Month: <span>October 2024</span>
Month: October 2024

Adolescents’ physical activity during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative study exploring the experiences of young people living in the context of socioeconomic deprivation

BMC Public Health. 2024 Oct 22;24(1):2450. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19777-z. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Adolescent physical activity levels are low and are shown to decline with age into adulthood. …

Mobile phone addiction and self-injury in adolescents with MDD: mediation by self-esteem and depression, and the failure of usage restrictions

BMC Psychiatry. 2024 Oct 22;24(1):712. doi: 10.1186/s12888-024-06184-2. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested a significant association between mobile phone addiction (MPA) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) …

Higher levels of social support predict lower psychological distress for Pacific peoples living in Aotearoa New Zealand

Sci Rep. 2024 Oct 21;14(1):24673. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-75955-4. ABSTRACT Recent research indicates that rates of psychological distress are almost 1.5 times higher for adult Pacific peoples …

Genomic analysis of intracranial and subcortical brain volumes yields polygenic scores accounting for variation across ancestries

Nat Genet. 2024 Oct 21. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01951-z. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Subcortical brain structures are involved in developmental, psychiatric and neurological disorders. Here we …

Mental health-related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole-of-population descriptive study

Med J Aust. 2024 Oct 21. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52489. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: To investigate the number of mental health-related hospitalisations of adolescents (12-17 …

New South Wales alcohol and other drug service providers’ perceptions of the relative importance of client variables for determining treatment need

Drug Alcohol Rev. 2024 Oct 21. doi: 10.1111/dar.13952. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: This study examines alcohol and other drug (AOD) service providers’ perceptions …

Psychometric properties of the variants of the Chinese UCLA Loneliness Scales and their associations with mental health in adolescents

Sci Rep. 2024 Oct 21;14(1):24663. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-75739-w. ABSTRACT Loneliness is a pervasive and distressing emotional experience that affects individuals of all ages and can have …

The changing nature of worry about COVID-19 among the English public: a secondary analysis of 73 national, cross-sectional surveys, January 2020 to April 2022

BMJ Open. 2024 Oct 21;14(10):e088027. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088027. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: To investigate worry about COVID-19 during the pandemic, and whether worry was associated with phase of …

Isolation and evaluation of the pathogenicity of a hybrid shiga toxin-producing and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in pigs

BMC Vet Res. 2024 Oct 21;20(1):480. doi: 10.1186/s12917-024-04317-z. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Porcine pathogenic Escherichia coli (E. coli), the globally recognized important pathogen, causes significant economic loss …