Background
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) compromise psychosocial functioning, including daily time use, emotional expression and physical activity (PA).
ObjectiveWe performed a cohort study aimed at investigating: (1) the differences in PA, daily activities and emotions between patients with SSD and healthy...
Background
Despite the importance of understanding depressive symptom constellations during adolescence and specifically in looked-after children, studies often only apply sum score models to understand depression in these populations, neglecting associations among single symptoms that can be elucidated in network...
Background
Consistent evidence suggests a strong association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and subjectively reported sleep problems. However, the prevalence of clinically ascertained sleep disorder diagnoses and sleep medication prescriptions in individuals with ADHD remains unclear.
ObjectiveTo determine the rates of sleep...
Introduction
Childbirth triggers a broad range of diagnoses jointly defined as postpartum mental disorders (PMDs),1 but immediate onset within the first 30 days after delivery has been linked to an increased probability of converting to bipolar disorder (BD) diagnoses...
Question
This review of reviews synthesises qualitative evidence on the experiences of receiving and providing care and treatment for mental health conditions in non-specialist settings in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and the factors that influence the provision and uptake...
Background
Current dementia risk scores have had limited success in consistently identifying at-risk individuals across different ages and geographical locations.
ObjectiveWe aimed to develop and validate a novel dementia risk score for a midlife UK population, using two cohorts: the UK...
Background
Existing research on refugee mental health is heavily skewed towards refugees in high-income countries, even though most refugees (83%) are hosted in low-income and middle-income countries. This problem is further compounded by the unrepresentativeness of samples, small sample sizes...
Background
Culturally competent early mental health interventions for ethnic minorities (EMs) with no formal diagnoses are needed.
ObjectivesTo determine whether 8–12 weeks culturally adapted counselling (CAC) is better than waiting (waitlist (WL) group) to reduce depressive and anxiety symptoms and stress...
Background
Worldwide uptake of telepsychiatry accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ObjectiveTo conduct an evaluation of the opinions, preferences and attitudes to telepsychiatry from service users, carers and clinicians in order to understand how telepsychiatry can be best used in the peri/post-COVID-19...
Background
People who live alone experience greater levels of mental illness; however, it is unclear whether the COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionately negative impact on this demographic.
ObjectiveTo describe the mental health gap between those who live alone and with others...