Psychological Wellbeing and Mental Health Screening among Cancer Patients

Association of Positive Psychological Wellbeing and BMI with Physical and Mental Health among College Students

Anxiety and depression have been documented as top mental health issues that impede college students’ academic performance National Alliance on Mental Illness [NAMI] [1]; Pedrelli, Nyer, Yeung, Zulauf, and Wilens, [2]. More than 80% of college students have felt overwhelmed by college-related tasks and more than 50% have felt extremely anxious about their academic struggles in the past year. Al...

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Mental Health Screening: Utility of the Psychological Screening Inventory

The Psychological Screening Inventory (PSI) was designed for use as a rapid mental health screening device to identify persons who should receive more extensive evaluation. This study evaluated the accuracy of the three screening scales using receiver operating characteristic (ROC), positive predictive power–negative predictive power, and sensitivity–specificity analyses. Persons with major psy...

Relationship between mental health and spiritual wellbeing among hemodialysis patients: a correlation study.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE The stress of living with a terminal disease has a negative impact on the mental health of hemodialysis (HD) patients. Spirituality is a potential coping mechanism for stressful experiences. Studies on the relationship between spirituality and mental health among HD patients are scarce. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between mental health and sp...

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...