Mental health problems are a major global burden. Understanding what motivates people to seek help for mental health problems thus is important so society can best support people in help-seeking. The present study investigated predictors of mental health help-seeking among Cambodian adolescents. Participants were 391 Cambodian high-school students, assessed on (a) culturally-specific mental health syndromes (Culturally-Specific Syndrome Inventory); (b) depression (PHQ-9); (c) anxiety (GAD-7); (d) functional impairment (Brief Impairment Scale); (e) quality of life (Q-LES-Q-SF); and (f) help-seeking from different sources (e.g., friends, psychologists) (General Help-Seeking Questionnaire). Help seeking from mental health professionals was predicted by mental health symptoms but not by life impairment or quality of life, suggesting that these constructs are not understood as part of adolescent mental health in Cambodia. However, informal support was predicted by impairment and quality of life, suggesting that Cambodian adolescents are aware of life impairment and quality of life, desire to improve their lives, but are unaware of these constructs’ connection to mental health. Results suggest areas for public health campaigns in Cambodia to target to increase adolescent mental health support seeking. Results also suggest it may be useful to develop informal online mental health support resources for Cambodian adolescents.
Background: Mental illness is a global public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries such as Vietnam. Improving mental health literacy was found to be associated with early detection and treatment of mental illness and increased help-seeking behaviors. With the development of information technology, IT applications such as websites and mobile applications have become essential tools for mental health literacy intervention. Though there has been a number of mobile apps delivering psychotherpies, little focus on mental health litracy intervention.
Aims: The study aims to a) evaluate the feasibility of a mobile-based mental health literacy intervention called Shining Mind and b) assess the effectiveness of the Shining Mind app in improving mental health literacy among college students.
Methods: The study used randomized control trial design with two groups: experimental group (N=68) and control group (N=84).
Results: The average number of times of accessing Shining Mind was 22.97 per student (SD=25.13) with one student (1.47%) never logging into the app. In terms of quality, the app was rated moderately good by participants (M=3.3, SD=0.6). Regarding mental health literacy, the results showed that there were group effects over time regarding depression and biopolar recognition, social anxiety labelling, stigma and parent help-seeking intention.
Hầu hết các bộ thiết bị cảm biến cơ thể hiện nay được cấu tạo bằng nhiều cảm biến con quay kết hợp cảm biến gia tốc (IMU) đặt trên các vị trí khác nhau của cơ thể người. Các cảm biến IMU sau đó sẽ cảm biến vị trí, góc quay, góc nghiên của mình trong không gian, từ đó, nội suy ra chuyển động của các bộ phận và toàn bộ cơ thể người. Mặc dù cảm biến IMU có độ chính xác và tốc độ xử lý nhanh, các cảm biến loại này chịu một hạn chế lớn là dễ bị ảnh hưởng bởi các nguồn từ trường bên ngoài. Điều này khiến quá trình nội suy lại cơ thể người trở nên không chính xác trong điều kiện môi trường sử dụng có nhiều nguồn từ trường mạnh như: khung kim loại, máy tính,… Trong bài báo này, chúng tôi đề xuất một mô hình học máy cho phép dự đoán các tư thế thân trên của cơ thể người, từ 03 đầu vào ổn định (đầu, bàn tay phải, bàn tay trái), qua đó, giảm phụ thuộc vào các cảm biến IMU.
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