Daily stressors oral health professionals may experience include financial pressure, tight schedules, practice management issues, concern over reimbursement, uncooperative clients, and physical demands. These pressures are often accompanied by personal characteristics, such as perfectionism and prioritization of others’ needs. As a result,…
Self-harm, defined as deliberately hurting oneself, is a growing public health concern. Self-harm includes cutting, biting, scratching, hitting, pulling out hair, burning, swallowing pills, and banging the head against a wall. It represents a maladaptive expression of distress related to stressful life…
Originally published in Dental Abstracts, Volume 66, Issue 1
The trauma of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can cause a wide range of health problems during adulthood, including making oral health care challenging and triggering dental anxiety. Background: Because CSA has a prevalence…
New research from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) shows a large majority of children and youth experienced harm to their mental health during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Greater stress from social isolation, including both the cancellation of important…
It has been found that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) adults and adolescents are more likely to suffer from mental illness due to experiencing greater stress, caused by stigma and prejudice. A literature review published in the Journal of Eating Disorders…
Abstract Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic general medical complications have received the most attention, whereas only few studies address the potential direct effect on mental health of SARS-CoV-2 and the neurotropic potential. Furthermore, the indirect effects of the pandemic on general…
A Dutch study published in The Lancet Psychiatry is the first dataset based on existing psychiatry case-control cohort studies with information on the mental health of the same individuals for more than 10 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Abstract Background:…
A first-of-its-kind global survey shows the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown dramatically altered our personal habits, largely for the worse.
“The stay-at-home orders did result in one major health positive. Overall, healthy eating increased because we ate out less frequently. However,…
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately one-third of the global population was under some form of lockdown or quarantine. The impact of the containment measures on the global economy is projected to dwarf the macroeconomic impact of the 2008-09 financial…
The prevalence of the disordered eating behaviour known as ‘chew and spit’ among teenagers has been determined for the first time, thanks to a large-scale study analysed by psychologists at the University of Sydney.
Chew and spit, as the name suggests, is…