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Filter by:The study is planned to be conducted in a randomized controlled experimental design in accordance with CONSORT. The study is planned to be carried out at X Nursing Faculty between November 2022 and February 2024. The randomization list will be hidden from the students, and the group to which each student will be included will be revealed after they are included in the study. In order to determine which group the nursing students to be included in the study will be in, the "Layered Block Randomization" method will be used and they will be assigned to the experimental and control groups according to the stress scores they get from the DASS-21 scale. Assignment of intervention and control groups to conceal randomization information to avoid study bias; It will be done by an expert who was not involved in the research. The experimental group will consist of 40 students in total, 4 groups of 10 students each, and the students will receive face-to-face psychoeducation for 6 weeks, each session for 60 minutes. The control group will not receive any intervention during the application period and will be put on waitlist. After the psychoeducation, as a post-test, one month, six months and one year later, follow-up measurements will be applied face-to-face and by telephone to the students who have completed the psychoeducation, and the scores will be compared with the control group. Among the sampling criteria; Being a nursing student, getting at least 8 points (mild and above) from the stress sub-dimension of the DASS-21 scale; Exclusion criteria from the sample included starting psychiatric treatment in the last three months, having previously participated in an acceptance and commitment or mindfullness-based program. In the research, descriptive information form will be filled from the students. The level of psychological distress will be measured with the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale Short Form (DASS-21). Psychological flexibility will be measured with the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II , mindfullness with the Mindfull Attention Awareness Scale and the level of valuing with the Valuing Questionnaire . Validity and reliability studies of the scales were carried out. Institutional permission was obtained from the faculty where the research was conducted.
This research project will refine and evaluate delivery of a peer-delivered evidence-based intervention to improve perceived access and actual engagement with mental health treatment and social resource service use among rural women Veterans, especially Veterans of color, with psychological distress and unmet social needs.
Untreated mental health problems can cause lasting harm to self-esteem, relationships, academics, productivity, and health. It is thus highly worrisome that only 18-36% of university students with significant mental health problems seek help. Many university campuses have responded to this mental health crisis by trying to increase students' mental health literacy (MHL), defined as "knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management, or prevention''. Increasing MHL appears to increase knowledge about mental health services, but it does not increase actual treatment-seeking desire or action. One problem with this approach is that it falsely assumes that students struggling with their mental health will want to pursue services once they have learned more about mental disorders and the associated treatments available. However, most people with mental disorders do not initially recognize that they have a disorder and may dismiss information about mental disorders and mental health treatment as irrelevant. Feelings of shame are elevated in individuals with psychological disorders, and these feelings act as one of the strongest barriers to mental health treatment-seeking.Given the low rate of treatment-seeking on university campuses, research is needed to explore how best to facilitate mental health treatment seeking among distressed students, including those who may not self-identity as having a mental health problem. Research has yet to examine the potential role of self-compassion in relation to treatment-seeking behaviours. Self-compassion (SC) is conceptualized as responding to personal distress with gentleness and kindness in order to alleviate it, and it is negatively associated with shame. However, research has not yet explored whether the perceived benefits of SC in mitigating shame can affect mental health treatment-seeking outcomes. We propose that cultivating SC amongst psychologically distressed students will subsequently decrease shame, and thus, indirectly elevate willingness to seek mental health treatment. Thus, this study will examine the effects of a one-session SC workshop/intervention compared to a one-session MHL intervention on shame and mental health treatment-seeking. Participants will be distressed students recruited from the University of Waterloo, and will be randomly assigned to the SC intervention, MHL intervention, or control intervention.
The overarching goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of the Baby Friendly Spaces (BFS) program for improvement of maternal psychosocial wellbeing among Rohingya refugee mothers and their malnourished infants and young children in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The purpose of the BFS program is to provide convenient, accessible psychosocial support to mothers in order to facilitate their ability to care for their children. BFS activities include: counselling for infant and young child feeding practices, hygiene education and promotion, group discussions on parenting skills, mother-child bonding activities and maternal psychosocial support. In Cox's Bazar, the BFS program is not currently standardized as intended. In this study, integrated nutrition centers that offer the BFS program are being paired and randomized to receive re-training in a standardized and implementation-enhanced version of BFS (enhanced-BFS) or to continue BFS services as usual (TAU-BFS). Primary (symptoms of psychological distress and functional impairment) and secondary (subjective psychosocial wellbeing and coping) outcomes will be assessed immediately post intervention (8 weeks after initial baseline assessment) via interviewer-administered surveys. The central hypothesis is that mothers attending enhanced-BFS services will experience greater improvement in all psychosocial well-being indicators relative to mothers in the standard, treatment-as-usual centers.
The central aim of this study is to test the efficacy of the Healthy Minds Program (HMP) app, an intervention designed to promote well-being. The investigators plan to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 1100 participants comparing 4-weeks of the HMP app with an active control (Psychoeducation [HMP without meditation practice]), and a waitlist control in a sample of United States adults with elevated depression symptoms.
This project is a randomized controlled non-inferiority study that aims to cover knowledge gaps about the composition and development of plasma proteins, inflammation markers and mental health in Norwegian, voluntary, and unpaid blood donors who donate plasma and blood. We will include 120 male blood donors who are randomized into three groups, the first donating plasma by plasmapheresis 3 times every 2 weeks, the second donating plasma by plasmapheresis every 2 weeks and the third donating whole blood every 3 months. Blood sample analyses are done before, every 2 weeks during the donation period and after the donation period. Questionnaires regarding mental symptoms, Hopkins Symptoms Checklist 25, are done before and after the donation period. The donations extend over 16 weeks and the participants are followed up with blood tests 2 and 4 weeks after the last donation. A plasma sample from each sampling will be stored in an biobank in Innlandet Hospital Trust. The donation frequency are based on the Council of Europe's latest guidelines for plasmapheresis which allow 33 plasma donations per year with at least 96-hour intervals and previous national guidelines. The project is useful to ensure that frequent plasma donations, which are necessary to increase plasma production and the degree of self-sufficiency of plasma products in Norway, do not pose a health risk to blood donors. The primary objective is to assess the safety of blood donors donating plasma, by comparing the change in total protein and immunoglobulin G concentrations between donors who will be donating plasma 3 times every 2 weeks with donors donating plasma every 2 weeks and blood donors donating regular whole blood every 3 months. The secondary objectives are to compare the concentrations of other plasma proteins and inflammation markers and describe the development of these during plasma and blood donations between the three donations groups, compare the dropout rate and the degree of psychological distress measured by Hopkins Symptoms Checklist 25.
Psychological distress commonly occurs among women during perinatal period. maternal psychological distress can also bring negative influence on neonatal outcomes, such as infant health, child development or mother-child interaction. Hence, developing interventions to improve mental wellbeing during this period is vital. Mindfulness based intervention (MBI) was found effective in reducing psychological distress. Most currently, delivering MBIs via internet, which is more accessible and inexpensive, shows promising positive effect in reducing psychological distress. However, randomized control trial with sufficient power is await to further confirm the positive effect among pregnant women. Moreover, the positive effects of MBIs was found associated with the heart rate variability biofeedback. However, the efficacy of MBI on HRV is rarely studied among pregnant women. Also, the potential association of HRV between MBI and psychological wellbeing needs further examination. This research aims to test the effectiveness of the Guided-Mobile Based Perinatal Mindfulness Intervention (GMBPMI) among pregnant women experiencing psychological distress during the pre and post-natal period, as well as examining the efficacy of GMBPMI on HRV.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased mental health concerns worldwide, and young adults are at higher risk of experiencing increased psychological distress due to the pandemic. University students face compounding stressors during the pandemic, such as online and remote learning, economic insecurity, and uncertain career prospects. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an online modular prevention program featuring integrated elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Islamic spirituality in reducing the psychological distress and increasing the psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and resilience of Muslim university students in Malaysia.
The investigators are conducting a randomized controlled trial to assess the impact of Resiliency in Stressful Experiences (RISE) - a comprehensive trauma-based program for young men releasing from a southeastern state's prisons. The investigators are assessing whether treating trauma and providing other transitional supports - such as employment assistance - as young men return home will help to improve their community stability and enhance their psychological well-being, in turn, resulting in less likelihood that a person will become incarcerated in the future.
The study of hereditary cancer related syndromes allows reducing the risk of suffering in cancer to patients and close relatives. The objective of this study will be to evaluate the prevelance of psychological morbidity in patients attended at cancer genetic counselling unit, and to determine the socio-demographic and clinical factors that influence it. A descriptive cross-sectional study will be carried out. Patients attented at the cancer genetic counselling unit, who have criteria for conducting a genetic syndrome test related to hererditary cancer, will be consecutively evaluated. To knowing the psychological morbidity it is relevant to providing care for these patients.