Mental Health

Results showed that compared with no sport participation, adolescents who participate in team sports experience fewer mental health difficulties, while those who compete in individual sports experience more mental health difficulties.

Patients on dialysis and patients receiving care for transplantation reported a need for increased mental health resources, patient-focused education and support following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to published data.

Transgender individuals who said they received supportive primary care were more likely to report better mental health, according to survey results published in Family Practice.

A report released during Mental Health Awareness Month in May highlights the growing link between mental and oral health.

NEW ORLEANS – Healio/Psychiatry peer perspective board member Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, discussed the mental health of female veterans, or “invisible veterans,” at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS – American Psychiatric Association president-elect Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, told Healio she is thrilled to be back in person at the APA annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS –A special issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry will highlight the pervasive negative effects of structural racism on mental health, the American Psychiatric Association announced at its annual meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — Sixty percent of working adults reported knowing how to access mental health services through their employer in 2022, down from 71% in 2021, the 2022 Healthy Minds poll from the APA showed.

NEW ORLEANS — Higher levels of depression, anxiety and PTSD were reported by Lebanese expatriates following explosions in Beirut in 2020, according to a speaker at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting.

A recently published survey revealed that nearly half of American workers report they and their coworkers are more acutely aware of stress than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.