Yeo-Won Jeong¹, Jung-Ha Kim^2,*, Hyun-Kyeong Park³

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.7, pp. 813-821, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.027383

Abstract Background: The occurrence of mental health symptoms is higher in individuals aged between 18 and 24 years than in other age groups. Mental health literacy is derived from health literacy, and focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and competencies that individuals need to acquire to manage their own health effectively. Low mental health literacy is associated with poorer mental health. Grit is also a known protective factor against mental disorders. Despite a heightened focus on mental health literacy and grit as important factors for decreasing mental health symptoms, knowledge of the effect of mental health literacy and grit on mental health… More >

Erhabor S. Idemudia¹, Babatola D. Olawa^1,*, Gail E. Wyatt², Norweeta G. Milburn²

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.5, pp. 699-710, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.026852

Abstract It is established in the psychological literature that pre-displacement stressors, PTSD symptoms, and psychological distress are associated among internally displaced persons. However, existing studies have not demonstrated the mechanism underlying these associations. This study compared two explanatory models; one with PTSD symptoms severity explaining the indirect association between pre-displacement stressors and psychological distress, and the other with psychological distress explaining the indirect relationship between pre-displacement stressors and PTSD symptoms severity. In a cross-sectional design, 631 women (Mean age = 31.18 ± 8.59) were conveniently and purposely selected from the displaced women harboured in two camps in Borno State, Nigeria, due… More >

Roza Zadeh^#, Jigar Jogia^*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 309-326, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.022491

Abstract There are over thirty million refugees globally with severe experiences of trauma. Art therapy intervention allows for nonverbal expression and could alleviate mental health symptomatology among refugees. The present review’s aim was to integrate and summarize the previous research which examined the effects of visual arts on alleviating psychological conditions of refugees. However, due to the paucity of studies which solely used visual arts, we included studies that used visual arts alongside other modalities as part of an expressive arts therapy intervention. The present review synthesizes studies that examined the effect of art therapy on mental health issues of refugees… More >

Haowen Wu¹, Zhanli Yi¹, Tianyou Guo^2,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.3, pp. 375-387, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.021505

Abstract Background: Adolescents are highly vulnerable to depressive symptoms worldwide partially because of limited social supports. However, it still remains largely unknown regarding the associations between social support(s) and depressive symptoms among adolescents living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this study aimed to explore the associations between different types of social support and depressive symptoms in adolescents from LMICs. Methods: Data were retrieved from the Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS) in which 92,551 adolescents (50.6% females) were included with mean of 15.6 years. Depressive symptoms in the past one month as the dependent variable were measured in… More >

Weiman Kong¹, Jiayi Gu^2,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 139-152, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.022123

Abstract This study aimed to examine the associations between lifestyle behaviors and depressive symptoms in adolescents. Self-reported data from the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) was analyzed. Depressive symptoms were set as the outcome variable. Movement variables (physical activity, muscle-strengthening exercise, physical education attendance, sports team participation, television watching, video or computer games, and sleep), eating behaviors (fruit intake, vegetable intake, milk intake, and eating breakfast or not), and substance use (alcohol use and cigarette use) were included as explanatory variables. Binary logistic regression was used to explore the associations between lifestyle behaviors and depressive symptoms after adjusting for sex,… More >

Liye Zou^1,2, Peiying Yang¹, Fabian Herold³, Weina Liu¹, Attila Szabo⁴, Alyx Taylor⁵, Jing Sun⁶, Liu Ji^1,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.24, No.6, pp. 811-823, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.024862

Abstract 1) Background: The common factors which potentially contribute to the development of eating disorders and exercise dependence during early adulthood are still relatively unclear. The present study aimed to examine the role of BMI, body image inflexibility, and generalized anxiety in these two behavioral problems in a sample of college students. 2) Methods: In total, 878 habitual exercisers (58.1% male with BMI = 22.12 ± 2.39; 41.9% female with BMI = 20.55 ± 2.21) with age of 20.09 ± 1.76 years participated in this study. The main outcomes of interest are exercise dependence symptoms, eating disorders symptoms, body image inflexibility, and symptoms of generalized anxiety (as measured by Exercise Dependence… More >

Jianjun Su¹, Enxiu Wei¹, Cain Clark², Kaixin Liang³, Xiaojiao Sun^4,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.24, No.5, pp. 759-769, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.020152

Abstract Numerous studies links movement activity (e.g., physical activity, sedentary behavior [SB], and sleep) with mental health or illness indicators during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, research has typically examined time-use behaviors independently, rather than considering daily activity as a 24-hour time-use composition. This cross-sectional study aimed to use compositional isotemporal analysis to estimate the association between reallocation of time-use behaviors and depression symptoms in young adults in China. Participants (n = 1475; 68.0% of female; 20.7 [1.60] years) reported their time spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), light physical activity (LPA), SB, and sleep. Replacing SB with sleep, LPA,… More >

Shande Liu^*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.24, No.4, pp. 491-501, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.018542

Abstract Purpose: Screen-based sedentary behavior (SSB) has been identified as risk factor for mental disorders in most of adolescents. However, there is little literature pertaining to the specific kinds of SSB and its connections with depressive symptoms in most of adolescents. In the present study, we are going to find out the connections between specific types of SSB and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents. Methods: A cross-sectional data based on 996 study participants of middle school students in Guangdong Province. SSB was evaluated by distributing the questionnaire of Health Behavior in School-aged Children, while depressive symptoms were evaluated using Chinese version… More >

Faruk Kurhan^1,*, Gülsüm Zuhal Kamış², Emine Füsun Akyüz Çim³, Abdullah Atli⁴, Dilem Dinc⁵

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 399-413, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.019013

Abstract The present study investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety levels, contamination and responsibility/control obsessions and associated OC behaviors in healthcare versus non-healthcare professionals. The study also aimed to examine the relationship between anxiety levels and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptom levels, gender, age, educational level, and personal and family history of chronic diseases. The 664 participants included 395 (59.5%) men and 269 (40.5%) women and comprised 180 (27.1%) healthcare professionals and 484 (72.9%) non-healthcare professionals. The survey included three data collection tools: (i) Sociodemographic data form, (ii) Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and (iii) the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Abriged (DOCS-A)… More >

Yang Wang¹, Jinlong Lin^1,*, M. James C. Crabbe^2,3,4, Xiao-Guang Yue⁵

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 385-398, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.020664

Abstract Health status is widely regarded as a correlate of depressive symptoms. However, health assessments based on clinical diagnosis in rural areas with poor medical conditions are very limited. Self-rated health (SRH) serves as a simple and convenient evaluation indicator, which may be used as an independent predictor of depressive symptoms. To confirm the relationship between SRH and depressive symptoms in rural adults, a longitudinal survey of rural households in China was conducted using the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2012 to 2016. Propensity score matching and logistic regression analysis were used to explore the association. After data cleansing, 3,127… More >