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{"title":"Risk Factors and Correlates of School Bullying and Cyberbullying among Turkish Adolescents: Evidence from a School-Based Cross-Sectional Study.","authors":"Damla Eyuboglu, Murat Eyuboglu, Didem Oktar, Seval Caliskan Pala, Zeynep Demirtas, Didem Arslantas, Alaettin Unsal","doi":"10.31083/AP38859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31083/AP38859","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Traditional school bullying and cyberbullying are common experiences that adversely affect the present and future mental health of adolescents. Cyberbullying has also increased during the last decade due to the growing use of the internet, mobile technological tools, and social network systems. This study aimed to investigate the risk factors of traditional school bullying and cyberbullying.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The sample comprised 5491 adolescents (53.7% male and 46.3% female) from Grades 7 to 12 in 15 public schools. Participants were administered a self-report survey, including sociodemographics, school bullying, cyberbullying, and related variables. A logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the factors related to school bullying and cyberbullying involvement.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Boys were more prone to be perpetrators or victim-perpetrators of both school and cyberbullying. The results revealed that carrying a cutting tool, short sleep duration, using the computer and mobile phone longer, and poor academic performance were risk factors for being a perpetrator (<i>p</i> < 0.05). In addition, school bullying involvement was related to thin or overweight body perception (<i>p</i> < 0.001). Regression analysis indicated that being a victim or perpetrator of school bullying showed more significant risks for being a victim or perpetrator of cyberbullying (<i>p</i> < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We found common risk factors for both types of bullying and an overlap between school bullying and cyberbullying. These findings should be considered for developing new intervention programs and policies for preventing bullying in Turkey.</p>","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 2","pages":"38859"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12059791/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144057791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Applied Behavior Analysis: Key Points to Improve Autism Treatment.","authors":"Sergio Machado, Flávia Paes, João Lucas Lima","doi":"10.31083/AP38858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31083/AP38858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 2","pages":"38858"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12059788/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144059958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Dementia Awareness and Screening, and Reducing Stigmatizing Attitudes towards Dementia in Urban China: The Role of Opinion Leader Intervention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.","authors":"Jing Wang, Hai-Yan Zeng, Jing-Xing Gao, Bao-Liang Zhong","doi":"10.31083/AP38857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31083/AP38857","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Dementia in China is increasingly burdensome yet remains underrecognized and undertreated due to low awareness and persistent stigma. Community-based strategies are urgently needed to address these barriers. By using real-world data from an 18-month dementia campaign in Wuhan, we retrospectively evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of opinion leader intervention (OLI), a novel, community-driven approach, in improving dementia knowledge, reducing stigma, and promoting screening among older urban adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Starting in August 2023, a three-phase campaign was launched, targeting 3550 residents aged ≥60 years in the Jiangdijie community, Wuhan. The pre-intervention phase (6 months) included monthly expert-led dementia education lectures at a senior center (30-60 attendees/session). The traditional intervention phase (next 6 months) involved distributing brochures in public areas and doubling lecture frequency. The final OLI phase (6 months) engaged 19 trained opinion leaders to disseminate knowledge, encourage screening, and model preventive behaviors during daily interactions. Free dementia screening was available throughout the campaign. Outcomes-dementia knowledge scores, stigma-related attitude scores, and screening participation rates-were assessed via samples randomly drawn from the elderly residents at the end of each phase (T0: n = 100, T1: n = 117, T2: n = 100).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Dementia knowledge scores among older adults increased from 12.27 (T0) to 13.51 (T1), with a significant jump to 17.63 post-OLI (T2 vs T1, <i>p</i> < 0.001). Stigmatizing attitudes scores improved from 2.11 (T0) to 2.43 (T1), rising further to 2.98 at T2 (T2 vs T1, <i>p</i> = 0.010). Participation rates in dementia screening rose from 18.0% (T0) to 23.9% (T1), surging to 46.0% post-OLI (T2 vs T1, <i>p</i> < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The OLI was associated with marked improvements in dementia knowledge, reduced stigma, and higher screening uptake compared with traditional health education methods. These findings highlight OLI's potential as a feasible strategy to enhance dementia awareness and care in Chinese urban communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 2","pages":"38857"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12059793/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144055235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who Are You? Views of Self as Reported by 90 Depressed Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients.","authors":"Christopher McGovern, James C Overholser, Christiana Silva","doi":"10.31083/AP38761","DOIUrl":"10.31083/AP38761","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The factors contributing to adolescents' views of self can be complex and idiosyncratic. Self-esteem can hinge upon a narrow or broad set of factors, depending on how the adolescent conceptualizes the self. The present study examines how narrow and broad views of self may be differentially related to measures of depression severity and suicide risk among adolescents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In total, 90 adolescent psychiatric inpatients were evaluated while hospitalized during a major depressive episode. All patients completed the Children's Depression Inventory, the Hopelessness Scale for Children, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Self-Esteem Worksheet-an idiographic measure that allows each person to rate the importance and success related to enter their personal values and priorities.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to depressed adolescent inpatients, depressed and suicidal teens reported significantly higher levels of depression and hopelessness, along with significantly lower levels of self-esteem on both measures of self-esteem. Further, lower scores on the Self-Esteem Worksheet were associated with more severe depression, elevated hopelessness, and elevated suicidal ideation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The Self-Esteem Worksheet provides insights into the mind of vulnerable teens that may help to guide treatment and prevention efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 1","pages":"38761"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11916053/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimizing Cognitive Health: The Promise and Challenges of Physical-Cognitive Interventions for Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment.","authors":"Yingchun Zeng, Guolong Zhang","doi":"10.31083/AP38762","DOIUrl":"10.31083/AP38762","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 1","pages":"38762"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11916056/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Revolving Door Phenomenon in the Romanian Mental Health System.","authors":"Radu-Mihai Păun, Valentin Petre Matei, Cătălina Tudose","doi":"10.31083/AP38789","DOIUrl":"10.31083/AP38789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hospitalized at least three times in a two-year period, have emerged as an unintended side effect of the deinstitutionalization of mental health in high-income countries. Guaranteeing access to high-quality outpatient services has shown to be the most effective method for alleviating the revolving door phenomenon. In Eastern Europe, deinstitutionalization is ongoing, 0 but the phenomenon has received little attention. The present cross-sectional study examined the revolving door phenomenon in the largest psychiatric inpatient unit in Bucharest, Romania.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Socio-demographic healthcare use and clinical characteristics of 144 patients were collected following admission to the \"Profesor Doctor Alexandru Obregia\" Psychiatric Hospital via an initial visit conducted between September 2022 and January 2023. A follow-up check occurred one year later to evaluate the number of readmissions and compare those who met the criteria for revolving door status at follow-up with those who did not. After identifying factors associated with revolving door status by univariate analysis, a bivariate model included the results to account for reciprocal moderating effects.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In total, 56 (38.9%) patients met the criteria for revolving door status. The number of lifetime hospitalizations was significantly higher in the revolving door group (odds ratio (OR) = 3.956, <i>p</i> ≤ 0.001), while involuntary admission on the initial visit decreased the odds of receiving a revolving door status on follow-up (OR = 0.188, <i>p</i> = 0.008). Revolving door patients had less time between readmissions than controls (OR = 0.991, <i>p</i> < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Frequent hospitalization was the primary factor predicting revolving door status in the cohort studied, reflecting the Romanian mental health system's focus on inpatient care. This illustrates the need for reliable outpatient care as an alternative to hospital admission to avoid the self-perpetuating cycle of repeated admissions that are inefficient both from an economic and medical standpoint.</p>","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 1","pages":"38789"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11916060/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Privacy Protection for Open Sharing of Psychiatric and Behavioral Research Data: Ethical Considerations and Recommendations.","authors":"Yundi Zhang, Siyuan Fan, Hui Hui, Ning Zhang, Jing Li, Liping Liao, Chaofu Ke, Dan Zhang, Shihong Su, Zhiqiang Song, Yu Zhang, Qian Du, Long Liu, Lan Wang, Lijie Yang, Jia Li, Li Xu, Shiqi Xiao, Lei Shi, Xuman Xiao, Wenzhao Wang, Niuniu Sun, Qilian He, Ran Hao, Ju Wu, Zhiqiang Tian, Yanting Lou, Qiang Yao, Wai-Kit Ming, Feng Jiang, Xiaoming Zhou, Mingxu Wang, Xinying Sun, Yibo Wu","doi":"10.31083/AP38759","DOIUrl":"10.31083/AP38759","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Data sharing within psychiatric and behavioral research represents a novel application of ethical principles in practice; however, it suffers from a dearth of practical experience and established ethical norms. In this study, we comprehensively examined the ethical considerations surrounding the acquisition, management, sharing, and utilization of such data. We graded sensitive data and suggest ethical standards for privacy protection based on varying levels of data sensitivity. The objective of this study is to foster orderly and standardized open sharing of psychiatric and behavioral research data, thereby advancing the development and progress of related academic disciplines in China. This Chinese expert consensus has been registered on the International Guide Registration platform (Registration Number: PREPARE-2024CN412).</p>","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 1","pages":"38759"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11915712/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of <i>Stmn1</i> Polymorphism and Cognitive Function: An Observational Study in the Chinese Adults.","authors":"Hui Ma, Zhengtu Cong, Lijuan Liang, Zhaoxia Su, Jing Zhang, Hua Yang, Man Wang","doi":"10.31083/AP38719","DOIUrl":"10.31083/AP38719","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Stathmin1 (Stmn1) is a protein highly expressed during the development of the central nervous system. The phosphorylation of Stmn1 involves microtubule dynamics, so Stmn1 plays a vital part in neurite outgrowth and synaptic plasticity. Previous studies reported that <i>Stmn1</i> genetic variants influence fear and anxiety as well as cognitive-affective processing. However, no study reported on the relationship between <i>Stmn1</i> gene polymorphism and cognition in Chinese. Thus, this association was investigated in the present study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 129 healthy Han Chinese were genotyped for <i>Stmn1</i> rs182455 polymorphism by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses. Cognitive function was assessed using the Stroop Color-Word Test (SCWT) and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the present sample, rs182455 CC, CT, and TT genotypes were found in 56 (43.41%), 65 (50.39%) and 8 (6.20%) cases, respectively. The genotype distribution did not deviate from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (χ² = 3.715, <i>p</i> = 0.054). Significant differences were found between the three rs182455 genotypes and between the CC and (CT+TT) genotype groups in the Stroop Color (SC) scores of the SCWT (F = 3.322, 2.377; <i>p</i> = 0.039, 0.019, respectively) and the total recall (TR) scores on the HVLT-R (F = 3.118, 2.225; <i>p</i> = 0.048, 0.028, respectively). There was a female-specific difference in SC scores between the three rs182455 genotypes (F = 2.318, <i>p</i> = 0.023). The rs182455 genotype distribution showed no significant difference between two sexes (χ² = 1.313, <i>p</i> = 0.519), whereas significant differences were seen in SC and TR scores between two sexes (t = -2.294, -2.490; <i>p</i> = 0.023, 0.014, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings suggest that rs182455 <i>Stmn1</i> polymorphism might affect cognitive flexibility and immediate free recall in healthy Chinese individuals, especially females.</p>","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 1","pages":"38719"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11915711/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of Insomnia, Depression, and Perceived Social Support among Individuals with Amphetamine Use Disorder (AUD) and Healthy Controls.","authors":"Nasrin Abdoli, Dena Sadeghi-Bahmani, Nader Salari, Mehdi Khodamoradi, Zeno Stanga, Annette B Brühl, Serge Brand, Kenneth M Dürsteler","doi":"10.31083/AP38786","DOIUrl":"10.31083/AP38786","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Compared to the general population, individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) report more frequently to suffer from sleep disturbances and symptoms of depression, and to perceive lower social support. Here, we investigated whether this pattern of mental health issues could be confirmed and replicated among individuals with amphetamine use disorder (AUD). We also assessed the degree of perceived social support from their families, friends and significant others, always compared to healthy controls (HC) of the general population.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Individuals with AUD attending the Outpatient Department for Substance Abuse of the Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (Kermanshah, Iran) (n = 468; 30.8% females; mean age: 29.16 years) and healthy controls (HC; n = 376; 34.6% females; mean age: 24.11 years) participated in the study. Participants completed a series of self-rating questionnaires covering sociodemographic information, symptoms of insomnia and depression, and perceived social support from their families, friends and significant others.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to HC, individuals with AUD reported higher scores for insomnia and depression, and lower scores for perceived social support (families; friends; significant others). Older age and higher severity scores for depression and insomnia were the predictors in the binary logistic regression model to identify individuals with AUD and HC with a precision of 97.4%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Individuals with AUD additionally suffer from insomnia and depression, along with lower perceived social support. Given that standardized intervention programs for insomnia, depression and social competencies exist, such interventions might mitigate mental health issues among individuals with AUD and improve their psychosocial behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 1","pages":"38786"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11916049/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Myasthenia Gravis and Depression: A Multifaceted Exploration through Omics and Beyond.","authors":"Zheng Guo, Yulu Zheng, Lois Balmer","doi":"10.31083/AP38754","DOIUrl":"10.31083/AP38754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72151,"journal":{"name":"Alpha psychiatry","volume":"26 1","pages":"38754"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11916054/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143664042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}