Effect of "Tiaoshen" acupuncture technique on mild depression and its underlying mechanism: a randomized controlled trial study protocol - Bai L, Zou W, Wang L, Yu X, Lou H, Dai X, Teng W, Yu W, Li M, Cao H, Zheng L.
BACKGROUND: Mild depression is not just a mental disease, but also a serious and long-term public health issue. It affects the quality of life of patients and can quickly develop into major depression. There are currently no effective drug treatments with ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Program and Other Evaluations, Effectiveness Studies Source Type: news
Efficacy of cognitive behavior therapy and relaxation techniques in cases with attempted suicide: an original research - Das G.
This study was done for the efficacy assessment of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and various relaxation techniques in patients with suicidal tendencies. METHODOLOGY: The study was conducted among 150 patients of attempted suicide for a pe... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Program and Other Evaluations, Effectiveness Studies Source Type: news
Cumulative inequality in social determinants of health in relation to depression symptom: an analysis of nationwide cross-sectional data from U.S. NHANES 2005-2018 - Liang JH, Liu ML, Pu YQ, Huang S, Jiang N, Bao WW, Hu LX, Zhang YS, Gui ZH, Pu XY, Huang SY, Chen YJ.
This study aimed to investigate whether the accumulation of unfavorable SDoH is associated with depression symptom. Data was gathered from ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news
Social support and suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic among Brazilian healthcare workers: a longitudinal assessment of an online repeated cross-sectional survey - Diaz AP, Pinto AB, Ara újo MIC, Joaquim RM, Costa DS, Serpa ALO, Pisani AR, Conwell Y, Miranda DM, Malloy-Diniz LF, Da Silva AG.
This study aims to investigate the association between social support and suicidal ideation and behavior (SIB) during the COVID-19 pandemic amon... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
A comparison of suicides in public safety personnel with suicides in the general population in Ontario, 2014 to 2018 - Hatcher S, Sinyor M, Edgar NE, Schaffer A, MacLean SE, Carleton RN, Colman I, Jayakumar N, Ward B, Zaheer R.
BACKGROUND: There is conflicting evidence on the suicide rates of different public safety personnel (PSP). There have been few studies that compare suicides in PSP with the general population and none that have used a detailed comparison of coroner records... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Determinants of adolescents' depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms in Northwest Ethiopia: a non-recursive structural equation modeling - Gebreegziabher ZA, Eristu R, Molla A.
INTRODUCTION: In low and middle-income countries, adolescent mental health is not only a major public health challenge but also a development concern. Depression and anxiety are the most common mental health disorders and somatic symptoms often co-exist wi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Your brain on genetics
There ’s nothing like seeing new perspectives through the study of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases.Dr. Daniel Geschwind— without getting too philosophical, he promises — is ready to explain why.Geschwind, the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry at UCLA, has been a pioneering neurogeneticist for more than 25 years, during which time a genomics revolution has allowed research, much of which has come out of UCLA, to show that psychiatric disorders have pathology that ties t hem together.In the last 10 years, hundreds of genes that increase s...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 11, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Midlife Deaths of Despair Increased From 1999 to 2022
THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Midlife deaths from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholic liver disease, collectively known as deaths of despair, increased from 1999 through 2022, according to a research letter published online April 10 in JAMA... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 11, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Feeling down? Top psychologist says you could be suffering 'springtime depression' - the less common form of Seasonal Affective Disorder that affects 1million Americans
Dr Supria Gill, a behavioral psychologist at Kaiser Permanante in California, told KCRA 3 that springtime depression could be due to a surge in allergies from 'pollen bombs' across the country. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Long Covid trials aim to clear lingering virus —and help patients in need
One Monday morning last September, Shelley Hayden pulled into a parking spot in an underground garage at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She switched off the ignition, pushed the red record button on her cellphone, and gazed into the camera. “The time has come,” said Hayden, long dark-blond hair framing her blue eyes. “Here we are, I’m actually getting to do something.”
More than 3 years earlier, in the summer of 2020, Hayden had come down with COVID-19 while visiting family in Colorado. Since then she’s been plagued by the disease’s cruel sequel, Long Covid, whose symptoms include ov...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 11, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Self-hatred: the unaddressed symptom of borderline personality disorder - Wilner JG, Ronzio B, Gillen C, Aguirre B.
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often report chronic, severe self-hatred. It is frequently experienced as immutable, seen as a barrier to recovery, and is associated with risk for self-injury and suicide attempts. Yet self-hatred rem... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Upward trends in eating disorders, self-harm, and suicide attempt emergency admissions in female adolescents after COVID-19 lockdown - Fortea A, Fortea L, G ómez-Ramiro M, Fico G, Giménez-Palomo A, Sague-Vilavella M, Pons MT, Vázquez M, Baldaquí N, Colomer L, Fernández TM, Gutiérrez-Arango F, Llobet M, Pujal E, Lazaro L, Vieta E, Radua J, Baeza I.
INTRODUCTION: Increased mental health problems have been reported in children and adolescents related to the COVID-19 lockdown and its immediate aftermath, especially among adolescent females. However, the longer-term impact of persistent quarantine measur... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Clinical predictors and psychosocial risk factors of suicide attempt severity - Gonzalez-Ortega I, D íaz-Marsá M, López-Peña P, Fernández-Sevillano J, Andreo-Jover J, Bobes J, Bravo-Ortiz MF, Cebrià AI, Crespo-Facorro B, de la Torre-Luque A, Elices M, Fernandez-Rodrigues V, Garrido-Torres N, Grande I, Palao-Tarrero, Pemau A, Roberto N, Ruiz-Veguilla M, Seijo-Zazo E, Alberich S, Gonzalez-Pinto A, Perez V.
BACKGROUND: Suicide attempts are an important predictor of completed suicide and may differ in terms of severity of medical consequences or medical lethality. There is little evidence on serious suicide attempt (SSA) and very few studies have compared SSA ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Depression and suicidality severity among TRD patients after 1-year under standard of care: Findings from the TRAL study, a multicenter, multinational, observational study in Latin America - Caldieraro MA, Tung TC, Agudelo Baena LM, Vilapri ño Duprat M, Corral RM, Alviso de la Serna LD, Saucedo E, Kanevsky G, Cabrera P.
INTRODUCTION: Treatment resistant depression (TRD) is one of the most pressing issues in mental healthcare in LatAm. However, clinical data and outcomes of standard of care (SOC) are scarce. The present study reported on the Treatment-Resistant Depression ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Sars-Cov2 pandemic impact on suicide attempts admitted to pediatric critical care: a monographical observational retrospective study - Moral-Larraz A, Garc ía-Salido A, Lamagrande-Casanova N, Di Campli-Zaghlul M, Braza-Claver M, Nieto-Moro M.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) pandemic has required public health measures aimed at reducing the spread of the virus. The emotional and psychological impacts of these measures are unknown1 and can be expressed in various w... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
