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Severity Profiles of Smartphone Addiction and Mental Health Differences from the Perspective of Adolescent Development: A Latent Profile Analysis.

Zhang N, Gao X, Yang Y et al.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

IntroductionIn the digital age, smartphones may amplify adolescents' developmental vulnerability, making their mental health more likely to be affected by problematic smartphone use. However, prior research has largely overlooked adolescents' developmental characteristics and individual differences.MethodsThis study employed latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify…

Does higher education shape change in happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from working-age adults in China.

Dai HFrontiers in psychology

The COVID-19 pandemic had profound consequences for subjective well-being. Yet these consequences may have varied by educational attainment. This study aims to investigate whether patterns of happiness change during the COVID-19 pandemic differed between working-age adults with and without higher education. Using nationally…

Discrimination in medical settings as perceived by forcibly displaced people within low- and middle-income countries: a scoping literature review.

Grosheintz-Laval KM, Kwizera P, Winkler MSPublic health reviews

ObjectivesForcibly displaced people are among the most vulnerable populations seeking care. Understanding barriers such as perceived discrimination is critical to ensuring access to high-quality care. This review aims to provide an overview of scientific literature on discrimination faced by forcibly displaced people in…

Understanding non-psychiatric nurses' experiences of caring for patients with mental-physical comorbidity: a descriptive phenomenological study.

Zhang J, Feng Y, Luo H et al.Frontiers in psychiatry

PurposeThis study aimed to explore non-psychiatric nurses' experiences of caring for patients with mental-physical comorbidity, the challenges they encounter, and the factors shaping these experiences.DesignA descriptive phenomenological design was used, with data collected through face-to-face, semi-structured interviews.MethodsBetween March and April 2025, 20 registered…

Voice and speech as digital biomarkers of mental health: a scoping review of clinical interpretability, data collection and translational readiness.

Uy RJ, Shaaban I, Arnaout AFrontiers in digital health

BackgroundVoice and speech encode acoustic, linguistic, and interactional information associated with mental health. Translating these signals into clinically meaningful digital biomarkers depends not only on predictive performance but on how speech is elicited, how the target state is defined, whether findings generalize beyond…

Hand-in-Hand-improving occupational health and quality of care in early education and care: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Morud E, Koch M, Aanesen F et al.Frontiers in public health

IntroductionIn Norway, the early education and care (ECEC) sector has the highest rate of work-related fatigue and sickness absence across all sectors. Work in ECEC can be characterized as physically and emotionally demanding, which may lead to fatigue and the two most common…

The association between social capital and mental health among older people living with HIV: a systematic review.

Xia H, Cao X, He Y et al.Frontiers in public health

BackgroundOlder people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) constitute a vulnerable group in society and are at high risk of developing mental health problems. Although strengthening social capital is a common recommendation to reduce such mental health risks, no systematic review has examined…

Increase in Methadone Treatment Episodes With Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders between 2013 and 2023

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Within-Person Longitudinal Associations Between Parental Depressive Symptoms and Children's Emotional and Behavioral Functioning: Differences by Household Income.

Park JChildren (Basel, Switzerland)

Background/Objectives: Parental depressive symptoms are consistently associated with children's emotional and behavioral functioning, yet research has predominantly emphasized parent-to-child associations. Less is known about child-to-parent pathways and reciprocal processes, particularly across socioeconomic contexts. This study examined within-person reciprocal associations between parental depressive symptoms…

Estimating the health and economic impacts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for people with mental and physical health conditions: A cost-benefit modelling study.

Clarke H, Morris D, James M et al.Public health in practice (Oxford, England)

Heterogeneity within high-risk trajectories: a formal latent class growth modeling approach to college student mental health.

Li Y, Xiao G, Xue HFrontiers in psychology

ObjectiveLatent Class Growth Modeling (LCGM) identifies distinct developmental trajectories but often treats classes as homogeneous. This study examines within-class heterogeneity in Chinese college students' mental health trajectories, focusing specifically on high-risk groups.MethodWe analyzed 2,562 Chinese college students (74.6% female; Mage = 18.5 years)…

Experiential avoidance and smartphone addiction in adolescents: a study using multi-model machine learning and mediation analysis.

Zhang X, Zhang WFrontiers in psychology

BackgroundSmartphone addiction is closely associated with adolescents' mental health and educational outcomes. Current research lacks comprehensive machine learning studies for predicting smartphone addiction factors, and studies examining relationships between various factors including mediation effects are also insufficient.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted among 3,405…

Limitations of PHQ-9 as a first line mental health screener in primary care.

Newson JJ, Parameshwaran D, Schweitzer J et al.Frontiers in psychiatry

BackgroundThe PHQ-9, originally designed as an assessment for depression, is now widely used as a first line screener in primary care and is often the sole mental health screener used. However, it is currently unknown how well the PHQ-9 performs as a general…

Advancing the science on measurement, determinants, and outcomes of pregnancy and abortion coercion in global settings: a scoping review.

Liang M, Landers C, Casey SE et al.Frontiers in global women's health

Reproductive coercion-behaviors that interfere with women's autonomous reproductive decision-making-is increasingly recognized but remains unevenly defined and measured across settings. We conducted a scoping review and searched MEDLINE, Scopus, CINAHL, Embase, and the Cochrane Library, for English-language studies from 1995 to April 2023. Of…

Childhood adversity contributes more strongly than cognition to transdiagnostic mental health symptoms in young adults

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Mental health problems in pregnancy link maternal history of childhood maltreatment to altered newborn amygdala connectivity

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Burden and factors associated with depressive symptoms among adults receiving tuberculosis treatment in South India: A cross-sectional study.

Vannadil A, Sobagaiah RT, Chandrashekar SS et al.Dialogues in health

Receipt of needed care coordination and emergency department utilization among US children with chronic physical pain: a pooled analysis of the 2022-2024 National Survey of Children's Health.

Cheng T, Cai Z, Zhou X et al.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)

BackgroundChildren with chronic physical pain often require complex, multidisciplinary services across medical, behavioral, and community systems. However, whether receipt of needed care coordination is associated with acute healthcare utilization and care access in this population remains poorly characterized.MethodsWe conducted a pooled cross-sectional analysis…

The association between older adult abuse and emergency department attendance and mental health service use.

Sondh S, Mueller C, Li L et al.Frontiers in sociology

IntroductionOlder adult abuse is associated with a higher risk of mental health disorders but to date older adult abuse has not been investigated as a predictor of mental healthcare outcomes. The purpose of this study was to systematically ascertain recorded abuse and analyse…

Association between nocturia frequency and depression in adults: evidence from NHANES 2021-2023 and a Chinese exploratory cohort.

Cheng C, Yang Y, Yang T et al.Frontiers in public health

BackgroundNocturia and depression commonly coexist and may share underlying pathways. We examined the cross-sectional association between nocturia frequency and clinically relevant depressive symptoms.MethodsWe analyzed 4,162 adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2021-2023. Nocturia was categorized as 0, 1, 2,…