Journal of Mental Health最新文献

{"title":"Correction.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2025.2484887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2025.2484887","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peer-led groups for survivors of sexual abuse and assault: a systematic review.","authors":"Judit Konya, Concetta Perôt, Katherine Pitt, Emma Johnson, Alison Gregory, Emily Brown, Gene Feder, John Campbell","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2020.1770206","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2020.1770206","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background:</b> There are current concerns about whether appropriate support is provided for sexual abuse and assault survivors. We reviewed the published evidence for peer-led groups in the care of survivors.<b>Aims:</b> To determine the health and wellbeing outcomes of peer-led, group-based interventions for adult survivors who have experienced sexual abuse and assault and describe the experiences of participants attending these groups.<b>Method:</b> Systematic review. The following databases were searched: Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Sociological Abstracts, IBSS. Papers focusing on adults using any research methodology were included. Quality appraisal was completed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT). Thematic analysis was undertaken using methods of constant comparison.<b>Results:</b> Initial, and updated searches identified 16,724 potentially eligible articles. Of these, eight were included. Thematic analysis revealed that peer-led group-based interventions have positive impact on participants' psychological, physical and interpersonal well-being. Participation also presents challenges for survivors. However, there is a mutuality and interconnected benefit between the triggering of difficult emotions due to participation and the healing experiences gained.<b>Conclusions:</b> Scientific evidence of peer-led, group-based, approaches for adult survivors of sexual abuse and assault is limited, although generally suggestive of benefits to such individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"128-140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38036979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racism and the mental health of East Asian diasporas in North America: a scoping review.","authors":"Samantha Louie-Poon, Sobia Idrees, Tabatha Plesuk, Carla Hilario, Shannon D Scott","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2022.2069715","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2022.2069715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic heightened anti-Asian racism towards East Asian diasporas in North America. Experiences of racism encountered by East Asian communities have been documented to negatively impact their mental health.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A scoping review was undertaken following Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) methodology to (a) map the foci of literature on racism and the mental health of East Asian diasporas in North America and (b) identify gaps in the current literature.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1309 articles were identified in May 2021. Based on the inclusion criteria, 35 records were included. Two distinct mental health foci were found: mental health outcomes and mental healthcare access and utilization. The majority (<i>n</i> = 22) of the articles focused on racism at the interpersonal level. Six articles provided anti-racism solutions at the individual level, such as overcoming biases. Five articles targeted anti-racism solutions from both the individual and institutional levels, while 1 article addressed barriers at the institutional level, such as dismantling sanctioned power hierarchies.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The expanding knowledge base on COVID-19-related racial discrimination is reminiscent of previous literature examining the history of anti-Asian racism in North America. Greater attention is needed to navigate impactful anti-racism solutions for East Asian populations' mental health in North America.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"166-181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48956432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mental health promotion and protection relating to key life events and transitions in adulthood: a rapid systematic review of systematic reviews.","authors":"Eleonora P Uphoff, Victoria Zamperoni, Jade Yap, Ruth Simmonds, Mark Rodgers, Sarah Dawson, Catherine Seymour, Antonis Kousoulis, Rachel Churchill","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2022.2069724","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2022.2069724","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>During the decades representing working-age adulthood, most people will experience one or several significant life events or transitions. These may present a challenge to mental health.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>The primary aim of this rapid systematic review of systematic reviews was to summarise available evidence on the effectiveness of interventions to promote and protect mental health relating to four key life events and transitions: pregnancy and early parenthood, bereavement, unemployment, and housing problems. This review was conducted to inform UK national policy on mental health support.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We searched key databases for systematic reviews of interventions for working-age adults (19 to 64 years old) who had experienced or were at risk of experiencing one of four key life events. Titles and abstracts were screened by two reviewers in duplicate, as were full-text manuscripts of relevant records. We assessed the quality of included reviews and extracted data on the characteristics of each literature review. We prioritised high quality, recent systematic reviews for more detailed data extraction and synthesis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The search and screening of 3997 titles/abstracts and 239 full-text papers resulted in 134 relevant studies, 68 of which were included in a narrative synthesis. Evidence was strongest and of the highest quality for interventions to support women during pregnancy and after childbirth. For example, we found benefits of physical activity and psychological therapy for outcomes relating to mental health after birth. There was high quality evidence of positive effects of online bereavement interventions and psychological interventions on symptoms of grief, post-traumatic stress, and depression. Evidence was inconclusive and of lower quality for a range of other bereavement interventions, unemployment support interventions, and housing interventions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Whilst evidence based mental health prevention and promotion is available during pregnancy and early parenthood and for bereavement, it is unclear how best to support adults experiencing job loss, unemployment, and housing problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"182-195"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43123498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diverse elements comprising studies of peer support complicate evidence synthesis.","authors":"Megan Evans, Gary S Cuddeback, Carol Golin, Kathryn Muessig, Chyrell Bellamy, Mark Costa, Maria O'Connell, Edwin B Fisher","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2332798","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2332798","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Innovative approaches to care, such as peer support, are needed to address the substantial and frequently unmet needs of people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Although peer support services continue to expand in mental healthcare, findings of effectiveness from systematic reviews are mixed. However, the studies evaluated in these reviews consisted of diverse elements which the review methods neglected to consider.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This review aims to demonstrate the substantial diversity in intervention components and measured outcomes among studies of peer support and lay the groundwork for more focused reviews of individual intervention components.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>As part of a realist review of the literature, here we synthesize evidence in a way that examines the substantial diversity in intervention components and measured outcomes comprising studies of peer support.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seven categories of outcomes were represented, including recovery, symptoms and functioning, and care utilization. Importantly, seven distinct intervention components were represented in 26 studies: \"being there,\" assistance in self-management, linkage to clinical care and community resources, social and emotional support, ongoing support, explicit utilization of shared lived experience or peer support values, and systems advocacy. Reflecting diversity in approaches, no study reported all intervention components, and no component was found among all studies.</p><p><strong>Implications: </strong>Peer support services constitute a category of intervention approaches far too varied to evaluate as a single entity. Results suggest intervention components deserving more focused research, including assistance in self-management, \"being there,\" and explicit utilization of shared lived experience or peer support values.</p><p><strong>Prisma/prospero: </strong>As this article reports results from a realist review of the literature, we did not follow the PRISMA guidance which is suitable for systematic reviews. We did follow the Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards (RAMESES) guidelines.This review was not registered on PROSPERO as it is not a systematic review.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"207-221"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140332203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: Right care, right person? Changing police responses to mental health crises.","authors":"Carina O'Reilly","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2025.2478373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2025.2478373","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":"34 2","pages":"125-127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can experience sampling self-monitoring tools promote the activation of clients in mental healthcare? A qualitative study.","authors":"Lena de Thurah, Jeroen Weermeijer, Lotte Uyttebroek, Martien Wampers, Rafaël Bonnier, Inez Myin-Germeys, Glenn Kiekens","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2025.2478370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2025.2478370","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Actively engaging clients in managing their health and care is crucial for person-centered mental healthcare. Self-monitoring tools such as the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) can help individuals collect information about their mental health and daily activities on their smartphones and share this with their clinicians.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This qualitative paper examines how ESM self-monitoring might enhance self-insight, self-management, self-efficacy, therapeutic alliance, and shared decision-making and this way facilitate the activation of clients in mental healthcare.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Twelve clinicians and 24 clients participated in the IMPROVE study. After using the IMPROVE ESM self-monitoring tool, seven clinicians and 11 clients were interviewed, and a thematic analysis examined participants' experiences of changes in processes related to client activation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Clients reported improvements in self-awareness, self-insight, and self-management. Only a few participants experienced enhanced self-efficacy, improved therapeutic alliances, and more client involvement. Self-awareness was mainly boosted via smartphone self-monitoring, while collaborative data interpretation between clients and clinicians was crucial for unlocking insights about clients' mental health and creating actionable therapy goals.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our findings suggest that using ESM self-monitoring tools can help facilitate the activation of clients in mental healthcare. Future research should develop best practice guidelines for integrating these tools into clinical care.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143711634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What does recovery mean to Jordanian mental health service users and their families? A descriptive qualitative study.","authors":"Mohammad S Abu-Mahfouz, Gordon Weller, Lisa Clarke, Betsy Thom","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2332800","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2332800","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The concept of recovery in mental health has been extensively documented in the Western context. Yet, little is known about this concept in the Arab context, particularly in Jordan.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>The aim of this study was to explore the conceptuality of recovery in mental health from the perspectives of both Jordanian service users and their families.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A qualitative descriptive design was used, and semi structured interviews were conducted with 16 service users and 16 family members, selected from three different mental health sectors in Jordan: Government, Military and University Sectors. The data were transcribed verbatim, translated into English, and then analyzed using an inductive thematic analysis approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three main themes were identified as a result of the qualitative data analysis: (1) the definition of recovery implies functional recovery, (2) the definition of recovery implies symptomatic recovery, and (3) the definition of recovery from a religious perspective.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings of the present study shed light on how recovery in mental health is perceived by service users and their families in the Jordanian context, and they generate insight into what to consider when targeting the development and implementation of recovery-supporting care within the mental health services (MHSs) in Jordan.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"13-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140307412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nursing student perspectives on improving mental health support services at university in Saudi Arabia - a qualitative study.","authors":"Seham Mansour Alyousef, Sami Abdulrahman Alhamidi","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361224","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361224","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>University students' needs for mental health (MH) services are an important aspect of academic success or failure. Nursing students enrolled at Saudi Arabian universities in need of MH care encounter obstacles in accessing this type of care.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>The present work explores students' views and suggestions about the existing problems surrounding university students' MH and well-being support services.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Twenty students enrolled in a Master of Nursing program were recruited as research participants. Individual interviews of students' perceptions of the needs and availability of MH services during their studies provided inductive data. These data were analysed through a constructivist thematic method.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Three major themes and sub-themes regarding the issues and possibilities of MH services were distinguished from the research data, namely, social implications, access and opportunity, and ways to improve care. Participants emphasised a need for a university-wide approach to reforming MH services to provide students with the required support and alleviate service demand by qualified professionals.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The present work underscores the need for provision of good quality MH care for university students and health promotion which strives to reduce stigma related to MH care.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"31-37"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141263127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Healthcare professional disclosure of mental illness in the workplace: a rapid scoping review.","authors":"Emilie Hudson, Antonia Arnaert, Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2021.1979485","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2021.1979485","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although mental health difficulties are common among healthcare professionals (HCP), little research exists exploring the decision to disclose these difficulties in the healthcare context.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This rapid scoping review aims to explore HCP disclosure of mental health difficulties in the workplace.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The methodological framework was based on rapid and scoping review guidelines. A thematic synthesis approach was used for data analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seventeen articles were included. Disclosure was found to be a process that starts with weighing its pros (\"personal benefits\", \"personal beliefs\", and \"professional responsibility\") and cons (\"fears related to professional identity\", \"fears related to employment\", \"risk of stigmatization\", and \"personal experiences with mental health difficulties\"). A decision-making process then occurs to help HCPs figure out how to disclose. Situations of nonconsensual disclosure can transpire through \"third party disclosure\" or \"inadvertent disclosure\". Disclosure results in outcomes including \"positive experiences\", \"negative personal consequences\" and \"negative consequences related to others\".</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Disclosure in healthcare and other workplaces is a complex process with few benefits and many potential repercussions. However, there is an opportunity to improve. Recognizing the value of and educating the workforce about HCPs with mental health difficulties will help work environments become safer for disclosure.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"78-90"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39488522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}