Mental Health Awareness: Stigma and Help-Seeking Among Portuguese College Students.

Background/objectives: Help-seeking-that is, the attempt to attain external help for mental health, be it from formal or informal sources-can be described as an adaptive coping process. Mental illness stigma is the most frequently identified barrier that prevents students from seeking psychological help. This study analyzed college students' beliefs about mental illness and attitudes toward formal psychological help-seeking.

Correction to the article "Profiles on Adolescent Internet Addiction: A Taxonomy with Latent Profiling Analysis", Published on Acta Med Port 2022 Sep;35(9):644-651.

On page 646, Section 'RESULTS',On paragraph 'Model estimation and selection',Line 3, where it reads (in red):Firstly, we examined fit statistics (Table 5), namely the Akaike Information criterion (AIC) (...

Profiles on Adolescent Internet Addiction: A Taxonomy with Latent Profiling Analysis.

Introduction: Addictive use of the Internet among adolescents has been linked to a negative psychosocial development, but more detailed information about Internet addiction (IA) profiles is warranted. The aim of this study was to identify IA profiles in adolescents based on psychometric properties from the Internet Addiction test (IAT), and to assess the associations between the profiles and personal/social behaviors.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed at public schools from a Portuguese region, using a survey that included the IAT.

Development of a Checklist of Potentially Traumatic Events in Children and Adolescents (CEPT-CA).

Introduction: Since exposure to potentially traumatic events during childhood and adolescence has been shown to be very common, its screening is very important. Our aim was to develop a self-assessment checklist to perform screening of potentially traumatic events in childhood and adolescence.

Methods: The development of the Checklist of Potentially Traumatic Events in Children and Adolescents (CEPT-CA) was based on: (a) the structure of Life Events Checklist that has been translated, back-translated, and adapted; (b) recommendations of renowned entities about trauma in childhood; (c) particularities of potentially traumatic events in childhood; (d) adapting the language to the target population's age group; (e) Portugal's sociocultural context.