Evaluating Mental Health and Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers: Prevalence and Contributing Factors

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Prevalence and Contributing Factors

Methods: The study population consisted of communitydwelling adults aged 65 years and older admitted to the hospital with 1 of 9 selected conditions (n=375). A geriatric nurse practitioner performed a comprehensive medication assessment in the patient’s home within 24 to 72 hours after institutional discharge. The assessment focused on what older patients reported taking in comparison with the ...

Iranian Mental Health Researchers & Predatory Journals

Predatory journals exploit open access publication method; they do not carry out the peer review process and editorial assessment properly and publish unassessed articles for financial gain. According to a recent investigation published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, about 20% of authors or co-authors of articles published in predatory psychiatric journals have been Iranian. This substantial...

What can “thematic analysis” offer health and wellbeing researchers?

The field of health and wellbeing scholarship has a strong tradition of qualitative research*and rightly so. Qualitative research offers rich and compelling insights into the real worlds, experiences, and perspectives of patients and health care professionals in ways that are completely different to, but also sometimes complimentary to, the knowledge we can obtain through quantitative methods. ...

On balance: lifestyle, mental health and wellbeing

Given the supremacy of the biomedical model in defining our understanding and treatment of a wide range of physcial and psychological disorders, it is perhaps curious that simultaneously, scientists, clinicians, governments and patients routinely employ the concepts of "lifestyle" and "balance" to try to explain the causes of bodily disease and psychological disorder. Concurrently, the health a...