Month: <span>May 2025</span>
Month: May 2025

A retrospective analysis of vortioxetine utilization in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder in clinical practice

BMC Psychiatry. 2025 May 20;25(1):509. doi: 10.1186/s12888-025-06983-1. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Treating depression in children and adolescents has always been a challenge in clinical pharmacotherapy. Vortioxetine, as …

Acceptability, feasibility, fidelity and quality implementation of the culturally adapted version of the Social Competence Promotion Program among Young Adolescents (“Mi Mejor Plan”) to prevent substance use among adolescents in Chile: a pilot randomized control study

BMC Public Health. 2025 May 20;25(1):1860. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-23033-3. ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Substance use among adolescents is a public health problem. We culturally adapted The Social Competence …

Mapping health policies for optimum service delivery to adolescents on HIV treatment in Zambia: a document review

BMC Health Serv Res. 2025 May 20;25(1):723. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-12868-6. ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Despite significant advances in HIV treatment regimens, adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) report lower …

Perinatal maternal mental health and offspring internalizing and externalizing difficulties from early childhood through adolescence: Rhea mother-child cohort in Crete, Greece

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2025 May 21. doi: 10.1007/s00787-025-02746-1. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Longitudinal research assessing childhood mental health is limited, particularly in terms …

Loneliness, but not social isolation, is a risk factor for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in university students in Tokyo, Japan

Sci Rep. 2025 May 21;15(1):17562. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-01110-2. ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, social isolation, especially among university students, was a significant problem due to limited …

Experiences of general practitioners in supporting the mental health of children and young people: An exploratory qualitative study in the United Kingdom

J Child Health Care. 2025 May 20:13674935251336273. doi: 10.1177/13674935251336273. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Mental health (MH) problems in children and young people (CYP) are …

Optimising a digital intervention to support parents experiencing socio-economic disadvantage to improve adolescent health behaviours: Protocol for the Health4Life Parents & Teens factorial trial

Contemp Clin Trials. 2025 May 18:107958. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2025.107958. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Youth experiencing socio-economic disadvantage often have elevated rates of health risk …