A5053780405- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Mental Health via Writing
- Thermal Regulation in Medicine
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Community Health and Development
Imperial College London
2020-2024
Imperial Innovations (United Kingdom)
2022-2024
University of California, Berkeley
2022
University of Oxford
2021
Health Innovations (United States)
2021
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
2021
McPin Foundation
2021
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are both significant pressing global challenges, posing threats to public health wellbeing. Young people particularly vulnerable the distress crises can cause, but understanding of varied psychological responses issues is poor. We aimed investigate these their links with mental conditions feelings agency.MethodsWe conducted an online survey between Aug 5 Oct 26, 2020, targeting a diverse sample young (aged 16–24 years, n=530) in UK. The was...
The feelings and hopes of young people around the world are often neglected in policymaking research, with consequences for both their wellbeing effectiveness humanity's response to climate crisis. Many them distressed by change's impacts, inaction political corporate leaders, ways other respond feelings, lack support they have share or get involved meaningful climate-related work. This paper is written a group twenty-three concerned from fifteen countries. It provides first-hand account our...
Abstract Adolescents often look to their peers for emotional support, so it is critical that they are prepared take on a supportive role, especially during health crisis. Using randomised controlled trial (ISRCTN99248812, 28/05/2020), we tested the short-term efficacy of an online training programme equip young people with skills support peers’ mental wellbeing COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, one-hundred UK adolescents (aged 16–18) recruited through social media were randomly allocated...
Climate change is the greatest threat humanity faces, and puts at risk mental health wellbeing of children young people. education must equip people with knowledge, skills resilience to live in an uncertain future, sustainably take relevant climate action work careers. As attention on grows, this a critical moment for community ensure considerations are embedded. Critically, appropriate integration can enable these very necessary goals equipping future where looms large. This paper explores...
Background: There is growing recognition of the physical and mental health impacts climate change attendant burden on care systems, including from World Health Organisation, United Nations, national governments. However, repercussions 'social health'— our access to meaningful social connections quality these relationships — largely missing this discourse. Social an important factor underpinning health. Moreover, determines collective ability both adapt mitigate change, enabling us navigate...
The climate and ecological crisis will constitute the defining public health challenge of twenty-first century, posing an unprecedented global threat to all determinants health, healthcare delivery systems. We believe that mental professionals have a crucial role play in responding this crisis. Whilst consequences remain key for us as professionals, we argue our remit goes beyond this, should include advancing understanding crisis, highlighting its impact on physical wellbeing, advocating...
Although the UK has been relatively spared significant geophysical impacts of climate change, many people, youth in particular, are increasingly worried about change. The psychological distress associated with (perceived) threat change linked to poorer mental wellbeing but can also promote adaptive responses such as engagement pro-environmental behaviour. In this mixed methods study, we delve deeper into experience 'climate distress' among residents aged 16-24 (N = 539). We conducted an...
Theoretical accounts have linked anxiety to intolerance of ambiguity. However, this relationship has not been well operationalized empirically. Here, we used computational and neuro-imaging methods characterize anxiety-related differences in aversive decision-making under ambiguity associated patterns cortical activity. Adult human participants chose between two urns on each trial. The ratio tokens ('O's 'X's) urn determined probability electrical stimulation receipt. A number above...
The current mental health crisis is a growing public issue requiring large-scale response that cannot be met with traditional services alone. Digital support tools are proliferating, yet most not systematically evaluated, and we know little about their users needs. Shout free text messaging service run by the charity Mental Health Innovations, which provides for individuals in UK experiencing or emotional distress seeking help. Here study large data set of anonymised message conversations...
Climate change is causing far-reaching yet underappreciated worsening of outcomes across the mental health and wellbeing spectrum. Despite increasing attention to impacts climate change, an absence a clear, cross-sectoral agenda for action has held back progress against dual interconnected challenges supporting human planetary health. This study aims serve as essential first step address this gap. Harnessing expertise diverse panel 61 participants, representing 24 nationalities, developed...
Climate change poses a considerable risk of further increasing the world's mental health burden. The ways that, and extent to which, climate is affecting service users poorly known. Mental professionals (MHP)s' views on nature climate-related distress need for specialist training support undetermined globally. A questionnaire survey was disseminated an opportunity sample MHPs based in United Kingdom (UK). It investigated whether perceived that number mentioning as their or emotional had...
There is growing evidence that climate change linked to adverse mental health outcomes, with both direct and indirect impacts already being felt globally, including within the United Kingdom (UK). With UK parliament tasked passing legislation mitigate against adapt change, it well placed take a lead in implementing policies reduce impact of on even provide benefits (e.g., by increasing access green space). The extent which considers relationship between its decision-making was previously...
The aim of this paper is to share our experiences engaging with the climate crisis as citizens and mental health professionals (MHPs). We hope outputs will usefully validate fellow MHPs support them reflect on their role in crisis. came together eight MHPs, participating group discussions one-one interviews first author experiences. collaboratively generated themes how engagement has: (i) disrupted personal professional experiences; (ii) helped us adapt grow; (iii) enabled live, work act...
A healthy environment has been defined by global health organisations as one that is safe, supportive of lifestyles, and free hazards. Such definitions disregard the complexity what it means for an to be perceived 'healthy'-such mental, not just physical, effects on citizens. This study aimed understand attributes underrepresented groups United Kingdom (UK) public assign environments-an important step directing policy actions create environments are inclusive all co-created involved 95...
As climate change continues unabated, research is increasingly focused on capturing and quantifying the lesser-known psychological responses mental health implications of this humanitarian environmental crisis. There has been a particular interest in experiences young people, who are more vulnerable for range reasons, including their developmental stage, high rates conditions among population, relative lack agency to address threats. The different geographic sociocultural settings which...