Since teletherapy is restricted to online sessions, it opens doors for remote mental health care and allows therapists to connect with patients at any time during the day. Mental health seekers can easily book an appointment and attend sessions from the comfort of their homes. Now, another benef...
The primary outcome will be mental health literacy and secondary outcomes will include anxiety, depression, and intentions to cope. Discussion We hypothesize that the comic book intervention and flyer intervention will prove more effective in improving mental health literacy than the control group. We ...
Show moreView chapterExplore book Special community health needs Theodore H. Tulchinsky MD, MPH, ... Matan J. Cohen MD, MPH, PhD, in The New Public Health (Fourth Edition), 2023 Mental health Mental health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a state of well-being in ...
Children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities (IDs) tend to have lower levels of physical activity and poorer mental health than their typically developing peers. Studies on the effects of physical activity on the mental health of children with IDs using the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, ...
In this article, we use cross-sectional data obtained from the 2018 China Health and Aging Tracking Survey (CHARLS) to examine the impact of neighborhood mental health at the community level on the mental health of older adults aged 60 years and old
using the community coding information provided by CHARLS 2018, we can calculate the total number of older adults (n) living in the same community, as well as the cumulative sum of their mental health (MHI). Then, by applying Eq.1, the neighborhood health effect of older adulti(NMHi) ca...
Informal caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are at risk of poor mental health. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility and validity of studying caregivers’ mental stressors using online caregiving forum d
Identifying locally relevant and agreed-upon priorities for improving young people’s mental health, aligned with social and environmental factors, is essential for benefiting target communities. This paper describes a participatory approach to engage yo
An increasing number of mental health services are now offered through mobile health (mHealth) systems, such as in mobile applications (apps). Although the
Farmers and those involved in the wider agricultural industry have a high suicide rate. They are also a ‘hard to reach’ group who make less than average use of mental health services. There is therefore a need to understand how best to develop interven