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.
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.
The Singapore Youth Epidemiology and Resilience (YEAR) study looked at how common mental health symptoms are among a large, representative group of school students aged 11 to 18, and what social and family factors increase or protect against risk.
In a group of 121 Singaporean teenagers who self-harm without suicidal intent, this study found that those with more severe self-harm were more likely to seek help from friends or family, while having parents seen as more authoritative was linked to being less likely to seek this kind of informal help.
Reviewing many trials, this study looked at whether training programmes actually reduce stigma toward people with mental illness among doctors, nurses, and healthcare students, pulling together evidence on how well this common approach works.
This study of international students at the National University of Singapore found that students under more psychological stress were more likely to want to seek mental health help, and that better mental health knowledge helped explain this link.
This study compared personality traits between 60 Singaporean teenagers who had attempted suicide and 58 who hadn’t, finding that other mental health conditions, recent stressful events, feeling rejected by parents, and certain difficult personality traits were more common among those who had attempted suicide.
In a large online survey of over 12,000 Chinese college students under home quarantine, about 1 in 15 showed signs of stress-related trauma symptoms 39 days into the COVID-19 outbreak. Past stressful experiences, lower resilience, and weaker social support all made this more likely.
