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Curated nursing research articles for the keyword mental health.
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This focused index connects 43 reviewed records using the editorial keyword mental health. Keywords support discovery; they do not replace a full reading of the methods, findings, and limitations.
In this 2017 phenomenological dissertation, 20 BSN students at one southeastern Pennsylvania university described mostly unfavorable attitudes toward mental health nursing. Prior exposure, course content, faculty...
A questionnaire study of 218 second-year nursing students in Murcia found significant relationships among resilience, academic burnout and psychological health. Regression analysis indicated that resilience moderated...
In a survey of 93 school nurses, most respondents viewed anxiety as their students’ leading mental health concern. Most also reported using neither a formal screening tool nor an intervention protocol, and most wanted...
In 91 first-year Thai nursing students, mean 'mental health power' scores were reported as below threshold on all three subscales, though the percentage breakdown showed most students scoring normal on two of the...
In a survey of 112 nursing students, attitudes toward suicide did not predict confidence or skill in helping patients with mental health problems or self-harm; instead, only moderate confidence levels overall pointed...
In a survey of 788 nursing interns, 24.7% screened positive for anxiety and 10.5% for depression; psychological resilience partially mediated (53.9%) the protective link between social support and fewer negative...
A 2025 study of 35 school nurses across six rural Eastern North Carolina districts found that nurse-inclusive suicide prevention protocols help nurses fulfill their preventive role, but practice varied widely between...
A Walden University DNP project by Patience Madu found that a health belief model-based staff education program significantly increased nurses' knowledge (p < 0.05) of strategies to encourage medication adherence in...
A two-case qualitative study finds that when schools exclude nurses from communication and collaboration around at-risk students, it limits nurses' suicide-prevention role and contributes to moral distress, with...
A survey of 56 school-based health center providers found they felt less familiar with eating disorders than with mental health disorders generally, and despite rating eating disorder screening as very important, they...
An NIA-funded doctoral proposal to study how co-occurring serious mental illness shapes symptoms, care needs, and outcomes for nursing-home residents with dementia, using large MDS 3.0 data plus staff interviews. No...
A funded cohort-study protocol using linked 2016-2019 Medicare data to examine how electroconvulsive therapy relates to neuropsychiatric symptoms, geriatric syndromes, admissions, and mortality in older adults with...
A funded proposal to test time-restricted eating, alone or with a low-glycemic snack, against a Mediterranean-diet standard of care in overweight night-shift nurses, using an app and wearables to see whether meal...
A funded NIMH proposal (no results yet) plans to use 2016 to 2023 Medicaid claims data to study how mental health provider-network size, churn, panel size, and telemedicine affect access and outcomes, with a focus that..
A National Institute on Aging career development award proposing a randomized trial of Internet-delivered CBT-I versus patient education in older adults with insomnia and mild cognitive impairment; it is a plan to test..
A funded fellowship protocol that will use survey and registry data from 55 Washington hospitals to estimate whether the person-centered TeamBirth model changes perceived autonomy and Cesarean rates among low-risk...
A funded dissemination core plans to move alcohol-use science into Indiana schools, health care settings, and communities using a participatory, equity-focused approach; it describes aims, not results.
A National Institute on Drug Abuse K23 career development proposal to adapt, refine, and pilot-test an ambulatory intensive care team model for medically complex, high-utilizing patients with opioid use disorder in a...
A NICHD K23 proposal to study the under-examined first year after discharge for infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS), aiming to quantify readmission risks and costs and to inform a home-visiting...
A National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded research plan to study how moral injury and social and environmental factors shape substance use, mental health, and suicidality among low-wage US healthcare workers. It...
A three-year, pre-implementation study to adapt the PLIE group movement program (which builds on abilities preserved in dementia) for VA Community Living Centers and to develop and pilot remote staff training.
A funded NHLBI proposal to develop and pilot 'Cardiac Fears Treatment,' an exposure-based therapy for PTSD after cardiac events. It lays out aims and a small staged trial but reports no results yet.
A National Cancer Institute R01 proposal for a 200-caregiver trial of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers (MCP-C) versus supportive psychotherapy; an earlier pilot found it feasible and helpful, but...
A funded proposal for a four-year stepped-wedge randomized trial testing whether the LOCK frontline huddling program reduces falls and improves staff wellbeing in State Veterans Home nursing homes; no results yet.
A funded network and infrastructure project to expand rural children's access to pediatric clinical trials in Vermont through inclusive multicenter studies, research-capacity building, and community engagement; it...
An NIMH K23 proposal to build machine-learning models from electronic health record and claims data to estimate six-month severe mood-crisis risk in young people with bipolar disorder, and to co-design a clinical...
A funded phase 1 protocol proposing to test whether a chaplain-delivered, compassion-based team intervention (CCSH-TI) is feasible and acceptable for improving psychological safety and reducing burnout at a cancer...
A funded proposal to build real-world evidence on how to safely reduce antipsychotic use for dementia-related symptoms in nursing-home residents; it describes aims and methods, not results.
A VA Center of Innovation (THRIVE) mission document describing research to improve long-term services and supports, equity, and independence for aging Veterans through a Learning Health System model; it states goals...
An NIMH-funded K08 proposal to study, longitudinally, how stress, work environment, hair-cortisol biomarkers, and epigenetics relate to suicide risk in nurses, a population cited at nearly double the general-population..
A National Institute on Aging R01 proposal to study social connectedness and isolation in nursing home residents using large linked datasets, including a COVID-19 'natural experiment.' It sets out questions to answer,...
A company's funded proposal to refine and clinically test a wearable acoustic monitor that scores the risk of opioid-induced respiratory depression; it describes aims and design, not proven results.
A nurse-led, systems-focused proposal to reduce burnout by having frontline nurses redesign the work conditions that drive it; it reports aims and preliminary work, not effectiveness results.
An NIA-funded UCSF training program (Research Education Component) that mentors and supports emerging Alzheimer's-research scholars, including nurses, rather than a clinical study. It reports program structure and...
A funded qualitative study protocol that will interview about 16 hospital dementia care triads (nurse, patient, caregiver), guided by an implementation framework, to describe dementia friendly care and identify what...
A funded five-year mixed-methods proposal to test whether and when higher Medicaid payments improve mental health access and outcomes, using national claims data and interviews; it reports methods, not results.
An NINR-funded R01 proposal to evaluate state, organizational, and frontline changes that could reduce hospital-nurse burnout, using 20 years of repeated data from about 535 hospitals and nurse-leader interviews. No...
A funded proposal for a stepped-wedge cluster RCT of MAP-VA, a Montessori-based person-centered care toolkit for VA Community Living Center Veterans with dementia and serious mental illness; pilot signals are...
A National Institute on Aging K01 proposal to study how nursing home residents' backgrounds and life experiences relate to resident-to-resident aggression, especially in dementia, and to develop a staff education...
A funded proposal for a 200-person RCT of Learning Skills Together, a self-efficacy-based online program that builds dementia caregivers' confidence; promising pilot data exist, but definitive effectiveness is unproven.
A critical bioethics essay that reviews evidence on telemental health and argues it genuinely improves access but is poorly suited to some patients and modalities, especially group therapy, and so should not yet take...
This Canadian clinical trial (NCT07628309) aims to evaluate a 13-week Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) skills training program as a pilot intervention for addressing mental health care gaps in individuals recently..
This editorial argues that workplace violence in healthcare has become a pervasive systemic issue with severe mental health consequences for staff. It highlights persistent high prevalence rates (60% of workers...
