Fabrizio Starace's research while affiliated with University of Ferrara and other places

... Some of the assessment tools (i.e., sociodemographic/clinical surveys) were completed by the treating clinician, while research assistants helped the patients complete a range of self-reported questionnaires and an ad hoc-developed Time Use Survey (TUS) (for details see the study protocol) (de Girolamo et al., 2020; see also Martinelli et al., 2022;Oliva et al., 2022;Zarbo et al., 2022). This study focused on psychiatric symptoms severity, levels of functioning, TUS, and TP. ...

... There is further evidence that the co-occurrence of another risk, or a higher risk perception of another hazard, leads to threats such as climate change being taken more seriously as a global environmental health risk [39], but, the high complexity of the relationship between environment and health, in addition to the lack of knowledge and understanding, can contribute to uncertainties regarding individual risk assessment and of possible consequences of climate change. There are also indications from the literature that people may have an ambivalent attitude towards the existence and extent not only of the current pandemic [40] but also of climate change, since the scientific evidence seemed unreliable, insufficient, or contradictory [12,41]. In addition, political and social controversies in dealing with the consequences of crises such as the pandemic and climate change further strengthened the insecurity [12]. ...

... Some of the assessment tools (i.e., sociodemographic/clinical surveys) were completed by the treating clinician, while research assistants helped the patients complete a range of self-reported questionnaires and an ad hoc-developed Time Use Survey (TUS) (for details see the study protocol) (de Girolamo et al., 2020; see also Martinelli et al., 2022;Oliva et al., 2022;Zarbo et al., 2022). This study focused on psychiatric symptoms severity, levels of functioning, TUS, and TP. ...

... In Italy, previous research has shown the sociodemographic, psychological, belief, and behavioral characteristics of three groups: accepters, rejecters, and fence sitters (those that have to decide) [32]. The fence sitters group included individuals of younger age, lower educational level, and not a stable economic situation. ...

... Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use (ATOD) by adolescents is a major public health concern worldwide (1). During adolescence, major developmental milestones can be negatively impacted by substance use, which often begins during this life period (2)(3)(4)(5). Early onset of substance use can lead to negative short-term and long-term consequences, such as an increased risk of developing substance use disorders (SUDs) later in life (4), disruption of physical and social development (6), and various other negative health outcomes (5). ...

... Suicidal behavior is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide (1,2). Although there are inconsistencies and varying definitions, suicidal behavior as a general term encompassing any suicidal thought or actions without taking additional steps to distinguish thoughts from plans, from non-fatal attempts, and from attempts that result in death (2). ...

... When young people reach the upper age limit of their CAMHS, it is up to their CAMHS clinician to decide whether the young person needs continued treatment and should be referred to AMHS. In a previous study investigating the clinician's recommendation, we found that self-reported suicidal behaviour was not associated with the clinician's recommendation to continue treatment (Gerritsen et al., 2022). This lack of an association was unexpected, but may be explained by clinicians' unawareness of their patients' suicidal behaviour. ...

... This finding goes against Bir and Wildmar's [14] and Bryson's [44] recent studies that concluded that social pressure can be a significant motive to adopt social group behavior. Our counterintuitive finding can be attributed to free-riding behavior [23,45,46], as an adverse and unforeseen reaction to social pressure or even to inattention and mistakes made by other people. For example, customers entering a store with a high proportion of customers wearing masks may decide not to wear masks, as they perceive the store to be a safe area given that the rest are wearing masks. ...

... The students rated how often over the last week they had felt in the way described by each item, by using a 5-point scale that ranges from 1 ("not at all") to 5 ("most or all of the time"). The psychometric properties of the YP-CORE have been investigated in clinical as well as in nonclinical samples [e.g., (67,68)] and there is evidence of its good psychometric properties in different countries [e.g., (69,70)], as well as in the Italian context (71). The alpha coefficient for the current study was 0.74 at T1 and 0.84 at T2. ...

... The study by Taipale and colleagues [33] reported 100.1 days lost for TRD in a period of 8 months; a European study reported a working time loss of 57% [27], while another study conducted in Belgium [34] showed an average number of calendar days 'not working' per month of 22.2 during a major depressive episode. A study conducted in Italy [35] reported a mean of 42 working days lost per year for patients with TRD, while a study conducted in the UK showed an overall work impairment of 51% for those patients [36]. The overall average working time lost was 51.40% (SD 20.22%). ...