Publications by authors named "Kairong Ding"
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- The study investigates the link between mental health literacy and symptoms of depression and anxiety in adults from Guangdong, China, assessing data collected from September to December 2021.
- Findings show that individuals with severe symptoms of depression and anxiety had a significantly higher rate of low mental health literacy, rising from 89.4% in those without symptoms to 96.2% in those with both disorders.
- The research suggests that improving mental health literacy could be an essential approach to enhance psychological well-being, particularly among young adults, as low literacy was strongly associated with increased rates of depression and anxiety.
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- A survey in Guangdong Province, China, focused on the prevalence and factors related to insomnia symptoms among people aged 65 and older, involving 4,001 elderly participants.
- Findings showed that 13.44% of the elderly experienced insomnia symptoms, with 11.15% classified as subthreshold insomnia and 2.28% as clinical insomnia.
- Factors linked to insomnia included urban living, irregular diets, lower body mass index, chronic diseases, and signs of depression and anxiety, highlighting the need for targeted healthcare interventions.
Background: Mental disorders and cognitive impairment are common in older patients with arthritis. While it is recognized that mental conditions may play a role in the connection between arthritis and cognitive impairment, the precise underlying relationship remains uncertain.
Methods: The data was derived from the baseline survey of the Guangdong Mental Health Survey in South China, involving a sample of 3,764 citizens aged 65 and older.
Aims: This study aimed to explore the dyadic effects of depression and anxiety on insomnia symptoms in Chinese older adults and their caregivers living in a community setting.
Methods: Data were collected from 1,507 pairs of older adults and their caregivers who were in the Guangdong Mental Health Survey in China. The 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder module 7 (GAD-7), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) were used to measure depression, anxiety, and insomnia symptoms.
Background: Information on major depressive disorder (MDD) and subthreshold depressive symptoms (SDS) is rarely reported in south China. This study examines the prevalence rates and patterns of MDD and SDS of a large representative sample of adult residents in south China.
Methods: The Guangdong Mental Health Survey was conducted on adults (over 18 years) from September to December 2021.
Background: Mental health literacy (MHL) is rarely reported in the Chinese elderly. This study explored the pattern of MHL in the Chinese elderly in relation to depression, anxiety and poor sleep quality.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among older adults in Guangzhou, south China.
Objective: Anxiety, depression, and pain are highly interactive with each other in adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients. This study aims to map out the connectivity between anxiety, depression and pain symptoms amongst Chinese AYA cancer patients from the perspective of a network model.
Methods: Two hundred and eighteen AYA patients, aged between 15 and 39 years at diagnosis; completed the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and McGill Pain Questionnaire-Visual Analogue Scale (MPQ-VAS).
Background: Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR), anxiety, and depression are common psychological disturbances that frequently occur together among cancer patients. This study investigated network connectivity between FCR, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in a large representative sample of breast cancer patients.
Methods: This was a multicenter, cross-sectional study of 803 women with breast cancer.
Background: Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may be the early screening signal to distinguish susceptible population with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs) have been proved strongly associated with SCD. This study aimed to explore the association between sleep duration and SCCs in the Chinese elderly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may be the first symptomatic manifestation of Alzheimer's disease, but information on its health correlates is still sparse in Chinese older adults. This study aimed to estimate SCD symptoms and its association with socio-demographic characteristics, common chronic diseases among southern Chinese older adults.
Methods: Participants aged 60 years and older from 7 communities and 2 nursing homes in Guangzhou were recruited and interviewed with standardized assessment tools.
Background: Poor sleep quality exacerbates subjective cognitive decline (SCD). Mental health may play an important role in the relationship, but the potential underlying mechanisms remain unknown.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on older adult residents in Guangdong province, south China from November 2020 to March 2021.