Background: Engaging with personal mental health stories has the potential to help people with mental health difficulties by normalizing distressing experiences, imparting coping strategies and building hope. However, evidence-based mental health storytelling platforms are scarce, especially for young people in low-resource settings.
Objective: This paper presents an account of the co-design of 'Baatcheet' ('conversation' in Hindi), a peer-supported, web-based storytelling intervention aimed at 16-24-year-olds with depression and anxiety in New Delhi, India.
Ecol Evol
January 2025
Extensive grazing carried out freely by exotic goats represents an important source of anthropogenic degradation in seasonally dry tropical forests of Brazil. The presence of these herbivores may negatively impact the local fauna through the reduction of habitat complexity. In this study, we investigate the effect of goat farming in scorpion assemblage from Brazilian seasonally dry tropical forest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Multicenter research initiatives in Brazilian dialysis centers are scarce. We described the recruitment and implementation phases of the SARC-HD study, aimed at investigating sarcopenia and its impact on adverse clinical outcomes.
Methods: The SARC-HD is a cohort study being conducted with patients on hemodialysis in Brazil.
Objective: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to verify the association of aspects of sports practice with health risk behaviors in adolescents.
Data Source: A systematic search was conducted of electronic manuscripts from the United States National Library of Medicine (PubMed)/ Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Web of Science, Science Direct, and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) published from January 2015 to December 2022. Studies examining the association between sport and health risk behaviors in adolescents aged 11 to 19 years were included.
Background: Emotional distress increases, also affected by the setting.
Objective: To estimate changes in prevalence of severe anxiety and depressive symptoms and associated factors.
Design And Setting: This cross-sectional study included adults living in Manaus selected through a three-stage probability sampling in 2015 and 2019.