Publications by authors named "Kerry R McGreevy"
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- - The study evaluates a care program (DWM and PM+) for healthcare workers in Spain who are experiencing psychological distress, focusing on the context, implementation outcomes, and mechanisms of action.
- - Mixed methods were used for data collection, including quantitative data from a randomized control trial and qualitative insights from interviews and focus groups, revealing both barriers (like stigma) and enabling factors (like flexibility in interventions).
- - Results indicate that the program was feasible with good participant acceptance, and it highlights the need for increased mental health awareness and support to improve future implementations in similar settings.
Physical exercise is a robust lifestyle intervention known for its enhancement of cognitive abilities. Nevertheless, the extent to which these benefits can be transmitted across generations (intergenerational inheritance to F1, and transgenerational to F2 and beyond) remains a topic of limited comprehension. We have already shown that cognitive improvements resulting from physical exercise can be inherited from parents to their offspring, proving intergenerational effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Evidence-based mental health interventions to support healthcare workers (HCWs) in crisis settings are scarce.
Objective: To evaluate the capacity of a mental health intervention in reducing anxiety and depression symptoms in HCWs, relative to enhanced care as usual (eCAU), amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: We conducted an analyst-blind, parallel, multicentre, randomised controlled trial.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had major and potentially long-lasting effects on mental health and wellbeing across populations worldwide. However, these impacts were not felt equally, leading to an exacerbation of health inequalities, especially affecting vulnerable populations such as migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Aiming to inform the adaptation and implementation of psychological intervention programmes, the present study investigated priority mental health needs in this population group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has challenged health services worldwide, with a worsening of healthcare workers' mental health within initial pandemic hotspots. In early 2022, the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly around the world. This study explores the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a stepped-care programme of scalable, internet-based psychological interventions for distressed health workers on self-reported anxiety and depression symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Healthcare workers (HCWs) from COVID-19 hotspots worldwide have reported poor mental health outcomes since the pandemic's beginning. The virulence of the initial COVID-19 surge in Spain and the urgency for rapid evidence constrained early studies in their capacity to inform mental health programs accurately. Here, we used a qualitative research design to describe relevant mental health problems among frontline HCWs and explore their association with determinants and consequences and their implications for the design and implementation of mental health programs.
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- Exercise can help improve how brains work, and researchers wanted to see if this improvement could be passed down to kids, even if those kids don't exercise.
- They did tests with mice to see how exercise from their fathers affected them, looking at their behavior and brain features.
- The findings showed that if a dad exercised, his kids had better brain health and memory abilities too, suggesting that being active can help future generations!
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- Social hierarchies, like who’s boss and who’s not, help groups survive and can change how individuals act in their social circles.
- Researchers studied male mice using a test that shows dominance without fighting and looked at different factors like weight and behavior.
- They found that being dominant or subordinate doesn't change with things like stress or mood, but there are differences in gene expression in the brain that might show who's in charge.
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- Exercise intensity can impact cognitive function and mood, leading to better mental health outcomes, but it can also have negative effects if taken to extremes.
- The concept of a hormetic-like biphasic dose-response explains how different levels of exercise can either benefit or harm individuals, highlighting the importance of training intensity.
- Recent research is exploring how adult hippocampal neurogenesis plays a role in these exercise-induced effects on cognition and mood, along with the molecular pathways involved.