Cogent Mental Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 4(1), P. 1 - 33
Published: March 7, 2025
Language: Английский
International Review of Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 34(5), P. 443 - 498
Published: July 4, 2022
Converging global evidence highlights the dire consequences of climate change for human mental health and wellbeing. This paper summarises literature across relevant disciplines to provide a comprehensive narrative review multiple pathways through which interacts with Climate acts as risk amplifier by disrupting conditions known support good health, including socioeconomic, cultural environmental conditions, living working conditions. The disruptive influence rising temperatures extreme weather events, such experiencing heatwave or water insecurity, compounds existing stressors experienced individuals communities. has deleterious effects on people's is particularly acute those groups already disadvantaged within countries. Awareness experiences escalating threats inaction can generate understandable psychological distress; though strong emotional responses also motivate action. We highlight opportunities communities cope act change. Consideration interconnected impacts their determinants must inform evidence-based interventions. Appropriate action that centres justice reduce current future burden, while simultaneously improving nurture wellbeing equality. presented adds further weight need decisive decision makers all scales.
Language: Английский
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Sustainability, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 14(24), P. 16628 - 16628
Published: Dec. 12, 2022
As the ecological crisis grows more intense, people experience many forms of eco-anxiety and grief. This article explores broad process encountering grief, engages in constructive task building a new model that process. Eco-anxiety grief are here seen as fundamentally healthy reactions to threats loss, only strongest them problems. The aim is help researchers, various professionals general public by providing which (a) simple enough but (b) nuanced than stage models may give false impression linearity. uses an interdisciplinary method. proposed includes both chronological thematic aspects. early phases Unknowing Semi-consciousness followed potentially some kind Awakening kinds Shock possible trauma. A major feature following complex phase Coping Changing, framed consisting three dimensions: Action (pro-environmental behavior kinds), Grieving (including other emotional engagement), Distancing self-care problematic disavowal). predicts if there trouble any these dimensions, adjusting will be difficult. thus helps seeing, e.g., importance for coping. possibility stronger and/or eco-depression always present, including danger burnout. ethical psychological called Adjustment Transformation, elements of, meaning-finding acceptance. need Changing continues, awareness flexibility metaphase Living with Ecological Crisis, where titles subtitles dimensions coping switched.
Language: Английский
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Environment International, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 158, P. 106984 - 106984
Published: Nov. 20, 2021
Compared with other health areas, the mental impacts of climate change have received less research attention. The literature on and is growing rapidly but characterised by several limitations gaps. In a field where need for designing evidence-based adaptation strategies urgent, gaps are vast, implementing broad, all-encompassing agenda will require some strategic focus.We followed structured approach to prioritise future research. We consulted experts working across change, both within outside in high, middle, low-income countries, garner consensus about priorities change. Experts were identified based whether they had published work health, worked governmental non-governmental organisations from professional networks authors who been active space.Twenty-two participated low- middle-income countries (n = 4) high-income 18). Our process ten key progressing change.While considered biggest threat global coming century, tackling this could be most significant opportunity shape our centuries come because co-benefits transitioning more sustainable ways living. Research health-related systems assist decision-makers develop robust mitigation policies plans potential broad benefits society environment.
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Psychology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 13
Published: May 11, 2022
The Climate Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a 13-item questionnaire for assessing climate anxiety (CA) as psychological response to change. CAS consists of two subscales, namely, cognitive impairment and functional impairment. This study aimed validate the Polish version CAS. sample included 603 respondents (344 females, 247 males, 12 non-binary), aged 18-70 years (M = 25.32, SD 9.59). Based on exploratory factor analysis results, we proposed 3-factor solution (i.e., intrusive symptoms, reflections CA, impairment), which seems be theoretically more consistent with content statements. confirmatory showed that original 2-factor one had satisfactory good fit data, respectively, well both were invariant across different gender, age, educational level categories. Despite fact best-fit indices, recommended examine structure in samples use overall score cross-cultural research. Cognitive subscales positively correlated personal experience change, behavioral engagement, environmental identity, motives, but they negatively change denial sense safety. depressive contrary expectations, not associated symptoms any coping strategies. has psychometric properties. Overall, reported low CA levels sample. Women younger people experienced higher CA.
Language: Английский
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The Lancet Planetary Health, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 6(7), P. e613 - e627
Published: July 1, 2022
Language: Английский
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Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 27(1), P. 209 - 234
Published: Jan. 25, 2024
Abstract Despite reports of increasing levels climate change related distress, there remains limited evidence regarding effective interventions for individuals and communities. The current study aims to contribute this discussion by presenting opinions from participants who self-identified as having a professional interest in anxiety. An international interdisciplinary survey was conducted, with qualitative quantitative responses 230 participants, range backgrounds, including mental health practitioners, along activists, artists, educators, academics scientists others interested the anxiety space. A wide potential components were suggested supporting people connect nature, emotional validation group setting, moving toward action. Reflexive thematic analysis data resulted five themes: ‘Climate is healthy response situation’, will continue increase until action’, should be individualised’, need include community societal level’ ‘Climate-aware practitioners are required’. These themes provide significant contribution discourse on interventions. They emphasize an understanding legitimate situation imperative society being included intervention strategies. Results insights diverse perspectives valuable guidance future research practice development
Language: Английский
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 26, P. e55913 - e55913
Published: May 17, 2024
Background Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among adolescents and associated with clusters suicides. Despite numerous studies on this preventable death, focus has primarily been single nations traditional statistical methods. Objective This study aims to develop a predictive model for adolescent suicidal thinking using multinational data sets machine learning (ML). Methods We used from Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey 566,875 aged between 13 18 years conducted external validation 103,874 Norway’s University National General 19,574 adolescents. Several tree-based ML models were developed, feature importance Shapley additive explanations values analyzed identify risk factors thinking. Results When trained South 95% CI, XGBoost reported an area under receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve 90.06% (95% CI 89.97-90.16), displaying superior performance compared other models. For United States Norway, achieved AUROCs 83.09% 81.27%, respectively. Across all sets, consistently outperformed highest AUROC score, was selected as optimal model. In terms predictors thinking, feelings sadness despair most influential, accounting 57.4% impact, followed by stress status at 19.8%. age (5.7%), household income (4%), academic achievement (3.4%), sex (2.1%), others, which contributed less than 2% each. Conclusions integrating diverse 3 countries address suicide. The findings highlight important role emotional health indicators in predicting Specifically, identified significant predictors, stressful conditions age. These emphasize critical need early diagnosis prevention mental issues during adolescence.
Language: Английский
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Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(10), P. 8115 - 8115
Published: May 16, 2023
Environmental disasters will increase in frequency and severity due to disruptions Earth systems, including increased global mean temperatures, caused by human activity, consequently our health care system be burdened ever-increasing rates of illness, mental physical. Psychologists need respond this pressure ensuring they have the training, education interventions climate-related distress, as well realising limits therapeutic approach. Climate psychology, a recent field study integrating advancing core expertise around climate has become more prominent with increasing urgency change emerging documentation its impacts on wellbeing. The purpose scoping review is survey research being undertaken identify gaps existing literature view shaping practice informing future research. Younger people, notably, are experiencing distress disproportionately bear larger share burden change, yet their voices underrepresented theoretical practical interventions. Enlisting young people collaborators co-designers facilitate effective responses psychological aspects crisis.
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15
Published: May 28, 2024
Environmental pollution exposures, including air, soil, water, light, and noise pollution, are critical issues that may implicate adverse mental health outcomes. Extreme weather conditions, such as hurricanes, floods, wildfires, droughts, also cause long-term severe concerns. However, the knowledge about possible psychiatric disorders associated with these exposures is currently not well disseminated. In this review, we aim to summarize current on impact of environmental extreme conditions health, focusing anxiety spectrum disorders, autism schizophrenia, depression. air studies, increased concentrations PM2.5, NO2, SO2 were most strongly exacerbation anxiety, depression symptoms. We provide an overview suggested underlying pathomechanisms involved. highlight pathogenesis pollution-related diseases multifactorial, oxidative stress, systematic inflammation, disruption blood-brain barrier, epigenetic dysregulation. Light correlated risk neurodegenerative particularly Alzheimer’s disease. Moreover, soil water discussed. Such compounds crude oil, heavy metals, natural gas, agro-chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers), polycyclic or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), solvents, lead (Pb), asbestos detrimental health. linked namely PTSD. Several policy recommendations awareness campaigns should be implemented, advocating for advancement high-quality urbanization, mitigation and, consequently, enhancement residents’
Language: Английский
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Environmental Quality Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(1)
Published: July 17, 2024
ABSTRACT Microplastics (MPs), which are emerging pollutants in terrestrial ecosystems, could potentially impact plant growth. One of the least explored aspects crop development is seed germination, a crucial stage plant's lifecycle. This study conducted soil cultivation trials to investigate effects 1% (w/w) concentrations polyethylene (PET), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) MPs on rice growth over 15‐day period. Parameters such as fresh weight, shoot height, root length, chlorophyll levels, identification roots were observed. The findings revealed accumulation 6–9 MP items roots. PET inhibited elongation (15%–20%), reduced height (15%–30%), decreased weight (12%–37%). PET, PP, PS contamination content (15%–43%), b (21%–41%), total (11%–40%) leaves. enhances our understanding ecotoxicological these three types rice. utilization this data will further inform MPs' behavior vegetation provide valuable insights into their land‐based impacts.
Language: Английский
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