Development and primary validation of the School Health Assessment Tool for Primary Schools (SHAT-PS).

Background: School health programs need to target all aspects of physical, psychological, and social well-being. Using a slightly modified version of the COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist, we developed and conducted the first validation of the School Health Assessment Tool for Primary Schools (SHAT-PS).

Method: The exploratory sequential mixed method was used in this study.

Psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the satisfaction with life scale in a sample of individuals with mental illness.

Background: Health assessment among individuals with mental health problems often involves measures of ill-being (e.g., anxiety, depression).

Occupation and life satisfaction among individuals with mental illness: the mediation role of self-reported psychophysiological health.

Background: Unemployment can diminish physical, psychological and social health. In this context, research shows that people with mental illness have even more difficulties finding occupation. Thus, some countries, such as Sweden, strive after creating job opportunities for this specific group.

Validation of a general subjective well-being factor using Classical Test Theory.

Background: Subjective Well-Being (SWB) is usually conceptualized in terms of an affective (i.e., judgements of biological emotional reactions and experiences) and a cognitive component (i.

Psychosocial interventions in stimulant use disorders: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis of randomized controlled trials.

Stimulant use disorders are highly prevalent with a large burden of disease. Most clinical guidelines recommend psychosocial interventions, but there are no clear hierarchies or indications. Moreover, these interventions have been reported unevenly in the literature.

Headache and comorbidity in children and adolescents.

Headache is one of the most common neurological symptom reported in childhood and adolescence, leading to high levels of school absences and being associated with several comorbid conditions, particularly in neurological, psychiatric and cardiovascular systems. Neurological and psychiatric disorders, that are associated with migraine, are mainly depression, anxiety disorders, epilepsy and sleep disorders, ADHD and Tourette syndrome. It also has been shown an association with atopic disease and cardiovascular disease, especially ischemic stroke and patent foramen ovale (PFO).

Managing sleep disorders in children: which is the best strategy?

This review aims to critically analyze the literature studies showing the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral strategies in the treatment of sleep disorder during the developmental age. About 15-35% of children suffer from sleep disorder. If they are not treated right away, it can persist into adulthood.

Effects of a single, short intravenous dose of acetyl-L-carnitine on pattern-reversal visual-evoked potentials in cirrhotic patients with hepatic encephalopathy.

1. In animals and in cultured neurons, L-carnitine and acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR) have been shown to counteract some of the toxic effects of ammonia. In order to detect similar properties in humans, we studied neuronal function after ALCAR administration in cirrhotics with hepatic encephalopathy (HE).

Predictable stress promotes place preference and low mesoaccumbens dopamine response.

Aversive stimuli that are signaled, and therefore predictable, are preferred to unsignaled ones and promote less severe stress-related disturbances. Since stressful events are known to activate mesoaccumbens dopamine (DA) transmission, in the present experiments, we evaluated possible differences in mesoaccumbens DA response to predictable and unpredictable footshocks. Mice of the inbred strain DBA/2 were trained for conditioned place preference (CPP) in shuttle boxes.