They were nearly three times as likely as non-Indigenous adults to have experienced high to very
high psychological distress in the preceding four weeks.
Rates of high / very
high psychological distress were significantly higher for women than men in every age group, apart from those aged 45 — 54 years.
Without doubt intergenerational trauma and a lack of empowerment and resilience leads to inevitable mental illness; we currently have 32 per cent of the Victorian Aboriginal community suffering very
high psychological distress, which is three times the non-Aboriginal rate.
The report found widespread socioeconomic disadvantage and health inequality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, with contributors including discrimination, racism, violence, drug and alcohol use and
high psychological distress.
Association between discrimination, stress and chronic conditions (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer), as well as smoking, substance use, harms from abuse and violence, poor self - assessed health status and
high psychological distress among Indigenous Australians
«In today's society, dark skin has become linked to longer prison time, higher unemployment rates, low self - esteem, lower standards of beauty, and
higher psychological distress.
In simple regression analyses examining the association between psychological distress, and demographic and disease variables, only the recipient of the questionnaire was statistically significant (B = 3.13, p = 0.03); partner recipient was significantly associated with
higher psychological distress than patient recipient.
However, in step 3, greater traumatic stress and severer perception of caregiving burden were strongly associated with
higher psychological distress, and resilience was no longer significant.
Unhappily married people also suffer from lower self - esteem and
higher psychological distress than their happily married counterparts.
Taken together, these results indicate that
the higher psychological distress mothers experience at T1, the less their interaction quality improved during massage lessons.
Some associations were detected for SCL -90-R, namely a negative relationship between
higher psychological distress at three scales of the SCL -90-R (assessed at time 1) and lower variance scores between T1 and T4.
Not exact matches
We now know that, in all socioeconomic groups, children raised outside of intact two - parent families are significantly more likely than their peers to drop out of
high school, end up in prison and experience serious
psychological distress.
Kids with tantrums ending in severe social withdrawal and
high levels of
distress were the ones more likely to have a
psychological diagnosis.
Patients participating had low back pain for at least three months and
high levels of
psychological distress, avoided everyday activities and were known as «fear avoidant.»
Although
psychological approaches to help patients cope with pain have been used previously, what is novel in this study is the combined use of a specific
psychological approach with mindfulness meditation training to help patients wean off
high - doses of opioids and reduce their pain - related
distress and disability.
The researchers found that workers without paid sick leave benefits reported a statistically significant
higher level of
psychological distress.
With a theoretical range of 0 to 24,
higher scores on the K6 represent increased
psychological distress and scores above 13 are correlated with having a mental disorder of some type.
Senior author Kevin Krull, Ph.D., said these findings, taken together, suggest that social networks and currently available resources may not necessarily address all the unique needs of childhood cancer survivors, resulting in
higher risk for
psychological distress.
In many instances, this
psychological tactic succeeds all too well: after 9/11, for example, the entire nation experienced
high levels of
psychological distress, studies have documented.
«Reducing
psychological distress could be an important factor in ensuring that
high - risk cases receive regular screening,» says Kash.
However, among those girls who had
higher rates of previous dating violence victimization, completion of «My Voice, My Choice» was associated with lower rates of
psychological victimization — being yelled at or called names, having a boy try to frighten or spread rumors about her — and lower rates of
psychological distress.
The study is the first to identify a possible link between
high levels of
psychological distress and deaths resulting from a variety of liver diseases.
They found that over that time, access to healthcare services deteriorated for people with
high levels of
psychological distress.
In the study, researchers examined a subset of 28 women reporting
high levels of
psychological distress, who had originally been assigned to waitlist control group.
This increase in concern among school leaders correlates with a recent Department for Education (DfE) research finding that young people's health and wellbeing was worse in 2014 than in 2005; girls in particular recorded
higher levels of
psychological distress.
This study examined self - reported child attachment quality alongside caregivers» report of their own
psychological distress, parenting stress and attachment style, amongst 24 children with
high - functioning autism or Asperger's disorder (ASD; aged 7 — 14 years) and 24 typically developing children (aged 7 — 12 years), and their primary caregiver.
There were consistently
high levels of
psychological distress among those who had experienced exclusion at baseline and follow - up.
Cyberbullying, school bullying, and
psychological distress: A regional census of
high school students.
Higher resilience has been indicated by some studies about cancer patients to be related to lower
psychological distress [18][19].
The total scores range from 0 to 42, with
higher scores indicating greater
psychological distress.
This result did not agree with findings reported in a previous study; the level of
psychological distress was
higher in partners who had negative perceptions regarding patients» treatment than in partners who had positive perceptions [14].
This study demonstrated the
high levels of
psychological distress in young drug - using populations, highlighting that co-morbidity is common in the treatment population, and underlining the need for further workforce development to identify better and manage mental health needs in young drug users.
In - depth analysis currently underway is attempting to identify characteristics and experiences specific to survivors reporting
high levels of
psychological distress.
However, it was also noted that clients with a
high level of
psychological distress at baseline found it harder to develop sound therapeutic alliances with the outreach case managers over time.
Presenting the data, Lee said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were three times as likely to experience
high or very
high levels of
psychological distress, with one in three reporting a mental health problem.
Women reporting non-specific
psychological distress on the K - 10 scale were not at a
higher risk of delivering an SGA baby.
This proportion is approximately double that of children found to be at
high risk in the general New South Wales population (15 %) 27 but similar to the proportion noted in other studies of Aboriginal children (24 %, 5 22.5 % 28 and among Aboriginal participants in the New South Wales Population Health Survey).27 There is only one other study to date that has measured the factors associated with Aboriginal child and adolescent mental health.5 SEARCH makes an important, new contribution to this emerging area of research by considering, for the first time, the impact of carer
psychological distress.
Conclusion: It is clear from our findings that mothers of autistic children have
higher parenting - related stress and
psychological distress as compared to controls.
Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5
Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is
high.6, 7 Levels of
distress have also been shown to be
higher than those reported by patients themselves.8
The Kessler - 10 scale (K - 10) was used to measure non-specific
psychological distress during the month preceding the interview.27 A continuous K - 10 score was calculated by summing individual - item responses such that a
higher score indicated greater frequency of symptoms of
psychological distress.
Like other commonly used scales of nonspecific
distress, the questions in the K10 / K6 scales all have
high loadings on a first principal factor of nonspecific
distress in factor analyses carried out in general population samples.8 This factor is indicated by a heterogeneous set of questions that define behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and psychophysiological manifestations of
psychological distress.
In 2012 - 13, 30 per cent of adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people reported experiencing
high levels of
psychological distress.
Aboriginal people experience
high levels of
psychological distress, sadness and lack of hope.
The review reported a significant mental health gap between Australia's Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, with
higher levels of
psychological distress, hospitalisation for mental illness and death from intentional self - harm.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Investigating Factors Associated With
Distress Among Custodial Grandparent Doley, Bell, Watt, & Simpson (2015) Journal of Family Studies, 21 (2) Explores the
psychological health of grandparents raising grandchildren and examines the results of a study that showed caregivers raising children with emotional or behavioral issues have
higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.
Study: Latino Parents Report
High Levels of
Psychological Distress Due to US Immigration Policies
Over half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who experience racial discrimination report feelings of
psychological distress, meaning they can go on to develop anxiety and depression.1 There is also a «dose» effect: the risk of
high or very
high levels of
psychological distress increases as the volume of racism increases.3
Also, a study published this week in the Medical Journal in Australia has found that nearly one in five parents or carers of Aboriginal children suffers a
high level of
psychological distress.
There is a «dose» effect: the risk of
high or very
high levels of
psychological distress increases as the volume of racism increases.
A significant number of young people attending these services experience
high levels of general
psychological distress compared with the general population.