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Addressing the mental wellbeing of higher education students is urgent, given rising distress rates and significant help-seeking gaps. Students face various life challenges ranging from academic pressure and career concerns to global issues like climate change, all of which may negatively impact their mental wellbeing. While appropriate self-care can mitigate these challenges, understanding the strategies students use independently is key to developing accessible support. This article analyses contemporary triggers for mental distress and the corresponding self-care strategies adopted by students, based on data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We then discuss how these findings can inform the design of future digital mental wellbeing solutions. We conducted an online study with 810 participants, utilizing computational methods to analyse open-ended data. We present insights into prevalent challenges and self-care strategies, deriving direct implications for design. Finally, we discuss how technology designers can contribute to effective mental wellbeing solutions based on our findings.

Aim(s): This study aimed to explore the prevalence of mental health symptoms in current and former elite kickboxers and to establish whether these mental health symptoms were associated with severe musculoskeletal injuries and/or concussions.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted by utilizing an electronic questionnaire among current and former elite kickboxers from the highest and second highest international level. Validated screening questionnaires from the International Olympic Committee Sport Mental Health Assessment Tool 1 (SMHAT-1) were used to asses mental health symptoms.

Results: The most prevalent mental health symptoms among current elite kickboxers (N = 45) were psychological distress (57%) and disordered eating (63%). Among former elite kickboxers (N = 29), the most prevalent mental health symptoms were 36% for psychological distress and 43% for alcohol misuse. Additionally, no statistically significant associations were found between mental health symptoms and severe musculoskeletal injuries and/or concussions among current and former elite kickboxers.

Conclusions: The substantial prevalence rates of mental health symptoms among current and former elite kickboxers emphasize the need for increased attention in this area. No associations were found between the potential contributing factors and mental health symptoms among current and former elite kickboxers. While further research is needed, raising awareness as well as developing preventive and supportive measures to assist elite kickboxers with personal and career development should be prioritized, both inside and outside the ring.

The study aims to provide scholars, professionals and others with a thorough analysis of how advanced technologies, specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), can be integrated in the early diagnosis of children's cognitive development. Adopting both systematic and bibliometric approaches, the review encompasses 122 journal articles published over the last 10 years. The analysis reveals that the majority of research work for the diagnosis of cognitive development in early childhood has been done via traditional statistical methods. The application of integrating AI and ML in early cognitive diagnosis remains limited and underexplored. The study provides academics and practitioners with important insights for continuing endeavors and possible future advances by identifying the primary factors, focus, and trends in child cognitive development. This will promote a deeper understanding of approaches to diagnosing children's cognitive development. This understanding is especially relevant in low-resource settings like India, where accessible and non-stigmatizing cognitive assessment tools can empower parents to recognize developmental delays early. Integrating AI and ML-driven solutions with culturally adapted, user-friendly platforms can bridge existing gaps and support timely interventions for long-term cognitive growth.

Background: In many cultures, infertility is an extremely upsetting problem that can affect a couple's social and marital lives. The stress, anxiety, and depression caused by infertility exacerbate this issue. Nonetheless, there is scant evidence on the magnitude and associated factors of stress, anxiety, and depression among infertile women in this study area.

Objective: To assess the prevalence and risk factors for depression, anxiety, and stress among infertile women at the University of Gondar Comprehensive and Specialized Referral Hospitals, Amhara region, northwest Ethiopia, 2024.

Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was carried out from January 5/ 2024 to May 5/2024 on 375 infertile women in northwest Ethiopia, with a response rate of 100%. The study participants were selected using a systematic random sampling technique. The data was collected by using structured interview-administered questionnaires, entered into EPI data version 4.6, and subsequently exported to STATA version 14 for analysis. Binary logistic regression, chi-square tests, and odds ratios were calculated to verify the assumptions and degree of association between the outcome and predictor variables. Finally, variables with a p-value ≤ 0.05 at the 95% confidence interval were considered significant predictors.

Results: The findings of the current study indicated that 62.93% (95% CI: 57.90, 67.69), 58.13% (95% CI: 53.05, 63.05), and 52% (95% CI: 46.92, 57.04) of the participants developed depression, anxiety, and stress respectively. Age, educational status, occupation, abortion history, duration of infertility, and income were statistically significant predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Conclusions and recommendation: The findings of the current study revealed that more than half of the participants developed stress, anxiety, and depression. Counseling, social awareness campaigns and media involvement to control the added burden of infertility on women's psychological health and quality of life should be performed.

Introduction: Apraxias, traditionally viewed as executive disorders secondary to focal lesions, are here reformulated as systemic outcomes of progressive interhemispheric disconnection-particularly relevant in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

Objective: To propose an integrated theoretical model that redefines apraxias from a neurosemiotic and embodied perspective, linking them to corpus callosum degeneration and the breakdown of sensorimotor gesture networks.

Methods: This contribution is based on a transdisciplinary conceptual review, integrating data from neuroscience, body semiotics, phenomenology, and recent clinical studies. The reflection is supported by a synthesis of neuroanatomical, cognitive, and behavioral findings regarding proprioceptive function and hemispheric lateralization.

Main results: Four forms of apraxia (simple, ideational, ideomotor, and constructive) are distinguished as differential configurations of embodied gesture disintegration. The proposed model links these manifestations to the loss of integration among gesture syntax, proprioceptive semantics, and contextual pragmatics, opening new hypotheses for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.

Conclusions: Apraxias may be reinterpreted as predictive indicators of early cognitive decline, providing a foundation for the development of more sensitive diagnostic tools and rehabilitation strategies centered on gesture narrative, body memory, and embodied identity.

Objective: Discovering biological correlates of depression (and symptom dimensions) and anxiety is a topic of ongoing research. We aimed to examine the associations of uric acid (UA) and lipids with depression (sum and emotional, neurovegetative, cognitive dimension) and anxiety symptoms.

Methods: Participants were screened for depression and anxiety symptoms using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) questionnaires, respectively, in primary care in Greece during January-June 2022. Serum UA and lipids were recorded and socio-demographic, behavioral, and personal history covariates were also collected. Poisson regression analyses were performed to determine associations between recorded parameters and the PHQ-9 (sum-score and emotional, neurovegetative, cognitive dimension) and GAD-7 scores.

Results: A total of 181 individuals answered the questionnaires. The mean age was 61.8 ± 10.8 years, and 68% were female. The prevalence of clinically significant depression (PHQ-9 ≥ 10) and anxiety (GAD-7 ≥ 10) symptoms was 20.4%, respectively. PHQ-9 score was negatively associated with UA, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and income, and positively with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and physical activity. The neurovegetative dimension of the PHQ-9 score was negatively associated with UA and HDL-C, while the cognitive was positively associated with LDL-C. GAD-7 score was negatively associated with HDL-C and income, and positively with LDL-C and physical activity, while it was higher in females and smokers.

Conclusions: Both UA and lipids were associated with depression and anxiety symptoms. The neurovegetative and cognitive symptoms of depression exhibited different biological correlates with low UA and HDL-C, and high LDL-C, respectively.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the mental health of medical workers worldwide. While extensive research has investigated pandemic-related mental health challenges, longitudinal analyses of temporal trends remain scarce. This study employs a cross-sectional design to compare mental health outcomes among medical workers in Beijing's Mobile Cabin Hospitals during the Early-Pandemic Era (2020) and Post-Pandemic Era (2022), with a focus on occupational disparities.

Methods: This study utilized a cross-sectional design to compare mental health outcomes among medical workers in Beijing's Mobile Cabin Hospitals during two distinct pandemic phases. Data were collected through anonymized online surveys administered via Wenjuanxing. The questionnaire comprised three domains: demographic characteristics, professional roles within departments and the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Emotional distress was operationally defined as a GHQ-12 total score ≥ 4.

Results: Comparative analysis revealed a significant deterioration in mental health outcomes among medical workers during the Post-Pandemic Era compared to the Early-Pandemic Era. The prevalence of emotional distress (GHQ-12 ≥ 4) remained elevated across specific subgroups: medical workers aged 30-39 years, married, working as doctors and other professionals. Statistically significant interphase differences emerged in vulnerable populations, including female (P < 0.001), unmarried (P = 0.004), worked with nurses (P = 0.003) and other professionals (P = 0.021), and aged less than 40 years (< 30 years old, P = 0.009; 30-39 years old, P = 0.021). Qualitative symptom profiling indicated that more people reported clinically meaningful manifestations of psychological distress, characterized by depressive symptoms, anxiety, diminished self-worth, and impaired coping capacity during adversity.

Conclusion: The cumulative burden of prolonged pandemic has demonstrably exacerbated mental health deterioration among medical workers. These findings underscore the critical need to sustainably safeguard the mental health of medical workers in future public health crises.

This systematic review examines how cultural constructs of distress and the phenomenon of lycanthropy are understood within the context of Nagaland, emphasizing a social constructivist framework. A comprehensive literature search was conducted across Google Scholar, PubMed, and PsycINFO, ultimately shortlisting 24 methodologically sound studies relevant to cultural interpretations of mental health. Data extraction focused on themes such as spiritual beliefs, indigenous healing practices, the cultural framing of lycanthropy, and the role of modernization in shaping local perceptions of distress. Findings indicate that Nagaland's cultural narratives and communal belief systems strongly influence how distress is experienced, conceptualized, and addressed. Lycanthropy, often perceived as a delusional disorder in Western psychiatry, is regarded by many communities in Nagaland as a spiritual affliction or culturally rooted manifestation of distress. Moreover, traditional healers and ritual practices continue to play a critical role in managing mental health concerns, even as modern psychiatric approaches gain visibility. By highlighting the intersection of cultural beliefs, supernatural interpretations, and communal coping strategies, this review emphasizes the importance of integrating indigenous perspectives with contemporary mental health care. Such culturally sensitive, hybrid interventions can bridge long standing traditions with modern practices, ultimately fostering more holistic and effective approaches to mental well-being in Nagaland.