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Climate anxiety and eco-anxiety (distress relating to the climate and ecological crises) are gaining attention worldwide as people become increasingly aware of the current and future global threats associated with our warming planet. This might include an awareness of or failure to prevent harmful unethical behaviour. Research is required to understand the relationship between children and young people's climate anxiety and their feelings about the adequacy of governmental response. This study aimed to better understand the feelings, thoughts, and functional impacts associated with climate change among young people globally. It explores and discusses the relationships between climate-related distress and perceived government responses.
Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19
October 5, 2021
addressing the global crisis of child and adolescent mental health
editorial
tami d. Benton, md; rhonda c. Boyd, phd; wanjikũ f. M. Njoroge, md
effect of the covid-19 pandemic on adolescents with eating disorders
comment & response
thonmoy dey, bsc; zachariah john mansell, bsc; jasmin ranu, bsc
guidelines synopsis: screening for anxiety in adolescent and adult women
jama clinical guidelines synopsis
march 8, 2022
this jama clinical guidelines synopsis summarizes the 2020 women’s preventive services initiative recommendation on screening for anxiety in adolescent and adult women.
Tiffany i. Leung, md, mph; adam s. Cifu, md; wei wei lee, md, mph.
Endnotes the covid-19 pandemic and the resulting economic recession have negatively affected many people’s mental health and created new barriers for people already suffering from mental illness and substance use disorders. During the pandemic, about 4 in 10 adults in the u. S. Have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder, a share that has been largely consistent, up from one in ten adults who reported these symptoms from january to june 2019 (figure 1). A kff health tracking poll from july 2020 also found that many adults are reporting specific negative impacts on their mental health and well-being, such as difficulty sleeping (36%) or eating (32%), increases in alcohol consumption or substance use (12%), and worsening chronic conditions (12%), due to worry and stress over the coronavirus.
Anxiety Disorders Research Program
Master's student aliya mcneil and dr. Christine purdon provide important findings regarding the relationship between anxiety and covid-19 vaccination hesitancy: anxiety disorders had no effect on vaccine hesitancy
a phobia is an intense fear of—or aversion to—specific objects or situations. Although it can be realistic to be anxious in some circumstances, the fear people with phobias feel is out of proportion to the actual danger caused by the situation or object. People with a phobia: may have an irrational or excessive worry about encountering the feared object or situation take active steps to avoid the feared object or situation experience immediate intense anxiety upon encountering the feared object or situation endure unavoidable objects and situations with intense anxiety there are several types of phobias and phobia-related disorders: specific phobias (sometimes called simple phobias): as the name suggests, people who have a specific phobia have an intense fear of, or feel intense anxiety about, specific types of objects or situations.
Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the u. S. , affecting about 40 million people. Research suggests that most people with mental health disorders such as anxiety also have some form of sleep disruption.