this article aims to study factors affecting mental health of young people in ahvaz city. these factors are social adjustment, social intimacy and social support. this study is a survey and questionnaire is used for data collection. population was young people aged over 18 years old living in ahvaz city located in iran and the method of sampling is multistage random sampling.in this research, u...

objectives: social participation is linked to healthy aging and the maintenance of functional independence in older individuals. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between social participation and orderly’s mental health. methods: totally 380 people, aged over 60 residing in city of hamadan were participated in the study. the participants completed a researcher-tailored inventory ...

BACKGROUND Despite high prevalence of mental health problems, only a minority of elderly people seek treatment. Although need-for-care factors are primary determinants of mental health service use, personal predisposing or enabling factors including health beliefs are important but are not well studied. METHOD In the National Mental Health Survey of Elderly in Singapore, 2003, 1092 older adul...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders are associated with a considerable burden of disease as well as being risk factors for other health outcomes. The new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study will make estimates for both the disability and mortality directly associated with mental disorders, as well as the burden attributable to other health outcomes. Herein we discuss the process by which health outcom...

Main outcome measures Suicide data were collated from official registries. Main results Youth mental illness was the factor most strongly associated with youth suicide. Parental factors linked to increased suicide risk were parental suicide or early death, hospitalisation for mental illness, unemployment, low income, poor schooling and divorce. Mental illness in siblings and short duration of s...

background: informal employment is common in developing countries, including egypt. this type of employment may have significant consequences on mental health. objectives: to determine the prevalence and risk factors of common mental disorders and substance abuse among temporary hired hospital cleaners. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on 242 adult temporary cleaners and 209 perma...

This paper describes and explores two major opposing perspectives in presence theory. The external/perceptual perspective recognizes presence exclusively as a response to the external environment while the internal/conceptual perspective allows for the influence of mental models in constructing the environment one feels present within. Form, user, style, and content factors are discussed in ter...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between psychosocial, sociodemographic and material determinants of positive mental health in Europe. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of survey data. SETTING 34 European countries. PARTICIPANTS Representative Europe-wide sample consisting of 21 066 men and 22 569 women aged 18 years and over, from 34 European countries participating in the third w...