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Mental illness is increasingly imposing significant economic burdens, manifesting in various ways such as elevated business expenses due to absenteeism and staff turnover, as well as heightened pressure on healthcare services. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an effective tool to support people with ill mental health. This study explored the exper...
Mental health is leading to rising costs to the economy and increasing strain on professional healthcare services. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an effective tool to support people with ill mental health. This study explored the experiences of MHFA volunteers to increase knowledge of how to support them. Twelve students who had successfully com...
Researchers have studied help-seeking behaviours regarding students’ mental health, highlighting their reluctance when in higher education. This study aimed to identify the facilitators and barriers to formal and informal sources of help-seeking for mental health difficulties in students based in the UK. Data from 304 participants (82% females) was...
Previous research acknowledges that prolonged social media use is associated with several negative psychological consequences, including higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. In order to protect individuals from social stressors, research illustrates the role that self-compassion can play, with individuals high in self-compassion report...
Students from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background are more likely to withdraw from their undergraduate degree in the United Kingdom (UK). It is therefore important to explore withdrawal experiences and perspectives that relate to this population of students to increase both student retention and success. Thirteen UK-domiciled, full...
Universities are facing a difficult challenge in supporting good mental health whilst striving to enhance academic performance. The present study aimed to specifically investigate the relationship between attitudinal and personality constructs that are associated with wellbeing and to explore their association with student academic outcomes. Two-hu...
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Mechanisms for improving resiliency, and the potential benefits of doing so, are not well evidenced and understood. This research explored the relationship between mental health and resiliency, to broaden the perspectives of influences on resiliency by controlling for mindfulness and self-compassion.
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One quest...
The number of teachers leaving the profession continues to increase at a worrying rate. Factors contributing to this include burnout, heightened levels of stress, anxiety and depression. The current study tested whether the use of mindful colouring would translate to improvements in wellbeing. Teachers from the UK (n = 35) were randomly assigned to...
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) has become a trend that is taking over the medical and mental health world. While there are several manuscripts that are exemplifying the benefits of MHFA, the implications for people who undergo the MHFA training, for mental health services and medical and non-medical professions devoted to mental healthcare, have be...
The Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course was developed almost fifteen years ago to enhance the support for people with mental health difficulties through training community members. While the course has received much attention in mental health reforms, accreditation from Departments of Health, and high intake in national healthcare trusts and priv...
High levels of stress, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions are being increasingly reported amongst university students and all impact negatively upon academic performance and student satisfaction. A cross-sectional design was adopted to explore how personality traits and attitudes relevant to wellbeing (i.e. mindfulness, positive and negative a...
Higher education students experience heightened levels of stress and anxiety,
and report experiencing negative thoughts and emotions, which influence information
retention and recall. In a randomized experiment, we assigned participants
to either a mindfulness meditation or an audiobook listening condition, and
recorded the information recalled fro...
Attention is essential for our everyday life. The role of attention is to identify the most relevant information in our environment to be processed. Deficits in attention processes have been linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD is a disorder with an onset in childhood and is characterised by inattentiveness, hyperactivity...
