Ali Kheradmand¹, Sahar Ashrafzadeh², Farzane Rouzegari³, Samin Aliakbarian¹, Ali Naseh^4,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.2, pp. 265-274, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2023.024773

Abstract Drug abuse by pregnant women is one of the significant problems for mothers and their neonates. This study aimed to investigate the effects of maternal substance use disorder during pregnancy on neonatal developmental criteria. In a case-control study, clinical records of 90 neonates diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome who were admitted to NICU in one of four hospitals affiliated with Shahid-Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran between 2017 and 2020 were compared to 90 neonates without neonatal abstinence syndrome (control group). Demographic information and data for neonatal developmental characteristics and complications were extracted from the clinical records of… 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 >