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Mental health

About: Mental health is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 183794 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4340463 citations. The topic is also known as: mental wellbeing.


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TL;DR: Assessment of progress in scaling up mental health services worldwide using a systematic review of literature and a survey of key national stakeholders in mental health suggested that successful strategies can be adopted to overcome barriers to scaling up.

549 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight recent advances in the delineation of religion and spirituality concepts and measures theoretically and functionally connected to health, and point out areas for areas for growth in religion-and spirituality conceptualization and measurement.
Abstract: Empirical studies have identified significant links between religion and spirituality and health. The reasons for these associations, however, are unclear. Typically, religion and spirituality have been measured by global indices (e.g., frequency of church attendance, self-rated religiousness and spirituality) that do not specify how or why religion and spirituality affect health. The authors highlight recent advances in the delineation of religion and spirituality concepts and measures theoretically and functionally connected to health. They also point to areas for areas for growth in religion and spirituality conceptualization and measurement. Through measures of religion and spirituality more conceptually related to physical and mental health (e.g., closeness to God, religious orientation and motivation, religious support, religious struggle), psychologists are discovering more about the distinctive contributions of religiousness and spirituality to health and well-being.

547 citations

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TL;DR: Most Vietnamese refugees resettled in Australia were free from overt mental ill health, but a subgroup of people with a high degree of exposure to trauma had long-term psychiatric morbidity.

546 citations

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TL;DR: Findings indicate a significant impact of minority stressors and social-psychological resources on mental health and substance use among sexual minority women and improve understanding of the distinct role of various minority stressor and their mechanisms on health outcomes.
Abstract: An estimated 2.3 million women in the United States describe themselves as lesbian (O’Hanlon, 1995), and between 1%–4% of all women may be sexual minorities on the basis of either behavior or self-defined identity (Sell, Wells, & Wypij, 1995). Sexual minority women (SMW) are at risk for health disparities and are a medically underserved population (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000a, 2000b). Unfortunately, the great stigma associated with sexual minority identity has precluded the development of an adequate scientific base from which to design effective interventions targeting health risks for this group (e.g., Solarz, 1999). Moreover, women have been underrepresented in the study of sexual identity (Chung & Katayama, 1996). Thus, we need relevant data based on sound theory and methodologically rigorous research to identify subgroups of SMW at greatest risk, stressors most predictive of adverse outcomes, and mechanisms through which these stressors impact health.

546 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20251
20244
202314,684
202229,980
202117,571
202014,764