Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2245894
Elizabeth McDermott, Alex Kaley, Eileen Kaner, Mark Limmer, Ruth McGovern, Felix McNulty, Rosie Nelson, Emma Geijer-Simpson, Liam Spencer
{"title":"Reducing LGBTQ+ adolescent mental health inequalities: a realist review of school-based interventions.","authors":"Elizabeth McDermott, Alex Kaley, Eileen Kaner, Mark Limmer, Ruth McGovern, Felix McNulty, Rosie Nelson, Emma Geijer-Simpson, Liam Spencer","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2245894","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2245894","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>LGBTQ+ young people have elevated rates of poor mental health in comparison to their cisgender heterosexual peers. School environment is a key risk factor and consistently associated with negative mental health outcomes for LGBTQ+ adolescents.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To examine how, why, for whom and in what context school-based interventions prevent or reduce mental health problems in LGBTQ+ adolescents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A realist review methodology was utilised and focused on all types of school-based interventions and study designs. A Youth Advisory Group were part of the research team. Multiple search strategies were used to locate relevant evidence. Studies were subject to inclusion criteria and quality appraisal, and included studies were synthesised to produce a programme theory. Seventeen studies were included in the review.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eight intervention components were necessary to address LGBTQ+ pupils mental health: affirmative visual displays; external signposting to LGBTQ+ support; stand-alone input; school-based LGBTQ support groups; curriculum-based delivery; staff training; inclusion policies; trusted adult. Few school-based interventions for this population group were identified.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The programme theory indicates that \"to work\" school-based interventions must have a \"whole-school\" approach that addresses specifically the dominant cis-heteronormative school environment and hence the marginalisation, silence, and victimisation that LGBTQ+ pupils can experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"768-778"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11789706/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10426364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Common mental health problems in medical students and junior doctors - an overview of systematic reviews.","authors":"Sameera Aljuwaiser, Miriam Brazzelli, Imran Arain, Amudha Poobalan","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278095","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278095","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Common mental health problems (CMHP) are prevalent among junior doctors and medical students, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought challenging situations with education disruptions, early graduations, and front-line work. CMHPs can have detrimental consequences on clinical safety and healthcare colleagues; thus, it is vital to assess the overall prevalence and available interventions to provide institutional-level support.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This overview summarises the prevalence of CMHPs from existing published systematic reviews and informs public health prevention and early intervention practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Four electronic databases were searched from 2012 to identify systematic reviews on the prevalence of CMHPs and/or interventions to tackle them.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirty-six reviews were included: 25 assessing prevalence and 11 assessing interventions. Across systematic reviews, the prevalence of anxiety ranged from 7.04 to 88.30%, burnout from 7.0 to 86.0%, depression from 11.0 to 66.5%, stress from 29.6 to 49.9%, suicidal ideation from 3.0 to 53.9% and one obsessive-compulsive disorder review reported a prevalence of 3.8%. Mindfulness-based interventions were included in all reviews, with mixed findings for each CMHP.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The prevalence of CMHPs is high among junior doctors and medical students, with anxiety remaining relatively stable and depression slightly increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future research on mindfulness-based interventions is required for a resilient and healthy future workforce.</p><p><strong>Prisma/prospero: </strong>the researchers have followed PRISMA guidance. This overview was not registered with PROSPERO as it was conducted as part of an MSc research project.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"779-815"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71487544","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}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2278101
Jo Ellins, Lucy Hocking, Mustafa Al-Haboubi, Jennifer Newbould, Sarah-Jane Fenton, Kelly Daniel, Stephanie Stockwell, Brandi Leach, Manbinder Sidhu, Jennifer Bousfield, Gemma McKenna, Catherine Saunders, Stephen O'Neill, Nicholas Mays
{"title":"Implementing mental health support teams in schools and colleges: the perspectives of programme implementers and service providers.","authors":"Jo Ellins, Lucy Hocking, Mustafa Al-Haboubi, Jennifer Newbould, Sarah-Jane Fenton, Kelly Daniel, Stephanie Stockwell, Brandi Leach, Manbinder Sidhu, Jennifer Bousfield, Gemma McKenna, Catherine Saunders, Stephen O'Neill, Nicholas Mays","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278101","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278101","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Between 2018 and 2025, a national implementation programme is funding more than 500 new mental health support teams (MHSTs) in England, to work in education settings to deliver evidence-based interventions to children with mild to moderate mental health problems and support emotional wellbeing for all pupils. A new role, education mental health practitioner (EMHP), has been created for the programme.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>A national evaluation explored the development, implementation and early progress of 58 MHSTs in the programme's first 25 'Trailblazer' sites. This paper reports the views and experiences of people involved in MHST design, implementation and service delivery at a local, regional and national level.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data are reported from in-depth interviews with staff in five Trailblazer sites (n = 71), and the programme's regional (n = 52) and national leads (n = 21).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Interviewees universally welcomed the creation of MHSTs, but there was a lack of clarity about their purpose, concerns that the standardised CBT interventions being offered were not working well for some children, and challenges retaining EMHPs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study raises questions about MHSTs' service scope, what role they should play in addressing remaining gaps in mental health provision, and how EMHPs can develop the skills to work effectively with diverse groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"714-720"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11627202/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71487545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2245898
Ejercito Mangawa Balay-Odao, Jonas Preposi Cruz, Junel Bryan Bajet, Nahed Alquwez, Jennifer Mesde, Khalaf Al Otaibi, Abdulellah Alsolais, Cherryl Danglipen
{"title":"Influence of student nurses' perceived caring behavior of their instructors on their psychological well-being: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Ejercito Mangawa Balay-Odao, Jonas Preposi Cruz, Junel Bryan Bajet, Nahed Alquwez, Jennifer Mesde, Khalaf Al Otaibi, Abdulellah Alsolais, Cherryl Danglipen","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2245898","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2245898","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aimed to understand the influence of clinical instructors' caring behavior on the psychological well-being of student nurses.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This study survey used the quantitative cross-sectional research design.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The sample comprised 405 Saudi nursing students studying at Shaqra University. The study used two instruments: the \"Nursing Students' Perceptions of Instructor Caring\" and the \"Student Well-being Process Questionnaire.\" Convenience sampling was used to collect data from November 2021 to February 2022.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>The students' perceived Instructor caring was high. The psychological well-being of students was high. There were significant variations in the students' perceived Instructor's caring in terms of year level. A very weak positive correlation existed between the student nurses' rank in their families and their perceived Instructor's caring. Furthermore, gender, year level, family structure, and the Instructor's caring subscales \"supportive learning climate,\" \"appreciation of life's meaning,\" and \"control versus flexibility\" were significant predictors of the student's psychological well-being.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study's results support studies that nursing students' psychological well-being is influenced by their gender, family structure, year level, and perceived Instructor's caring behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"694-700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10367843","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}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2332801
Guido Veronese, Fayez Mahamid, Hania Obaid, Dana Bdier, Federica Cavazzoni
{"title":"Positive and negative effects of child's agency on trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties in war-like conditions. The mediating role of hope and life satisfaction.","authors":"Guido Veronese, Fayez Mahamid, Hania Obaid, Dana Bdier, Federica Cavazzoni","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2332801","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2332801","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Children affected by war and political violence deploy agentic competencies to cope with trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties. However, it does not always act as a protective factor to help them adjust to potentially traumatic events.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>We expected to explore the association between agency, trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties and the mediating role of hope and life satisfaction in a group of child victims of military violence in Palestine.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>965 children aged 8 to 14 were assessed with self-reported measures, War Child Agency Assessment Scale, Children Revised Impact of events scale, Strengths and difficulties scale, Child Hope Scale and Brief Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale. Structural Equation Modelling was performed having Agency as a predictor, trauma symptoms, psychological difficulties as an outcome variable and life satisfaction and hope as a mediator.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found a direct and positive effect of agency on trauma symptoms, psychological difficulties, and life satisfaction and hope on the two dependent variables. Life satisfaction and hope mediated the association between agency and the outcome variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Agency can help defend children from trauma and psychological maladaptation when it acts on life satisfaction and hope. At the same time, it might worsen psychological dysfunctions when working directly on trauma symptoms and difficulties. Clinical interventions must help children to foster agentic resources in activating hope and life satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"749-758"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140207956","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}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800
Alison Bates
{"title":"Thank you to Reviewers.","authors":"Alison Bates","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":"33 6","pages":"i"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081302","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}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-12-04DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800
Alison Bates
{"title":"Thank you to Reviewers.","authors":"Alison Bates","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2024.2432800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":"33 6","pages":"i"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773883","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}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2023.2278094
Katherine Berry, Kate Allsopp, Fay Gaskin, Owen Price
{"title":"Staff support for workplace trauma: a freedom of information act request survey for NHS trusts providing mental health care in England.","authors":"Katherine Berry, Kate Allsopp, Fay Gaskin, Owen Price","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278094","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2023.2278094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Workplace trauma in mental health settings is defined as exposure to verbal and physical aggression, witnessing self-harm or hearing about patients' histories of abuse. Support for workplace trauma is important for staff well-being, staff retention and ultimately patient care. Assessing the extent and adequacy of staff support for workplace trauma in mental health settings is important in identifying areas of need and good practice.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To determine what staff support systems are in place for workplace trauma in mental health services across England.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Freedom of Information Act requests were sent to all 57 National Health Service Trusts providing mental health care in England to identify policies on the support to mental health staff after traumatic incidents that they have experienced in the course of their clinical duties.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fifty-five Trusts provided usable data. Only half provided evidence of a psychologically informed incident response that went beyond a fact-finding exercise and only a fifth of Trusts used an established model for the response process. A small proportion of policies acknowledged workplace traumas related to staff discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There is insufficient attention to supporting mental health staff with the effects of workplace trauma.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"701-705"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71487546","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}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2022-05-05DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2022.2069695
Daniel Rippon, Josh Shepherd, Steve Wakefield, Ali Lee, Thomas V Pollet
{"title":"The role of self-efficacy and self-esteem in mediating positive associations between functional social support and psychological wellbeing in people with a mental health diagnosis.","authors":"Daniel Rippon, Josh Shepherd, Steve Wakefield, Ali Lee, Thomas V Pollet","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2022.2069695","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2022.2069695","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous research has observed positive associations between perceived quality of social support and mental well-being. Having access to functional social support that provides sources of care, compassion and helpful information have shown to be beneficial for mental health. However, there is a need to identify the psychological processes through which functional social support can elicit therapeutic outcomes on mental well-being.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>The present cross-sectional study aimed to examine the extent to which self-efficacy and self-esteem mediated the association between functional social support and mental well-being.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Seventy-three people with a mental health diagnosis, who attended group-based activities as facilitated by a third sector community mental health organisation, took part in the present study. Participants were required to complete measures that assessed perceived quality of functional social support, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and subjective mental well-being.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A multiple mediation analysis revealed that self-efficacy and self-esteem fully mediated the positive association between perceived functional social support and mental well-being.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The implications of these results are that social interventions, which aim to facilitate the delivery of functional social support, could enhance mental well-being via their positive effects on self-efficacy and self-esteem.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"721-730"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139906701","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}