30 Days Wild: who benefits most?
Journal of Public Mental Health, Ahead of Print. Purpose There is a need to provide interventions to improve well-being that are accessible and cost-effective. Interventions to increase engagement with nature are coming to the fore. The Wildlife Trusts 30 Days Wild campaign shows promise as a large-scale intervention for improving public engagement with nature for well-being. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach In total, 273 people fully participated in a repeated measures evaluation comparing baseline measures of nature connection, health, happiness and conservation behaviours with measures...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - August 7, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Family eJournal: benefits of online guided group journaling for women
Journal of Public Mental Health,Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 135-141, September 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of online guided group journaling for an individual ’s mental health. The authors focused on a specific social networking platform called Family eJournal. Design/methodology/approach In total, 51 female participants were recruited from an American university with an average age of 20 years. Participants completed an online survey called the Relat ionship and Lifestyle Questionnaire. The questionnaire utilized two subscales, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support ...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - August 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Family eJournal: benefits of online guided group journaling for women
Journal of Public Mental Health, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of online guided group journaling for an individual ’s mental health. The authors focused on a specific social networking platform called Family eJournal. Design/methodology/approach In total, 51 female participants were recruited from an American university with an average age of 20 years. Participants completed an online survey called the Relat ionship and Lifestyle Questionnaire. The questionnaire utilized two subscales, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Diener et al., 1985) and the Dep...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - August 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Editorial
Journal of Public Mental Health,Volume 17, Issue 2, Page 49-50, June 2018. (Source: Journal of Public Mental Health)
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - June 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Evaluation of a novel approach to preventing railway suicides: the community stations project
Journal of Public Mental Health,Volume 17, Issue 2, Page 51-60, June 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe an evaluation of the Community Stations Project. The Community Stations Project was designed to address railway suicides in two ways: by improving the station environment in a manner that might improve community members ’ feelings of wellbeing; and raising community members’ awareness of poor mental health and likelihood of reaching out to at-risk individuals. It involved four types of interventions (arts and culture, music, food and coffee, and “special events”) delivered at four stations in...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - June 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Editorial
Journal of Public Mental Health,Volume 17, Issue 2, Page 49-50, June 2018. (Source: Journal of Public Mental Health)
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - June 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Evaluation of a novel approach to preventing railway suicides: the community stations project
Journal of Public Mental Health,Volume 17, Issue 2, Page 51-60, June 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe an evaluation of the Community Stations Project. The Community Stations Project was designed to address railway suicides in two ways: by improving the station environment in a manner that might improve community members ’ feelings of wellbeing; and raising community members’ awareness of poor mental health and likelihood of reaching out to at-risk individuals. It involved four types of interventions (arts and culture, music, food and coffee, and “special events”) delivered at four stations in...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - June 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Looking into some of the risk factors of mental health: the mediating role of maladaptive schemas in mothers ’ parenting style and child anxiety disorders
This study used correlation-modeling to assess the analysis. The sample included 326 students (aged 9-12 years old) and their mothers. The parenting style (Baumrind, 1973), Early Maladaptive Schema (Rijkeboer and de Boo , 2010), and anxiety disorders (Muris et al., 2006) questionnaires were used in this study. Findings The results showed a relationship between parenting styles of mothers and childhood anxiety disorders, a significant correlation between childhood maladaptive schemas and childhood anxiety disorder s, a relation between child-rearing styles and childhood maladaptive schemas, and finally a mediating role on ...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - May 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Reflections on happiness
Journal of Public Mental Health, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the twenty-first century reach and impact of “happiness” work by one individual (Professor Lord Richard Layard). Design/methodology/approach The author approaches his work as a public health case study, with the caveat that the author knew this “Case” personally, which could influence the author’s assessment. Findings During 2005 -2018, Richard Layard stimulated discussion of “happiness” as a field of study. This field now has global relevance to mental health, although its relationship to practice for populatio...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - May 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Financial difficulties and psychosis risk in British undergraduate students: a longitudinal analysis
Journal of Public Mental Health, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether financial variables impact psychosis risk over time in students. Design/methodology/approach In total, 408 first-year British undergraduate students completed measures assessing psychosis risk and finances at three time points. Findings Greater financial difficulties increased psychosis risk cross sectionally both in terms of symptoms and distress. Other financial variables such as student loan amount were not significant. In longitudinal analysis financial difficulties increase psychotic symptoms and distress over t...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - May 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Addressing funding issues for Danish mental health NGOs
Journal of Public Mental Health, Ahead of Print. Purpose Research has shown that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often fail to appreciate that in their market, donors represent clients. Moreover, the unstable income characteristics of NGOs emphasize the importance of conducting market analysis specific to such organizations. The purpose of this paper is to identify key factors that influence fundraising success for mental health NGOs and determine the most advantageous fundraising approach based on a mixed-methods study that encompass a literature review, two surveys and a case study. Design/methodology/approach Ba...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - May 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Financial difficulties and psychosis risk in British undergraduate students: a longitudinal analysis
Journal of Public Mental Health, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether financial variables impact psychosis risk over time in students. Design/methodology/approach In total, 408 first-year British undergraduate students completed measures assessing psychosis risk and finances at three time points. Findings Greater financial difficulties increased psychosis risk cross sectionally both in terms of symptoms and distress. Other financial variables such as student loan amount were not significant. In longitudinal analysis financial difficulties increase psychotic symptoms and distress over t...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - May 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Addressing funding issues for Danish mental health NGOs
Journal of Public Mental Health, Ahead of Print. Purpose Research has shown that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often fail to appreciate that in their market, donors represent clients. Moreover, the unstable income characteristics of NGOs emphasize the importance of conducting market analysis specific to such organizations. The purpose of this paper is to identify key factors that influence fundraising success for mental health NGOs and determine the most advantageous fundraising approach based on a mixed-methods study that encompass a literature review, two surveys and a case study. Design/methodology/approach Ba...
Source: Journal of Public Mental Health - May 2, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
