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Decision-Making around Psychedelics for Depression and Anxiety: a Model Based on Online Discussions
AbstractLittle is known about how people decide to use psychedelics to self-treat depression and anxiety, though the practice is growing. We explored online community discussions of members ’ decisions around self-treatment with psychedelics for depression or anxiety. We used constructivist grounded theory to select and analyze 98 members’ posts across 95 discussion threads (99, 552 words) and identified a four-stage decision-making model. In stage one, decision-making began afte r dissatisfaction with standard mental health treatment. In stage two, members considered various psychedelic self-treatment options but e...
Source: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - September 26, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research

Comparing Substance Use Consequences between Serotonergic Psychedelics, MDMA, and other Drugs of Abuse Among United States Adults with History of Psychiatric Illness
AbstractPsychedelic-assisted therapy could transform treating psychiatric illness, but harms from exacerbating substance use disorder (SUD) among adults with psychiatric illness using psychedelics have not been studied. A cross-sectional survey in the US was used to test whether Drug Abuse Screening Test scores (DAST-10, validated instrument predicting SUD) were more severe when psychiatric illnesses (anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder [MDD], post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD], and bipolar disorder) and serotonergic psychedelic or MDMA use were combined. Any psychedelic use among adults with psychiatric illness...
Source: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - September 26, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research

Problematic Pornography Use: Can It Be Accurately Measured via the Problematic Pornography Use Scale?
AbstractPornography use has increased its popularity worldwide, raising concerns about potential disordered use. Considering the lack of recognition in diagnostic manuals, conceptual clarification and the validation of robust instruments assessing this problem are much needed. The current study is aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of the Problematic Pornography Use Scale (PPUS). Exploratory and confirmatory analyses (EFA and CFA) were used to assess a four-factor and a bifactor solution. Additionally, this study used latent profile (LPA) and sensitivity analyses to determine suggested cut-off values to identif...
Source: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - September 25, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research

Adaptation of the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (IERQ) to Spanish in a Sample of Uruguayan University Students
The objective of this study was to translate the IERQ into Spanish and to analyse its psychometric properties in a non-representative sample of 323 Uruguayan university students (M = 23.16; SD = 6.59). The evaluation of the construct validity through a confirmatory factor analysis reflected the same factorial structure as the original study and other adaptations (𝜒2(164, N = 323) = 452.10, p < .000; 𝜒2/df = 2.76; RMSEA = 0.074, 95% [0.066, 0.082], CFI = 0.96; TLI = 0.95) and the reliability analyses using Cronbach’s Alpha showed indices ranging from acceptable to good (0.73 −...
Source: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - September 25, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research

Longitudinal Relationship Between Self-Perceptions of Aging and Depressive Symptoms: Exploring Reciprocal Within-Person Links
This study examined the temporal within-person associations between self-perceptions of aging and depressive symptoms. Data were from five waves of the German Aging Survey (DEAS) collected between 2008 and 2021 (N = 15,086, mean age at baseline ≈60 years). The study employed a multidimensional measure of self-perceptions of aging that taps into two negative domains of perceptions of physical loss and social loss, and two positive domains of perceptions of personal growth and gains. A random intercept cross-lagged panel model was used for data analysis. Results showed that there were reciprocal within-person associations ...
Source: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - September 22, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research

Paradigm Lost: Towards an Evidence-based Ontology in Psychedelic Medicine?
AbstractRecent research into so-called psychedelic substances, such as psilocybin, ketamine, and mescaline analogues, has been hailed as a “renaissance” heralding a “paradigm shift” in psychiatry. There is hope that psychedelic-assisted therapy will be made more available to address mental and substance use health problems through existing systems of medicalization and legalization. There are important relational and epistemic concerns that must be addressed, however, before we might begin stewarding this class of substances into the medical landscape in a responsible, evidence-based manner. In this paper, we draw ...
Source: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - September 22, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research

The Dynamics of Psychological Distress in the Trajectory of At-Risk and Problem Gambling: Results from a Prospective Population-Based Longitudinal Study in Australia
This study employed parallel growth curve modelling to examine the changes in both psychological distress and at-risk and problem gambling as a development process. We used a prospective longitudinal population-based study to provide further insights beyond treatment samples and cross-sectional studies. A secondary data analysis was conducted by extracting a sample of 3460 Victorian adults from the Victorian Gambling Study 2008 –2011. Findings suggested that psychological distress was a consistent risk factor for at-risk and problem gambling, as measured by the problem gambling severity index (PGSI), after controlling fo...
Source: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction - September 22, 2023 Category: Addiction Source Type: research