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  1. The burdens of anxiety and depression symptoms have significantly increased in the general US population, especially during this COVID-19 epidemiological crisis. The first step in an effective treatment for an...

    Authors: David Adzrago, Timothy J. Walker and Faustine Williams
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:213
  2. Studies show that three-quarters of mental disorders appear during young adulthood, which makes students a risk group. Especially people with anxiety and depression experience lower Quality of Life (QoL) compa...

    Authors: Emily Wilzer, Annalena Zeisel, Veit Roessner and Melanie Ring
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:212
  3. Lived experience workforces are one of the fastest growing emerging disciplines in Australian mental health service settings. Individuals with lived and living experience of mental distress employed in mental ...

    Authors: Verity Reeves, Heather McIntyre, Mark Loughhead, Matthew Anthony Halpin and Nicholas Procter
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:211
  4. Current research has been focusing on non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) behaviors among adolescents with depression. Although family intimacy and adaptability are considered protective factors for NSSI, evidence...

    Authors: Yuehong Gao, Yanchi Wang, Zhiping Wang, Mingzhen Ma, Hongjiao Li, Jinhong Wang, Jianan Liu, Huaying Qian, Ping Zhu and Xujuan Xu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:210
  5. Visual impairment (VI) with comorbid mental disorders (MDs) are expected to have a major impact on people’s daily functioning, for which tailored support is needed. However, this has been barely investigated. ...

    Authors: Marjolein LA Onnink, Lisanne BA Teunissen, Peter FJ Verstraten, Ruth MA van Nispen and Hilde PA van der Aa
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:209
  6. Using the RE-AIM (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance) framework, we outline steps taken to implement an evidence-based cognitive training program, Club Connect, in older adults with ma...

    Authors: Claudia Woolf, L. Kaplan, L. M. Norrie, D. Burke, M. Cunich, L. Mowszowski and S. L. Naismith
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:208
  7. The long-term effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in medicated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) adults with residual symptoms needs to be verified across multiple dimensions, es...

    Authors: Mei-Rong Pan, Min Dong, Shi-Yu Zhang, Lu Liu, Hai-Mei Li, Yu-Feng Wang and Qiu-Jin Qian
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:207
  8. There may be unexplored interactions between family health, personality, and smoking that could help provide new perspectives on tobacco control.

    Authors: Jiangyun Chen, Menglin Luo, Li Gan, Haomiao Li, Siyuan Liu, Na Ren, Yan Zhou, Jiao Yang, Haozheng Zhou, Xuanhao Yin, Jiahuan Wan, Xinlei Yang, Yibo Wu and Zenni Luo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:206
  9. The access to and uptake of evidence-based behavioral parent training for children with behavioral difficulties (i.e., oppositional, defiant, aggressive, hyperactive, impulsive, and inattentive behavior) are c...

    Authors: Roos S. van Doornik, Saskia van der Oord, Joli Luijckx, Annabeth P. Groenman, Patty Leijten, Marjolein Luman, Pieter J. Hoekstra, Barbara J. van den Hoofdakker and Tycho J. Dekkers
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:203
  10. Mental health literacy (MHL) and help-seeking behaviors are pivotal in managing mental well-being, especially among Egyptian undergraduates. Despite the importance and prevalent psychological distress in this ...

    Authors: Mohamed Baklola, Mohamed Terra, Anhar Taha, Mohammed Elnemr, Mohammad Yaseen, Ahmed Maher, Ali Hussain Buzaid, Rahaf Alenazi, Safa Adil Osman Mohamed, Doaa Abdelhady and Abdel-Hady El-Gilany
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:202
  11. Menthol cigarette use remains a large public health problem and disproportionately affects Black adults in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed prohibiting menthol flavor in cigaret...

    Authors: Krysten W. Bold, Akshika Sharma, Angela Haeny, Ralitza Gueorguieva, Eugenia Buta, Stephen Baldassarri, Lauren Lempert, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin and Stephanie O’Malley
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:201
  12. Sleep disturbances, a public health concern that may lead to critical physiological conditions, are associated with personal characteristics such as gender. Limited evidence is available from the Middle East p...

    Authors: Mohammad R. Alosta, Islam Oweidat, Mohammad Alsadi, Mahmoud Mohammad Alsaraireh, Bayan Oleimat and Elham H. Othman
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:200
  13. Globally, individuals with mental illness get in contact with the law at a greater rate than the general population. The goal of this review was to identify and describe: (1) effectiveness of mental health int...

    Authors: Maji Hailemariam, Tatiana E. Bustos, Barrett Wallace Montgomery, Garrett Brown, Gashaye Tefera, Rosemary Adaji, Brandon Taylor, Hiywote Eshetu, Clara Barajas, Rolando Barajas, Vanessa Najjar, Donovan Dennis, Jasmiyne Hudson, Julia W. Felton and Jennifer E. Johnson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:199
  14. With the increasing global aging population, dementia care has rapidly become a major social problem. Current diagnosis of Behavior and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) relies on clinical interviews, ...

    Authors: Haihang Yuan, Tianyi Yang, Qiaolian Xie, Guilhem Lledos, Wen-Huei Chou and Wenwei Yu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:197
  15. Symptoms of depersonalization (DP) and derealization (DR) are a risk factor for more severe impairment, non-response to various treatments, and a chronic course. In this study, we investigated the effects of D...

    Authors: Matthias Michal, Jörg Wiltink, Ana N. Tibubos, Philipp S. Wild, Thomas Münzel, Karl Lackner, Norbert Pfeiffer, Jochem König, Alexander Gieswinkel, Manfred Beutel and Jasmin Ghaemi Kerahrodi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:196
  16. Inflammatory factors are associated with depression. We seek to investigate the correlation between inflammatory cytokines and prognosis of depression or suicidal ideation and behavior at 3 months in depressio...

    Authors: Fei Liu, Yang Yang, Xiao-Wei Fan, Ning Zhang, Shuo Wang, Yi-Jun Shi, Wei-Jiang Hu and Chun-Xue Wang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:195
  17. This controlled pilot study investigates the effect of the combined use of cognitive restructuring (CR) and imagery rescripting (IR) compared to treatment as usual among inpatients with moderate and severe dep...

    Authors: Jabin Kanczok, Kamila Jauch-Chara and Franz-Josef Müller
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:194
  18. Our group developed an Integrated Care Pathway to facilitate the delivery of evidence-based care for adolescents experiencing depression called CARIBOU-2 (Care for Adolescents who Receive Information ‘Bout OUt...

    Authors: Darren B. Courtney, Melanie Barwick, Bahar Amani, Andrea T. Greenblatt, Madison Aitken, Karolin R. Krause, Brendan F. Andrade, Kathryn Bennett, Kristin Cleverley, Amanda A. Uliaszek, Claire de Oliveira, Lisa D. Hawke, Jo Henderson, Wei Wang, Priya Watson, Amy Gajaria…
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:193
  19. In China, about 18.70% of the population aged 60 years and older are at risk of low personal mastery as well as anxiety and depression for a variety of reasons. The purpose of this study was to construct a sym...

    Authors: Zekun Bian, Renyan Xu, Bin Shang, Fei Lv, Weiyi Sun, Qian Li, Yijing Gong and Caifeng Luo
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:192
  20. Cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) effectively improves the clinical symptoms of social anxiety disorder. However, there are non-responders who cannot decrease their cost/probability bias significantly; hence,...

    Authors: Shota Noda, Kentaro Shirotsuki and Mutsuhiro Nakao
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:190
  21. Reports at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic suggested differences in COVID-19-associated mortality between individuals with serious mental disorders (SMD) and the population at large.

    Authors: Anna Gibbs, Martin Maripuu, Louise Öhlund, Micael Widerström, Niklas Nilsson and Ursula Werneke
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:189
  22. COVID-19 impacted all students, especially those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), putting them at risk for disruption to their medication regimen and school performance. Our study aimed to...

    Authors: Peter J. Cunniff, Amil Ahsan, Catherine McCrary, Tracy Dien, Tristan H. Kuhn, Turaj Vazifedan and John W. Harrington
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:188
  23. Depression and anxiety are common and disabling mental health problems in children and young adults. Group cognitive behavioral therapy (GCBT) is considered that an efficient and effective treatment for these ...

    Authors: Zexin Lin, Junjie Zheng, Yang Wang, Zhao Su, Rongxin Zhu, Rongxun Liu, Yange Wei, Xizhe Zhang and Fei Wang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:187
  24. Personality, emotions, and olfaction exhibit partial anatomical overlap in the limbic system structure, establishing potential mechanisms between personality, affective disorders, and olfactory-related aspects...

    Authors: Binfeng Zhang, Xiuxia Li, Hongzhen Deng, Peixuan Tan, Wanyong He, Shuling Huang, Lu Wang, Hao Xu, Lei Cao and Guanghui Nie
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:185
  25. Melancholic depression (MD) is one of the most prevalent and severe subtypes of major depressive disorder (MDD). Previous studies have revealed inconsistent results regarding alterations in grey matter volume ...

    Authors: Zhaosong Chu, Lijin Yuan, Kun Lian, Mengxin He, Yi Lu, Yuqi Cheng, Xiufeng Xu and Zonglin Shen
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:183
  26. The relationship between handgrip strength (HGS) and depression in patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) was unknown. Therefore, we aimed to clarify this association in a cohort of patients.

    Authors: Shuang Zhang, Shu-Xin Liu, Qi-Jun Wu, Zhi-Hong Wang, Hong Liu, Ping Xiao, Yan Lu, Cui Dong and Qing-Mei Meng
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:182
  27. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) has been used in a range of occupational cohorts, but only recently in stone benchtop workers undergoing screening for silicosis. The aim of this study was to compare psycho...

    Authors: Fiona Hore-Lacy, StellaMay Gwini, Deborah C. Glass, Christina Dimitriadis, Javier Jimenez-Martin, Ryan F. Hoy, Malcolm R. Sim, Karen Walker-Bone and Jane Fisher
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:181
  28. Cohen syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive inherited condition characterized by pathological changes affecting multiple systems. The extensive clinical variability associated with CS poses a significant...

    Authors: Xinming Li, Sufang Qi, Wenjie Li, Xin Liu, Zhicheng Xue, Tiangui Yu and Guanglei Xun
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:180
  29. People with schizophrenia often face challenges such as lower psychological resilience, reduced self-worth, and increased social stigma, hindering their recovery. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) has...

    Authors: Jiali Dai, Dawei Sun, Bohui Li, Yang Zhang, Meiling Wen, Haina Wang and Hongsheng Bi
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:179
  30. Observational studies have suggested a link between panic disorder (PD) and Alzheimer disease (AD). This study aimed to identify the underlying association of PD with the risk of AD using Mendelian randomization.

    Authors: Yueqin Tian, Qiuping Ye, Jia Qiao, Lian Wang, Yong Dai, Hongmei Wen and Zulin Dou
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:178
  31. A growing literature points to the critical role schools can play in promoting improved psychosocial wellbeing and resilience among first- and second-generation Arab immigrant and refugee adolescents, but few ...

    Authors: Ilana Seff, Lindsay Stark, Ali Ali, Danielle Sarraf, Wafa Hassan and Carine Allaf
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:176
  32. Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is increasingly common and contributes to a range of health and social problems. Cannabidiol (CBD) is a non-intoxicating cannabinoid recognised for its anticonvulsant, anxiolytic an...

    Authors: Anjali K. Bhardwaj, Llew Mills, Michael Doyle, Arshman Sahid, Mark Montebello, Lauren Monds, Shalini Arunogiri, Paul Haber, Valentina Lorenzetti, Dan I. Lubman, Peter Malouf, Mary E. Harrod, Adrian Dunlop, Tom Freeman and Nicholas Lintzeris
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:175
  33. Infertility is a prominent problem affecting millions of couples worldwide. Recently, there has been a hightened emphasis on elucidating the subtle linkages between infertility treatment leveraging assisted re...

    Authors: Kimia Sahraian, Hamed Abdollahpour Ranjbar, Bahia Namavar Jahromi, Ho Nam Cheung, Joseph Ciarrochi and Mojtaba Habibi Asgarabad
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:174
  34. Inflammation has an important role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) in male patien...

    Authors: Haidong Yang, Ruijie Peng, Man Yang, Jing Zhang, Zhihui Shi and Xiaobin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:173
  35. Whether perceived stress is associated with loneliness and depressive symptoms in general adults, and to what extent sleep quality mediates the associations, remains unknown. The aim of this study was to estim...

    Authors: Xiao Wang, Xingqi Cao, Jiening Yu, Shuyi Jin, Shengyi Li, Liying Chen, Zuyun Liu, Xuan Ge and Yangzhen Lu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:172
  36. Despite the fact that studies indicate that earthquake trauma is associated with numerous psychological consequences, the mediating mechanisms leading to these outcomes have not been well-studied. Therefore, t...

    Authors: Farshad Ahmadi, Mohammad Ali Goodarzi, Mohammad Reza Taghavi and Mahdi Imani
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:171
  37. To the best of our knowledge, the long term prevalence of symptoms of anxiety and depression in ICU admitted individuals after COVID-19 in Sweden during the first wave of the pandemic has not been investigated...

    Authors: Netha Hussain, Carina M. Samuelsson, Avril Drummond and Carina U. Persson
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:170
  38. The ability to recognize one’s own emotions is associated with one’s ability to recognize others’ emotions. Beyond the domain of emotion, however, the relationship between recognition of one’s own internal sta...

    Authors: Chandni Gajperia, Jennifer McBride, Janet Treasure, Valentina Cardi and Rebecca Brewer
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:169
  39. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between ego-resiliency and the intensity of health behaviors among Polish health sciences students.

    Authors: Małgorzata Dębska-Janus, Paweł Dębski, Agnieszka Nawrocka, Jacek Polechoński, Wojciech Madejczyk and Karina Badura-Brzoza
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:168
  40. COVID-19 pandemic causes serious threats to people’s mental health, particularly it has huge negative mental health outcomes for adolescents. However, there is lack of studies examining COVID-19-related anxiet...

    Authors: Robera Demissie Berhanu, Jira Wakoya Feyisa, Jibril Dori Boru, Desalegn Emana Jabana, Birbirsa Sefera Senbeta, Million Girma Tekle, Yadeta Alemayehu and Hunde Tarafa Aga
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:167
  41. The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (RCFT) is a tool to evaluate cognitive function. Despite its usefulness, its scoring criteria are as complicated as its figure, leading to a low reliability. Therefore, t...

    Authors: Jin-Hyuck Park
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:166
  42. Mood disorders are strongly associated with melatonin disturbances. However, it is unclear whether there is a difference in melatonin concentrations and melatonin circadian rhythm profiles between depression a...

    Authors: Xinyu Li, Jiakuai Yu, Shuo Jiang, Liang Fang, Yifei Li, Shuangshuang Ma, Hui Kong, Ximing Qin and Daomin Zhu
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:165
  43. Monitoring self-reported suicide attempts (SA) with nationally representative surveys is important to initiate suicide prevention strategies. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of SA and compare...

    Authors: TK Grimholt, T. Bonsaksen, T. Heir, I. Schou Bredal, L. Skogstad and Ø Ekeberg
    Citation: BMC Psychiatry 2024 24:164

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