Pub Date : 2024-04-24DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000092
Bourin Michel
Telework developed considerably during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems interesting to evaluate the consequences of the use of teleworking in the population of bipolar patients. Increasingly accessible thanks to new technological and digital tools, it is however losing notoriety, because it presents some disadvantages, both for employees and for their employers. Yet, one of the essential benefits for bipolar people seems to be working at times when bipolar people are most productive due to their sleep/wake cycle for example.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-12DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000090
Gyorfy Agnes
Anxiety and depression are the most common issues of mental health problems. In military medicine, healthcare professionals are facing even more of it because the military population is taken out to tasks that are more likely to lead to these kinds of symptoms and/or disorders even with attention, training, and preventive measures. The military medical system focuses on that and in special cases like disasters and pandemics the civilian side could also profit from its experiences.
{"title":"Anxiety and depression from military medical aspects","authors":"Gyorfy Agnes","doi":"10.17352/2455-5460.000090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5460.000090","url":null,"abstract":"Anxiety and depression are the most common issues of mental health problems. In military medicine, healthcare professionals are facing even more of it because the military population is taken out to tasks that are more likely to lead to these kinds of symptoms and/or disorders even with attention, training, and preventive measures. The military medical system focuses on that and in special cases like disasters and pandemics the civilian side could also profit from its experiences.","PeriodicalId":92986,"journal":{"name":"Archives of depression and anxiety","volume":"18 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140458275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000088
Aune Tore, Aune Sigrid Flatås
Objective: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is among the most common, widespread, and incapacitating psychiatric disorders, also among children and adolescents. Although efficient treatments have been reported, few children and adolescents receive adequate treatment. A universal prevention program has been shown to be efficacious both among those with syndromal and subsyndromal social anxiety. However, few universal prevention investigations undergo testing of mechanistic hypotheses or how an intervention works across levels of social anxiety. This study aims to test and report the processes underlying the effectiveness of an RCT prevention program to reduce social anxiety in a population-based sample of preadolescents. Method: A parallel multiple mediator model was used to examine the mediation of outcomes from the Norwegian Universal Prevention Program for Social Anxiety (NUPP-SA) by five intermediary variables that well approximate established DSM-5 social anxiety disorder diagnostic criteria. The sample consisted of 1748 pupils between 11 years - 14 years (SD = 1.1) of age assessed twice during a one-year period. Results: The NUPP-SA works differently for the total sample compared to those with social anxiety disorder symptoms. Among the former, the NUPP-SA intervention works via public performance, avoidance, physical/cognitive, and assertiveness factors. For the latter, the NUPP-SA works via the public performance factor. The intervention did not work for either group via the social encounter factor. Conclusion: Universal prevention programs are essential for reducing the impacts of chronic disorders at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. The results from this study support the notion that many children with various levels of social anxiety can be impacted with a Universal prevention intervention program specifically aimed at reducing public performance anxiety.
{"title":"Underlying processes in the Norwegian Universal Preventive Program for social anxiety","authors":"Aune Tore, Aune Sigrid Flatås","doi":"10.17352/2455-5460.000088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5460.000088","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is among the most common, widespread, and incapacitating psychiatric disorders, also among children and adolescents. Although efficient treatments have been reported, few children and adolescents receive adequate treatment. A universal prevention program has been shown to be efficacious both among those with syndromal and subsyndromal social anxiety. However, few universal prevention investigations undergo testing of mechanistic hypotheses or how an intervention works across levels of social anxiety. This study aims to test and report the processes underlying the effectiveness of an RCT prevention program to reduce social anxiety in a population-based sample of preadolescents. Method: A parallel multiple mediator model was used to examine the mediation of outcomes from the Norwegian Universal Prevention Program for Social Anxiety (NUPP-SA) by five intermediary variables that well approximate established DSM-5 social anxiety disorder diagnostic criteria. The sample consisted of 1748 pupils between 11 years - 14 years (SD = 1.1) of age assessed twice during a one-year period. Results: The NUPP-SA works differently for the total sample compared to those with social anxiety disorder symptoms. Among the former, the NUPP-SA intervention works via public performance, avoidance, physical/cognitive, and assertiveness factors. For the latter, the NUPP-SA works via the public performance factor. The intervention did not work for either group via the social encounter factor. Conclusion: Universal prevention programs are essential for reducing the impacts of chronic disorders at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. The results from this study support the notion that many children with various levels of social anxiety can be impacted with a Universal prevention intervention program specifically aimed at reducing public performance anxiety.","PeriodicalId":92986,"journal":{"name":"Archives of depression and anxiety","volume":"27 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140498549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Depression is a barrier to the human workforce. However, the lack of major policies and guidelines for depression disorder in Thailand hinders healthcare workers from addressing this issue. Therefore, this research examines ways to develop depressive disorders in laborers. This study used a qualitative approach to examine the context of depression management in labor. The results of this study presented factors related to depression management from individual to organizational contexts. This finding suggests that stakeholders should take the first step of depression prevention outside healthcare services.
{"title":"The development of a depressive disorder management model amongst Thai labours in the Eastern Economic Corridor (ECC)","authors":"Wongsuttitum Sorut, Pokasem Boonyapa, Chernchomkul Chaweerat","doi":"10.17352/2455-5460.000087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5460.000087","url":null,"abstract":"Depression is a barrier to the human workforce. However, the lack of major policies and guidelines for depression disorder in Thailand hinders healthcare workers from addressing this issue. Therefore, this research examines ways to develop depressive disorders in laborers. This study used a qualitative approach to examine the context of depression management in labor. The results of this study presented factors related to depression management from individual to organizational contexts. This finding suggests that stakeholders should take the first step of depression prevention outside healthcare services.","PeriodicalId":92986,"journal":{"name":"Archives of depression and anxiety","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139628505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-06DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000086
Wagani Rekha, Gaur Pranita
The quest for knowing self is the most basic of human nature, which is long believed to be necessary for promoting good health and well-being. This research provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the role of Self-Awareness (SA) in health and well-being. It was proposed that self-awareness is a positivistic construct that would promote health and well-being. In order to achieve the above-stated purpose, two series of studies were planned. The first study aimed to find out the contribution of SA to various dimensions of health and well-being. A total of 300 college students equally drawn from both genders participated in the study. The self-awareness scale (developed by the researcher), health scale for college students (adapted for the present study), and WHO spirituality form were given to participants. Study I demonstrated that self-awareness predicted most health and well-being factors. The findings further suggested that self-awareness may promote health and well-being. In study II, 60 experimental-control group participants were recruited. Students were allocated into experimental and control groups. A specifically designed Self-awareness Intervention Program (SAIP) was held for five days for the participants in a controlled setting. The results showed a substantial increment in the health and well-being of the treatment group in comparison to the control group. A brief follow-up interview was conducted to understand the Intervention's results. A major implication of the present study is that SA can be used as a positivistic construct and that an intervention program can be taken as a low-cost strategy to promote the health and well-being of college students.
追求认识自我是人类最基本的天性，长期以来一直被认为是促进健康和幸福的必要条件。本研究对自我意识（SA）在健康和幸福中的作用进行了理论和实证研究。研究提出，自我意识是一种能促进健康和幸福的积极建构。为了实现上述目的，计划开展两项系列研究。第一项研究旨在了解自我意识对健康和幸福感各方面的贡献。共有 300 名男女大学生参加了这项研究。研究人员向参与者发放了自我意识量表（由研究人员编制）、大学生健康量表（为本研究进行了改编）和世界卫生组织灵性表。研究 I 表明，自我意识可以预测大多数健康和幸福因素。研究结果进一步表明，自我意识可以促进健康和幸福。研究 II 征集了 60 名实验-对照组参与者。学生被分为实验组和对照组。在受控环境下，为参与者举办了为期五天的专门设计的自我意识干预计划（SAIP）。结果显示，与对照组相比，治疗组的健康和幸福感大幅提高。为了解干预结果，我们进行了简短的后续访谈。本研究的主要意义在于，SA 可以作为一种积极的建构，干预计划可以作为一种低成本的策略来促进大学生的健康和幸福。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-24DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000085
Bourin Michel
The purpose of this article is to provide scientific evidence on mood stabilizers used in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Indeed, it has proven difficult to develop drugs for this disorder, particularly in long-term treatment for relapse prevention. We review the main drugs that have obtained approval for use in the European Union and the United States. We take again the clinical studies which provided the basis for the evaluations. These studies are few in number and relatively old as it is difficult to conduct them in bipolar disorder. These are studies in monotherapy but also in dual therapy which better reflects the daily use of these drugs.
{"title":"Drug therapy for bipolar disorder: A review of efficacy evidence","authors":"Bourin Michel","doi":"10.17352/2455-5460.000085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5460.000085","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to provide scientific evidence on mood stabilizers used in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Indeed, it has proven difficult to develop drugs for this disorder, particularly in long-term treatment for relapse prevention. We review the main drugs that have obtained approval for use in the European Union and the United States. We take again the clinical studies which provided the basis for the evaluations. These studies are few in number and relatively old as it is difficult to conduct them in bipolar disorder. These are studies in monotherapy but also in dual therapy which better reflects the daily use of these drugs.","PeriodicalId":92986,"journal":{"name":"Archives of depression and anxiety","volume":"57 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139240311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000084
Perrotta Giulio
Introduction: To date, theorizations on the workings of psychological ego defense mechanisms are affected by the psychodynamic influence and theoretical scaffolding of the last century. There is a need to update theories and models to make them more consistent and modern with recent innovations in psychotherapy. Materials and methods: A model related to the functioning of defense mechanisms was generated and the Perrotta Human Defence Mechanisms Questionnaire (PDM-Q-v2) was created to be administered to a selected population to compare it with the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales-Self-Report-30 (DMRSSR- 30) and finally validate it. Results: Statistical analysis showed that the psychometric test has a well-defined and stable construct (r = 0.999; p ≤ 0.001), with the variables well represented (r = 0.818; p ≤ 0.001) and positively correlated with another construct already validated (r = 0.766; p ≤ 0.001). Conclusion: The Perrotta Human Defense Mechanisms Questionnaire (PDM-Q-v2) is a valid, efficient, and effective psychometric tool to identify the functioning or dysfunction of psychological ego defense mechanisms.
{"title":"“Perrotta Human Defense Mechanisms Questionnaire (PDM-Q-v2)”: Development, regulation and validation of a psychometric instrument for the identification of the functioning of individual Ego defense mechanisms","authors":"Perrotta Giulio","doi":"10.17352/2455-5460.000084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5460.000084","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: To date, theorizations on the workings of psychological ego defense mechanisms are affected by the psychodynamic influence and theoretical scaffolding of the last century. There is a need to update theories and models to make them more consistent and modern with recent innovations in psychotherapy. Materials and methods: A model related to the functioning of defense mechanisms was generated and the Perrotta Human Defence Mechanisms Questionnaire (PDM-Q-v2) was created to be administered to a selected population to compare it with the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales-Self-Report-30 (DMRSSR- 30) and finally validate it. Results: Statistical analysis showed that the psychometric test has a well-defined and stable construct (r = 0.999; p ≤ 0.001), with the variables well represented (r = 0.818; p ≤ 0.001) and positively correlated with another construct already validated (r = 0.766; p ≤ 0.001). Conclusion: The Perrotta Human Defense Mechanisms Questionnaire (PDM-Q-v2) is a valid, efficient, and effective psychometric tool to identify the functioning or dysfunction of psychological ego defense mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":92986,"journal":{"name":"Archives of depression and anxiety","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135804427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000083
You Fukka, Harakawa Yoshiaki, Yoshikawa Toshikazu, Inufusa Haruhiko
Depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders have major impacts on the daily life. These disorders are triggered by stress and obstacles stemming from changes in people’s environment, relationships, finances, health, or in the case of many women, triggered by childbirth. An increase in the incidence of depression worldwide strongly correlates with modernization, economic downturns and the effects of major global events such as war and the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the cause of the onset of depressive conditions, there is evidence that implicates Oxidative Stress (OS) as one of the major causes of depressive disorders. This strong association likely stems from the fact that compared to other organs, the brain is more vulnerable OS due to its high oxygen consumption, high lipid content, and weak antioxidant defense. In fact, decreased serum levels of antioxidants and a significant increase in MDA, a marker of lipid peroxidation, have been observed in depressed patients, indicating an elevated OS state. This state leads to not only cellular damage, but also inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction. Therefore, addressing this lack of antioxidants could potentially alleviate depressive symptoms due to OS. Twendee X® (TwX) is a supplement that combines potent levels of eight active ingredients and has shown preventive effects in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Studies using diabetes and aged mouse models, known risk factors for dementia, have shown that TwX has antioxidant capacity and mitochondrial protective effects, as well as inhibiting the age-related decline of neurogenesis and autophagy function. We theorized that these actions of TwX have been proposed to benefit depression by controlling OS. This literature review uses publications on PubMed and Google Scholar to explore the role of OS in psychiatric disorders and recent evidence of the therapeutic effects of antioxidants on such disorders. Publications also include those targeting TwX, which we theorize may be effective in neuropsychiatric disorders via its ability to possibly alleviate the effect of OS in the brain.
{"title":"Potential of an antioxidant combination Twendee X® to treat depressive disorders","authors":"You Fukka, Harakawa Yoshiaki, Yoshikawa Toshikazu, Inufusa Haruhiko","doi":"10.17352/2455-5460.000083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-5460.000083","url":null,"abstract":"Depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders have major impacts on the daily life. These disorders are triggered by stress and obstacles stemming from changes in people’s environment, relationships, finances, health, or in the case of many women, triggered by childbirth. An increase in the incidence of depression worldwide strongly correlates with modernization, economic downturns and the effects of major global events such as war and the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the cause of the onset of depressive conditions, there is evidence that implicates Oxidative Stress (OS) as one of the major causes of depressive disorders. This strong association likely stems from the fact that compared to other organs, the brain is more vulnerable OS due to its high oxygen consumption, high lipid content, and weak antioxidant defense. In fact, decreased serum levels of antioxidants and a significant increase in MDA, a marker of lipid peroxidation, have been observed in depressed patients, indicating an elevated OS state. This state leads to not only cellular damage, but also inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction. Therefore, addressing this lack of antioxidants could potentially alleviate depressive symptoms due to OS. Twendee X® (TwX) is a supplement that combines potent levels of eight active ingredients and has shown preventive effects in Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Studies using diabetes and aged mouse models, known risk factors for dementia, have shown that TwX has antioxidant capacity and mitochondrial protective effects, as well as inhibiting the age-related decline of neurogenesis and autophagy function. We theorized that these actions of TwX have been proposed to benefit depression by controlling OS. This literature review uses publications on PubMed and Google Scholar to explore the role of OS in psychiatric disorders and recent evidence of the therapeutic effects of antioxidants on such disorders. Publications also include those targeting TwX, which we theorize may be effective in neuropsychiatric disorders via its ability to possibly alleviate the effect of OS in the brain.","PeriodicalId":92986,"journal":{"name":"Archives of depression and anxiety","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135722196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-23DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000082
Hernández Gutiérrez María Eugenia, Ortega-Andeane Patricia, Mendieta Danelia, García-Mejorado Karla Vanessa, Coballase-Urrutia Elvia, Barrera-Villalpando María Isabel, Zamora Anabel Flores, Irepan-Aguilar Maricela
Introduction: Mexico has a high prevalence of work stress; mental health professionals are a vulnerable group who experience demanding environments that place their own mental health at risk. Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the work-related stress levels and development of psychopathology in mental health professionals of a tertiary-level psychiatric hospital in Mexico City. Methods: The study included 90 mental health professionals, utilizing two questionnaires: (1) to analyze the level of occupational stress, the Stress Work Instrument (SWI) for Mexican physicians was employed; and (2) for symptomatic distress, the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R) was applied. Two theoretical assumptions’ (‘Effort-Reward’ for Karasek and “Effort-Reward Imbalance” for Siegrist) were used to propose an analytical model based on structural equations. Results: The model obtained showed a high and positive structural coefficient (0.76). The goodness-of-fit for the model was acceptable (χ2 = 51.22, p = .02; CFI = .97; RMSEA = 0.08). This study showed a causal explanation for the generation of distress, and the model detected a strong and significant effect from work stress to distress. Conclusion: We conclude that the model obtained predicts a significant effect of work-related stress on mental health such as anxiety, depression, somatization, and feelings of inadequacy in mental health professionals. Therefore, work-related stress factors should be minimized thus preventing distress to ensure that psychiatric personnel enjoy physical and mental health enabling them for efficient and professional clinical practice.
墨西哥的工作压力患病率很高;精神卫生专业人员是一个弱势群体，他们所经历的苛刻环境将他们自己的精神健康置于危险之中。目的:了解墨西哥城某三级精神病院精神卫生专业人员的工作压力水平和精神病理发展情况。方法:采用两份问卷对90名心理卫生专业人员进行调查:(1)采用墨西哥医师压力工作量表(SWI)分析其职业压力水平;(2)对症状性窘迫采用症状检查表90-修订版(SCL-90-R)。利用Karasek的“付出-回报”和Siegrist的“付出-回报失衡”两个理论假设，提出了一个基于结构方程的分析模型。结果:模型具有较高的正结构系数(0.76)。模型的拟合优度为可接受的(χ2 = 51.22, p = 0.02;Cfi = 0.97;Rmsea = 0.08)。本研究为痛苦的产生提供了一个因果解释，模型发现工作压力对痛苦的影响是强烈而显著的。结论:本模型预测了工作压力对心理健康人员焦虑、抑郁、躯体化和不足感等心理健康的显著影响。因此，应尽量减少与工作有关的压力因素，从而防止痛苦，以确保精神科人员享有身心健康，使他们能够进行有效和专业的临床实践。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.17352/2455-5460.000081
Perrotta Giulio
Introduction: The construct of affective dependence is now considered a behavioural addiction, but the framework underlying the Perrotta Affective Dependence Model (PAD-M) considers it to be a manifested symptom of a specific psychopathological personality framework, and based on this theorization, the questionnaire (PAD-Q) was constructed to take into account the identification of 7 dysfunctional sub-styles related to the construct of affective dependence (neurotic, dependent, histrionic, masochist, borderline, covert narcissist and psychotic). Methods: Using the PAD-M, the population was selected to validate a new psychometric test, then compared with the Love Addiction Screening Test (LAST). Results: Statistical analysis showed that the psychometric test has a well-defined and stable construct (R = 0.999; p ≤ 0.001), with the variables well represented (R = 0.955; p ≤ 0.001) and positively correlated with another construct already validated (R = 0.961; p ≤ 0.001). Conclusion: The Perrotta Affective Dependence Questionnaire (PAD-Q) is a valid, efficient, and effective psychometric tool to diagnose the clinically relevant condition of affective dependence to improve the structural and functional framing of the patient and the appropriate therapy to pursue.
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