Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: Adaptation and validation of mental impact and distress screening instrument and the sociodemographic profile of impact.

The Mental Impact and Distress Scale: COVID-19 (MIDc) was constructed and validated by one of the first pandemic-impact research teams in February 2020 and aims to assess psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the present research was to determine the psychometric properties of the MIDc's Brazilian form and outline a sociodemographic profile of the pandemic's psychosocial impact in a Brazilian sample. Altogether, 1004 Brazilians living in different regions of Brazil completed an online survey.

Crack-cocaine users have less family cohesion than alcohol users.

Objective: Many studies correlate characteristics of family functioning and the development of drug addiction. This study sought to evaluate and compare the family environment styles of two groups of psychoactive substance users: 1) alcohol-only users and 2) crack-cocaine users.

Methods: Three hundred and sixty-four users of alcohol, crack-cocaine, and other drugs, recruited from research centers in four Brazilian capitals participated in this study.

What and who? Mindfulness in the mental health setting.

A strong and growing evidence base exists for the use of mindfulness-based interventions to prevent relapse in major depression and for the self-management of chronic physical health conditions (e.g. pain), but the evidence in other domains of mental health work is still emerging.