This study interviewed 13 older adult volunteers who were trained to support other older adults’ mental health, exploring their reasons for volunteering, what they valued about the training, and how future training could be made more inclusive.
This trial found that a choir-singing programme reduced depression and anxiety symptoms in older adults, adding new mental health benefits to the same research group’s earlier work showing choir singing also helps protect thinking skills.
In a 10-week pilot programme combining drumming and dance for university students, participants’ mental health, quality of life, and creativity improved, while a comparison group who didn’t take part actually got worse over the same period.
This study tested a depression screening questionnaire for teenagers (PHQ-A) on a large, multi-ethnic Singaporean sample, finding it worked well for spotting major depression (using a cutoff score of 10 or higher) but not as well for milder mood or anxiety problems.
This study used ChatGPT to rate how complex people’s past jobs were, then showed that this AI-generated score predicted older Singaporeans’ thinking skills and brain health better than standard measures like income or education level.
In a study of 615 Indonesian teenagers, better knowledge about mental health was linked to more positive attitudes and greater willingness to seek help, but not directly to lower depression or anxiety, showing that knowledge alone isn’t enough to improve mental health.
This review paper looks at what puts Singaporean teenagers at risk of depression, and what protects them from it, aiming to guide better local prevention and early support efforts.
