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Is There a Correlation Between Medical Debt and Delayed Mental Health Care in the United States?

By Don Tracy, Associate Editor JAMA study aims to determine whether financial barriers impact access to mental health services.In the United States, a number of low-income adults struggle to gain access to appropriate mental health care. Despite efforts such as new legislations aimed at extending both private and public insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), financial barriers are still an issue. In a study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers aimed to discover whether there was an association between medical debt and delayed or forgone mental health care among adults in the United States. The study included data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey, which measured responses from 27,651 adults with current or lifetime diagnoses of depression or anxiety. Additionally, Asian, Black, and Hispanic households were oversampled to improve precision of estimates for these groups. To provide accurate results, mental health status was assessed for depression and anxiety, measured ...
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- July 23, 2024
Virtual Therapeutics, Akili Interactive Strike Definitive Merger Agreement Seeking to Improve Mental Health Through Immersive Video Games

Don Tracy, Associate Editor Under terms of the deal, Akili will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Virtual Therapeutics, with Akili shareholders receiving $0.4340 per share of common stock in cash.Virtual Therapeutics and Akili, Inc. announced that they have agreed to terms on a definitive merger agreement, aiming to establish a digital health company that creates engaging and immersive games to improve mental health. Under terms of the merger, Akili will now work as a wholly owned company of Virtual Therapeutics, Akili shareholders will receive $0.4340 per share of common stock in cash, representing a 4% premium to the closing stock price.1 “In today’s global mental health crisis, patients deserve access to clinically validated solutions that address their specific needs. We have been able to advance multiple solutions on our platform since founding Virtual Therapeutics, and we look forward to taking a significant step forward through this merger,” said Dan ...
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- June 5, 2024
A Wearable Tech Gives Pharmas & Therapists Better Feel for Changes in Mental Health

Pharmaceutical companies use Feel Therapeutics’ technology to monitor the mental state of participants in clinical trials of behavioral medications. But the startup envisions its technology eventually also finding a place as a part of clinical care. By Frank VinluanWhen it comes to evaluating the health of a patient, each therapeutic area has its own data-gathering tools. Think glucose monitors in diabetes and heart monitors for cardiovascular disease. But in mental health, a clinician relies on what a patient says. Self-reporting is incomplete and lacks objectivity, says George Eleftheriou, CEO and co-founder of Feel Therapeutics. Feel is trying to bring more complete and objective data collection to the field of mental health. The San Francisco-based startup does it with wearable technology that continuously collects data and provides recommendations. “One of the things we hear is how poor storytellers people are and [how they] cannot truly depict what happened over the past ...
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- April 16, 2024
How Nemours Children’s Is Working to Solve the ‘Horrendous’ Youth Mental Health Crisis

If you think the state of young people’s mental health in the U.S. hasn’t reached a crisis point yet, you are sorely mistaken, Lawrence Moss said Monday during an interview at HLTH. He is the CEO of Nemours Children’s Health, a pediatric health system with more than 95 locations in four states. Moss gave some sobering statistics on the youth mental health crisis, saying that nearly a quarter of children in the U.S. have a diagnosable mental health disease and that youth suicide rates have quadrupled over the past few years. “When you talk about child health right now, it’s more about behavioral health than physical health. We don’t typically like to think of it that way, but that’s the reality. If you can only do one thing for the health of children in this country, it would be in the behavioral health sphere,” he declared. One of the most ...
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- October 16, 2023
Children participating in sports have better long term mental health

A study led by University of Queensland researchers has found children who regularly participate in sports from an early age will have better long term mental health. Associate Professor Asad Khan from UQ’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences led the study, which analyzed the data of more than 4,200 Australian children over an eight-year period from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Dr. Asad Khan (Associate Professor, UQ’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences) said, “Consistent participation in sports from childhood is associated with better mental wellbeing amongst adolescents. Our research looked at the benefits of team sports such as football, cricket, or netball, and individual sports like karate, tennis, or gymnastics. We found there was a positive impact on mental health regardless of the type of sport, however children who played in a team experienced greater benefit. This could be due to the social aspects involved such as ...
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- September 5, 2023
One Simple Brain Hack Might Boost Learning and Improve Mental Health

New research from Duke found that people who imagined being a thief scouting a virtual art museum in preparation for a heist were better at remembering the paintings they saw, compared to people who played the same computer game while imagining that they were executing the heist in-the-moment. These subtle differences in motivation—urgent, immediate goal-seeking versus curious exploration for a future goal—have big potential for framing real-world challenges such as encouraging people to get a vaccine, prompting climate change action, and even treating psychiatric disorders. The findings appeared online July 25 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Alyssa Sinclair, Ph.D. ’23, a postdoctoral researcher working in the lab of Duke Institute for Brain Sciences director Alison Adcock, Ph.D., M.D., recruited 420 adults to pretend to be art thieves for a day. The participants were then randomly assigned to one of two groups and received ...
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- July 27, 2023
Poor air quality found to affect mental health in many ways

Poor air quality affects mental health in many ways, according to a new review of evidence published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Led by Professor Kam Bhui at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, researchers in the BioAirNet program, analyzed existing studies looking at the effects of both indoor and outdoor air pollution across the life course, from birth and pregnancy, to adolescence and adulthood. They found evidence that exposure to air pollutants may lead to depression, anxiety, psychoses, and perhaps even neurocognitive disorders, such as dementia. There were also indications that children and adolescents might be exposed to air pollution at critical stages in their mental development making them at risk of the most severe impact and significant future mental health problems. Additional risk factors included poor housing, over-crowding, poverty, a lack of green spaces as well as individual social and psychological vulnerabilities, such as lack of ...
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- July 8, 2023
Pandemic ‘fear of missing out’ had mental health consequences for older adults, study shows

During the COVID-19 pandemic, fear of missing out (FOMO) on social activities may have negatively affected the mental health of adults at high risk of serious disease, according to a new study from Rice University and Baylor University. “Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic” was published June 29 in Social and Personality Psychology Compass and is authored by Angie LeRoy, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor; Vincent Lai, a Ph.D. student at Rice; Arya Tsay-Jones, who participated in the research as a Rice undergraduate; and Chris Fagundes , a professor in Rice’s Department of Psychological Sciences. The acronym “FOMO”—short for the “fear of missing out” one might feel about not being able to take part in events or experiences that could make one’s life better—refers to a phenomenon that has become more mainstream in the last decade as social media use has ...
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- July 1, 2023
Leisure-time physical activity may improve mental health in teens

A recent study led by the University of Eastern Finland suggests that regular leisure-time physical activity, even in small doses, is associated with lower odds of depression, anxiety, chronic stress, and school psychologist visits among Finnish adolescents. However, the relationship between active school transport, i.e., walking or cycling to school, and mental health remains inconclusive. The findings were published in the prestigious Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. Regular physical activity can improve mental health through various pathways, such as increasing the production of “feel-good” hormones, enhancing sleep quality, and boosting self-confidence. While mental health problems are common, few large population-based studies have examined the relationship between physical activity and adolescent mental health. Furthermore, it is currently unknown whether active school transport can have beneficial effects on mental health. The researchers observed that leisure-time moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was associated with better mental health among nearly 33,000 15-to-16-year-old ...
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- April 28, 2023
Study finds COVID-19 pandemic has long-lasting effects on adolescent mental health and substance use

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a long-lasting impact on adolescent mental health and substance use, according to a new population-based study based on survey responses from a nationwide sample of over 64,000 13–18-year-old North American and Icelandic adolescents assessed prior to and up to two years into the pandemic. The study was conducted by faculty at Columbia University Teachers College and Mailman School of Public Health and a team of Icelandic and other North American clinical, behavioral and social scientists. The findings are published in published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. This same research team published a population-based study in The Lancet Psychiatry in 2021 showing an increase in depressive symptoms and decrease in mental well-being among 13–18-year-old adolescents within one year of the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. A decline in substance use, in particular cigarette smoking, e-cigarette use and alcohol intoxication, was also observed. Expanding on these findings, this new study shows ...
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- March 15, 2023

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