Ready or not…here we grow! Evaluating the competency of nursing faculty in supporting nursing student mental health: A quantitative investigation.

Background: College students are amid a mental health crisis with campuses seeing the highest rates of mental health disorders in over a decade. College nursing students stand out as particularly affected, experiencing elevated levels of anxiety, stress, and depression compared to the general student population. At the forefront of addressing this issue are college faculty, especially nursing faculty, who play a unique role in identifying and referring students with mental health needs due to their close interactions in smaller teaching-learning settings such as clinicals, simulations, and one-on-one validations.

The Impact of COVID-19, Mental Health Distress, and School-Based Sociocultural Protective Factors among Elementary-Aged Children and their Caregivers.

Given the individual and systemic stress endured by children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic, research examining culturally responsive school experiences and supports to enhance resilience is critical. This study examined the relationship between caregivers' perceptions of COVID-19 impact, mental health distress among children and caregivers, and school-based sociocultural protective factors, including culturally responsive practices in schools and the relationships between teachers and caregivers, concurrently and longitudinally. Data were collected from caregivers of elementary-aged children at two-time points from March to April 2020 ( = 174) and one year later in 2021 ( = 114).

Looking to the VA for a roadmap on how to sustain tele-mental health care.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a rapid increase in tele-mental health care availability in the United States. Although this change has the potential to help alleviate unmet need for mental health care in underserved areas, there are system and policy challenges to sustain tele-mental health models beyond the pandemic. The United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has long been a national leader in offering tele-mental health care.

Dominance of general versus specific aspects of wellbeing on the Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire.

The Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (SSWQ) is a 16-item measure of school-specific subjective wellbeing intended for mental health screening applications. We extended past validation work to scrutinize the SSWQ's previously proposed factor structure (i.e.

Adolescents' perceptions of their consent to psychiatric mental health treatment.

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a small-scale study in which the decision-making process of adolescents who consent to psychiatric mental health treatment was examined. Sixteen (16) adolescents were interviewed about their decisions related to initial and continued treatment, along with their understanding of minor consent laws. Interviews were audio-recorded, and transcripts were analyzed through concept analysis.

Utilization of foot care services among homeless adults: implications for advanced practice nurses.

Purpose: To present the findings of a survey that examined the reason(s) for use of foot care services among homeless adults in a mid-size southeastern city.

Data Sources: Data were collected using an 18-item questionnaire. One hundred homeless adults (65 males, 30 females) were asked about their level of foot care use, including under what circumstances foot care services might be used.

It's a small, small world: data collection strategies for research with children and adolescents.

This article describes methodological processes focusing on developmentally appropriate, creative data collection strategies for use with children and adolescents, illustrated from data-based research. The research reported includes adolescents' understanding of physical activity and engagement in designing a computerized questionnaire, adolescent decision making and consent to psychiatric treatment, social skills focus groups for children with behavioral disorders, and development of a longitudinal intervention study to improve the physiological-functional-psychosocial status of children with cystic fibrosis from three qualitative studies of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. Use of developmentally appropriate strategies is critical for successful research, contributing to our understanding of the world of children and adolescents.

How neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve protect cognitive functioning.

Overall cognitive status can vary across an individual's life span in response to factors that promote either positive or negative neuroplasticity. Positive neuroplasticity refers to he physiological ability of the brain to form and strengthen dendritic connections, produce beneficial morphological changes, and increase cognitive reserve. Negative neuroplasticity refers to the same physiological ability of t he brain to atrophy and weaken dendritic connections, produce detrimental morphological changes, and decrease cognitive reserve.