Mental uneasiness, perceived stress and help-seeking in a non-resident university student sample (in Italian)

Abstract

Il passaggio dal liceo all'università rappresenta quella che altrove è stata definita una “rivoluzione copernicana” (Fiori Nastroet al., 2008). Questo passaggio avviene in una fascia d'età compresa tra i 18 e i 20 anni, periodo estremamente delicato per quanto attiene le patologie psichiatriche dal momento che è stato stimato che il 75° dei disturbi mentali gravi esordisce entro i 24 anni (Patelet al., 2007; Costelloet al., 2003).

Psychotic experience subtypes, poor mental health status and help‐seeking behaviour in a community sample of young adults

“…58 Finally, a number of implications for health policy in favour of psychosis prevention emerge from this study. Emphasis is placed on the need to restructure early intervention services so as to reduce the high level of 'unexpressed help-seeking', 59 keeping in mind that it seems to be determined above all by the fear of stigmatization, by misinformation and by the absence of services exclusively dedicated to young people. These elements therefore make it necessary, on the one hand, to promote awareness and information campaigns, and on the other, to make specific reforms of existing psychiatric services.…”

Current CAPE‐15: a measure of recent psychotic‐like experiences and associated distress

“…5,7 Given this increased risk, screening for PLEs assumes importance within mental health assessments of adolescents and young adults. 8 Although young people may actively ignore or be unable to recognize PLEs, 9 their identification provides opportunities for targeted preventative strategies. 10 The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences-Positive Scale (CAPE-P) is a 20-item measure of lifetime PLEs, consisting of perceptual abnormalities (PA), persecutory ideation (PI), bizarre experiences (BE), magical thinking and grandiosity.…”

“…Given this increased risk, screening for PLEs assumes importance within mental health assessments of adolescents and young adults . Although young people may actively ignore or be unable to recognize PLEs, their identification provides opportunities for targeted preventative strategies …”

The Brief 10‐Item Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences‐Positive Scale (Brief CAPE‐P10): Initial psychometric properties, gender measurement invariance and mean differences among Nigerian adolescents

“…Nevertheless, the strength of our study is that we recruited a modestly large sample of adolescents, who tend to ignore or fail to appreciate the prodromal symptoms of psychosis (Armando et al, 2009). Therefore, the availability of a valid and reliable short PLEs assessment instrument with gender invariance such as the Brief CAPE-P10 may be potentially useful among Nigerian adolescents.…”