Exploring Multiple Perspectives on Psychological Health of Adolescents in Relation to Gender and School Grade - Jiangsu Province, China, 2022.

What Is Already Known About This Topic?: Mental health issues in Chinese children and adolescents have emerged as a substantial public health concern, causing distress and strain among families and society.

What Is Added By This Report?: This study examines the effects of gender and school grade on mental health symptoms and risky behaviors among Chinese children and adolescents, with a particular focus on the role of family and school environments.

What Are The Implications For Public Health Practice?: Caregivers and educators should enhance their awareness and skills in supporting the mental health of children.

Exploring the relationship between response time sequence in scale answering process and severity of insomnia: A machine learning approach.

Utilizing computer-based scales for cognitive and psychological evaluations allows for the collection of objective data, such as response time. This cross-sectional study investigates the significance of response time data in cognitive and psychological measures, with a specific focus on its role in evaluating sleep quality through the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) scale. A mobile application was designed to administer scale tests and collect response time data from 2729 participants.

Examining the association of family environment and children emotional/behavioral difficulties in the relationship between parental anxiety and internet addiction in youth.

Introduction: Associations between parental anxiety and adolescent internet addiction have been documented in the literature; however, few studies have analyzed the role of the family environment in this relationship. This study aims to explore the relationship between parental anxiety and adolescent internet addiction while also investigating the indirect relationships involving multiple dimensions of the family environment and child emotional behavior issues.

Methods: Surveys were conducted among 6,296 parent-child pairs.

Unmasking the mental health scars of COVID-19: A longitudinal investigation of children and adolescents in post-lockdown China.

The long-term mental health consequences of COVID-19 in children and adolescents remain unclear. We investigated the impact of COVID-19 infection on mental health after China's zero-COVID policy relaxation, focusing on symptom-specific and social-family risk factors for mental health issues in children and adolescents. In a longitudinal study, 8348 youths (aged 10-18) were assessed twice (T1: September to October 2022 and T2: April to May 2023).

School-based Evaluation Advancing Response for Child Health (SEARCH): a mixed longitudinal cohort study from multifaceted perspectives in Jiangsu, China.

Background: Schools play a crucial role in providing mental health services to children and adolescents. However, the vastness of the student population and mental health workforce shortage in China severely limit the capacity for adequate care access and delivery.

Objective: We propose a large, mixed longitudinal cohort study, 'School-based Evaluation Advancing Response for Child Health (SEARCH)', aimed at addressing the increasing demand from individuals seeking access to mental healthcare services.