Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2025-01-12eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2025.2449878
Georgina Ramsay, Marc Williams, Elizabeth Marks, Gareth Morgan
{"title":"A COSMIN systematic review of the psychometric properties of instruments that measure climate change-related distress.","authors":"Georgina Ramsay, Marc Williams, Elizabeth Marks, Gareth Morgan","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2025.2449878","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2025.2449878","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Awareness of the climate crisis has been linked to a range of distressing emotions and multiple measurement tools have been created to assess climate change-related distress. A systematic review of psychometric properties of climate-related distress measures was conducted following the Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) guidelines. Forty-four studies assessing seven measures were evaluated based on their results and the methodological quality of the studies testing each psychometric property. The measures varied with regard to the climate-related distress construct they assessed. Content validity was poor for most measures due to the methods of their development and strict COSMIN criteria; an exception was the Eco-Anxiety Questionnaire, which had promising results but was only assessed in one study. Most of the studies (<i>n</i> = 29) evaluated the Climate Change Anxiety Scale, which had inconsistent results for structural validity, but was the only measure to have some evidence of cross-cultural validity. Selection of a measure should be informed by the construct of interest to the researcher or clinician, or other features of the measure. Further research is required in different subgroups, across cultures, evaluating more psychometric properties in higher quality studies. All measures would benefit from improvements in content validity.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"4 1","pages":"2449878"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12443130/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558508","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":"First-generation college students' hope for change through counseling: a comparative study.","authors":"Theodore T Bartholomew, Candace Tsai, Lizbeth Valdivia-Jauregui, Alondra Alvarez Murillo, Angela Molina, Alejandro Morales","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2025.2449856","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2025.2449856","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>First-generation college students in United States postsecondary education institutions is a growing population. Scholars have shown areas of increased distress amongst first-generation college students and a concordant lower likelihood of using psychological services on campuses. These differences are contextualized in barriers that first-generation college students endure: a lack of familiarity with educational institutions, hindered belongingness, financial difficulties, and others. Missing in the literature, however, is more attention to why first-generation college students may underutilize services compared to continuing-generation college students. One such reason may revolve around hope for counseling. We collected data about attitudes towards help-seeking, stigmatization of help-seeking, hope for counseling, and psychological stress from 518 (312 first- generation college students) participants from two higher education contexts. Results showed no significant difference in hope for counseling, stigma of help-seeking, or attitudes about help-seeking between first- and continuing-generation college students; however, first-generation college students did report less current counseling service utilization. Findings are discussed regarding support for first-generation college students.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"4 1","pages":"2449856"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12443004/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558642","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}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2024-12-07eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2024.2436432
Angela Marinilli Pinto, Andrea Bazzoli, Johanny Mercedes
{"title":"Mental health and lifestyle health behaviors among commuter college students.","authors":"Angela Marinilli Pinto, Andrea Bazzoli, Johanny Mercedes","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2436432","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2436432","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Commuter college students face unique circumstances and stressors that may impact their well-being, yet this is an area of research that has been largely unexplored. This study examines mental health and lifestyle health behaviors of commuter college students. Participants were 576 undergraduates (62% female, 81% non-White, 20.31 ± 3.02 years) attending an urban public commuter college. Participants completed a cross-sectional, anonymous, web-based survey that included validated measures of mood, anxiety, stress, sleep quality, and physical activity. Overall, 58.6% screened positive for depression, 37.8% screened positive for generalized anxiety, 57.5% had poor sleep quality, and only 23.3% met physical activity recommendations. More females screened positive for depression and anxiety and had poor sleep quality than males, and fewer females met activity recommendations. Being physically active and having good sleep quality were associated with better mental health. Findings reflect high rates of mental health problems and low engagement in health behaviors, particularly among women. Opportunities to address the well-being of commuter college students are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"3 1","pages":"2436432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12443014/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558510","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}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2024-12-03eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2024.2433791
Ryan L Boyd, Nicholas R Morrison, Sarah D Horwitz, Rachel Maciag, Emma Travers-Hill, Youngsuk Kim
{"title":"Are we listening to every word? Using multiple analytic methods to examine qualitative data.","authors":"Ryan L Boyd, Nicholas R Morrison, Sarah D Horwitz, Rachel Maciag, Emma Travers-Hill, Youngsuk Kim","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2433791","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2433791","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychological researchers are increasingly striving to enhance methodological integrity, including in qualitative methods. Although computerized text analysis tools originally emerged as a potential replacement for manual coding approaches, recent studies have underscored the unique yet complementary value of employing several methods. The current study applies two text analysis methods across one qualitative dataset to explore whether each method yields information not clearly evidenced by the other, nor through traditional thematic analysis. Interviews exploring the experiences of paraprofessionals delivering Brief Psychological Interventions (BPIs) were analyzed through Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) and the Meaning Extraction Method (MEM). Results revealed LIWC, MEM, and thematic analysis to be complementary in nature, each providing unique insights that could be missed by implementing any one method alone. Moreover, text analyses can serve as a form of validation for more traditional qualitative approaches while also revealing otherwise indiscernible relationships and patterns within texts.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"3 1","pages":"2433791"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12710751/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145783773","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}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2024-10-01eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2024.2409815
Marc O Williams, Victoria M Samuel, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Wouter Poortinga, Christine Jenkins, Chloe Constable
{"title":"'There's no helpline': how mental health services can support young people with climate distress.","authors":"Marc O Williams, Victoria M Samuel, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Wouter Poortinga, Christine Jenkins, Chloe Constable","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2409815","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2409815","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate distress in young people is very likely to increase in coming years, and young people's mental health services need to be prepared to meet the demand. This paper reports a qualitative pilot study to establish the views of three stakeholder groups involved in youth mental health counselling services in England: young people, mental health counsellors, and strategic partners. We find broad agreement amongst youth mental health service users and providers that climate distress comprises a range of emotional responses to climate change, including anxiety, hopelessness, isolation, guilt and injustice, exacerbated by developmental, social and informational contexts. Service providers can support young people by surfacing, validating, and channelling these emotional responses, but they themselves need training and support to do this effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"3 1","pages":"2409815"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12443002/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558568","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}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2024-09-09eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2024.2400878
Mackenzie E Pierce, Grazia Mirabito, Paul Verhaeghen
{"title":"Mind the app: more time spent on headspace leads to beneficial day-to-day changes in mindfulness, depression, anxiety and stress in college students.","authors":"Mackenzie E Pierce, Grazia Mirabito, Paul Verhaeghen","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2400878","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2400878","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fifty-seven college students downloaded the Headspace app and gave daily reports of app use, state mindfulness, state depression, state anxiety and state stress over a two-week period. App use was high (86 min). Day-to-day ratings of anxiety and stress decreased, while ratings of state depression and state mindfulness remained stable. Multilevel mediational models showed that spending time on the Headspace app increased an individual's mindfulness in the moment, which then decreased ratings of stress, anxiety and depression. There was a lagged effect for state anxiety, such that time-on-app on a given day increased mindfulness on the same day, which decreased feelings of anxiety on the next day. The results strongly suggest a sequence where app usage leads to changes in state mindfulness, which are then associated with beneficial changes in mental health. Thus, state mindfulness is a (or perhaps the) key ingredient of the beneficial effects of this mindfulness/meditation app, opening venues for intervention and a potential for cumulative effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"3 1","pages":"2400878"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12442982/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558554","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}
Cogent mental healthPub Date : 2024-07-31eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1080/28324765.2024.2380500
Gary Skinner, Megan Teychenne, Joey Murphy
{"title":"Barriers and facilitators to engaging in a university-based exercise programme delivered to students experiencing mental health difficulties: A pilot study.","authors":"Gary Skinner, Megan Teychenne, Joey Murphy","doi":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2380500","DOIUrl":"10.1080/28324765.2024.2380500","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prevalence of mental health problems among university students is high. Exercise can benefit mental health and universities could provide suitable settings for delivering exercise referral schemes (ERS). This study examined factors influencing exercise engagement among participants of a university-based ERS for mental health. Semi-structured interviews captured the experiences of university students (<i>n</i> = 7) experiencing mental health difficulties who had participated in a university-based ERS. Instructors participated in a focus group to further assess the factors influencing exercise engagement. Data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Twelve themes were constructed and organised using the COM-B model which describes the interaction between Capability, Opportunity and Motivation to generate a particular behaviour. The Behaviour in this study is considered exercise. Themes were categorised in the following way: Capability (experience and knowledge, anxiety, skills, and physical fitness and health), Opportunity (accessibility, time, social support, and subjective norm), and Motivation (planning and routine, goal-setting, benefits of exercising, and enjoyment). Practitioners implementing university-based exercise referral schemes to support mental health may consider these learnings to help support the capability, opportunity and motivation of students to engage and remain engaged in exercise. Further research is recommended to assess feasibility of similar programmes in other universities or settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":72633,"journal":{"name":"Cogent mental health","volume":"3 1","pages":"2380500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12443013/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145558578","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}