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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu…
Mahbobeh Faramarzi, Hajar Pasha, Seddigheh Esmaelzadeh, Gholamali Jorsarai, Mohamad Reza Aghajani Mir, Sharareh Abedi
Background: Infertility is a complex crisis of life and increases psychological difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Identification of copy strategies for stressful events like infertility is important. The aim of our study was to investigate the rela…
Tess E. Naus, John P. Hirdes
A new Subjective Quality of Life (SQoL) Instrument for inpatient and community mental health settings was developed by the interRAI research collaborative to support evaluation of quality in mental health settings from the person’s perspective. Ratings of SQo…
Peter J. Chipimo, Knut Fylkesnes
Background : There is an increased interest in developing better and more accurate methods to recognize and manage mental health problems in primary care settings. Abbreviated screening instruments for mental distress are useful tools for research and clinica…
Yuko Ishizaki, Teruyo Nagahama, Kazunari Kaneko
Birth of preterm infants is a stressful event for their parents, particularly for mothers. The mothers of preterm infants often feel hard to relate their infants because they have separated since their first days after delivery. Long term separation and less…
Pacôme Kouadio N’Go, Fatima-Zahra Azzaoui, Ahmed Omar Touhami Ahami, Porlo Rigobert Soro, Mohamed Najimi, Fatiha Chigr
Developmental exposure to organophosphate insecticide is well known to induce neurobeha-vioral impairments, at late period. The present study aims to investigate the effects of chronic exposure to Malathion, from in utero to young adult stage, on locomotor sk…
Derrick Kranke, Sarah Elizabeth Jackson, Jerry Floersch, Eileen P. Anderson-Fye
The number of college students who take psychiatric medication has dramatically increased. These students may be at risk for negative mental health outcomes because research shows that mental illness can delay the attainment of developmental milestones critic…
Brian Littlechild, Andrew Henry Smith, Glynis Meredith-Windle, Tim Gale, Michele Lloyd, Christopher Hawley
The recovery approach within mental health services has in recent years been influential in promoting more active participation from service users concerning their treatment and progress, within a move towards models of interventions based on social models an…
Marianne Wyder, Robert Bland, David Crompton
Purpose: Involuntary mental health admissions remain a highly contested area in law, policy and practice. There are growing concerns about the effectiveness and potential harms of using coercion to enable treatment. These concerns are heightened by the worldw…
Yi-Xiao Fu, Xiao Hou, Lu Jia, Tian Qiu, Qing Qin, Hua-Qing Meng, Yi Huang, Xiaohong Ma, Wei Deng, Qing-Hua Luo, Ying-Cheng Wang, Hua Hu, Lian Du, Hait-Ang Qiu, Peng Xie, Tao Li
Objective: To analyze the impact of family environment on only-children’s personality. Methods: Using cross-sectional design to recruit only-children aged 6 - 16 years old; using EPQ to evaluate the children’s personality. The general questionnaire, PSDQ (Par…
Inge Petersen, Jill Hanass Hancock, Arvin Bhana, Kaymarlin Govender, Members of Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PRIME)
This Background: In South Africa the rising comorbidity of mental disorders with other non- communicable and communicable diseases, par ticularly in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), has helped raise the public health priority of mental ill-health. Depress…
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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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