Month: <span>February 2025</span>
Month: February 2025

Telepsychiatry implementation in Qatar: A three-year analysis of no-show rates and its impact on mental health service delivery

Qatar Med J. 2024 Dec 27;2024(4):50. doi: 10.5339/qmj.2024.50. eCollection 2024. ABSTRACT Background: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid shift to telehealth and reshaped healthcare delivery …

A comic-based body image intervention for adolescents in semi-rural Indian schools: A randomised controlled trial

Int J Clin Health Psychol. 2025 Jan-Mar;25(1):100546. doi: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2025.100546. Epub 2025 Jan 26. ABSTRACT Adolescents in India experience body dissatisfaction and its associated adverse impacts …

A CRISPR mis-insertion in the Zic3 5’UTR inhibits in vivo translation and is predicted to result in formation of a mRNA stem-loop hairpin

Biol Open. 2025 Feb 6:bio.061677. doi: 10.1242/bio.061677. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Zic3 loss of function is associated with a range of congenital defects, including …

Using the HBSC Symptom Checklist to measure junior secondary school students’ psychosomatic complaints in the Chinese Mainland: Rasch-based validation, population-based norm, and norm-referenced scoring algorithm

BMC Psychol. 2025 Feb 5;13(1):100. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-02136-3. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The Symptom Checklist (SCL) developed by the Health Behaviour in School‑aged Children (HBSC) study is widely …

Status and risk factors for depression, anxiety, and insomnia symptoms among adolescents in the post-pandemic era

BMC Public Health. 2025 Feb 5;25(1):471. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-21650-6. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Owing to their vulnerability to public health crises, adolescents’ mental health status, and related risk …

Probabalistic reinforcement learning impairments predict negative symptom severity and risk for conversion in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis

Psychol Med. 2025 Feb 6;55:e28. doi: 10.1017/S0033291724003416. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Elucidation of transphasic mechanisms (i.e., mechanisms that occur across illness phases) underlying negative symptoms could inform …

Adverse childhood experiences in firstborns and mental health risk and health-care use in siblings: a population-based birth cohort study of half a million children in England

Lancet Public Health. 2025 Feb;10(2):e111-e123. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00301-3. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) often affect multiple children within families, yet studies tend to focus on …