The authors noted the rates of mental health disorders are likely underestimated. Amanda Dinwiddie, a health scientist in the division of overdose prevention at the CDC and the lead author of the study, said in an interview Thursday she hopes public health professionals will use the information g...
The report summarizes information gathered from a wide variety of federal surveillance programs, including those of the CDC, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Substance …doi:10.1136/bmj.f3281McCarthyM.BMJBmjMcCarthy, M. (2013). Mental ...
The CDC added some mental health conditions to a list of underlying conditions that put people at a higher risk for Covid-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just added mood disorders like depression to a long list of mostly physical conditions that put people at high risk for...
In this perspective, we propose that disruption of circadian rhythmicity is a common underlying p-factor mediating these mental health disorders and argue for dynamic consequences of CRD in the context of age (life rhythm) with respect to neurodevelopmental disorders, adolescence and midlife psychiatric...
Use of mental health care services was remarkably low during the lockdown. The rates of mental health disorders are consistent with preliminary data recently reported among the Chinese general population during the initial stage of the COVID-19 epidemic,10 and they appear to be higher than the ...
A variety of factors can contribute to thepreventionof mental-health disorders. For example, people who feel less isolated and alone tend to be less likely to develop a mental-health disorder. Those who engage in regular practice of enduranceexerciseseem to have a more favorable self-image, mor...
To consider whether patients who use mental health services in privately insured settings are also more likely to have received sexually transmitted disease (STD) or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses and whether this relationship extends to patients with milder mental health disorders.Using fr...
Mental Disorder:“Health conditions involving changes in thinking, emotion or behavior (or a combination of these)…associated with distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities.” (APA 2015). View article Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders Alan D. Kaye MD, PhD, DABP...
At the same time, clinicians should be aware of the distinction between full-blown mental disorders (as in, "rising rates of mental health and substance use disorders") and symptoms of emotional distress, as reported in surveys, such as the recent CDC survey cited by the authors. Without the...
Fourth, researchers must also factor in pre-existing mental disorders among their sample populations to fully and more accurately assess participants’ mental health. Lastly, there is a need to investigate more mental health variables, beyond the common ones such as depression, anxiety, stress, and...