Erratum to: Lifestyle choices and mental health: a representative population survey

Velten, Julia; Lavallee, Kristen L.; Scholten, Saskia; Meyer, Andrea; Zhang, Xiao-Chi; Schneider, Silvia; Margraf, Jürgen

doi:10.1186/s40359-016-0106-7

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“…The next step was initiated when fear had decreased to a SUDS of 30 or below. All steps of the 23 , the Mini-DIPS 24 and the fear conditioning task 19 . At the end of the session, participants received information about the exposure treatment, psychoeducation about spider phobia, and filled in the spider-fear related questionnaires (#1).…”

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The association between fear extinction, the ability to accomplish exposure and exposure therapy outcome in specific phobia

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2020

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Great interest exists in maximizing exposure therapy efficacy in anxiety disorders. At the same time, reduced frequency and shortened duration of exposure sessions are required to meet the specific regularities in routine care settings. extinction has emerged as the key mechanism of exposure treatment in anxiety disorders. examining exposure treatment processes from the perspective of extinction learning might provide novel insights into variability in exposure treatment duration and outcome. the present study sought to examine the functional link between fear extinction, the ability to accomplish exposure in a predetermined time and exposure therapy outcome in specific phobia. treatment-seeking individuals (N = 53) with spider phobia underwent a context-dependent fear conditioning paradigm prior to a standardized exposure. Spider-phobic participants who were able to complete exposure within the pre-determined time (i.e., completers) showed a more pronounced shortand long-term exposure therapy benefit. In the fear conditioning task, a more pronounced decline in CS-US contingency ratings during extinction (retrieval) was found in completers relative to noncompleters. The failure to further extinguish US expectancy to the CSs in non-completers might offer a potential mechanistic explanation why non-completers have difficulties to accomplish all exposure steps in a fixed time and show less pronounced treatment gains. Our findings bear specific implications for the implementation of exposure treatment to routine care settings.Exposure is considered as the treatment of choice for anxiety disorders. Exposure therapy is aimed at helping patients to overcome their anxiety by creating a safe environment, in which they are repeatedly and systematically exposed to feared or avoided scenarios, leading to decreases of fear 1,2 . Despite its effectiveness, some patients show no or only a partial remission of symptoms or experience a recovery of symptoms after treatment 3 . Likewise, some patients exhibit a delayed therapeutic benefit, requiring an extended treatment duration and frequency 4 . This, however, is at odds with the organizational and economic demands in routine care, which requires efficient time schedules and reduction of treatment-associated costs 5 . The frequency and duration of exposure sessions thus needs to be adapted to the specific regularities in routine care settings (e.g. see 6 ). The identification of new pathways to improve exposure treatment efficacy while at the same time decreasing barriers to transfer exposure treatment to routine care would be highly desirable 7 . So far, only little is known about mechanisms contributing to treatment duration and short-and long-term treatment outcome.Extinction has emerged as a central candidate for the main process underlying exposure 8 . Consequently, research on the cognitive and neurobiological foundations of extinction as the laboratory analog of exposure might pave the way to understand and improve exposure treatment efficacy. Ultimately, by bridging the g...

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“…and stress were measured with selected items from the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) 23 . Spider phobia (according to DSM-IV-TR criteria) was determined by a trained interviewer by means of the short diagnostic interview for mental disorders (Mini-DIPS) 24 .…”

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The association between fear extinction, the ability to accomplish exposure and exposure therapy outcome in specific phobia

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2020

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“…In Poland, the U.K., and the U.S.A., poor mental health was assessed with the 21-item version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21; Antony, Bieling, Cox, Enns & Swinson, 1998 ; Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995 ). The first 21-items of the DASS-42 were used in France, Germany, Russia, Spain and Sweden which are comparable to the DASS-21 ( Lovibond and Lovibond, 2016 , Velten et al, 2016 ). Nevertheless, we adjusted the scores to give the best possible estimate of the DASS-21 ( Lovibond & Lovibond, 2016 ).…”

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Wealth, justice and freedom: Objective and subjective measures predicting poor mental health in a study across eight countries

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Velten

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BackgroundMacro-level factors (MF) such as wealth, justice and freedom measured with objective country-level indicators (objective MF), for instance the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), have been investigated in relation to health and well-being, but rarely in connection with depression, anxiety and stress subsumed as poor mental health. Also, a combination of different objective MF and of how individuals perceive those MF (subjective MF) has not been taken into consideration. In the present study, we combined subjective and objective measures of wealth, justice and freedom and examined their relationship with poor mental health.MethodPopulation-based interviews were conducted in France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, U.K. and U.S.A. (n ≈ 1000 per country). GDP, GINI coefficient, Justice Index and Freedom Index were used as objective MF, whereas subjective MF were perceived wealth, justice and freedom measured at the individual level. Poor mental health was assessed as a combination of symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.ResultsIn a random-intercept-model, GINI coefficient and Freedom Index were significant positive country-level, and perceived wealth, justice, and freedom significant negative individual-level predictors of symptoms of poor mental health.ConclusionMultiple subjective and objective MF should be combined to assess the macrosystem’s relationship with poor mental health more precisely. The relationship between MF and poor mental health indicates that the macrosystem should be taken into account as relevant context for mental health problems, too.

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“…Velten et al [12] has conducted a research to find correlation between lifestyle choices and mental health and found out that all lifestyle factors were associated with mental health outcomes. Improved mental health was associated with high frequency of physical and mental activity, moderate consumption of alcohol, non-smoking, and body mass index and regular rhythm of life.…”

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“…Recent evidence indicates that smoking, drinking habits, physical activities, eating habits and mental illness are associated [12]. The objective of this experiment is to determine the relationship between frequent mental distress (FMD) and human behavioral patterns in US states.…”

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Predictive Modelling in Mental Health: A Data Science Approach

Silva

Saraee

2019

2019 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in Engineering and Technologies (CSUDET)

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In national and regional level, understanding of factors associated with public health issues like mental health is paramount important to improve the awareness. This study aims to use the data mining techniques such as association rule mining to improve the degree of understanding the mental health among various geographical areas by identifying various vital behavioural factors associated with mental health issues. The study will produce interesting relationships among the behavioural factors in form of Association rules. The outcomes of this research will be beneficial to organisations that work in public health sector to improve mental health among the citizens. Also, this proposed new data science approach will be beneficial to improve the degree of understanding by identifying factors associated with mental health within the different geographical areas such as city or state level. The study found that states in US which have low excessive drinking percentage and high obesity and high smoking percentage has the highest frequent of mental distress. Also, these rules have shown high confidence threshold among females rather than males. Mental health related authorities who works in local and national governments may be used these findings to improve awareness of mental health.

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Erratum to: Lifestyle choices and mental health: a representative population survey

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The association between fear extinction, the ability to accomplish exposure and exposure therapy outcome in specific phobia

The association between fear extinction, the ability to accomplish exposure and exposure therapy outcome in specific phobia

Wealth, justice and freedom: Objective and subjective measures predicting poor mental health in a study across eight countries

Predictive Modelling in Mental Health: A Data Science Approach

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