outside sessions for lasting symptom relief. These structured activities are discussed during sessions and tailored to individual needs and goals.
This study is the first to investigate the effects of homework engagement on symptoms within group Unified Protocol (UP) therapy, contributing to the limited literature that seeks to isolate the unique impact of treatment engagement on symptom outcomes. It highlights the need for future research to confirm these findings and to further explore aspects such as the quality of homework engagement, therapist-related factors, group cohesion, and any potential negative effects that may arise from homework assignments.
Journal BMC Psychology
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| | The relationship between social network addiction, online gaming addiction, and suicide ideation: mediating and moderating role of loneliness | The relationship between social network addiction, online gaming addiction, and suicide ideation: mediating and moderating role of loneliness
The relationship between social network addiction, online gaming addiction, and suicide ideation: mediating and moderating role of loneliness
Overview Suicide represents a serious public health issue, closely intertwined with feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, and existential questioning. Suicide, a major global public health concern, is often perceived as an escape from intense emotional, physical, or social distress. Suicidal ideation affects millions annually, with higher prevalence in low- and middle-income contexts likely due to reduced access to mental health support, greater loneliness, and heightened psychosocial stressors. These conditions create an environment where early intervention is often unavailable, and emotional suffering goes unaddressed. In this study, we focus on thwarted belongingness, which aligns conceptually with loneliness, the main construct in our proposed model. Loneliness is understood as a subjective experience of social disconnection, emotional isolation, or unfulfilled interpersonal needs.
Journal BMC Psychology
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| | Negative Association Between Harsh Parenting and Life Satisfaction: Negative coping style as mediator and peer support as moderator | Negative Association Between Harsh Parenting and Life Satisfaction: Negative coping style as mediator and peer support as moderator
Negative Association Between Harsh Parenting and Life Satisfaction: Negative coping style as mediator and peer support as moderator
Overview Life satisfaction refers to an individual’s self-evaluation of how satisfied they are with their own life. It is significantly positively correlated with mental health status and negatively correlated with depression.
It is necessary to pay attention to factors that influence life satisfaction.
This study explores the negative effects of harsh parenting on life satisfaction among Chinese college students. It also examines how negative coping styles mediate this relationship and how peer support can mitigate the effects of harsh parenting.
It finds that harsh parenting, which includes physical and verbal aggression, is prevalent in China and negatively impacts children's psychological development.
The findings highlight the importance of reducing harsh parenting and promoting peer support to enhance adolescents' life satisfaction. | 3 | | R525.00 | |
| | HIV and Aids Part 2 | HIV and Aids Part 2
Overview
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus transmitted through sexual contact, shared needles, and from mother to child during childbirth or breastfeeding. It belongs to the Retroviridae family. All patients who are diagnosed with HIV should be initiated on ART as soon as possible.
HIV can also lead to complications like dementia and chronic diarrhea with weight loss (HIV wasting syndrome).
Exceptions to this include patients presenting with cryptococcal meningitis (CM) or central nervous system tuberculosis (tuberculous meningitis (TBM) or tuberculoma).
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| | HIV and Aids Part 1 | HIV and Aids Part 1
Overview
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus transmitted through sexual contact, shared needles, and from mother to child during childbirth or breastfeeding. It belongs to the Retroviridae family. Symptoms vary depending on the stage of infection and these include: - Acute stage, which resembles the flu, with fever, malaise, and a generalized rash;
- Asymptomatic stage which generally, has no symptoms.
- Lymphadenopathy, which presents with swelling of lymph nodes, which can be a primary symptom.
- AIDs, which is the advanced stage marked by severe infections or cancers.
HIV can also lead to complications like dementia and chronic diarrhea with weight loss (HIV wasting syndrome).
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| | Ebola Virus Infection | Ebola Virus Infection
Overview
Ebola virus is one of at least 30 known viruses capable of causing viral hemorrhagic fever syndrome. The genus Ebolavirus currently is classified into 5 separate species: Sudan ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, Tai Forest (Ivory Coast) ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, and Bundibugyo ebolavirus. The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa from 2014 to 2016, involving Zaire ebolavirus, was the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in history.
As of September 17, 2019, an active outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had resulted in 3,034 confirmed and 111 probable cases of Ebola virus disease, including 2,103 attributable deaths. An experimental vaccine has been credited with limiting the outbreak’s scope.
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| | Understanding and Addressing Older Adults’ Loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectations Framework | Understanding and Addressing Older Adults’ Loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectations Framework
Understanding and Addressing Older Adults’ Loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectations Framework
Overview
Loneliness is an experience resulting from a perceived discrepancy between expected and actual social relationships. Although this discrepancy is widely considered the “core mechanism” of loneliness, previous research and interventions have not sufficiently addressed what older adults specifically expect from their social relationships.
The consensus psychological definition of loneliness is a feeling that results from a perceived discrepancy between desired and achieved levels of social relationships (Peplau & Perlman, 1982). This gap between expected and actual social relationships may be considered the “core mechanism” of loneliness. To address this gap and to help situate research on older adults’ loneliness within broader life span developmental theories, we propose a theoretical framework that outlines six key social relationship expectations of older adults based on research from psychology, gerontology, and anthropology: availability of social contacts, receiving care and support, intimacy and understanding, enjoyment and shared interests, generativity and contribution, and being respected and valued. We further argue that a complete understanding of loneliness across the life span requires attention to the powerful impacts of contextual factors (e.g., culture, functional limitations, social network changes) on the expression and fulfilment of older adults’ universal and age-specific relationship expectations.
The proposed Social Relationship Expectations Framework may fruitfully inform future loneliness research and interventions for a heterogeneous aging population
Journal Perspectives on Psychological Science Volume 18 Issue 4 | 3 | | R485.00 | |
| | Psychology of Abusive Human Behaviour | Psychology of Abusive Human Behaviour
Psychology of Abusive Human Behaviour
Overview
The aim of this article is to explore the psychology of abusive human behaviour with special attention to gaslighting, defamation of character, mockery, bullying, and mobbing, based on the so-far published scientific literature, and my own experience and observations. Abusive human behaviour can have various forms, but the motivation is almost always the same: power and control over the victim.
Abusive human behaviour can have various forms. The most common motivation for abusive behaviour is power and control over the victim. Abusers are possessive, although they usually deny their actions of blaming and controlling the victim, and on the other hand, are insecure and suffer from untreated mental health problems, including depression and suicidal ideation psychological abuse, especially if longer lasting, can cause serious psychological and even physical damage to the victim. Society should be more aware of the detrimental effects of abusive human behaviour in its variety of forms and be ready to offer adequate medical, psychological and legal help for the victim.
Journal Open Journal of Medical Psychology Volume 11 Issue 2 | 3 | | R485.00 | |
| | Effect of group sand play therapy on psychopathologies of adolescents with delinquent behaviours | Effect of group sand play therapy on psychopathologies of adolescents with delinquent behaviours
Effect of group sand play therapy on psychopathologies of adolescents with delinquent behaviours
Overview Adolescence is a period in which drastic changes occur in physiological, emotional, and cognitive aspects of development. Adolescents often express diverse conflicts and confusions stemming from physical changes, identity establishment, and environmental adaptation processes, which manifest as various problematic behaviours. These developmental conflicts often make adolescents vulnerable to delinquency and deviant behaviours. Glueck and Glueck investigated the differences between 500 delinquent adolescents and 500 typical adolescents from Boston, along parameters including relationship with parents, personality, and temperament, and suggested that individual traits such as defiance, impulsiveness, and emotional instability are predictors of delinquency. Prior research has established adolescent vulnerability to delinquent behaviour. This single arm, noninterventional, observational study investigated the effect of sand play therapy on the psychopathologies of adolescents with delinquent behaviour. A total of 68 adolescents participated in the study. Results of this study showed that group sand play therapy is effective in improving internalizing problems such as depression and anxiety, as well as externalizing problems of ADHD features and impulsiveness among adolescents with deviant behaviours.
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| | Serum Magnesium is Inversely Associated with Body Composition and Metabolic Syndrome | Serum Magnesium is Inversely Associated with Body Composition and Metabolic Syndrome
Serum Magnesium is Inversely Associated with Body Composition and Metabolic Syndrome
Overview
Magnesium is vital to maintain normal physiological functions. We aimed to identify the association between serum magnesium and different measures of body adiposity among Qatari adults. We hypothesized that the association was mediated by depression and sleep duration.
The study included 1000 adults aged 20 years and above who attended the Qatar Biobank Study (QBB) between 2012 and 2019. Body adiposity was assessed using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Serum magnesium concentration was measured. Sub-optimal magnesium was defined as magnesium concentration less than 0.85 mmol/L. The association was examined using linear regression.
It was concluded that there was an inverse association between serum magnesium and fat mass, especially among those with an adequate sleep duration and without chronic conditions including diabetes, hypertension and depression.
Journal
Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Volume 2023 Issue 16
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| | The Child and Adolescent Family Functioning Inventory (CAFFI): Development and Psychometric Properties | The Child and Adolescent Family Functioning Inventory (CAFFI): Development and Psychometric Properties
The Child and Adolescent Family Functioning Inventory (CAFFI): Development and Psychometric Properties
Overview
Substantial empirical support exists demonstrating the efficacy of family therapy in the treatment of serious child and adolescent mental illness. Family dynamics play an important role in a child’s mental health condition and research has shown that as family functioning improves with treatment, the severity of a child’s symptoms decreases. Therefore, the ability to quickly and efficiently assess key areas of family functioning is essential in clinical practice. This paper describes the development and psychometric properties of the Child and Adolescent Family Functioning Inventory (CAFFI), a brief, no cost, publicly available clinical assessment instrument. The CAFFI can be used to both quickly identify key family dynamics at the start of treatment that require immediate clinical attention, as well as an outcome measure to track and demonstrate the family’s clinical progress over time.
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| | Relationship between chronic disease and depression: the mediating effect of pain | Relationship between chronic disease and depression: the mediating effect of pain
Relationship between chronic disease and depression: the mediating effect of pain
Overview The incidence of depression was high in people who were female, less educated, unmarried, living in rural areas, and working. Chronic diseases have a high incidence in China and may cause pain and depression. However, the association of chronic diseases with pain and the incidence of depression has not been comprehensively investigated.
The study population was obtained from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). The main outcome was the incidence of depression. The main independent variable was chronic disease (no chronic disease, one chronic disease, and two or more chronic diseases). The mediators were the degree of pain (no pain, mild pain, and moderate to severe pain) and whether measures were taken to relieve pain (measures taken and no measures taken). In conclusion the degree of pain had a partial mediating effect on chronic disease and depression. Pain relief measures should be considered when treating patients with depression.
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| | Going Beyond the Visible in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Defence Mechanisms and their Associations with Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life | Going Beyond the Visible in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Defence Mechanisms and their Associations with Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life
Going Beyond the Visible in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Defence Mechanisms and their Associations with Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life
Overview
Clinical psychological features may impact a person’s aptitude to deal with chronic diseases, leading to emotional distress, suffering, and a worse perceived quality of life (QoL). Chronic diseases are largely represented, and their incidence is constantly increasing all over the world. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most common chronic diseases and it is very difficult to manage, demanding long term self-management, which improves the perceived QoL. The aim of this study was to explore defence mechanisms, depression, QoL, time since diagnosis, and metabolic control in T2DM patients.
In conclusion of the study the correlations between defence mechanisms, depression and health-related QoL highlight the potential personification and protagonization, which may increase over time due to the illness intrusiveness and worsening of diabetes symptoms. The positive association between defensive strategies and well-being measures should be cautiously considered. URL: Going Beyond the Visible in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Defence Mechanisms and Their Associations With Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life (nih.gov) | 3 | | R485.00 | |
| | Prevention of Common Mental Disorders | Prevention of Common Mental Disorders
Prevention of Common Mental Disorders
Overview
This article provides information on how to prevent common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety disorders. The concept of resilience was discussed with reference to risk factors and factors protecting against mental disorders.
The article deals with the prevention of mental disorders, describing its specificity and types. It also focuses on the importance of early intervention in the prevention of mental disorders, emphasizing the need for action already at the stage of infancy. The issues of difficulties in self-regulation in early childhood as a risk factor for the development of disorders in the area of mental health were also discussed, and the possibilities of preventive interventions in this regard were discussed
Statistics show that every year more and more people, including children and adolescents, suffer from mental disorders. Despite alarming data, government spending in the mental health area still does not meet mental health needs. Mental disorders are conditioned by many factors, both non-modifiable and modifiable. Modification of risk factors may, therefore, become an opportunity to reduce the probability of mental disorders, but it requires appropriately adapted interactions
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| | Psychological Distress during the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment | Psychological Distress during the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment
Psychological Distress during the Retirement Transition and the Role of Psychosocial Working Conditions and Social Living Environment
Mental health is determined by social, biological, and cultural factors and is sensitive to life transitions. We examine how psychosocial working conditions, social living environment, and cumulative risk factors are associated with mental health changes during the retirement transition.
Mental disorders are one of the leading causes of ill-health and disability, increasing the risk of chronic physical conditions and mortality. Mental health is determined by a range of socioeconomic, biological, and cultural factors and is sensitive to major life changes and transitions. Retirement is an important transitional period in late adulthood, traditionally considered as a stressful event, having negative consequences on mental health due to changes in established routines, loss of work-related roles and activities, and reduced income levels. However, there is accumulating evidence of retirement having positive effects on mental health potentially as a consequence of relief from stressful work, increased leisure time, increased physical activity longer sleep duration and fewer sleep difficulties
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| | Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Psychotherapy: Processes of Meaning Making and Self Transformation | Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Psychotherapy: Processes of Meaning Making and Self Transformation
Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Psychotherapy: Processes of Meaning Making and Self Transformation
MS is a central nervous system disease which is characterised by demyelination, inflammation and neurodegeneration. There are about 2.2 million cases of MS worldwide.
The progression of the illness exhibits significant individual variation ranging from vision problems, fatigue, spasticity and pain to cognitive dysfunction and mood disorders
Recent empirical literature on autoimmune diseases has focused extensively on the implementation and evaluation of psychosocial interventions. Psychotherapy and counselling processes for multiple sclerosis (MS) have gained special attention given the cognitive and behavioural dimensions of the symptoms as well as their unpredictable course. The current study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning making processes for persons with MS (PwMS) who are in psychotherapy treatment.
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| | Gaining a Better Understanding of the Types of Organizational Culture to Manage Suffering at Work | Gaining a Better Understanding of the Types of Organizational Culture to Manage Suffering at Work
Gaining a Better Understanding of the Types of Organizational Culture to Manage Suffering at Work
Overview
Organizational culture is a central concept in research due to its importance in organizational functioning and suffering of employees. To better manage suffering, it is necessary to better understand the intrinsic characteristics of each type of culture and its relationships with the environment.
According to the study by Schein (2010), the organizational culture is a pattern of basic values and presuppositions that are shared and learned by a group while resolving the problems of external adaptation and internal integration. Each culture represents a different set of values and presuppositions. All organizations have all four types but in different proportions. This is a typological model because it aims to identify archetypes using different effectiveness criteria.
Contrary to what most of the literature suggests, we found almost no relationship between the environmental variables and the culture types. Strategy and competencies, in contrast, do have a significant predictive capacity, showing 9 links with the Clan culture, 7 with the Hierarchy culture, and 10 with the Market culture. In conclusion, this study has found the important characteristics of the types of organizational culture that could be useful to better manage the suffering of employees.
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| | Expression beyond Words: An Analysis of Human Figure Drawing of Children and Adolescents with ADHD | Expression beyond Words: An Analysis of Human Figure Drawing of Children and Adolescents with ADHD
Expression beyond Words: An Analysis of Human Figure Drawing of Children and Adolescents with ADHD
Overview
Children’s' drawing are good indicators of emotion, self- esteem and social competence, as well as other personality aspects. Children in the phase of development, express their emotions more through images or drawings instead of words (Catte & Cox, 1999). The current study aims to explore emotional indicators in the drawings of children and adolescents with ADHD. More specifically, the objective of the investigation is to determine if there are gender and age –wise differences in emotional wellbeing.
Human figure drawing of 52 children and adolescents were analysed according to 5-category emotional problems The emotional problems were characterized as impulsivity, insecurity-inadequacy, shyness-timidity, anxiety and anger- aggressiveness. Emotional indicators amongst each category were analysed to find if they were linked to gender and age groups. Chi-Square analysis showed gender differences within the emotional indicators; boys who participated in this study manifested more anger related issues than girls, whereas girls showed more traits of shyness.
The findings suggested emotional wellbeing of children with ADHD increases with age, additionally while girls remain timidly shy, and boys retain aggressiveness. The findings have important implications for clinical and educational psychology.
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| | Prevalence and Factors Associated with Substance Use Among University Students in South Africa: implications for prevention | Prevalence and Factors Associated with Substance Use Among University Students in South Africa: implications for prevention
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Substance Use Among University Students in South Africa: implications for prevention
Substance use is an important public health concern in many countries across the globe. Among the public, institutions of higher learning have developed a reputation for inducing new substance use among students. In addition to socio-demographic factors, substance use and abuse among university students often appear to be related to psychological stressors typically related to the demand to adapt to the new environment and the pressures associated with academia. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of, and factors associated with substance use among university students.
Findings of such studies show that the use of alcohol, particularly getting drunk and binge drinking, marijuana and non-prescription amphetamine, were considerably higher among university students when compared with their non-university attending peers.
It is hoped that the results, implications, limitation, and recommendation of the present study invokes increased focus and ignites novel or innovative thinking when undertaking research of similar nature.
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| | Loneliness, Ageism, and Mental Health: The buffering role of resilience in seniors | Loneliness, Ageism, and Mental Health: The buffering role of resilience in seniors
Loneliness, Ageism, and Mental Health: The buffering role of resilience in seniors
Ageism and loneliness are two relevant public health phenomena because of their negative impact on the senior's mental health. With the increase in average life expectancy, these tend to co-occur, which may increase the psychological distress (PD) of seniors. Resilience has been shown to be an important protective factor of seniors’ mental health, although its potential buffering role of public health risk factors with cumulative impact on mental health, such as loneliness and ageism, needs to be more studied.
Resilience was an important protective factor of mental health against the effects of ageism, and partially protected mental health from the effects of loneliness among seniors. It is suggested that resilience be considered as a factor to be integrated in future intervention programs for mental health. The practical applicability of this study is discussed.
Journal International Journal of Clinical Health Psychology Volume 23 Issue 1 | 3 | | R465.00 | |
| | Childhood Adverse Events and the Long-Term Effects on Mental Health | Childhood Adverse Events and the Long-Term Effects on Mental Health
Childhood Adverse Events and the Long-Term Effects on Mental Health
There has long been an association between family history and mental illness; however, recently researchers have focused on the correlation between childhood adverse events and mood disorders, specifically bipolar disorder. This study shows there is a strong correlation between CAE and PB, specifically, sexual abuse in females, maternal separation, economic difficulty and a family history of mental illness.
The findings suggest that females that experience childhood adverse events may be at a higher risk for developing bipolar disorder and the clinical outcome of bipolar disorder may also be affected by the type and number of childhood adverse events.
The results also suggest that schizophrenic spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder are associated with different childhood adverse events. Females who have recollections of childhood abuse are at an increased risk for depressive symptoms associated with bipolar disorder. Psychosocial interventions that are geared towards limiting childhood adverse events may reduce the incidence of mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. | 3 | | R465.00 | |
| | Five-Minute Cognitive Test as A New Quick Screening of Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly | Five-Minute Cognitive Test as A New Quick Screening of Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly
Five-Minute Cognitive Test as A New Quick Screening of Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly
Overview
As old population is dramatically growing, the detection of early cognitive deficit will become increasingly crucial. Effective cognitive screening test with quick and convenient merits will ensure recognition of early cognitive deficit and timely intervention. This study aims to develop a new evaluation method for quickly and conveniently screening cognitive impairment in the elderly.
The five-minute cognitive test (FCT) was designed to capture deficits in five domains of cognitive abilities, including episodic memory, language fluency, time orientation, visuospatial function, and executive function. Subsequently, FCT efficiencies in differentiating normally cognitive ability from cognitive impairment were explored and compared with that of the Mini-Mental Status Evaluation (MMSE). Equipercentile equating method was utilized to create a crosswalk between scores of the FCT and MMSE. Further, the association of scores of the FCT and MMSE with hippocampal volumes was investigated.
Many screening tools are currently available, but no tools meet the four important requirements for widespread use in clinical practice or large-scale epidemiological studies — that is, capture a clinically acceptable range of cognitive domains, take short time to administrate (around 5 minutes), have high accuracy for detecting cognitive impairment, and incorporate visual recall, which is the earliest deficits in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients. The FCT is a novel, reliable, and valid cognitive screening test for the detection of dementia at early stages.
Journal
JKL International LLC Aging and Disease Volume 10, Number 6 URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6844584/pdf/ad-10-6-1258.pdf | 3 | | R425.00 | |
| | Exercise Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care: An overview of the evidence and recommendations for implementation | Exercise Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care: An overview of the evidence and recommendations for implementation
Exercise Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care: An overview of the evidence and recommendations for implementation
Overview
The poor physical health of people with mental illness has long been established. A 15–20-year mortality gap arises from factors such as the likelihood of developing noncommunicable diseases, unhealthy lifestyle behaviors, reduced access to and provision of physical health care, and side-effects of medication.
This has been labeled an international human rights scandal, since a large proportion of this risk is preventable. In recognition of these disparities, international health bodies have produced guidance to address poor physical health, including the World Health Organization, World Psychiatric Association, and a Lancet Psychiatry Commission.
The use of physical activity interventions in mental health care for adults has a large academic evidence base and numerous examples of real-world implementation. However, the use of physical activity within mental health care for children and young people (CYP) has received less attention to date.
The key conclusions from this article, suggest there is an increasingly strong evidence base for the benefits of using physical activity interventions to improve, prevent, and manage physical and mental health outcomes in CYP with mental illness. However, more work needs to be done to improve the evidence base, refine its implementation into standard mental health care, and develop strategies for large-scale dissemination of such interventions across various care and cultural contexts.
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| | Tree of Life: A Tool for Therapeutic Growth | Tree of Life: A Tool for Therapeutic Growth
Tree of Life: A Tool for Therapeutic Growth
Overview
This paper presents a review of the Tree of Life (ToL) – a strengths-based tool rooted in narrative therapy – as an intervention for children and young people (CYP).
Originally developed to support vulnerable young people in Zimbabwe, ToL is now used to support children and adults in many countries and contexts across the world.
This paper discusses key aspects of the tool, evaluates the evidence base of ToL with young people, shares the views of CYP and parents, and suggests implications for schools and educational psychology practice in the UK.
Journal Educational Psychology Research and Practice Volume 7 Issue 1
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| | Viral Pneumonia Part 1 | Viral Pneumonia Part 1
Overview The reported incidence of viral pneumonia (see the image below) has increased during the past decade. In part, this apparent increase simply reflects improved diagnostic techniques, but an actual increase appears to have also occurred. Depending on the virulence of the organism, as well as the age and comorbidities of the patient, viral pneumonia can vary from a mild, self-limited illness to a life-threatening disease.
This course is divided into 3 parts covering the aspects of Pneumonia leading into the much dreaded COVID 19. The influenza viruses are the most common viral cause of pneumonia. Primary influenza pneumonia manifests with persistent symptoms of cough, sore throat, headache, myalgia, and malaise for more than three to five days. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most frequent cause of lower respiratory tract infection in infants and children and the second most common viral cause of pneumonia in adults.
Parainfluenza virus (PIV) is second in importance only to RSV as a cause of lower respiratory tract disease in children and pneumonia and bronchiolitis in infants younger than 6 months. PIV pneumonia and bronchiolitis are caused primarily by the PIV-3 strain. The signs and symptoms include fever, cough, coryza, dyspnea with rales, and wheezing.
Acknowledgements
Authors:
Zab Mosenifar and Richard Brawerman | 3 | | R420.00 | |