General Mental Health Articles
- Playing video games for a couple hours a day can improve mental health, according to a study on gamers in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research found that even just owning a game console increased life satisfaction and reduced psychological distress. The results were published in Nature Human Behaviour. The findings are a first step toward demonstrating a causal link between gaming and mental-health benefits, says Andrew Przybylski, a psychologist who studies how video games influence players’ mental health at the University of Oxford, UK. Read more here.
Climate Change and Mental Health
- Air pollution research makes scientists think that wildfire smoke could be linked to pregnancy complications like pre-eclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition that causes high blood pressure. Read more here.
Research
- A new study suggests a need for clinical and societal awareness to prevent suicidal behaviors among spouses of patients with cancer, particularly during the first year following the cancer diagnosis. There was a greater risk increase for both suicide attempt and suicide death when the cancer was diagnosed at an advanced stage or when the spouse died after the cancer diagnosis. Read more here.
- In this 3-wave longitudinal birth cohort study, perceived parental technoference was associated with emerging adolescents’ mental health. The findings speak to the need to discuss digital technology use and mental health with parents and emerging adolescents as a part of routine care. Read more here.
- In this cohort study of 36, 552 survey respondents, depressive symptoms at age 18 years were associated with depressive symptoms at ages 19 to 20 and 21 to 22 years, and this association did not vary by birth cohort. Increasing depressive symptoms in adolescence persisted into young adulthood, and a larger proportion of young adult symptoms in females was associated with symptoms during adolescence. Read more here.
Gender-Affirming Care and LGBTQ Issues
- The U.S. Supreme Court declined to let President Joe Biden's administration enforce a key part of a new rule protecting LGBT students from discrimination in schools and colleges based on gender identity in 10 Republican-led states that had challenged it. The justices denied the administration's request to partially lift lower court injunctions that had blocked the entirety of the rule expanding protections under Title IX, a law that bars sex discrimination in federally funded education programs, while litigation continues. Read more here.
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