Mark Petticrew, Ruth Bell, Duncan Hunter
Abstract Objective: To summarise the evidence on the effect of psychological coping styles (including fighting spirit, helplessness/hopelessness, denial, and avoidance) on survival and recurrence in patients with cancer. Design: Systematic review of published and unpublished prospective observationa...
Koko Warner, Tamer Afifi
Up to present, research relating environmental change to human mobility has found out that environmental factors can play a role in migration without being conclusive. Further, in the context of climate change, scholarly literature on migration ranges across a host of climatic stressors and geograph...
Frances E. Aboud, Colin Tredoux, Linda R. Tropp, Christia Spears Brown et al.
A systematic review was conducted of studies evaluating the effects of interventions aimed at reducing ethnic prejudice and discrimination in young children. Articles published between 1980 and 2010 and including children of 8 years and under were identified, harvested, and assessed for quality, bot...
Eugenio Proto, Climent Quintana‐Domeque
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre-COVID-19 pandemic (2017-2019) and during-COVID-19 pandemic data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health as measured by changes in the GHQ-12 (General Health Questionnaire), among ethnic ...
Juliane Hellhammer, Melanie Schubert
The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is an effective psychosocial laboratory protocol for inducing stress in humans and has been used in numerous research studies. The stressor leads to a physiological response of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPAA) and the autonomous nervous system (ANS)....
S.M. Didar-Ul Islam, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Rafid Mahmud Khan, Md. Abidul Haque et al.
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has aggregated mental health sufferings throughout the entire world. Suicide completions are the extreme consequences of COVID-19 related psychological burdens, which was reported in many countries including Bangladesh. However, there are lack of study assessing COV...
Mary Ann McColl, Diane Davies, Peter M. Carlson, Jane Johnston et al.
Objective To present a new measure of community integration, the Community Integration Measure (CIM), and to offer preliminary information about its psychometric properties. Design Validation study. Setting Community. Participants Ninety-two participants placed in 3 subgroups (brain injury survivors...
Rajib Ahmed Faisal, Mary C. Jobe, Oli Ahmed, Tanima Sharker
The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected people of all ages across the world both physically and psychologically. Understanding COVID-19’s impact on university students’ mental health status in Bangladesh has been limited, yet is a necessary population to study, since they are particularly vulnera...
Ashley K. Randall, Gabriel A. León, Emanuele Basili, Tamás Martos et al.
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the “new normal”—social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between ro...
Md. Saiful Islam, Most. Zannatul Ferdous, Marc N. Potenza
Highlights • Bangladeshi people were surveyed about anxiety early during the COVID-19 pandemic.• Estimates of panic and generalized anxiety were 79.6%, and 37.3%, respectively.• Panic was linked to older age, higher education, and being married and with family.• Generalized anxiety was linked to bei...
Andrew Riley, Andrea Varner, Peter Ventevogel, M. M. Taimur Hasan et al.
The Rohingya of Myanmar are a severely persecuted minority who form one of the largest groups of stateless people; thousands of them reside in refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh. There has been little research into the mental health consequences of persecution, war, and other historical trauma...
Gail A. Wasserman, Xinhua Liu, Faruque Parvez, Pam Factor‐Litvak et al.
Recently, epidemiologic studies of developmental neurotoxicology have been challenged to increase focus on co-exposure to multiple toxicants. Earlier reports, including our own work in Bangladesh, have demonstrated independent associations between neurobehavioral function and exposure to both arseni...
Md. Shahed Mahmud, Mesbah Uddin Talukder, Sk. Mahrufur Rahman
BACKGROUND: Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the mental health of the people all around the world is severely disrupted. AIM: The purpose of this study is to identify whether 'Fear of COVID-19' impacted on future workforces' career anxiety at the first place and whether depression from COVID-19 has ...
Rose McCabe, Stefan Priebe
BACKGROUND: Explanatory models of illness may differ between ethnic groups and influence treatment satisfaction and compliance. AIMS: To compare explanatory models among people with schizophrenia from four cultural backgrounds and explore their relationship with clinical and psychological characteri...
Saffron Karlsen, James Nazroo, Kwame McKenzie, Kamaldeep Bhui et al.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between risk of psychosis, common mental disorder (CMD) and indicators of racism among ethnic minority groups in England and how this relationship may vary by particular ethnic groups. METHOD: A multivariate analysis was carried out o...